Stories about Roxanne Quimby
Medway group no longer pushing for Quimby park feasibility study
MEDWAY, Maine — One of the first groups formed to investigate environmentalist Roxanne Quimby’s 70,000-acre national park proposal is benching itself because of disagreement with her over the direction of the park effort, a founding member said Monday. The National Park Regional Citizen Evaluation Committee “will become inactive” and “will ...
Quimby’s gate in Elliotsville Plantation was not legal, county commissioners say
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — The gate blocking Wilson Stream Pond Road in Elliotsville Plantation has been opened and will stay open for the foreseeable future. After searching through archived records in Dover-Foxcroft and Augusta, the Piscataquis County commissioners ruled on Tuesday that a gate erected by philanthropist Roxanne Quimby last year ...
87% of surveyed Patten residents oppose Quimby’s plan, park opponent claims
PATTEN, Maine — A group opposing environmentalist Roxanne Quimby’s proposed 70,000-acre national park found that 87 percent of Patten-area residents called in a December survey rejected Quimby’s idea, the group’s founder said Friday. Former Maine Senate President Charles Pray said the survey of about 10 percent of the listed telephone ...
Great Northern Paper union opposes Quimby park plan
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — One of the larger unions at the new Great Northern Paper Co. mill has joined the group of forest products industry members opposing environmentalist Roxanne Quimby’s proposed 70,000-acre national park. Stu Kallgren of Enfield, a pulper-operator at the mill, said he and other United Steelworkers Local ...
Twelve Maine newsmakers to watch in 2012
BDN staff reports on Jan. 01, 2012, at 1:47 a.m.
What will dominate the headlines in Maine now that 2011 is over and 2012 is beginning to unfold? Count on reading plenty about the latest developments in the administration of Gov. Paul LePage. There will undoubtedly be ongoing controversy regarding the proposed national park in the Maine woods. Ditto the ...
11 to watch in 2011 — where are they now?
on Dec. 26, 2011, at 7:58 p.m.
On Jan. 1, 2011, the Bangor Daily News named 11 people to watch in the coming year. Some of them were household names, others were newcomers to the state’s political and economic landscape, a handful worked relatively quietly in their fields of endeavor. Not all of them fared well as ...
Piscataquis County commissioners to re-examine validity of Roxanne Quimby’s gate
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — The Piscataquis County commissioners said they will look into the archives to see if Wilson Stream Pond Road in Elliotsville Township is a legal right-of-way. Philanthropist Roxanne Quimby erected a gate on the road earlier this year and it has been a sore point with residents. The ...
Former Maine Senate president calls for broader study on proposed national park
By GLENN ADAMS, The Associated Press on Dec. 03, 2011, at 12:45 p.m.
MILLINOCKET, Maine — As a public debate over a northern Maine national park becomes politicized, a former Maine Senate president is calling for a broader look at the future uses of the region. Charles Pray, who represented the region encompassing the park for nearly two decades, said he wants a ...
Cape Elizabeth state senator forms group to promote Quimby’s proposed national park
A state senator from Cape Elizabeth announced Tuesday the formation of what she called a statewide organization that will lead the effort to help environmentalist and businesswoman Roxanne Quimby donate 70,000 acres for the creation of a national park in 2016. Sen. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth, said The Friends of ...
Gate to Roxanne Quimby’s land ‘yanked out,’ resident says
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — Environmentalist Roxanne Quimby’s gate on Wilson Stream Pond Road in Elliotsville Township has been vandalized, the Piscataquis County commissioners were told Tuesday morning. “I think we had an incident,” said Clowes Brown of Elliotsville Township, who attended the commissioners’ meeting to see if the gate could be ...
Quimby allows snowmobile clubs access to her lands for a year, upon request
Snowmobilers can have access to trails on environmentalist Roxanne Quimby’s land on a yearly basis if the snowmobile clubs that maintain them submit letters seeking permission, Quimby said Monday. A recent message to the dozen clubs that take care of the trails from Mark Leathers, a land manager at James ...
National Park Service chief outlines goals of feasibility study
MILLINOCKET, Maine – Local sentiment for and against a new national park would be considered, but Congress, the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service would determine the uses of the 70,000 acres conservationist Roxanne Quimby proposes giving to the park service in 2016, according to a letter ...
Groups join snowmobilers in opposition to proposed national park
By Glenn Adams, The Associated Press on Nov. 01, 2011, at 1:45 p.m.
AUGUSTA, Maine — A group representing wood-related industries on Tuesday joined prominent hunting and snowmobiling groups in opposition to a proposal to create a 70,000-acre national park east of Baxter State Park. The Maine Forest Products Council, which represents landowners, loggers, paper mills and others involved in wood products, is ...
Quimby national park effort featured in new video
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Those who want the National Park Service to study the feasibility of environmentalist Roxanne Quimby’s proposed national park have a new tool: An approximately 15-minute video illustrating the land Quimby hopes to give to the park service in 2016. Making an informal debut during a National ...
Quimby goes to E. Millinocket, apologizes for ‘welfare state’ remarks
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Environmentalist Roxanne Quimby apologized Thursday for calling Maine “a welfare state” and promised private, independent studies of the effect of her proposed 70,000-acre national park upon Katahdin region forest products industries. Responding to resident George Michaud’s statement that he didn’t know that Roxanne Quimby thought Mainers ...
Quimby to attend national park meeting in East Millinocket Thursday evening
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Town leaders have asked a Medway-based committee promoting a feasibility study of Roxanne Quimby’s proposed national park to allow study and park opponents to present their arguments at a meeting at Schenck High School on Thursday. Claiming that the opposition’s position is unclear and the debate ...
Millinocket leaders criticize Quimby, propose alternative regional study
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Town leaders had harsh words for Roxanne Quimby on Thursday and approved pursuing, with U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, an economic development assessment of the Katahdin region that could counter a feasibility study of Quimby’s proposed national park. The new proposal arose from a discussion in August by ...
Portland Tomorrow, teachers union, Quimby line up support for mayoral candidates
PORTLAND, Maine — Michael Brennan and Nicholas Mavodones claimed big endorsements for their campaigns Tuesday as the race to become Portland’s first popularly elected mayor since 1923 hit its final month. Candidates Mavodones and Brennan ranked first and second, respectively, in the Portland Education Association’s slate of four endorsed candidates, ...
Snowe: Quimby’s ‘welfare state’ comments do not reflect reality of Maine
Environmentalist Roxanne Quimby’s recent statements calling Maine “a welfare state” that has a large population of obese and elderly people “do not reflect the reality and true nature of Maine,” U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe said Tuesday. Responding to comments by Quimby published at forbes.com last week, Snowe said through a ...
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Roxanne Quimby calls Maine ‘a welfare state’
In an online interview published this week, environmentalist Roxanne Quimby called Maine “a welfare state” that has a large population of obese and elderly people and whose major landowners are committed to a forest products industry model that hasn’t worked in years. Describing forest products landowners as “a very tight-knit ...
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