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Roxanne Quimby and the North Maine Woods

Roxanne Quimby, North Maine Woods, National Park

National Park in Maine?
Yankee Magazine – Roxanne Quimby and the North Maine Woods.

Wow.  I just found this great article from Yankee Magazine. The story of what’s going on with the north Maine woods, a national park and what Roxanne Quimby is doing and… why!  The article is quite long but very interesting!  It looks at the plight of:

1. the locals who feel they deserve to access the land as they wish; to hunt, fish, hike, camp (like they have always had) – even if they don’t own it and the owner of the land doesn’t want them doing that there.

2. a few wealthy individuals who see huge tracts of Maine land being sold to foreign entities for division and development – and want to preserve it in its entirety (with access to visitors), possibly as a national park.

Jym St. Pierre, Maine director of a group called RESTORE: The North Woods, says in the article, “The biggest reason we don’t have a national park in Maine today is because we’ve had a de facto park for generations. People feel entitled to that land, just because it’s always been there.”

Roxanne Quimby summits Mount Katahdin in Maine.
Roxanne Quimby summits Mount Katahdin in Maine.

Roxanne speaks about The Whetstone Bridge and how locals are feeling the hurt with the loss of a back-woods east-west road…

“These two pieces of land here effectively stop all east–west traffic. This bridge, the Whetstone Bridge, here — it’s one of the very significant nails in the coffin because it’s the only way to get across the river for something like 30 miles. Okay, you can go over the bridge, but you can’t go across my land with a car. So you can have your bridge, but it ain’t doin’ you any good. I’m closing in, and I’m doing this to demonstrate that you cannot leave this to chance.”

She is speaking broadly to those who oppose a park, those who ironically also claim they believe in property rights: “Yes, it’s a private road, but it’s been in such permissive use for so many years, people forget that the state doesn’t own that road.”

Up there, where she is pointing, people slapped bumper stickers onto their cars and wore T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “Ban Roxanne.” Letters to the editor condemned her.  But… she agreed to keep open two important snowmobile trails that cross portions of her land, perhaps heralding a thaw in her relations with area sportsmen and residents.

Read the entire article at Yankee Magazine

North Maine Woods

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Body believed to be of missing Canadian man found in Umbazooksus Lake

Body believed to be of missing Canadian man found in Umbazooksus Lake

Missing Canadian man's body found?
Maine Warden Service divers search Umbazooksus Stream for missing Canadian man, Renald Poulin, in December 2013. photo: Maine Warden Service

TOWNSHIP 6 RANGE 13, Maine — The body of a Canadian man who went missing last November is believed to have been found Tuesday in Umbazooksus Lake, according to the Maine Warden Service.

from bangor daily news
By Dawn Gagnon, BDN Staff

Cpl. John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service said Tuesday evening in a press release that the body is believed to be of Renald Poulin, 67, of St. Come Quebec. He said a Maine Warden Service pilot who had been scanning the area for Poulin, while surveying ice conditions on northern Maine lakes, located the body at about 10:45 a.m.

Game wardens on the ground arrived several hours later with watercraft to retrieve the body, which was located about two miles northwest of Umbazooksus Dam on the western shore of the lake.

MacDonald said the body will be taken to the state medical examiner’s office in Augusta to determine a positive identification.

“The Maine Warden Service has been in contact with the family of Mr. Poulin since the search began last November, and we are hopeful the family will now have closure,” MacDonald said.

State game wardens began searching for Poulin after they located Poulin’s vehicle while searching for two Millinocket men in an unrelated incident, MacDonald said. Authorities in Canada also had been searching, he said.

The search was suspended Dec. 13, 2013, as heavy snow began to fall in the area. Efforts were to resume when temperatures began to melt snow in that region in the spring.

Poulin crossed into the United States on Nov. 26 and was supposed to have returned Nov. 27. On Nov. 30, game wardens located his green 2002 Kia Sedona, MacDonald said, adding that Poulin may have been in the area because of his interest in the train rail systems in the Umbazooksus Lake area used decades ago in the logging industry.

The ice on Umbazooksus Lake and nearby small bogs and wet areas made detecting evidence of Poulin especially difficult, the corporal said. Weather conditions needed to improve significantly before further searching. Teams comprised of wardens, forest rangers and search and rescue volunteers conducted a combination of grid, hasty and K-9 team searches.

During the last days of searching in December, temperatures remained at about 10 degrees, and snow began to fall.

