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KENNEBUNKPORT -- Just up the road from Goose Rocks' oft-photographed Clock Farm, developer Tim Harrington is pushing forward with his proposal to put 26 prefabricated homes in a new subdivision dubbed "Cottages at Fishing Pole Lane." On Wednesday, Nov. 15 the Kennebunkport Planning Board held a public hearing to gather input on the project. After much discussion, the board decided to hold the hearing open and take another hour's worth of input at their Wednesday, Dec. 6 meeting. While a group of abutters opposed to the project have hired Kennebunk attorney Alan Shepard to represent them, Planning Board Chairman Mike Weston says the public hearing was civil and productive. Some key questions looming over the project do appear to be resolved: according to Port Town Counsel, the cottage project does meet the town's definition of a Mobile Home Park--and in order to meet this, Harrington and his Atlantic Holdings, LLC must hold the land in unified ownership and "lease" the cottages to eventual "owners." The designation of "Mobile Home Park" will allow Harrington--who is perhaps best known locally for "The Cottages at Cabot Cove" project on South Maine Street--to place the cottages on a much smaller lot than normally allowable.
In what has become an annual event, Loose Ties, a model railroading club from the Catawissa area, greeted model train enthusiasts to the show which featured trains from the newest and smallest "Z" scale to the "Inch" scale trains capable of carrying an adult. Jeff Johnstonbaugh, President of Loose Ties, isn't positive, but has a theory about the Christmas/toy train connection."I believe that after the depression, Lionel trains really started pushing their product as a Christmas toy," he said. "Back then, it was rather expensive and parents of children that wanted trains couldn't afford them as an everyday toy."According to an online article in the Detroit News, in 1937 Lionel started selling what became its most popular steam locomotive, the Hudson. It sold for a whopping $75, the price of a refrigerator back then.
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SHALLOTTE, N.C. - Megan Derr and her husband, Michael Derr, had been on a discouraging, year-long house hunt before they found someone who could help them. The Derrs, 21 and 19, respectively, have two small children. Their combined income is between $23,000 and $24,000 a year. Like most people in the coastal Carolinas whose annual wages are in that range, the best they could envision was rent-subsidized housing. But with the help of a federal home-ownership program and a willing builder, the Derrs now find themselves living a dream. They should be in their new house by next summer. "We thought we'd never get a break," Megan Derr said. Home ownership in Brunswick, Horry and Georgetown counties is an elusive goal for most people whose income is less than $40,000 a year.
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