LEWISTON — A downtown Lewiston housing cooperative wants to begin work renovating its third property later this summer, with a little help from city and federal dollars. Craig Saddlemire of the Raise-Op Housing Cooperative asked city councilors Tuesday to set aside up to $204,750 in federal HOME funds to help renovate the nine-unit apartment building […]
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Lewiston, Auburn councilors agree on value of 911 agency, not how to pay for it
Lewiston and Auburn councilors ended the two-hour joint meeting by pledging their support for the Lewiston-Auburn 911 service and promising to work together to settle the issue. “We don’t need to blow the system up. I like what we have,” Lewiston Councilor Tim Lajoie said. “When people call 911, they want to talk to someone […]
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Merchants call for better Lisbon Street snow removal
LEWISTON — Downtown merchants and residents pushed the City Council on Tuesday to do a better job of clearing snow along the increasingly busy upper Lisbon Street. “When snowbanks get higher, we need to find ways to let people get over the snowbanks,” said Rainbow Bicycle owner John Grenier. “We’ve all seen people in dress […]
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Macdonald letter ironic
This is a response to Robert Macdonald’s letter (March 30). He spends most of his letter railing against Bob Pelletier’s letter of March 25 regarding the Lewiston budget and the people entrusted to spend Lewiston’s dollars wisely. Macdonald wrote that, “Pelletier crossed the line when he criticized Lewiston’s hard-working dedicated employees,” and added, “that department […]
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Department heads dedicated, exceptional
This is a response to Bob Pelletier’s letter (March 25). Once again, another of his faceless, non-substantive letters has made the Opinion Page. In my four-plus years as Mayor, I cannot remember him appearing before the City Council to suggest ways to cut the budget. But that would take sand and intellect. As elected officials, […]
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Lewiston adopts indoor hoverboard ban for city buildings
LEWISTON — In lieu of common sense among riders, city councilors Tuesday voted to ban hoverboards and other wheeled riding devices from inside city buildings. “Common sense to you, to us, is one thing, but others want to push the limit,” Mayor Robert Macdonald said. “So do you want to get into a legal battle […]
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A case of corporate welfare
I read with great dismay about Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald’s reversal of his long-cherished beliefs about welfare reform (Sun Journal, Dec. 31). Macdonald voted in favor of a tax-incentive deal with an unknown retailer and developer Dave Gendron, using future tax income to subsidize the development of privately owned land. It amounts to nothing more […]
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Robert Macdonald wins third term as Lewiston mayor
LEWISTON — Mayor Robert Macdonald defeated challenger Ben Chin in Tuesday’s special mayoral runoff election. The vote was 4,398 to 3,826. “I was looking at all those people today, and I thought I actually could win,” Macdonald said afterward. “But you never know until the end. Some stopped and they said they voted for me, but […]
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Macdonald honest, hard-working
Residents of Lewiston should wake up and inquire about the race for Lewiston’s mayor. People should question why the socialist-liberal candidate, Ben Chin, has such a large campaign “war chest,” of $63,000 or so, just for a mayoral race. If elected, I believe he is going to make Lewiston the welfare city of Maine. Taxes […]