AUBURN — City officials said Monday they are not trying to take over Lewiston-Auburn’s cable access channel, just trying to make it operate more efficiently. Denis D’Auteuil, Auburn’s acting assistant city manager, said he is working with his Lewiston counterpart, Deputy City Administrator Phil Nadeau, on a new interlocal agreement governing how Lewiston-Auburn’s cable access […]
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Cayer asks for more agreeable shared agency budget discussions
LEWISTON — The Twin Cities could agree more when it comes to funding cross-city agencies, City Councilor Mark Cayer said Tuesday. Lewiston councilors were reviewing budgets for shared agencies — Lewiston-Auburn 911 Communications Center, the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport, Great Falls TV and Lewiston-Auburn Transit Committee — at their budget workshop discussion. All told, those three […]
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Lot sizes a hitch in Lewiston subdivison deal
LEWISTON — New lots formed out of a city deal with Franklin Property Trust may end up creating properties that either intentionally break city zoning rules or won’t be able to qualify for home financing, councilors learned Tuesday. City staff said councilors will need to decide if they want to make the new lots legal […]
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‘Snowhere’ to put it all: It’s affecting all of us
LEWISTON — Public works directors in the Twin Cities said Monday that crews plowing their third major stormstorm in a week will begin snow removal operations Tuesday, a move one business owner said can’t come soon enough. Director of Lewiston Public Works David Jones said his crews are doing their best, but three major storms […]
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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 […]
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Lewiston School Committee OKs new redistricting panel
LEWISTON — The School Department will begin assembling a new 22-member redistricting committee in anticipation of a new, larger school to replace Martel Elementary, the School Committee decided Monday night. The state has told Superintendent Bill Webster that the city is in the 2017 funding cycle to replace the 1925 school building on Lisbon Street. […]
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Hard work pays off for council challengers in Lewiston Wards 1, 7
LEWISTON — Incumbents in Wards 1 and 7 lost their City Council seats Tuesday in close voting. Leslie Dubois defeated two-term Councilor John Butler by a tally of 413-328 to claim the Ward 1 seat. In Ward 7, Michael Lachance defeated incumbent Richard Desjardins, 597-409. Both candidates credited their wins to hard work and knocking […]