BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 22, 2024
Nearly 70 working waterfront properties that were severely damaged or destroyed by back-to-back storms in January are getting $21.2 million in state funding to pay for repairs. The grant awards were announced Monday by Gov. Janet Mills. The properties, spread out along the coast from Kennebunk to Lubec, are considered important pieces of the working waterfront infrastructure that support Maine’s $600 million commercial fishing industry. The funds have been awarded through the state’s Working Waterfront Resilience Grant Program and are part of $60 million in state funding that the Legislature authorized through the supplemental budget in May.