MDI trail system nominated for historic places registry
SOUTHWEST HARBOR Worried about possible future constraints on private and public property, selectmen voted Tuesday to submit a letter to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission outlining several concerns regarding a nomination of the Mount Desert Island Hiking Trail System to the National Register of Historic Places.
Notices regarding this nomination were previously sent a year ago, on April 17, 2020, to each town on Mount Desert Island regarding the nomination. That was a month after nearly all public events were shut down due to COVID-19. Selectmen and the Bar Harbor Town Council were trying to figure out how to continue meeting via Zoom, among other pressing town business, and may not have had time to review these notices.
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Abyssinian restoration group raised $375,000 after Black Lives Matter marches
The money will help restore the historic Black meetinghouse in Portland before its 200th anniversary, but more work must be done to make that happen.
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The Abyssinian Meeting House on Feb. 16. New windows were recently installed. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer
Leonard Cummings was heartened by the public outpouring of grief and outrage last year after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer and many Mainers took to the streets in protest.
But he worried that the renewed attention to racism in America would prompt Mainers to focus their attention elsewhere if they didn’t recognize the work that remains undone here at home.