GOULDSBORO – Local resident Mason Johnson Tuesday night was the lone voice speaking out in support of American Aquafarms’ proposed 120-acre salmon farm in Frenchman Bay before a public hearing, where the Planning Board voted 5-0 to approve and send forth an aquaculture development moratorium ordinance for voters’ consideration at a special town meeting expected …
GOULDSBORO — The Maine Forest Service and Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT), in a joint maneuver last week, successfully airlifted four of five culverts from Birch Harbor village’s tidal flats by helicopter and deposited them on land above the inlet’s eastern shore. The culverts were transferred to MDOT’s two awaiting tractor-trailer trucks and taken away. …
American Aquafarms officials say the Norwegian-backed company’s closing on East Coast Seafood’s Maine Fair Trade facility “is imminent.” The exact date has not been announced. A new CEO, to succeed American Aquafarms founder Mikael Roenes, is expected to be named later this week.
GOULDSBORO — On Monday, Sept. 27, Officer Adam Brackett responded to a report of an alleged assault at a Route 1 residence in Gouldsboro. His investigation is ongoing. Missing dogs Two dogs took off for five hours last Friday, Oct. 1, from a South Gouldsboro home. The canines, which had disappeared from the Deane Point …
GOULDSBORO — A positive COVID-19 case in the Gouldsboro town office has prompted the Select Board to require all office staff to wear masks when interacting with the public inside the Prospect Harbor building. The public, too, is being asked to wear masks as a safety precaution to safeguard their own and others’ health when …
ELLSWORTH — The Grand has canceled its production of “Nunsense,” a musical comedy about the Little Sisters of Hoboken’s fundraiser to bury their order’s food-poisoned nuns, Tuesday after being notified that a person directly involved in the production had tested positive for COVID-19. All ticket holders will be issued a full refund. Directed by Ashley …
“It definitely helps loving your job and loving the town that you grew up in. It helps putting these things together.”
GOULDSBORO — Two vehicles collided, but neither driver was seriously injured in a Sept. 15 accident on Route 1 near Ives Landing Lane. William Riveria-Cappas of Winter Harbor was driving a 2008 Toyota Yaris, which struck the rear of a 2006 Toyota Tundra driven by Thomas Mosley of Hancock. The Tundra sustained moderate damage and …
“These units are being transferred because they are closely aligned in mission with corresponding units in the Space Force and they are operating together already.”
The state Department of Environmental Protection will hold a three-hour public meeting strictly online late in October to hear comments and concerns about American Aquafarms’ permit applications to discharge two billion gallons of circulated water daily from the Norwegian-backed company’s two 15-pen sites.
The Planning Board will hold a public hearing Tuesday, Oct. 19, to hear comments for or against a moratorium ordinance that would prohibit large-scale aquaculture development in town from consideration for six months.
GOULDSBORO — Lighthouses take a beating from Mother Nature. These isolated outposts on barren ledges are submerged at times by surging seas. Violent storms pummel the beacons and have heavily damaged keepers’ quarters and swept away boathouses, ramps, fog horns and other structures over the years. The outposts required constant maintenance and working on them …
