MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • July 19, 2020
Welcome to Summer of 2020 and the never-ending collision between the public good and “Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do!” For those of us who call Buxton home, Pleasant Point Park has long been, as the town website describes it, “a treasure right in our own backyard.” The park is closed and will remain so until further notice for one distressing reason: Over the past couple of weekends, it’s been overrun by mostly young people, many of them from out of state, who see it as a place to get drunk, leave behind a debris field of empties and other trash, even lob rocks at passing boaters on the river.