by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

A vote to approve or deny a 12-cottage campground project on Canal Street in Machias was delayed following the board’s Jan. 4 vote to table the matter until a letter could be secured from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). 

Before they consider the matter again, the board asked town manager Bill Kitchen to secure something in writing assuring that they were within their rights to approve the building permit, submitted by local businesspeople Heather and Wesley Graham, co-owners of Graham Holdings.