LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen voted Tuesday to allow two men to clean up a tax-acquired property on Route 106, if they have liability insurance and put in writing the town will not be liable if they get injured. Town Manager Stephen Gould said he had an offer from Mark Smith and David Blais to clean […]
Spring Street
Photos: Auburn's new multiunit apartment complex under construction on Spring Street
A prefabricated wall is hoisted into place Wednesday at 62 Spring St. in Auburn. The multiunit apartment complex is expected to be completed by fall. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) A prefabricated wall is hoisted into place Wednesday at 62 Spring St. in Auburn. The multiunit apartment complex is expected to be completed by fall. (Russ Dillingham/Sun […]
Affordable housing units break ground in Auburn
Sharon Philbrook Bergeron, right, president of the Auburn Housing Development Corp., talks with Joan Lynch and her son, Kevin Lynch, during the groundbreaking for 62 Spring St., a multi-unit housing development in Auburn, on Thursday. Joan and Kevin Lynch sold the property where their Dillingham & Son Funeral Home once stood to get the subsidized […]
Late-night fire rousts tenants in Lewiston
LEWISTON — An 8-month-old child was carried to safety late Wednesday as flames ripped through a second-floor apartment on Spring Street. The infant and five others escaped the burning building at 48 Spring St. as flames and smoke began pouring from the upper floors at about 11 p.m. “It happened so quick,” said Cathy Bryant, […]
Auburn’s Spring Street developer ready for another try at tax credits
AUBURN — The developer behind a Spring Street redevelopment project which combines residential and retail construction will try again this fall to win tax credits. Portland developer Ethan Boxer-Macomber of Anew Development said plans to replace the old Dillingham Funeral Home at the corner of Spring and Court streets did not qualify for the last […]
Councilors feel fancier Spring Street bus station worthy
AUBURN — The city could spend a bit more to get a downtown bus station that looks good, according to the new drawings of the proposed building. The city has released a drawing of the planned Spring Street bus station, with a slanted roof, a central tower and plenty of glass. Designs for the station […]