LIVERMORE FALLS — After more than a year of development, the Androscoggin Land Trust and the Center for Community GIS are unveiling a new Androscoggin Greenway Map & Guide for the riverfront towns of Jay, Canton, Livermore and Livermore Falls. The map, produced by the Androscoggin Land Trust is the first seeking to capture not […]
Jonathan LaBonte
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Livermore Falls to get money to extend walk, bike path
LIVERMORE FALLS — The town was recently notified that it will receive a $16,000 grant from the state for planning and engineering work to extend the Foundry Road Trail about a mile. The nearly three-quarter-mile Foundry Trail opened in the fall of 2009. This new money would be used to develop a plan to extend […]
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Eight days a week: When does work end and life begin?
Rising each day at 5 or 5:30 a.m., Jonathan LaBonte of New Auburn reads newspapers on his laptop or BlackBerry. An hour later, he’s deep in the trenches, responding to work-related e-mails that have accumulated overnight. If he waits until 8 a.m., when most people arrive at their desks, the in-box fills up faster than […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Quest for a bike-ped trail from L-A to Brunswick is an uphill climb.
LEWISTON — Jonathan LaBonte wants to see a riverside path winding clear from Lewiston to Brunswick and see it happen while he’s still limber enough to walk and bike. Think 10 to 20 years. This first mile, though, is a doozy. As the city of Lewiston widens Lincoln Street downtown to make way for more […]
Posted inConnections
Source to the Sea Trek on its way to L-A
LEWISTON — After paddling for 11 days and over 100 miles through northern New Hampshire and western Maine, participants in the Androscoggin Source to the Sea Trek will make their way towards the watershed’s largest cities, Lewiston and Auburn, from Friday to Sunday. The trek, which this year is celebrating its 15th anniversary, began near […]
Posted inOpinion
Maine must have new ideas, from new faces
It should come as no surprise that Maine’s economy continues to struggle to find a sustainable future. Dozens of reports over the last few decades have recommended new initiatives and new strategies to set us on a new course, but if you look at the names on the study groups, it shows that while we […]
Posted inOpinion
What should the new EL be?
Debate about what to do with Edward Little High School is being kicked into overdrive with the Auburn School Department hiring a marketing committee to make the case for the $40-60 million investment. Backed by the threat of accreditation probation and a new architectural assessment of options, there is little doubt there must be a […]
Posted inOpinion
Auburn housing solution
Jonathan LaBonte’s column (May 10) about downtown investments was off the mark, and his complaint about the Vincent Square redevelopment is premised on erroneous information. He cites a “$5 million investment” in the former Vincent bottling plant for conversion to housing, which is roughly double the construction cost. LaBonte may have drawn this conclusion from […]
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A downside in downtown
In the last couple of weeks, two significant public initiatives were announced in downtowns along the Androscoggin; both involve investments in improving housing with a target of low and moderate income residents and were backed by state or federal money. While it is hard to be in a position to argue against improving or creating […]