BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 13, 2025
A coastal Hancock County town with 50-plus miles of coastline has no public access point that commercial fishermen can use at low tide. To change that, the town of Brooksville has been working for more than five years on a plan to dredge out the area around its town landing at Betsy’s Cove. The urgency of that project became more clear to Brooksville officials in recent years, after the yearlong closure of a private all-tide marina in 2023 demonstrated that public deep-water access was vital for the future of commercial fishing in the town.