MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • September 22, 2024
The stretch of land between the high and low tide mark has been the subject of increasingly muscular squabbling up and down the coast of Maine in recent years. The persistent lack of legal clarity on the question has emboldened property owners to erect threatening signs and shoo people off stretches of strand they believe to be theirs alone based on colonial statutes that predate statehood by more than 150 years. We all live in Maine. Stretches of sandy beach are few, far between and deserve to be walked, wandered and in cheerful, respectful use by all of us who take an interest in them.