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Shoreland issue resurfaces in Alna
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Alna talks dam, Juniper Hill, voting
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SUSAN JOHNS
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Neither of the Alna selectmen whose seats are up for election March 26 sought to stay on, and voters will have choices for both seats. Nominations closed at noon Tuesday. Town Clerk Sheila McCarty said Kyle Levasseur and Linda Kristan will be on the ballot for the second selectman’s seat Doug Baston now holds; and Christopher Cooper and Charles Culbertson are running for third selectman, the seat Greg Shute now holds.
Road Commissioner Jeff Verney will be unopposed on the ballot for another one-year term; and recent Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 board appointee Kristina Verney is running unopposed for that seat, McCarty said.
Dam site work questioned as zoning debate continues
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Alna selectmen said Wednesday night, Jan. 20, they would have the codes enforcement officer and possibly Maine Department of Environmental Protection see if anything added to the Head Tide Dam site should not have been and, if so, how to address it.
If the bench should not be at the shore, it can be moved to higher ground, said resident Chris Kenoyer, who served on a committee that helped plan the site’s 2019 makeover. Third Selectman Greg Shute noted the bench was a request from the town, not Atlantic Salmon Federation, which did the dam project. As for gravel added due to erosion, Second Selectman Doug Baston said the planning board might have erred in allowing it, but if so he was unsure how to “unscramble that egg.”
Dear Editor:
This month, Alna’s selectmen signed a mediation agreement with Jeff Spinney about the permanent boat ramp he excavated into the Sheepscot River tidal marsh in December. This agreement allows Spinney to keep his private ramp, with supposed use restrictions, even though the ramp violates our Shoreland Zoning Ordinance’s prohibition of “permanent structures.”
The abutters who participated in the mediation did not sign the agreement.
Alna’s selectmen threw in their lot with the ramp-building applicant, who threatened to take the town to court over his previously denied shoreland zoning permits. They ignored objections raised by the abutters and dozens of other Alna and Newcastle residents.
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