Right to Know Freedom of Information

Maine has several protections allowing the public access to government proceedings, such as meetings of town officials and regulatory agencies, along with their rules and documents. The Maine Freedom of Information Coalition is a private non-profit advocating to insure that Maine state and local government agencies adhere to their own obligations to the public. According to…

Books About Maine

The Maine Reader: The Down East Experience 1614 to the Present Day. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston 1991. Edited by Charles and Samuella Shain. 524 pp. Maine: A Literary Chronicle. New York 1968. W. Storrs Lee. Funk and Wagnalls. 487 pp. The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier. Colin Woodard. Viking. New…

BOWMANTOWN TOWNSHIP

Bowmantown is a small township along the western most Maine border at the Quebec border. It is the northernmost township in Oxford County. It contains the 30 acre Upper Black Pond. Located south of Twin Peaks near the Canadian border, it is not readily accessible to the general public. Permission must be obtained from International…