LEWISTON — Saying they’d like to do more to reduce class sizes, Lewiston School Committee members approved a $64.7 million budget Monday night, a 5.8 percent increase from the current budget. The proposed budget includes 32 new positions, most of them special ed to keep pace with growing special ed students. About 10 educators would […]
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Lisbon Street paving work gets pushed back a year
LEWISTON — A public referendum on adding bicycle lanes to a repaved Lisbon Street won’t happen this year. Neither will the paving project. Public Works Director David Jones said Tuesday that the city has simply run out of time to complete the project before the end of the road construction season, thanks to a longer-than-expected […]
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Auburn officials mull changes to garage sale permitting
AUBURN — City officials met informally with residents Tuesday evening to discuss proposed changes to the way the city deals with yard sales and agricultural barn sales. It was a scantly attended meeting, made up of only of Eric Cousens, Auburn’s deputy director of planning and development, City Councilor Belinda Gerry and the few residents […]
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Auburn leans on financial trust for asylum-seeking families in need of General Assistance
AUBURN — The city will continue paying General Assistance benefits to a small group of asylum-seeking immigrant families, even though there are questions about whether or not that money will be repaid by the state. “We have a moral obligation, and then we have a financial obligation, and sometimes those don’t match,” Councilor Tizz Crowley […]
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Auburn staff talking garage sale rule changes Tuesday
AUBURN — A change to city rules could draw a line between flea markets and charity rummage sales. “If you pay $50 per table for a spot at a flea market for an entire year, that’s not that great of a cost,” said Eric Cousens, Auburn’s deputy director of planning. “But if you do that […]
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Lewiston-Auburn This Week
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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Auburn budget work kicks off with Monday workshop
AUBURN — Councilors could be faced with either budget cuts or a tax increase for the next year fiscal year, according to acting City Manager Howard Kroll. “We’ve done the best we can, and the next steps will really be up to them,” Kroll said. City councilors will get their first look at Kroll’s proposed […]
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Auburn may make better use of library’s electronic sign
AUBURN — The city should make better use of the electronic sign in front of the Auburn Public Library rather than spend money on putting a new one closer to Auburn Hall, councilors said Monday. School Committee member Chris Langis said the idea came from residents he talked to last summer as he went door […]
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L-A This Week
MONDAY, Jan. 26 LEWISTON — City Finance Committee meeting at 5:15 p.m. in the Administrator’s Conference Room on the bottom floor of City Hall. LEWISTON — Joint meeting of the Finance Committee and Planning Board, 5:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber on the bottom floor of City Hall. The meeting will be a review of […]