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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Lewiston aims to ease congestion, improve safety at McMahon Elementary School
LEWISTON — Picking up McMahon Elementary School students during the month of February was messy and congested. Some people worried that students were at risk of being struck by a vehicle because they were hard to see in the snowbanks and traffic. But after watching a video filmed by Sun Journal photographer Russ Dillingham, school and […]
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Attorneys begin drafting Heniger Park lease contracts
OTISFIELD — New contracts for residents leasing town land at Heniger Park on Pleasant Lake could be issued by next summer, Selectman Rick Micklon said. Selectmen met with town attorneys in Portland on Wednesday in the first of three meetings to draft a new lease agreement. The town has begun to hammer out the legal […]
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Early plans for Farmington park taking shape
FARMINGTON — A preliminary sketch of a proposed park for the former town garage lot has, so far, received nods of approval. But there’s still work to do before any decision is made on whether it’s adopted. The Board of Selectmen seemed to like it, Town Manager Richard Davis said. But it didn’t make a […]
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Police plan would shuffle parking lots
AUBURN — According to a plan presented to City Council Monday, the city would begin labeling downtown lots to better manage parking. Police Chief Phil Crowell said his department is now in charge of managing parking downtown, and he unveiled a plan that would shift some permit parking from one lot to another and increase […]