MONDAY, March 30 LEWISTON — Joint meeting of the School Committee and City Council on the proposed school budget, 6:45 p.m., City Hall. Public comment will be welcomed. The meeting will be televised on the local cable channel. LEWISTON — Finance Committee, 5:15 p.m. in City Hall. LEWISTON — Planning Board, 5:30 p.m. in the third-floor conference […]
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Lewiston-Auburn This Week
Monday, March 23 AUBURN — Maine Department of Transportation forum, “Talking Transportation” 2 p.m. in the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments building, 125 Manley Road. Members of the Western Maine outreach office will discuss traffic and transportation topics and concerns. LEWISTON — Finance Committee meeting, 5:15 p.m. in the Administrator’s Conference Room on the bottom floor of […]
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Lewiston landlord seeks back rent from call center owner
AUBURN — A company created by a Twin Cities quasi-municipal economic development group is seeking to attach the assets of a local marketing company, claiming it owes rent on a Lisbon Street office in Lewiston. At a Thursday hearing in Androscoggin County Superior Court, Justice MaryGay Kennedy heard arguments by both sides on a motion […]
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Growth council sets public meeting to plot Twin Cities’ marketing
LEWISTON — Growth Council leaders will look to a public process to determine Twin Cities marketing priorities, the new president told Lewiston councilors Monday night. President John Holden said the Growth Council will begin work on a new strategic marking plan with a public meeting at 4 p.m. March 31 at the Auburn Public Library. […]
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Twin Cities-Portland bus service on the table
Twin Cities and Portland officials have started talking about establishing commuter bus service between the two metropolitan areas. “It’s going to take some time because it’s a big issue,” said Phil Nadeau, Lewiston deputy city administrator and chairman of the Lewiston-Auburn Transit Committee. “If we are trying to establish some kind of commuter service that […]
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Review continues on Lewiston $63 million wish list
LEWISTON — Councilors should vote on their $63 million wish list of projects for the next five years at their next regular meeting. The plan calls for an estimated $12 million in spending for the 2015-16 fiscal year, from city, school, water and sewer district bonds as well as general budgets. “What is being proposed […]
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River views: Grandness of the Strand awed audiences
“A bit of Broadway dropped onto Main Street, Lewiston,” said a lady as she stepped from a taxi at the entrance of the New Lewiston Theatre, Thursday night. That’s how hundreds of L-A residents celebrated New Year’s Eve a century ago. It was opening night at an opulent addition to the abundant entertainment venues of […]
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Second knifepoint store robbery in less than 2 weeks in Auburn
AUBURN — Police are searching for a man who robbed an Auburn store Sunday night at knifepoint, the second such robbery in Lewiston-Auburn in less than two weeks. At about 8:40 p.m. Sunday, a man walked into Gowell’s Variety at 121 Hampshire St. in Auburn, waved a knife at the clerk and made off with […]
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Airplane ice no match for crafty Auburn crew
AUBURN — When a Blue Angel jet slid off of a Brunswick runway last month, Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport Manager Rick Lanman said it exposed one of his greatest fears. “It could happen anywhere, but I was worried that it could happen here,” Lanman said. It could have happened in December 2013, when icy runways kept […]
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2014: A year of tragedies, triumphs and tribulations
At first glance, 2014 looks like a year of staying the course — of familiar faces and the unchanging Maine way of life. We elected a new governor who wasn’t new to us at all. We voted against a referendum that would have changed the way sportsmen hunt bears in the Maine woods. A popular […]