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Owners of $3.5M Maine vacation home are fined $215K for spraying HERBICIDES on next door neighbor's garden, forcing removal of soil and trees to decontaminate it
DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 28 November 2023 | HARRIET ALEXANDER

Posted on 11/28/2023 6:32:00 PM PST by dennisw

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To: dennisw

Leon Gorman and Lisa Gorman

My family knew the Gormans when I was growing up in the 1970s in Yarmouth Maine. He was a member of the Troop Committee of my boy scout troop and we got new tents and other equipment from LL Beans on a regular basis.

In his 30 years at the helm, Leon grew L.L.Bean from a struggling $4.75 million catalog company to an over-one-billion-dollar multichannel leader in the outdoor industry.

I believe he lived in the same house on Portland Street in Yarmouth that he lived in the 1970s until his death in 2015*. I did not know him in his later life. He was quite liberal and pushed Beans to support several liberal causes while his cousin Linda Bean has used her wealth to push conservative causes including a congressional run. She runs a restaurant directly across the street from the flagship store called the Maine Kitchen & Topside Tavern.

* The Camden house is probably a summer place.


21 posted on 11/28/2023 8:12:35 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: dennisw

Use Copper Sulfate — available on Amazon and at many hardware stores — to kill anything, at root level.


22 posted on 11/28/2023 8:17:01 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: dennisw
had spread to other trees including maple, blueberry and dogwood.

Maine has great blueberries, but I didn't know they even have blueberry trees!
23 posted on 11/28/2023 8:24:19 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: dennisw

She didn’t think they were dying. They were in her way of an open view to the water. She did it on purpose and thought she’s get away with it.


24 posted on 11/28/2023 8:24:21 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: TheWriterTX

I don’t think it was about property lines. They were in her way and she tried to be sneaky.


25 posted on 11/28/2023 8:25:26 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: dennisw
Sal and her mother are saddened.

26 posted on 11/28/2023 8:26:12 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Dr. Sivana
High Bush blue berries are normally trimmed to six feet tall but they can grow up to twelve feet.

So small trees.

27 posted on 11/28/2023 8:36:19 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Just because you can does not mean that you SHOULD.


28 posted on 11/28/2023 8:39:17 PM PST by mbj
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To: Dr. Sivana

Maine has great blueberries, but I didn’t know they even have blueberry trees!

Stupid reporter has never been outside Manhattan probably. Blueberries grow on bushes not trees.


29 posted on 11/28/2023 8:46:10 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: dennisw

Dumbass best describes any neighbor who monkeys with my property...


30 posted on 11/28/2023 9:04:50 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: VTenigma
My second home neighbors want me to cut down my trees that are blocking their view. Hasn’t happen yet going on 8 years.

Hope that you are being smart and repeatedly soothing them by telling them that you are "still waiting for City Hall to issue a variance," "haven't gotten back the findings of the Environmental Impact Report yet," "still waiting for a new typewriter ribbon so that you can write a request to the Town Council," or some-such nonsense!

No need to raise their hackles!

Regards,

31 posted on 11/28/2023 10:25:46 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
High Bush blue berries are normally trimmed to six feet tall but they can grow up to twelve feet. So small trees.

Correct. Though height, alone, is not sufficient to distinguish trees from, say, herbaceous plants.

But blueberries are, in fact, prostrate shrubs, and are, indeed, distinguished from trees by their multiple stems and shorter height.

Regards,

32 posted on 11/28/2023 10:33:28 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Subject properties at 1 and 3 Metcalf Rd, Camden, Maine.

What kind of terrible person would actually go to all that trouble to actually kill someone else’s trees?


33 posted on 11/28/2023 11:06:33 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: mbj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyoWodLSqKc

Joe Bonamassa.


34 posted on 11/29/2023 2:39:36 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: VTenigma

Exactly what I thought.

“When Karens Fight” is the alternate title here.


35 posted on 11/29/2023 3:06:16 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: dennisw

So, for $215,000 she got the job done. Probably increased the property value by $1M, due to the nice view.
Costly up front, but they’ll win in the end.


36 posted on 11/29/2023 3:43:33 AM PST by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: VTenigma

Bingo!! Absolutely the real reason. The perpetrators thought they would never be caught.


37 posted on 11/29/2023 4:21:02 AM PST by Clean_Sweep
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To: dennisw

I had some black walnut trees, a valuable, beautiful wood, that Rice County, KS tore out because they were within their 30 foot right-of-way along a gravel road. No notification, nothing. The county even took the trees. I measured, those trees were forty feet from the center of the road. I don’t think I’ve ever been as angry in my life. Bastards killed my old growth walnut trees. What are my squirrels going to eat?


38 posted on 11/29/2023 4:21:53 AM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: VTenigma
The trees were blocking her view, guaranteed.

That was my first thought.

39 posted on 11/29/2023 4:27:43 AM PST by Pilsner
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To: dennisw

Nobody would of thought of doing something like this in the West Virginia of years ago. Mess with your neighbors, get your place burned down.


40 posted on 11/29/2023 4:28:41 AM PST by Varda
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