BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 27, 2020
A contentious, seven-year dispute over whether a local contracting firm should be able to expand a gravel-mining site in Lamoine appears to be over after the state supreme court denied the firm’s application for a permit. In a decision released last week, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of Friends of Lamoine, a group organized to stop Harold MacQuinn Inc., from expanding a 65-acre gravel pit to 108 acres. Residents have raised concerns about the impact the pits have had on Lamoine’s groundwater and quality of life.