Wild Acadia Fun Park on Route 3 will remain closed this season, according to a May 10 Facebook post by the park’s owners, Andy and James Allen of Allen Associates LLC. The closure will allow the owners to finish the permitting process for their plans to build a campground at the park and complete its construction.
Voters on Monday rejected a proposal to have the Board of Selectmen and School Committee form a committee to develop a plan for withdrawal from the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS). Two hundred and eight voters disapproved of initiating the withdrawal process, with 121 voting in favor of it.
The meeting portion of the Trenton Town Meeting has been moved to June 12 at 1 p.m. at the ball field at the Trenton Elementary School.
Only one comment was made at the Trenton’s public hearing Tuesday night, which was over in a matter of minutes. Open to the public via Zoom videoconferencing, the hearing drew in several virtual participants and was held to discuss three referendum articles slated for the town’s warrant, one of which being whether Trenton should declare itself a Second Amendment sanctuary town.
Residents in Trenton will get the chance to comment on proposed referendum articles, which include declaring the town a Second Amendment sanctuary, at a public hearing held at 7 p.m. on April 20.
The Trenton School Committee gathered last Thursday at a meeting that was held entirely in executive session to seek legal counsel, according to the meeting’s agenda.
The Trenton Volunteer Fire Department is drafting plans for a bigger station following a 2018 feasibility study.
Allen Associates LLC, owner of Wild Acadia Fun Park on Route 3, is a step closer to adding a campground to its site and ultimately changing its business plan after the Trenton Planning Board issued a conditional approval of its application on March 10.
The ongoing debate about whether the Trenton Elementary School should remain part of its current school district, the Mount Desert Islander Regional School System (AOS 91), will continue at the town’s annual meeting. Susan Sargent brought forth a citizens’ petition at the Board of Selectmen’s meeting Tuesday to get the issue on the warrant.
A handful of proposed bills for the state’s 130th Legislature deal with voting and elections. While the timing feels especially relevant following the contentious general election last year, state Reps. Nicole Grohoski (D-Ellsworth) and William “Billy Bob” Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) say the impetus behind their separate proposed legislation was not the 2020 election.
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