Recent News and Events: Maine Travel


Maine trashcan nixed as mailbox (UPI)

SUTTON ISLAND, Maine, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The residents of a Maine island say they like getting their mail in a trashcan and don't want to have to travel to the mainland to pick it up.

Commentary: Sensible Land-Use Regulations, Transit Subsidies Would Help Rural Maine Cope With High Transportation Costs (Smart Growth Online)

In doubt whether gas price spikes alone can ''substantially reduce our almost total dependency on the private auto,'' especially in Maine, because of low population densities, scattered residences and ''a culture that treats the auto as a symbol of adulthood,'' Southwest Harbor-based political economist John Buell points out in Bangor Daily News guest opinion that some changes ''in how and how ...

Maine trashcan nixed as mailbox (Moldova.org)

The residents of a Maine island say they like getting their mail in a trashcan and don't want to have to travel to the mainland to pick it up.The seasonal residents of Sutton Island for years have received their mail from a privately chartered ferry that dumped all the letters, bills and other mail for the island's residents into a trashcan on the municipal dock, the Bangor Daily News reported ...

'Green' resort proposed for pristine peninsula on Maine coast has critics seeing red (Newsday)

WINTER HARBOR, Maine (AP) _ On paper, the development here in eastern Maine sounds like a dream for people looking to get away from it all.

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