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Brunswick approve up to $70,000 to conserve 144 acres on former base
The council voted 8-1 to acquire the land for conservation and recreational purposes.
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Brunswick Councilors on Tuesday voted 8-1 to spend up to $70,000 to buy a 144-acres at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station from the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority for conservation and outdoor activities.
Councilor Chris Watkinson cast the lone dissenting vote, stating that the council did not do their “due diligence to solicit feedback from various stakeholders.”
“For myself as a councilor and as a representative of a certain amount of people in town, I can’t put my vote behind the idea that we’ve done everything that we should be doing,” Watkinson said.
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At the warming center at Yorkship Elementary School on Feb. 11, 2021, Tawanda Jones rests in what she calls her apartment strategically-placed blankets that she said hide her from the patrons view when she sleeps in the gym. (April Saul for WHYY)
It was the morning of Jan. 28 when Connie Kellum saw the weather report for Camden and called Tawanda “Wawa” Jones, her longtime friend.
“I said, ‘What are we doing for Code Blue? We got five hours, the storm’s in Buffalo, and it’s coming.”
Jones founder of the Camden Sophisticated Sisters drill team and the Masked Melanin Market, which showcases Black-owned businesses had been thinking the same thing.