Local Views
From the Porch
Here’s what some of our neighbors are seeing. What’s the view from YOUR porch?
It’s a rare treat to witness the Northern Lights. Early October on the Paul Bunyan peninsula offered some spectacular sights, as seen here from the McKeag’s back porch on Roaring Brook Road.
What keeps us all here year after year? Look out an eastward-facing window on most any morning, or a west-facing window most any evening (when it’s not raining), and you’ll see some breathtaking examples of our extraordinary proximity to nature. Even the day after our recent hurricane (photo at right), the world felt swept clean of strife in our little corner on the Paul Bunyan Peninsula.
The Haights on Paul Bunyan Road picked up a visitor on their wildlife camera late this past summer.
This energetic otter scampered across the lawn, but decided not to hang around.
The Jacksons have reported a pair of bobcats witnessed cavorting around their property in the past few months. More bobcats = fewer hares, by their reckoning.
“Ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.”
Town Happenings
Prospect Harbor is looking ahead to climate protections.
The Town’s Coastal Resiliency Committee is chaired by Bill Zoellick with members Tim Fisher, John Renwick, Dwight Rodgers and PBRA Board VP Tom McKeag. Their assignment is to advise the Select Board and seek funding for projects related to climate change and sea level rise.
Their first focus will be on protecting infrastructure identified as “at risk” by an October, 2022 report by FB Environmental Engineers, Vulnerability Assessment and Action Plan for the Town of Gouldsboro.
Two priority areas are located along Corea Road (State Route 195) at the intersection with Grand Marsh Bay Road and north of the intersection with Cranberry Point Road. The committee has successfully applied to the Maine Department of Transportation and the Maine Governor’s Office’s Community Action Grant program, and has received a $50,000 grant to employ professional engineers in a scoping of alternatives to the current road sections subject to flooding by storm surge and rising sea level.
This $50,000 from the state is being matched by Biden administration American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, totaling $100,000 for this work.
The committee has regular meetings on certain Mondays and these meetings are open to the public. Please check the Town of Gouldsboro website for scheduling. The second of 4 public meetings will be held at 4pm on Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Black Duck Inn.