BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 18, 2022
A Virginia-based company that bought most of a mountain in Prospect intends to quarry granite there, crush it and barge the processed rock back to the state. But some residents of the 600-person Waldo County town are deeply opposed to the $12 million project, which they say would disrupt their lives and the natural habitat for wildlife that live there. “No one’s going to want to live here if they blow up our mountain and destroy our peace, tranquility and environment, and ship it to Virginia to make buildings out of,” said Brandy Bridges, whose family has lived near Heagan Mountain on Bowden Point for more than a century. “We would lose everything.”