Memorial Bridge

Maine Gubernatorial Candidate Visits – Part II

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This just in from Ben Porter at Save Our Bridges: Another visit from a Maine Gubernatorial candidate, this coming Tuesday … Message Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 9:04 PM From: Save Our Bridges! Subject: Gubernatorial Candidate Visits – Part II Over the past month we have had visits to Kittery by two of the Gubernatorial candidates, Elliot Cutler (Independent) and Libby Mitchell (Democrat). We have scheduled another visit next week, and are in the process of scheduling two more. In each of these meetings, our objective is to educate the candidate about the criticality of our bridges to the community, to the State of Maine, …

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Maine Offers Half a Loaf

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010 — This just in from Save Our Bridges‘ Ben Porter: Maine Offers Half a Loaf As we read in this morning’s Portsmouth Herald, New Hampshire filed for TIGER II funding for replacement of the Memorial Bridge. Thanks to all of you who provided your support as well. It is a shame that that Maine’s support was so lame in the process. Let me clear things up: New Hampshire submitted the Application on its own The application for TIGER II funding was submitted by New Hampshire alone. This is in spite of the fact that the Memorial Bridge is jointly owned by …

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Act Now to Help Save Bridges!

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 — This critical message just came in from Ben Porter of Save Our Bridges! Apparently the community has a window of slightly more than two days in which to express its support for the Memorial and Sarah Mildred Long Bridges. Look for the link near the bottom of this post! Then send an e-mail! I have just received a request from Bob Landry and the NH Department of Transportation for our support. He is in the final phases of submitting the required documentation for the request for TIGER II funding from the Federal Government. One [part] of the application is an …

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Maine Senate President Coming to Badger Island August 24th

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Monday, August 16, 2010 — Maine Rep. Dawn Hill has informed local bridge activists that Maine’s Senate President, Libby Mitchell, will visit Badger’s Island tomorrow one week from tomorrow* to inspect Memorial Bridge and the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, and to conduct a forum for the area businesses and concerned residents. The forum will be held at Weathervane’s Lobster in the Rough pier on Badger’s Island, beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 24th. The importance of this event is, we presume, self-evident. Here is Rep. Hill’s e-mail: Good Morning Ladies & Gentlemen: Exciting and good news to share for further support of the Bridge …

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Great News On Bridges!

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 — As a rule we don’t try to compete in the realm of breaking news, but we’d be fools not to run this dispatch from Ben Porter, at Save Our Bridges! We received good news today. At a meeting of the Joint Transportation Committee in Augusta, Maine DOT announced the projects that have been selected for possible stimulus funding. The project to repair the Memorial and Sarah Mildred Long Bridges was one of three projects selected for Stimulus Funding. The selection still needs to be signed off by Governor Baldacci. At that point, Maine and NH will jointly develop a proposal …

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Memorial Bridge Makes the NTHP’s 11 Most Endangered List!

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Monday, April 28, 2009; 12:20 a.m.—Memorial Bridge, between Kittery, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been named by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The placement of Wentworth-by-the-Sea Hotel, in New Castle, on the 1996 Most Endangered Historic Places list, is widely credited as a pivotal moment in its survival. Since 1988, 211 sites have been placed on the “Most Threatened” list. Only six have been lost. If that was a batting average, it would be .971. A rally in support of the Memorial Bridge, and its up-river companion the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, will be …

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