Camden tannery land sale now falls under Select Board purview

Voting 71 to 60, Camden citizens approved a measure at annual town meeting that relinquishes final sale of the former Apollo Tannery property to their Select Board. Since 2008, final disposition of the land was left to voters with a ballot referendum vote. That changed on June 15, giving the board the legal right to sell the land to potential buyers, in accordance with redevelopment guidelines drawn up in ...