So, let me get this straight — the Lewiston Auburn Joint Charter Commission is comprised of several business and government leaders, including Chip Morrison, who was a former Auburn city manager and former president of the Lewiston Auburn Chamber of Commerce. The Commission also includes Lucien Gosselin, a long-time Lewiston city administrator and participant in […]
Robin Dearborn
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Drop the Portland envy
One of the recurring themes advanced by those supporting a merger of the Twin Cities, creating a ponderous big city straddling the Androscoggin River, is that the Twin Cities are in a competition of some sort with Portland. Once Lewiston and Auburn are merged, the new city will rise up and slay the powerful dragon […]
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Webber might learn something
I read with amusement Auburn attorney Curtis Webber’s condescending letter (March 25) in support of the merger of Lewiston and Auburn. The merger might be great for the lawyers who would charge hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to draft a charter for the new city and implement a new merged government. For […]
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Merger idea should go away
Eugene Geiger, chairman of the Lewiston-Auburn Joint Charter Commission, recently said in the Sun Journal that he was going to invite the public to select the name of the new merged city. He was quoted as saying, “We’re just letting people type in what they want and then, whether we’ve gotten five or 500 suggestions, […]