SUN JOURNAL • September 18, 2022
Two adjacent properties on one of the most sought-after waterfront areas on Sebago Lake are at the center of a legal battle between the town of Raymond, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and Auburn businessman Donald Buteau and the company that controls his real estate holdings. The shoreland in front of the homes at 18 Fernwood Road and 28 Whitetail Lane was transformed in two weeks from its natural landscape of towering trees, native vegetation and rocky shore to an open landscape of at least 400 linear feet of riprap — rock — lining the shore. Raymond town officials describe the transformation as an “egregious” violation of the town’s shoreland zoning ordinance and one of the largest violations of its kind they’ve ever seen.