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New Gloucester residents oppose Sabbathday Lake dock plan – Sun Journal [re-posting for Facebook – eds.]

By Ellie Fellers – Special to the Sun Journal – June 4, 2019
New Gloucester — The Planning Board on Tuesday heard from a dozen residents opposed to a 70-foot, T-shaped dock proposed by Sabbathday Lake Shores developer Alan Hamilton of Gray.

To get a sense of what it would look like, a group of lakeside property owners recently delineated the area using styrofoam noodles and other items to create a mock 70-foot dock that stretched from the shore and attached to a 35-foot wide dock sitting perpendicular to it.

When the Planning Board arrived to inspect the site last week, Chairman Don Libby canceled the visit because he wanted “an unbiased” look at the site without the mock-up. Keep reading Ellie Fellers’ report in the Sun Journal.