Both residents and school officials wrestle with a $96.8 million plan to renovate and expand the 59-year-old building.
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Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Bethel takes initial steps toward road project
A possible WiFi hotspot could be coming to Bethel, with a decision expected to be made in the next month.
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Bird’s-eye view of Oxford County Courthouse construction
The $9.52 million project is expected to be completed in May 2020.
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This is what working in the cold looks like
Clouds form after digging exposes warm dirt and St. Laurent & Sons worker Josh Becvar exhales in Monday morning’s frigid temperatures off Bartlett Street in Lewiston. The area surrounding the former Hudson Bus property is being transformed into a giant catch basin for the Gully Brook water runoff from Bartlett Hill, new athletic fields at Lewiston […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Island construction project wrapping up for winter
Rumford’s Island construction project is wrapping up for the winter. RUMFORD — With the arrival of wintry weather, work on the downtown infrastructure project will wind down for the season over the next two weeks, Town Manager Linda-Jean Briggs said. Briggs told the Board of Selectmen on Thursday night the weather has become too cold to […]
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A pond on Congress Street
A small pond forms on Congress Street in Rumford on Wednesday, after construction workers broke a waterline. New water and sewer lines are being installed on The Island business district as part of $5.9 million worth of improvements downtown. Town Manager Linda-Jean Briggs said officials hope the lines will be completed by the end of […]
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Canal bridge work continues
Chad Rogers straddles what is left of the foundation of the old bridge across the canal on Beech Street in Lewiston at the entrance of Simard-Payne Memorial Park on Thursday as he unhooks sheet piles. He was part of a team from Reed & Reed Inc. lifting the giant sheet piles that are driven 20 […]
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Rehabbing Jepson Brook
Workers from Gordon Contracting Inc. of Sangerville work Thursday morning on Jepson Brook, between Manning and Brooks avenues in Lewiston. Justin Libby, the project superintendent, said the company will repair the right wall and replace the deteriorating left side. The project is expected to take between 10 and 12 weeks. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) Workers from Gordon Contracting Inc. of Sangerville work […]
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Paving will limit use of Bernard Lown Peace Bridge on Wednesday
Cedar Street in Lewiston and Broad Street in Auburn — at the approaches to the Bernard Lown Peace Bridge — will be closed for paving in the direction from Lewiston to Auburn on Wednesday starting at 6 a.m. The detour will direct vehicles onto Lincoln Street to Main Street in Lewiston and across the Longley […]
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Paving the way for a new business
Walter Humphrey ties off caution tape on fencing around the newly paved lot at Minot Avenue and High Street in Auburn on Thursday afternoon. Humphrey is the general contractor for business owner John Vallieres, who has owned the property for the past five years and has city approval to open a small, car dealership by […]