[CPEO-IRF] Kittery (ME) looks ahead

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kittery fighting, yet also preparing for, base closure

By Elizabeth Kenny
Portsmouth Herald (ME/NH)
June 10, 2005

KITTERY, Maine - There is life after a base closure.

That was the message the Association of Defense Comm-unities tried to 
spread at the 2005 annual conference of NAID/ADC conference in Denver, Colo.

Kittery Town Manager Jon Carter, along with the executive director of 
the Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission, Paul Schumacher, 
attended the conference to begin preparing for the possible closure of 
the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

While both men have said they remain steadfast in their support for 
efforts to save the shipyard from closure by the Defense Department, 
they also insist the area must nonetheless begin to prepare a "Plan B" - 
what to do if the shipyard closes.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/06102005/maine/46812.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org



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