Surry voters asked to approve purchase of town beach access

SURRY—For more than 40 years, residents and visitors to Surry’s town beach have parked vehicles on a small lot at the end of the Newbury Neck Road.

- JEFFREY B. ROTH

“The wide open space with magnificent views of Acadia’s peaks and wide Union River Bay is frequented year-round by townsfolk and locals,” Betsy Armstrong, Surry select board chair, wrote in an Another View column to The Packet (see page 4). “All this may soon be available only in your memory....The Town has claimed it for parking but does not have legitimate rights to the space. The long-time owner has been unaware the lot had been commandeered and is looking to sell the property.”