Sears Island

Seagulls on Sears Island during a windstorm, Searsport, Maine

Seagulls on Sears Island (Searsport, Maine) during heavy winds, May 2010.

Searsport, Maine July 4th, 2017

Fireworks display

Sears Island 10/8/09 harbor floor scuba video

Video of the bay floor off Penobscot Bay's Sears Island near the islands abandoned jetty. October 8, 2009 Stephen Darney, diver team leader, videographer.

Driving to the parade in Searsport

1923 T Bucket driving to the Fourth of July parade in Searsport, Maine.

Save Sears Island

Lift My Eyes , Music Video by Susan Oliver from Feather in God's Wing CD. Save Sears Island Maine is endangered of being destroyed by development of a container facility on the island. The island is pristine and untouched - visit penbay.org for more info - or to hear more of Susan's music visit her web site FeatherInGodsWing.com.

Army Corps of Engineers plays dumb over Sears Island

USACE Col. Jay Clements does his best March 26, 2009, to suggest the link is purely coincidental between a proposed container port on totally wild Sears Island off Searsport, Maine, and a failed Corps-administered wetlands mitigation banking scheme that would facilitate permitting for that port. The public didn't buy it.

For more than 30 years in what has become the longest-running environmental battle in New England history, state bureaucrats and politicians fronting for big business have sought to bring heavy industry to the largest uninhabited and undeveloped island remaining in public hands on the U.S. East Coast. Originally enamored with placing a nuclear-powered aluminum smelter on this beautiful Penobscot Bay island, the dull souls in Augusta have since drifted off on a succession of pipedreams for a port, the latest a $200 million-plus container-handling operation sprawling across 40 percent of the island. Maine needs jobs, the port-boosters argue, but no evidence exists for either the need for or suitability of a port on Sears Island and few jobs would be created in any case.

Despite clear direction from most Maine citizens to leave Sears Island unspoiled, the administration of Gov. John Baldacci is hellbent on sacrificing a national treasure to an irresponsible entrepreneurial venture. The only people with any serious hope of benefiting from this environmental crime are the Chicago-based speculators (Rail World Inc.) in the resurrected-from-bankruptcy Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. Gov. Baldacci proposes that the portion of Sears Island not destroyed by a port should serve as the foundation for the federal mitigation bank. In February, he issued an executive order making a gift of this precious public wild land from the people of Maine to a private land trust organization by way of a so-called conservation easement.

The Maine governor's first concern in pretending to be a conservationist has really been to gain preservation credits to mitigate for destruction of wetlands occasioned by state transportation projects, a container port on Sears Island being the obvious first candidate to get a pass for extensive environmental destruction. But there has also been a payoff to those environmental groups willing to formally agree a port is appropriate on Sears Island. That payoff is EcoWorld. The easement language allows for the immediate construction on the preserved portion of the island of a complex of buildings, roads and parking lots intended, perversely enough, to promote environmental education. Plans for EcoWorld also include a provision to generate income by renting out surplus office space to government agencies. The policymakers at Maine Coast Heritage Trust, the easement holder, should hang their heads in shame.

In pushing for establishment of a federal wetlands mitigation bank in Maine, a first for New England, Gov. Baldacci has been oblivious to how this industry-sponsored mechanism from the Reagan era has been a dismal failure in other states in meeting its announced goal of allowing no net loss of the nation's critical wetlands. What adoption of a federal mitigation bank in Maine would allow as a general matter would be for the state DOT to minimize the role of the public in overseeing department projects that destroy wetlands. Specifically, what it threatens to do is channel sufficient mitigation credits to gain permitting for a container facility on Sears Island, the very credits whose absence has long frustrated port-boosters.

At the March 26 informational meeting the Corps conducted at Searsport Town Hall, Col. Clements initially suggested he was completely unaware when the state renewed its application in February for a federal mitigation bank that it was also pushing forward with cargo port plans. He said it wasn't on my radar even though more than a week prior to filing the bank application with the Corps the Maine DOT announced it was spending up to $100,000 to hire a consultant to begin marketing to find a developer for a Sears Island container port. Some in the audience found this disingenuous display of innocence a little hard to take.

For more information on the Sears Island issue, go to FairPlayForSearsIsland.org and penobscotbay.blogspot.com. For more information on the failure of federal mitigation banking as well as how this issue relates to Maine, check out what Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a national whistleblowers protection group, has to say, at peer.org.

President for the day in Searsport, Maine... Welcome to Main Street Soapbox

Mark Kuzio, your host of Main Street Soapbox, asks residents of Seapsport, Maine what would be the first action they would take as President of the United States. The answers are varied, interesting and heartfelt.

