AUBURN — A company created by a Twin Cities quasi-municipal economic development group is seeking to attach the assets of a local marketing company, claiming it owes rent on a Lisbon Street office in Lewiston. At a Thursday hearing in Androscoggin County Superior Court, Justice MaryGay Kennedy heard arguments by both sides on a motion […]
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Lewiston homeowners could become landowners — if they can afford it
LEWISTON — On one hand, Norm Meservier was able to get a nice house for a steal back in 1991: $18,000, plus $2,000 to fix the roof. “For $20,000, I got a house — not an apartment — clean and fixed up,” he said. “I don’t have upstairs neighbors. I don’t have downstairs neighbors. It’s […]
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Brookside Village housing project celebrated in Farmington
FARMINGTON — The opening of Brookside Village Affordable Senior Housing, the first net-zero energy housing project for the state, was celebrated Thursday. With 228 solar panels and a number of geothermal wells, the 32-apartment complex will use no fossil fuels, developer Byron “Buzz” Davis told an audience of tenants and others. The energy systems will […]
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GRCC chairman says Senior Center’s rent hike is “not personal”
RUMFORD – Greater Rumford Community Center Chairman Gary Dolloff said Thursday afternoon that the increase in the Rumford Senior Center’s rent at the building was “not personal,” but a result of the town rejecting the GRCC’s operating budget. At the annual town meeting in June, voters rejected the GRCC’s operating budget and summer programs budget. […]
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Changes to Maine’s property tax relief programs catch many off guard
LEWISTON — Changes to a state rent and property tax relief program aimed at helping low- and middle-income individuals and families are catching many who benefited from the program off guard. Many are no longer eligible for the programs and others are learning that their rebates have been steeply cut. About 75,000 Maine households will […]