KENNEBEC JOURNAL • January 31, 2021
The sale of the property at 640 Alexander Reed Road leaves David Smith looking for a place to live and shifts the requirement to clean up the property onto its new owner. For more than three decades, Smith has bought and sold vehicles, machinery, equipment and scrap metal. The town had taken the site for unpaid property taxes in February 2020. A long-running dispute between Smith and town officials over what was on his property and whether it was a junkyard brought them in front of a judge, who issued a 2017 court order requiring Smith remove a list of vehicles.