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Article: Dexter, Newport join Pine Tree Zone effort

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DOVER-FOXCROFT - Because Dexter and Newport were excluded from joining Penobscot County's Pine Tree Zone application even though the towns are located in that county, the two have allied with a similar effort by Piscataquis County.

"What prompted that [the exclusion], I do not know," Dexter Town Manager Robert Simpson said Wednesday. Because it upset him that no one informed the town during the process, Simpson said, he was drafting a letter to Gov. John Baldacci asking for a specific explanation of why the town was excluded.

The slight aside, Simpson said he and the Dexter Town Council support the town's collaboration with Piscataquis County and Newport. The three entities, to be identified ...

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