LEWISTON — The call for Lewiston’s Fire Department on Wednesday morning should have been relatively routine. A furnace was malfunctioning at 37 Jefferson St. and emitting fumes and smoke into the building, according to the call from a resident. There was no fire when firefighters arrived minutes later and as they do in most of […]
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Bill could launch housing program for homeless vets
AUGUSTA – A Lewiston lawmaker is leading the charge to bring as many as 21 cabins for homeless veterans to the grounds of the Veterans Affairs Administration’s medical campus at Togus. State Rep. Jared Golden, D-Lewiston, is asking the Legislature to approve a $1 million appropriation to kick-start a Volunteers of America Cabin in the Woods […]
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Housing grants to help Lewiston clean more than lead
LEWISTON — A renewed set of federal grants could do a lot more than help reduce lead in downtown housing units, city officials said Tuesday. “We’ll be doing lead, we’ll be doing weatherization, we may be providing some block grant rehabilitation loan so that the entire house, the entire property, is looked at as a […]
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Disputed Lewiston housing plan to get Planning Board Review
LEWISTON — A Planning Board review of a controversial housing development is aimed as much at voters as it is at city officials. Developer Jim Hatch said he’ll present plans for Phyllis St. Laurent’s housing development to the board Monday, Sept. 22. “It’s not a formal review at this point,” Hatch said. “We haven’t made […]
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Brookside Village housing project celebrated in Farmington
FARMINGTON — The opening of Brookside Village Affordable Senior Housing, the first net-zero energy housing project for the state, was celebrated Thursday. With 228 solar panels and a number of geothermal wells, the 32-apartment complex will use no fossil fuels, developer Byron “Buzz” Davis told an audience of tenants and others. The energy systems will […]
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Changes, vandalism delay Lewiston veterans’ shelter
LEWISTON — A housing program for veterans should be ready this fall, despite some changes and a few setbacks. Vincent Perrone, president of Veterans Inc., of Worcester, Mass., said his company’s renovation of the former St. Joseph’s School at 393 Main St. should be ready for occupants Nov. 1. “Things are going really well, and we’ve […]
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Auburn theater group considers housing plan next door
AUBURN — An idea to tie a new artist housing and studio development with the Community Little Theatre will be presented to the public Thursday night. Community Little Theatre President Chris L’Hommedieu said his group is hosting a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. June 19 at the theater, 30 Academy St., for the public […]
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Froma Harrop: The housing bust and the American psyche
Real estate mania lives on at the HGTV cable channel, where house shoppers still holler for granite on their kitchen islands and his-and-her sinks in their en suite bathrooms. But in the non-TV reality of middle-class America, the bloom is definitely off the real estate rose. The rose isn’t dead, mind you. Surveys show an […]
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Rival Lewiston landlord group arising
LEWISTON — A disagreement about city politics and efficiency has inspired a group of Lewiston landlords to split off from the Lewiston-Auburn Landlords Association. Landlord Darcy Reed said a disagreement about city trash collections and how to deal with a proposed 29-unit housing development highlights the reason for her to create the new group, the […]
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Lewiston developer insists 29 unit project about rebuilding
LEWISTON — People rebuild when what they own gets destroyed in a fire, and Phyllis St. Laurent insists that’s all she’s trying to do, but groups of landlords are circulating a petition seeking to overturn the city’s approval of her project before she gets started. “I thought, when (my buildings) burned down, there would be […]