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Quietside towns ask for bus run reconsideration TREMONT After the announcement in March that Island Explorer buses would not run in Southwest Harbor and Tremont this season, the towns’ chamber of commerce is asking Downeast Transportation to reconsider. Southwest Harbor and Tremont Chamber of Commerce Vice President Alan Feuer asked the Tremont Board of Selectmen during their meeting Monday for a letter in support of bringing at least one bus run to the backside of the island for the 2021 season. “This would be a great benefit to this side of the island,” Feuer said to the board. Limited parking at several of the Acadia National Park sites, including Bass Harbor Head Light, Ship Harbor and Wonderland, is one of the main reasons for the request. ....
Bar Harbor wants answers on sale of waste facility BAR HARBOR The Bar Harbor Town Council voted Tuesday to call for a special meeting of the members of the Municipal Review Committee to go over changes that would come with the sale of the Hampden-based Coastal Resources of Maine waste treatment plant to a new company. Last month, the MRC, a nonprofit that owns the property on which the Coastal Resources of Maine facility sits, approved the sale of it to Delta Thermo Energy Inc. Officials of the company said it can get the former Fiberight operation back to accepting trash within nine months of ink drying on the deal. Ultimately, the decision on the sale of the Hampden plant to DTE is up to the bondholders (that hold the CRM loans) and DTE, not the MRC. ....
FW Thurston Co. applies to increase floats and shore access TREMONT After several years of negotiating with the town regarding the position of floats, the owners of FW Thurston Co. are submitting two applications for Tier 3 Natural Resources Protection Act permits with the Department of Environmental Protection to add 14 floats in total to their operation in Bernard. FW Thurston buys and sells lobsters and operates Thurston’s Lobster Pound on the western shore of Bass Harbor, next to the town’s wharf in Bernard. One application submitted under Woof Wagon LLC is for a marina on the north side of the property that abuts the town wharf. A second application, under Michael and Elizabeth Radcliffe, owners of FW Thurston, is on the south side of the property. ....