Two Bedroom Apartment, Searsport Maine

Large, wonderful two bedroom apartment for rent in searsport, maine.

Ayers Island: Past, Present, Future (2008)

A documentary on the history of Ayers Island, a massive abandoned mill complex in Orono, Maine.

Captain A V Nickels Inn - Searsport Hotels, Maine

Captain A V Nickels Inn 4 Stars Hotel in Searsport, Maine Within US Travel Directory Located directly on the Penobscot Bay between Camden and Bar Harbor, this historic oceanfront inn is 4 minutes' drive from Moose Point State Park.
Guests can enjoy free Wi-Fi and on-site dining.
Each guest room at Captain A V Nickels Inn includes a flat-screen cable TV, a coffee maker, and a private bathroom.
Suites are equipped with cooking facilities and a balcony.
The Port of Call Lounge is located on-site and serves lighter fare and drinks in a casual environment.
The property also has a business center, a boat house with seating, and a fire pit along the bay.
Sears Island is 4.
8 km away.
Shopping for antiques and Bluejacket Shipcrafters are within walking distance of the inn.
The Penobscot Marine Museum is 10 minutes’ walk from the accommodation.

Captain A V Nickels Inn - Searsport Hotels, Maine
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Searsport Motor Company Searsport, Maine

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Here on our website, you can view our inventory, check out information about our extended warranty options, or even use our easy application form to get pre-approved for financing. We're here to make your next purchase experience better than any you've ever had, so feel free to call us at 207-548-6500 with any questions you might have.

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Anglers Restaurant Searsport Maine My Review and Photos

Anglers is a Seafood/Fishing themed restaurant that can be located without a fish-finder next to the Baits Motel in Searsport Maine. For an extended version and more Real Maine Reviews click here...
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LPG in Searsport: Interview with Randall Parr August 31, 2012 (no edit)

An informal interview with Randall Parr @ a private party in Brunswick, Maine on 8/31/12.

Randall discusses the impressive - and frightening - facts associated with the proposed 22.7 million gallon LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) in Searsport...putting that town and that coastal region at tremendous risk.

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To contact the Maine State Fuel Board via email: fuel.board@maine.gov
To contact them via regular mail: Maine Fuel Board, State House Station, Augusta, Maine 04333
Additional contact options: phone: (207) 624-8672 & (207) 624-8606; fax: (207) 624-8636; TTY: (888) 577-6690

Their website (last updated on March 6, 2012 - with no clear reference to the LPG Tank project) is

Please note: Randall received his degree in Chemistry from the University of New Hampshire

Tanker coming into docks in Searsport

October 9th, 2010

Searsport Memorial Day Parade 2011

Catch And Cook Clam Digging Day 2 of 8 Maine Wilderness Living Challenge /Catch And Cook Survival

Rough first day only having the blended fish but my hopes are high as we set out to move out to the woods for the next 7 days. A bit of catch and cook clam digging should make up for the first days meager fair. We aren't going to haul the lobster traps till tomorrow so we are going to head up to Sears-port Maine and get clamming license so we can dig clams out on Sears island. I heard once that the native Americans would say that when the tide is out dinner is served. So our plan is to take advantage of just that and take our survival shovels down to sears island at low tide and dig clams. There isn't anything more Maine than a good clam bake. And now that Malcom and my apprentice Chris is here theres more mouths to feed if we wish to succeed at this catch and cook survival challenge we will have to catch enough clams so 4 people can survive until we see how many lobsters we catch. Of course more hands may make survival easier or will it?


Last time I went to Canada to do a 7day Wilderness Living Challenge ( The point is to gain or maintain our body wait while eating nothing but wild foods) with the Wooded beardsman . We had a blast living off nothing but wild food for 7 days deep in the back woods of Canada. Now He has come down to join me in my to do it all over agin near my house in the coastal stat of Maine. As part of our preparations before we head out for the 7 days we thought we woulds test the Alewife fish run and catch and cook some up for our dinner the result was very unexpected and not a happy un expected. The alewife run was good we dip netted a good number but the problem lies in eating them. Can we eat enough Alewives to survive or us enough of them in my lobster traps to bring in a bigger hall during the challenge?

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Scenes From Searsport Maine

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Winter Storm Warning 2008

Winter Storm Warning 2008. Taber Photography (taber-photography.com) reporters and movie makers Ariel Grotton and Forest Taber plunge out into the wild streets of Searsport, Maine in the pursuit of weather knowledge and collecting interviews of the local populous.