MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • June 26, 2022
There is a grassroots effort to preserve Haystack Mountain in Montville and Liberty in Maine’s Midcoast. Allen’s Blueberry Freezer Inc. in Ellsworth is selling 60 acres on the mountain’s summit that includes a dirt access road up to the blueberry fields there. The newly formed Friends of Haystack Mountain signed a purchase and sales agreement for the land with Allen’s on June 14. The group has until the end of the year to raise the $450,000 needed to buy the land, and hopes to do so through a combination of grants and private donations, said Buck O’Herin, who is involved with the grassroots effort.