For Mainers who live in Cumberland, Hancock, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, Washington or York counties and had a privately owned road or bridge damaged or destroyed by the severe storms and flooding that took place January 9-13, FEMA or the U.S. Small Business Administration may provide financial assistance for replacement or repairs.   Read the article…………………………….

Three December storms resulted in severe flooding at Davis Island properties and a resident is now looking for help. John Allen requested Feb. 20 Edgecomb selectmen assist their homeowner’s association with submitting a Maine Emergency Management Agency application for natural disaster funding.  Read the article…………………………….

From renting to owning, a nonprofit is developing condos in Lewiston’s “Tree Streets” neighborhood.  A two-bedroom condo at 51 Howard Street is available for $150,000. The other two floors will be up for sale next year.    Read the article……………………………

More than half the homeowners at The Cottages at Pine Meadow have complained to the attorney general’s office but have not gotten any recourse. The developer and builder, meanwhile, deny the claims and have criticized the owners.   Read the article………………………..

Brooke Hackett said the homeowners association told her all signs and flags are banned in her neighborhood, a rule that she says was never enforced until now.   Read the article………………………..

Several types of PFOA and PFAS, which stand for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, were found in more than half of the 60 wells the Navy tested in the area, including those providing water for the 64 condominiums in 2019.  Read the article………………………..

Gardeners in Maine scored a huge victory against HOAs and corporations that want to restrict what they can grow in their own yards.  In 2021, Maine amended its state constitution to assert that residents have a “right to food,” Modern Farmer reported   Read the article………………………..

Karen Sanford had a quiet life planned when she arrived in Portland in the mid-1980s. Earlier, while living in Seattle, she became politically active as that city’s waterfront faced transformation from a diverse, active maritime zone to one dominated by hotels and condos.   Read the article………………………..

The South Berwick Fire Department responded to a fire in the roof of a building at a condo complex on Saturday.  The smoky fire in the Woodland Hills Condominium damaged the roof and caused extensive fire, smoke, and water damage to two of the four units, according to the South Berwick Fire Department.   Read the entire article……………………………….

Residents on Three-Cornered Pond want something the residents of most other homes in the city get now: their trash picked up at their homes by the city.  But not all of them are willing to sign over a public easement to their private roads that officials say is required for city crews to venture onto those roads to collect trash.    Read the entire article……………………………….

The Maine Superior Court has ruled that the town of Falmouth has the “unambiguous” right to extend a sewer line through The Woodlands neighborhood.  The Woodlands Homeowners Association filed a lawsuit against the town in November, claiming that an existing sewer easement didn’t allow the town to build a new line through the private neighborhood.  Read the entire article……………………………….

The homeowners association for The Woodlands plans to file a lawsuit in early November to stop a West Falmouth sewer improvement project that is scheduled to start next month, the group’s attorney says.    Read the entire article……………………………….

There’s a fight in Falmouth over plans to build a new sewer line.  A lawyer for one neighborhood is ready to take legal action, but the town says it’s doing what’s most cost-effective.  The Woodlands Homeowners Association says it’s challenging a $3 million sewer project that was just approved.     Read the entire article……………………………….

Back in March, Houssein Abdi attended a special meeting to find a way to help fellow tenants whose lives were just starting to be upended by the coronavirus pandemic.  They hatched a plan to prevent any tenants from being evicted for nonpayment of rent and to help find additional support for five households struggling to make ends meet.   Read the article…………………………………..

A road to a housing development in Woolwich that residents said was never built properly has sparked a feud among neighbors.  The argument centers on who is responsible for paying $20,000 to fix Norway Drive.    Read the article…………………………..

A Boston investor that plans to buy the idled Saddleback Mountain ski area in Rangeley has asked the owners of the resort’s 121 condominiums to donate $5,500 each to help revive it   Read the article……………………..

When the new West Harbor Pond siphon began operating in early March, drawing water from the bottom of the Pond and expelling it into the Harbor, there was an odor of hydrogen sulfide in the immediate vicinity of the siphon outfall. In mid-April, the West Harbor Pond Watershed Association (WHPWA) and the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club agreed that the WHPWA would turn off the siphon on May 24th and leave it turned off until at least mid-August in order to ...

Building maintenance follows a schedule based on the seasons, each of which presents a unique set of challenges to a co-op or condo. At certain times of the year, it just makes sense to do certain regular maintenance projects: weatherizing, boiler maintenance, winterizing gardens and landscaping in the fall; cleaning, repainting, pruning, and switching off the heating machinery in the spring, and so forth.    Read the article……………

The old saying that the only sure things in life are death and taxes leaves out a third certainty: legislation. Across New England each year, thousands of bills get filed in state legislatures, many of them as mundane as the naming of a bridge or a new state “something”—like designating the Fluffernutter as Massachusetts’ official sandwich.   Read more……….