KENNEBEC JOURNAL • July 25, 2021
The Kennebec Land Trust intends to buy and permanently conserve 120 acres of land in Fayette, hoping to complete the $250,000 purchase by the end of the year. The land includes “a ridgeline just above Echo Lake and a mature hardwood-conifer woodland adjacent to Hales Brook.” The property has been in the Hewett family for several generations. Ron Hewett said the family now has to sell the land “for financial reasons, and we didn’t want to just sell it to a developer and have them put a whole bunch of houses up there. And if I sold it to a wood guy, he’d cut every stick of wood on it. We’ve always taken care of it the right way.”