Lewiston residents visited empty lots on Pierce Street recently, where two former buildings once offered safe and healthy housing to their occupants. After the devastating fires that took place more than one year ago, what remains today are massive vacant lots that serve as a constant visual reminder of the tragedy that destroyed 110-114 Pierce […]
Lewiston Question 1
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J. Mogan: Downtown needs to be rebuilt
I read with interest the letter from Edmund Burke in the Sun Journal (Oct. 23) suggesting that fewer buildings are needed in downtown Lewiston. His description of the condition of much of the housing stock downtown is right on the mark. And his suggestion that the image presented by a run-down inner city is problematic, […]
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Maura Murphy: Outcome of Lewiston Question 1 vitally important
I will always remember the helpless horror I felt in May 2013 as I sat in New Delhi, India, poring over news coverage from my hometown of the fires that screamed through three Pierce Street, Lewiston, apartment buildings, rendering 29 families homeless within minutes. Then came a swell of gratitude, pride even, that moved me […]
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Kristen Cloutier: A chance to improve the quality of Lewiston’s housing stock
On Nov. 4, Lewiston voters will decide whether local landlord Phyllis St. Laurent will be allowed to rebuild the apartment building she lost to the fires that tore through downtown Lewiston in April and May, 2013. A group of residents, led by another local landlord, Stan Pelletier, want to repeal the City Council order to […]