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Friday, January 17, 2014
Volume 10 • Issue No. 3
2014 Shore and Harbor Planning Grants Awarded ELIOT & KITTERY The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Maine Coastal Program announce recently that six coastal municipalities will be awarded $85,668 in Shore and Harbor Planning grants. These awards will provide planning and design support for harbor management, infrastructure and public access along the Maine coast. The grants are made possible by Maine’s federal coastal management award from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The grant program, an important
Area shorelines will benefit from 2014 NOAA grants. (Kirsten Smith photo)
component of the Maine Coastal Program, balances the development and conservation of Maine’s
coastal zone by providing technical assistance to coastal municipalities for planning and public
access. Each grantee will provide a minimum of 25 percent in matching funds or services. Among the six municipalities awarded, Eliot and Kittery will receive a combined $35,200. Eliot has been awarded $15,200 for developing a plan to improve access to the Piscataqua River in two different locations: Park Street and Pleasant Street. The town will develop a plan to improve public access for both properties using a landscape architect, an engineer, and through the solicitation of substantial public feedback. In addition, Kittery was given $20,000 for the design of a
wave protection system in Pepperell Cove. The town will solicit bids for engineering work that will in turn investigate the placement of wave attenuation devices in an effort to more effectively protect the Pepperell Cove mooring fields and associated waterfront infrastructure. “Commercial and public access to Maine’s coastline is important for fisherman, businesses that rely on tourism and public enjoyment of our natural resources,” said Governor Paul R. LePage. “These projects will promote local access and economic activSee GRANTS page 21...
Maine Activist, Novelist Headlines Local Students MLK Jr. Celebration Advance to State Level of Geographic Bee
KENNEBUNK Maureen Gill, local historian and author, will speak on the topic “An Equal Opportunity Slave Master” at the 12th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Breakfast at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Kennebunk at 8:30 a.m. on
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Monday, Jan. 20. Open to the public, the event will feature the First Parish Choir, and a delicious breakfast will be served. Tickets are $10 each and are available by visiting the church office or by calling 207-985-3700. Dr. King’s work holds continuing relevance in a nation today, “where racial slavery and racial oppression have been replaced with economic slavery that knows no color or ethnicity,” according to Gill. In her remarks Ms. Gill will discuss how “American laws and practices are now methodically producing – and have been producing for approximately 40 years – a grinding, oppressive, economic neo-slavery that knows no racial bounds.” Trained in history at Loyola University Chicago, Gill has special expertise in racism, anti-Semitism, and sexual oppression, as well as the policies and laws that impact healthcare, minorities and maternal/child health. Gill has published over 100 non-fiction articles concerning historical and contemporary political issues in various print and online newspapers and magazines, including LGBTQNation.
SOUTH BERWICK & WELLS Parker Swanson of the Marshwood Great Works School and Quentin Curtiss of the Wells Junior High School have advanced to the state level of the National Geographic Bee. Eighth grade student Cur-
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Maureen Gill will speak of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work as a civil rights leader at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church.
com, OutServe Magazine, OEN, and local and national newspapers. Gill’s first novel, “January Moon,” has earned her comparisons to Michael Connolly and James Patterson. She is currently finishing two other novels due for publication this year. Since moving to Maine from Chicago several years ago, Gill has worked with various local groups to help find viable and continuing solutions to chronic hunger in Maine. She also volunteers in fundraising efforts for the breast care center at Southern Maine Medical Center.
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tiss earned first place in the 2014 Geography Bee at Wells Junior High School on Jan. 14. Curtiss emerged the winner over seventh grade student Matt Chase, the 2013 winner of this contest, by knowing correct answers to
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Parker Swanson (right) of the Marshwood Great Works School finished in first place at the school level of the National Geographic Bee. Andrew Pruyne (left), came in second in the school’s competition. They celebrated their success with Principal Jerry Burnell.
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