[CPEO-IRF] Students and Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Students share views

Rachel Ganong
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
October 2, 2006

BRUNSWICK - Brunswick High School students took a rare opportunity to 
plan their future Friday afternoon. But rather than working on college 
applications or scholarship essays, they focused on the future of their 
jobs, homes and recreation - in a phrase, their community.

A total of 45 students participated in a day-long planning session for 
reusing the land now occupied by Brunswick Naval Air Station, which is 
scheduled to close in 2011.

The all-day planning event, organized by Brunswick High School service 
learning coordinator Rick Wilson and the Brunswick Local Redevelopment 
Authority, began with an 8 a.m. tour of the base, followed by hours of 
planning its potential reuse after the Navy vacates it at about the time 
when these same students or others their age will be starting their 
careers and families.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/5119B2C657AB1D62052571FB0056CC6F?Opendocument
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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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