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After 200 years, alewives set to return to China Lake
/0 Comments/in China, Community, Vassalboro/by Eric W. Austinby Eric W. Austin For more than five years, a group of dedicated people have been working to re-open Maine waterways to the state’s native migratory fish population. The obstacles have been fierce, but the rewards promise to be well worth the effort. Clearer water in our lakes and ponds, an enhanced food web and […]
Construction begins for alewives restoration at Ladd Dam in North Vassalboro
/0 Comments/in China, News, Vassalboro/by Website Editorby Landis Hudson The Ladd Dam, in North Vassalboro, will soon have a technical fishway installed to allow alewives to move past it to their spawning ground. It’s not the final step in the overall project, but a critical one, and scheduled to start this summer following plans developed by the Department of Marine Resources, […]
VASSALBORO: Selectmen to bid out new alewives harvest contract
/0 Comments/in News, Vassalboro/by Mary Growby Mary Grow At their Jan. 25 meeting, Vassalboro selectmen acted on waste-hauling bids and decided to bid out the new contract for harvesting alewives. The board had five bids to haul solid waste after April 1, first to the Crossroads Landfill in Norridgewock and later to the new Fiberight facility in Hampden. Town Manager […]
Sheepscot Pond will benefit from alewives
/1 Comment/in China, Columns, Community Commentary/by Website EditorCOMMUNITY COMMENTARY by Frank Richards President Webber Pond Assn. I read, with interest, the Community Commentary column about LD 922 in last week’s issue of The Town Line (October 5). This is legislation to open the fish way on Sheepscot Lake and allow sea-run alewives to return. That column makes a reference to Webber Pond […]
Contact legislators with your opposition to the opening of Sheepscot dam to alewives and lampreys
/0 Comments/in Community Commentary/by Website EditorCOMMUNITY COMMENTARY by Gary Miller, Longtime Palermo visitor I’ve been a long time visitor to Palermo, since the ‘70s. We liked Palermo, the people and Sheepscot pond so much that when I retired, we bought a camp on the shores of this beautiful body of water and have spent half our life here for the past […]
Historic presence of alewives in China Lake’s Outlet Stream reconfirmed
/0 Comments/in Albion, China, Community, Local History, Maine History/by Website EditorSubmitted by Landis Hudson, executive director Maine Rivers. ocuments recently found in Massachusetts Archives have shed light on the early history of China Lake’s Outlet Stream, reconfirming the historic presence of native alewives. Petitions and letters, signed and dated from 1798 and 1799, state that alewives were known to make their way up the stream […]
COMMUNITY COMMENTARY: KWD explains position on Alewives Restoration Initiative
/2 Comments/in Columns/by Website Editorby Jeff LaCasse Kennebec Water District Information and communications – ARI project, KWD, and China Lake As third party observers, KWD staff sees some facets of the ARI project on Outlet Stream from a different perspective than many ARI members. We feel we have information and access to some resources that we can share that […]
China Lake Association meeting focuses on alewives, LakeSmart progress
/0 Comments/in China, News/by Website EditorThe 2016 annual China Lake Association meeting, held on July 23, was another great meeting, attended by over 70 people. What a fantastic turnout…. Frank Richards, of Vassalboro, was the guest speaker. Frank is a retiree who has served as the president of the Webber Pond Association since 2001, and he has dedicated many years […]
Selectmen tackle doubts about alewives, speeding and transfer station
/0 Comments/in China/by Website Editorby Mary Grow China selectmen heard from residents and committee members on a variety of topics at their July 11 meeting, finding time to make a few decisions afterwards. Resident Al Althenn asked selectmen to be more involved in the proposal to introduce sea-run alewives into China Lake, a plan he thinks has potential bad […]
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