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The agreement leaves the Alna boat launch in place with limitations on use and the acknowledgement it is illegal under town ordinances.

Oct. 19 in Alna, Second Selectman Steve Graham and Third Selectman Coreysha Śtone agreed to end the town’s enforcement action on a Golden Ridge Road boat ramp and settle with Jeff Spinney. For the town, the deal is more a surrender than a settlement...

A proposed deal between Alna and resident Jeff Spinney would bar him from rolling out an aluminum mat at his boat ramp off Golden Ridge Road; and would let up to 10 Golden Ridge Sportsman’s Club members a year use the ramp, but not for motor boats...

Come fall, Debsconeag Lake Wilderness Camps is ideal for angling, birding, and canoeing. But the real takeaway is the hush of the wild.

Dear Editor: We are all former Alna selectmen. We run from liberal to conservative and are both Republicans and Democrats, so we don’t always agree on things. But we do agree that Evan Goodkowsky is the right person to represent Alna and the other...

Dear Editor: We the undersigned are writing to our Alna friends and neighbors. Over the years each of us was entrusted to serve as one of your selectmen. When faced with important decisions like the one before us in December, each of us took the...

SUSAN JOHNS File photo 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 t...

Dam site work questioned as zoning debate continues SUSAN JOHNS File photo 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....

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 t...

Wed, 01/13/2021 - 8:45am Who was not horrified Jan. 6, when an unsurprising protest at the U.S. Capitol turned into a siege on and inside the building? That was a nightmare and, in the days that followed, video footage of more and more of what happened inside to police and the calls for hanging the vice president were surreal, shocking, offensive and unacceptable.  And the night of Jan. 6, America and our towns delivered a Hail Mary for democracy, the U.S. and right over wrong. Ameri...