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Dear Editor:
At a public hearing last Wednesday, only two Alna citizens spoke in favor of a ballot measure to change the town’s Shoreland Zoning Ordinance, to permit “permanent structures” below the Sheepscot River’s normal high water line. Many more citizens, as well as a Newcastle resident across the river and the executive director of the Midcoast Conservancy, spoke in opposition. The ballot measure will be voted on on March 27.
The two proponents were the person who submitted the proposed change, and Jeff Spinney, whose project to excavate a private stone boat ramp on the river has roiled the town for over a year.
Dear Editor:
I write in support of Charlie Culbertson’s candidacy for Third Selectman in Alna. I find his thinking in concert with my own on two very important issues: rivers and schools.
It might be said that my soul is embedded in the ebb and flow of the Sheepscot River. In the 1930s, I learned to swim in the Sheepscot River; in the ’40s to row a dinghy; in the ’50s I learned to fish; in the ’60s to shoot ducks; and in more recent years, to paddle a kayak and revere the eagles, kingfishers, otters and mink … and ducks.
Dear Editor: The Sheepscot River and its inhabitants are living beings that are part of our community and we are part of theirs. They deserve and are entitled to the respect, protection, value and inclusion, as are all who make their homes here in.
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I must challenge claims in Alex Titcomb’s letter published Feb. 24, “NECEC won’t tarnish Maine’s woods.” It appears Alex’s exposure to the proposed corridor zone is limited to Route 201, an existing corridor bisecting the industrial timberlands of Somerset County.
Unlike the swath of internationally-shared wilderness NECEC would permanently bisect, these forests are regenerated to protect the long-term investments of big landowners. Unlike NECEC, these forests provide permanent jobs for thousands of Mainers.
Perhaps, Alex is unaware the true goal of NECEC is corridor status, from Lac Megantic to the Sheepscot River in Wiscasset. Does he realize the only industrial infrastructure in the proposed corridor zone is an international railroad? Can he visualize the territory from Quebec’s Chaudiere-Appalaches wilderness, through the wildly remote Moose River Basin, to the Dead River and the Upper Kennebec River Gorge?