The 12-member committee — comprised of eight community members and four City Council and Planning Board representatives — is responsible for overseeing the “big picture” of the Comprehensive Plan, which
Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology and director of the marine field station at the University of Maine at Machias, is conducting research all along Maine’s coast to see
Forum participants as well as others in the community will also be able to complete a survey to provide additional input, all of which will help to frame and direct the Union River Watershed plan that the team is developing.
This past February was Maine’s first ever Browntail Moth Awareness Month, a fact that serves to illustrate just how pervasive this invasive species has become.
In a March 30 letter, Maine representatives requested a delay in the implementation of part of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s new Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan rule.