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Judge Affirms Public Access To Kennebunkport Beach

A Superior Court judge has sided with the town of Kennebunkport in its almost decadelong dispute with a number of property owners who filed suit to halt public access to Goose Rocks Beach.

Attorney Amy Tchao is representing the town. She says the property owners claim they have exclusive ownership to the beach areas in front of their homes.

“And in that case the town, once sued, believed it had no choice but to defend the right of the community and the public to continue to use this beach along the sort of longstanding tradition that had been enjoyed for many generations,” she says.

Tchao says the court concluded that, while the property owners couldn’t prove they own the beach in front of their homes, the town demonstrated it had title back to colonial times. Tchao says the property owners can appeal.

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.