BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 11, 2024
Sandy Perkins and her husband, David, live in their dream retirement home along the Piscataquis River, where they can watch kingfishers and loons dive and bald eagles soar overhead. But their property could forever change if residents vote in June to remove the Mayo Mill dam downstream. The town committee tasked with finding a solution to the aging dam and connected facilities says leaving it untouched is not an option. Whether the town decides to remove or restore it, both are expensive undertakings. Dover-Foxcroft residents are grappling with questions about how removing the dam could reshape the town, whose history is deeply intertwined with the river.