Machiasport Wins Decades-Long Fight over a Gravel Road
The judge said the town followed a 1997 ruling on road maintenance, ending a lawsuit by two property owners over trespass claims.
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Machiasport wins decades-long fight over a gravel road
Lobster boats are pictured in Bucks Harbor in the town of Machiasport on Nov. 9, 2020. Photo by Bill Trotter of the Bangor Daily News.Daniel O’Connor is a Report for America corps member who covers rural government as part of the partnership between The Maine Monitor and the Bangor Daily News, with additional support from BDN and Monitor readers. Machiasport is celebrating a legal win in a decades-old dispute between the town and a pair of lando…
Down East town’s decades-long fight over the maintenance of a gravel road is over
Machiasport is celebrating a legal win in a decades-old dispute between the town and a pair of landowners who had attempted to block maintenance projects on a coastal road. The owners of two properties abutting Beach Road, a coastal route that connects one of the town’s rugged peninsulas to the center of town, had sued the town in 2024, alleging trespass and unlawful deprivation of property. In a long-awaited victory for the town, a judge in Por…
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