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🌱 How a Bar Harbor aquaculture ruling could ripple to Bucksport growers
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Hi Bucksport! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How a Bar Harbor aquaculture ruling could ripple to Bucksport growers
Today's riddle: Why do fish live in salt water? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high of 82 and low of 57 degrees.
- Friday: Mostly sunny and less humid, temps: high: 81, low: 53.
- Saturday: Beautiful with periods of sun, with a high of 72 and low of 62 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Aquaculture Lease Appeal Denied by Maine's Top Court. (barharborstory.com) — Maine's Supreme Judicial Court has upheld a 20-acre aquaculture lease off Bar Harbor, a decision that could influence mussel growers like the Bucksport business shown in the story's photo. After years of legal challenges over noise, environmental impacts, and agency authority, the court backed the Department of Marine Resources' conditions on the project, signaling continued growth and controversy for coastal aquaculture operations. 
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8:30 am - Annual Butterfly Festival at Fields Pond
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🗞 Nearby News
Brewer
- What's Next for Brewer, Maine's Former Ruby Tuesday Building? (z1073.com)
- Nexamp's 'Solar Grazing Program' uses sheep to maintain Maine solar farms (wabi.tv)
- Three Arrested After Guns and Drugs Discovered During Warrant Execution in Brewer (themainewire.com)
Ellsworth
- Ellsworth school district part of $2 million funding for student homelessness prevention (foxbangor.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
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