NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen unanimously voted Thursday to withhold a vote to eliminate parking on a section of Main Street until it could determine whether the Department of Transportation would agree to lessen the restriction. The DOT restriction also calls for right-turn-only traffic from Pikes Hill onto Main Street. The state mandated the […]
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Residents celebrate new Rumford Point bridge with ribbon-cutting ceremony
RUMFORD – More than 50 residents gathered at the new Martin Memorial Bridge on Tuesday morning to watch U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, Town Manager John Madigan and state highway Commissioner David Bernhardt officially open it to the public. In June 2012, Collins, the senior Republican on the U.S. Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, announced that the […]
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MDOT reveals final design plan for Peru/Mexico bridge replacement
PERU — The Maine Department of Transportation held revealed their final design plan for the replacement of the Androscoggin River Bridge during a Monday evening public hearing at the Peru Town Office. The plan to replace the 85-year-old bridge began in 2014 after MDOT declared the bridge was structurally deficient and at the end of […]
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Dixfield selectmen learn sidewalk project may be pricier than anticipated
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen learned Monday evening that the Safe Routes to School project may cost the town $40,000 more than expected. Mike Laberge, Maine Department of Transportation’s local projects coordinator, said the agency had a meeting in March and realized the cost estimates were a couple of years old. “We asked the […]
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Dixfield selectmen approve contract for library stairs
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen unanimously voted Monday to award a $6,300 contract to J&T Masonry of Carthage to replace the front stairs of the Ludden Memorial Library. Librarian Peggy Malley previously told selectmen she budgeted the money for the 2014-15 fiscal year, but was unable to find anyone to do the work. In […]
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College Street work to wait as Twin Cities summer road projects get going
LEWISTON — A major paving project planned for College Street will wait until spring 2016, according to Public Works officials. The city will go out bid this summer for a 2.5-mile paving project on College Street between Montello and Stetson Brook, near the Greene border. But work won’t begin in spring 2016, according to Lewiston […]
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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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MDOT holds hearing on Bethel bridge deck replacement
BETHEL — Rebuilding the deck of the Androscoggin River Bridge on Route 2 is slated to start next April and take five or six months, residents at Tuesday night’s public hearing by the Maine Department of Transportation were told. Project Manager Joel Kittredge said that while the bridge is in decent shape, the deck was […]
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Great Falls Transportation Center wins Auburn council’s approval
AUBURN — A Great Falls Plaza bus station and transportation center will get nicer looks and stronger footings, councilors agreed Monday. Councilors voted to add nicer masonry, walls, vestibules and a more attractive roof on the new garage. Those items had been cut in an attempt to keep costs down. Councilors also agreed to build […]
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MDOT presents plans for Wilton intersection
WILTON — Work to make the intersection at Route 156 and Routes 2 and 4 safer is expected to begin in July, according to plans presented to the Board of Selectpersons on Tuesday. Rhobe Moulton, project manager for the Maine Department of Transportation, told the board the project goes out to bid in May and […]