Nov 29, 2008

Jilted Port Huggers Lament Oversight 'Poison Pill'

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Several of the creators of the foundered JUPC plan for partitioning Sears Island fired back at their critics and at the Maine legislature   ...
Nov 24, 2008

Sears Island - The empire retreats.

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Another happy event has transpired since the Legislature's Joint Transportation Committee adopted the Savage Plan, which withholds appr...
Nov 22, 2008

Sears Island: Governor says port plan "inoperable".

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The intrigue continues...Maine's governor and legislature slide helplessly into civil war over  integrity of environmentalists on the Jo...
Nov 18, 2008

Sears Island Smackdown! Wild island saved from partition....But Baldacci may try an end run around the legislature: updates soon...

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Jaws dropped, incredulous grins spread among island-huggers today as the state/eco-Yuppie plot to divvy Sears Island up into container port ...
Nov 12, 2008

Sears Island - JUPC bails out, legislators to vote 11/18/08

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Having finished their dirty business, the Sears Island Joint Use Planning Committee has cancelled its final public meeting . One which w...
Nov 4, 2008

Penobscot Bay fish habitat -what sprawl, pollution and dredging does to it

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A report quite relevant to the Sears Island Question came out earlier this year - feds and scientists finally taking a long hard look at the...
Oct 23, 2008

Deal of Shame: Fall '08 ME Sierra Club newsletter omits Sears Island!

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It was positively astonishing to open the very latest newsletter from the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club that arrived in the Penobsc...
Oct 15, 2008

Sears Island - Legislators don't trust Sierra Club

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Better no Sears Island plan than this flawed one. A sentiment shared by pro-porters and anti-porters at today's statehouse meeting. (...
Oct 14, 2008

Sears Island - Legislators to get JUPC "progress" report & citizen opposition in the statehouse wednesday

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Sears Island defenders to rally Wednesday outside Legislative committee hearing on island port/conservationist plan. Augusta . On Wednesda...
Oct 2, 2008

Sears Is. JUPC-ian bobble-heads try to shrug off the Sacrifice Zone.

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"It's not Joint Use Planning you've been carrying out; it's Single Use Planning." So said Ron Huber on behalf of Pe...
Oct 1, 2008

Sears Island! JUPC meets10/3/08, noon. Shall the sacrifice zone stay off the table?

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Another meeting - perhaps the ultimate Joint Use Planning Committee meeting? - shall be held October 3rd noon to 3pm at the Searsport Congr...
Sep 29, 2008

LURC locked down by earth First! over Plum Creek

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Four Maine Earth First!ers are locked down in the office of the Land Use Regulatory Commission, demanding the Land Use Reggers come out and ...
Sep 19, 2008

GOM and Pen Bay weather buoys in funding trouble

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"Due to a $450,000 shortfall, the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GOMOOS) may have to remove five of the eleven buoys they have c...
Sep 1, 2008

Good and Evil clash on Sears Island

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The drama: "Travesty Island," took place Sunday afternoon near the gate at the north end of our publicly owned island. Listen to ...
Aug 30, 2008

Sears Island Sunday: after the barbecue, join the dramatic theater on the causeway.

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After chewing the fat at the FOSI barbecue on Sunday at the corner of Rte 1 and Sears Island road, (located a few miles north of downtown ...
Aug 26, 2008

Sears Island - JUPC rides again - Sept 5th noon.

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Once again the Searsport Congregational Church's public meeting hall will resound with false assurances and ringing indignation as the ...
Aug 23, 2008

Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples from Castine to Gouldsboro 1500–2000

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The Wabanaki have lived in the Penobscot Bay area and elsewhere along the New England coast for about twelve thousand years. A recent ...
Aug 22, 2008

'Travesty Island' pageant on Sears Island August 31

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"Travesty Island," a free theatrical event to protest plans to develop Sears Island, will be held Sunday, August 31, at 1 p.m. n...
Aug 10, 2008

Looters strike Penobscot Bay archaeology site.

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A long ignored thickly forested ravine on the west side of Penobscot Bay that may have hosted native American encampments stretching well b...

Army Corps of Engineers: No public hearing on MDOT Umbrella Mitigation Bank plan.

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No Wild Place in Maine is Safe. The US Army Corps of Engineers has decided not to hold a public hearing on MDOT's Umbrella Mitigation...