#megunticook-dam

Camden voters undecided about the Article 7 dam removal vote in June have a golden opportunity to learn more this weekend, which will also be a chance for passionately decided voters to…

c

The public is invited to a Free The River Happy Hour, April 25, 5 to 7 p.m.,c to learn about the current issues with respect to Camden's June 10 town vote, the facts behind the proposal to remove…

c

The Save the Dam Falls Committee held a successful Community Conversation at the Camden Public Library last month, according to a news release from the committee, Over 60 attendees participated…

n

Several Camden citizens, business persons, and property owners formed Megunticook RiverKeepers (MRK) to mobilize public awareness and private support for improving the environment of the…

April 13 presentation
Image courtesy Camden Public Library

The Camden Public Library invites the public to travel back in time to 1930s Camden during the depths of the Depression. During this time the publishing heiress, philanthropist, and…

letter to editor

Your story of February 20 regarding this June’s town vote on the recommendation to remove Montgomery Dam may have left readers with several false impressions.

First, the story quotes at…

letter to the editor

Whether or not we destroy or…

Select Board reviews the report Feb. 18
Montgomery Dam, 2023.

CAMDEN —  The nine-member citizen…

opinion

This article is part four of the Megunticook River Citizens Advisory Committee’s articles spotlighting …

Opinion: Frequently Asked Questions about Megunticook River

The Megunticook River Citizens Advisory Committee has been continuously researching the Megunticook River and the community issues surrounding the dams, and its work…

CAMDEN – The Megunticook River Citizens Advisory Committee (MRCAC) hosted another monthly speaker series on August 23 at Camp Bishopswood, on Megunticook Lake in Hope. For this month, FB…

Learning about river management and flood prevention

Approximately 70 residents participated in a June 27 comprehensive dam tour held by the Megunticook River…

‘We are a watershed that needs to make decisions at a watershed level if we want to be smart about it’

CAMDEN — One day following an historic storm that deluged the Midcoast with 6.25-plus inches of rain, destroying roads and submerging…

CAMDEN — Members of the citizen-formed Save the Dam Falls Committee pledged to the Camden Select Board at its…

CAMDEN — Tony and Sally Grassi, working with landscape architect Stephen Mohr and engineer Will Gartley, have produced a rehab plan for…

Camden is among eight recipients of National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grants…

To spend $54,000 getting chemical, biological, physical data of river

CAMDEN — Voting unanimously, the Camden Select Board agreed Aug. 23 on a resolution crafted by Town Attorney Bill Kelly and Town Manager…

CAMDEN — The conversation was frank and lengthy, but by the time the five members of the Camden Select Board finished discussing whether…

If refused, citizens plan to hold Sept. 27 special town meeting

CAMDEN — Attorney Paul Gibbons, representing the Save the Dam Falls Committee, is asking the Camden Select Board and Camden’s attorney,…

May 24 meeting

CAMDEN – Select Board members in Camden will have three contract submissions before them Tuesday evening to consider for the town’s  …

Both advocate for own June town meeting referendums

CAMDEN — Restore Megunticook and the Save the Dam Falls Committee are two homegrown citizen groups with separate goals about the future…

Town Select Board, Town Manager emphasize they will go slow in considering river recommendations

CAMDEN — In early September, Rockport resident Emily Lusher composed and circulated a citizen survey focusing on the Montgomery Dam,…

Talk with consultants, engineers, scientists about River Feasibility Study
dam

CAMDEN — Weather permitting, the Camden Select Board is convening a public workshop at Harbor Park, Oct. 14, and inviting those…

CAMDEN — The Town of Camden is in the middle of shaping a Megunticook River project, which includes consideration of dam removal. 

ITo help provide visual context of the lay of the land in…