by Nancy Beal

In response to a plan from Brunswick-based bluShift Aerospace to launch nano-rockets from an outboard island in Eastern Bay, Jonesporters December 1 voted in favor of a six-month moratorium on such activity until an ordinance regulating it can be written. An aerospace committee was appointed to write the ordinance, has met and returned to the selectmen for ideas of how to determine and, accordingly, incorporate the wishes of the town into the document.