[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Botanic garden proposed at Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Group still advancing BNAS garden proposal

Caitlin Elsaesser
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
July 1, 2008

BRUNSWICK - Herschel Sternlieb has been dreaming about gardens for 
years. When he first approached the Brunswick Town Council and said he 
would like to transform a portion of the Brunswick Naval Station into a 
botanical garden, they told him to forget about it. Today, his plan 
seems more plausible.

Sternlieb hopes to create a garden project on a large parcel of the 
Brunswick naval base. The site would encompass multiple gardens, 
including individual plots; a greenhouse, an events pavilion and 
multi-use trails.

Since the base closure was announced two years ago, a group of 
volunteers has met monthly about the gardens. They have collected 
thousands of signatures from Brunswick area residents supporting the 
proposal. They won an $8,700 grant from the Threshold Foundation, which 
has allowed them to produce snappy bumper stickers and brochures for 
their new brand name — Brunswick Park and Gardens.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/59B5A723B34E1F22852574790052FCC3?Opendocument

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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