While the ground search was suspended, aerial flights had started to occur again as snow and ice began to melt, he said.

Ground searches had been planned for next week.

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Video – National Geographic – Appalachian trail

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National Geographic – Appalachian trail


A video from National Geographic about the Appalachian Trail on the eastern seaboard of the USA.  Running from Maine to Georgia, it is a challenging 2175 mile hike.  See the TV show and learn all about hiking, camping and experiencing the Appalachian Trail.

Mount Katahdin video from National Geographic Television.
Mount Katahdin video from National Geographic Television.
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Katahdin inspired art wanted!

Search is on for Katahdin Artists

from the sunjournal:  HALLOWELL — The Harlow Gallery invites Maine artists to submit work to the upcoming exhibition “Inspired by Katahdin” to be presented in partnership with brothers David and Carl Little in November 2014.

Artist and author David Little has long been inspired by Maine’s tallest mountain, so much so that he wrote a book, “Art of Katahdin: The Mountain, the Range, the Region” published in 2013. The book follows a historic timeline using art inspired by the majestic mountain, as well as a collection of Katahdin literature, photography, graphics, maps and more, and was edited by Carl Little.

This November, the Harlow Gallery will exhibit a selection of works by artists featured in the book, and are inviting submissions from Maine artists inspired by the majestic Maine mountain. Submissions are being accepted via email through Oct. 1, 2014 and will be reviewed by a curatorial committee.

The exhibition will be on view at the Harlow Gallery at 160 Water Street from Nov. 7-29. The public reception will be from 5-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, and will feature a book signing with the author and editor.

Info for Artists

1. Deadline for email submissions is 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014.

2. Original fine art in any media is welcome, including hand-pulled prints, photography, sculpture, and fine crafts, including ceramics, glass, and fiber art.

3. Artists should be residents of Maine at least part of the year or otherwise have a strong connection to our state. Artists submitting from out of state are responsible for the costs of shipping work to and from the Harlow.

4. The entry fee is $10 for members of the Harlow Gallery/ Kennebec Valley Art Association or $20 for non-members. Non-members may join the Harlow Gallery when submitting and pay the member rate. Each artist may submit up to four works of art for consideration (note that the fee is per artist, not per work of art).

For more information, visit www.harlowgallery.org.

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Family Dollar to open store in East Millinocket, Maine

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New Family Dollar store in East Millinocket

East Millinocket jobs.
Family Dollar will open soon after construction. 6 to 8 staff employed.

EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Family Dollar will build a $700,000 store on the site of the former Hamlet building and will employ six to eight workers when the store opens in about six months, store and town officials said Monday.

from the bangor daily news

Construction of the 8,320-square-foot storefront will begin just as soon as construction workers have word that the snow is gone, said Doug Murray, northeast construction director of Hunt Real Estate Services.

Hunt is contracted by Family Dollar to find and develop sites. Benchmark Construction of Westbrook will build the building, Murray said.

“We hope to start almost immediately,” Murray said Monday, “just as soon as they can get up there.”

Michael Noble, East Millinocket’s part-time code enforcement officer, issued a building permit for the project about three weeks ago, Noble said.

Town Administrative Assistant Shirley Tapley did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment. Clint Linscott, a selectman who owns the property and several others around town, declined to comment on the development, citing a confidentiality agreement he had signed.

The news contrasts sharply with a Family Dollar Stores, Inc. announcement earlier this month that the more than 8,000-store chain is slashing prices to win shoppers, cutting jobs, and shutting 370 stores to reverse declining sales and profits.

Family Dollar, which caters to lower-income shoppers, reported sales at stores open at least a year fell 3.8 percent in the quarter ended March 1. It expects sales to decline this quarter, too.

Town Administrative Assistant Shirley Tapley did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. Clint Linscott, a selectman who owns the property and several others around town, declined to comment on the development, citing a confidentiality agreement he had signed.

Linscott’s workers finished gutting the site at 117 Main St. about a month ago. In late February, the auto mechanic and body repairman, who owns Linscott’s Auto Body shop at 68 Main St., said that the layoffs and temporary shutdown at the new Great Northern Paper Co. LLC mill forced him to make a decision — to raze the football-sized building — that he had struggled with for a few years.

The recent closure of Soup to Nuts restaurant, which had been located at 117 Main St. since 2009, also hurt, he said. The Hamlet had been a motel from the 1960s to 1990s that had more recently been the site of several retail outlets, including a bookstore, greenhouse outlet, photography studio, bar and restaurant….  [more]