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All articles pass at Southwest Harbor Town Meeting Residents stand in line to sign in on Saturday at Southwest Harbor’s annual Town Meeting. More than 100 registered voters attended the meeting that lasted two hours. ISLANDER PHOTO BY SARAH HINCKLEY SOUTHWEST HARBOR The firehouse, with doors wide open, was packed with people, safely distanced from one another, for the annual Town Meeting on Saturday. Voters approved every article on the warrant, most with very little discussion. Even Article 43, a request to apply for a Land and Water Conservation Fund grant, passed with no votes in objection and a round of applause. If the grant funding is awarded, it would be used for recreational development of a parcel of land adjacent to Chris’s Pond and the Manset Dock area. ....
Town Meeting takes place in Southwest Harbor this Saturday SOUTHWEST HARBOR This Saturday at 10 a.m., the annual Town Meeting is being held at the fire station on Main Street. On Tuesday, June 8, the town elections will also take place there. In the open floor portion of the meeting, residents will vote on 43 articles, including those for the town and school budget, area nonprofits and one asking if the town should pursue federal grant funds for two projects in town. Voters are being asked to approve a school budget of $4,220,474, a $200,000 increase over last year’s budget. Of that amount, the town is being asked to appropriate $3,485,154, which is less than $50,000 over last year’s amount. ....
New harbormaster addresses broken float problem SOUTHWEST HARBOR Ever since a post was put on social media regarding Styrofoam polluting the beach at Manset Dock, upset people have been letting Southwest Harbor’s new harbormaster, Jesse Gilley, hear about it. Some have even called him on his personal cell phone late at night. Four floats owned by three different people who have property on Greening Island are the culprits. The floats were victims of a perfect set of storms that rendered them unusable. The last of these broken floats was towed to the Manset Dock on May 12. “The floats have been out there for years and are completely broken,” said Gilley in an interview with the Islander. “These floats were all in great shape last fall. They winter well, usually. They just had a rough spring as far as weather goes.” ....
Pursuit of grants stopped; projects dead in the water SOUTHWEST HARBOR Residents will not get the chance to vote on Warrant Article 43 at the annual Town Meeting on June 5. The article asked if voters want to pursue grant funding for two projects in town, but the Board of Selectmen decided on Tuesday to amend the annual Town Meeting warrant to exclude it. Expansion and development of the Manset Dock was one of the projects and developing a parcel of property adjacent to Chris’s Pond that would include low–income housing was the second. Those involved with coordinating the projects were pursuing grant money from the state’s Land and Water Conservation Fund with an application deadline of the end of this month, as well as a federal Small Harbor Improvement Program (SHIP) grant. ....