MeInMaine Blog

Author: Andrew Mooers

  • Maine Shoreland Zoning, Do’s, Don’ts Around ME Lakes, Rivers, Ocean, Ponds.

    Fish So Big In Maine You Get A Hernia Landing Them In A Boat.
    Fish So Big In Maine You Get A Hernia Landing Them In A Boat.

    Waterfront real estate in Maine, and what are the rules on what you can and can not do without a fine, severe penalties.

    Before 1972, help yourself with a bulldozer wading out in to the water of a Maine lake, pushing rocks to the side. Or removing them all together was not uncommon. Neither was a establishing a rolling lawn. One crew cutted of trees, removing all shade, anything vegetation like to hold the soil in place to prevent erosion in to the water.

    Oh sure, many folks kept the land looking like the woods, pristine. Resisted the urge to have a lush green, country club perfect lawn to the water’s edge. But common sense was not enough to protect the resource so Maine’s shoreland zoning ordinance was crafted, beefed up over the years. Shoreland zoning in Maine pertains, regulates the 250 foot strip around our waterbodies of lakes, rivers, ponds, ocean frontage.

    Why the need for rules, fines, regulations for the DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) and LURC (Land Use Regulation Commission) to administer, police and protect maine water bodies, water sheds?

    Because remember a lake that gets so much erosion from silt run off, wood cutting operations in that water shed “drain” from miles away, poorly designed roadways, driveways will die if over burdened, not cared for.

    Improperly built Maine water frontage driveways, primary roadways are 50% of the problem. Add to it man’s love of weed and feed to have the best, greenest lawn. Then pile on his removing vegatation along the shoreline, and penchant for building bigger and bigger vacation homes (McMansions) that are no longer camps, cottages. It adds to the water resources stress, pressure on that lake, river, pond, ocean frontage.

    On the subject of camp roads, Nickerson Lake, that is south of the Houlton Maine Community Golf Course in New Limerick is the site of a ME camp road workshop on June 23rd. Bill LaFlamme of the Maine DEP will be educating on why maintenance of that gravel camp road around your lake, pond, river is so important. The damage caused if nothing is done to protect your waterfront real estate. Also, another worthwhile session on effective road repair practices with David Rocque of the Maine Department Of Agriculture happens the same day.

    Interested in protecting your Maine lake, pond, river, ocean front property and want to learn how, more? Register by emailing
    angela.wotton@nacdnet.net or calling 207.532.2087, ext 3 at the United States Department Of Agriculture (USDA).

    Think like a Maine fish…you are worried about milfoil, evasive plant vegetation that puts a strangle hold on a ME lake, pond.

    And then consider how hard it is to breath thru your gills with all this debris, silt coming in to the Maine lake.

    Gushing in by gallons, tons and hurting water purity, visibility.

    The Maine soil and water districts around Vacationland need your help to protect these fish, aquatic plant life that is the good kind keeping erosion to a minimum. Run off chokes a lake and fish lake rolling lawns, where all the ground cover has been removed and water “races” to the water body carrying all kinds of contaminants along the way. Any lake association representative is invited to this Maine camp road workshop in New Limerick Maine, Aroostook County.

    Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Maine Newspapers, Radio, Television And Media Blog, Video Options.

    Taking Pictures Holds Up The Climb In Maine.
    Taking Pictures Holds Up The Climb In Maine.

    Maine, the state up here in the right hand corner of the country is well served with newspapers, radio, television and other media blog, video, image options.

    Here’s a list of the Maine print resources comercial, college newspapers and magainzes serving Vacationland. More from the Maine Press Association website. For Maine broadcasting options, the list of ME radio stations, and the list of ME television station channels.

    Media comes in many styles, but billboards that were banned in Maine is not one of them. Maine webcams are one novel way to “study” vacationland from out of state, if you are in a different time zone, out of the country. So are Maine blogs like this one, and this ME blog list.

    Videos are a whole other way to see Maine..especially the ME community event / Maine lifestyle and recreation videos. Getting your news, learning about Maine has never been easier with an online connection. Maine, it’s not a secret any more. Everything left out of the Maine tourism brochures you can find one line, in helpful ME blog posts like this one.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com.

  • MeInMaine Author, Blogger Andrew Mooers..What’s His Story?

    MeInMaine blogger Andrew Mooers is a ME real estate broker, a dad of four children, a resident of Houlton Maine, Aroostook County.

    Here is his Maine video story on how where he started, how he got to the here and now today.

    Why any of us live where we chose and who the person is behind a blog, goods, service and anything we run in to on line. Sometimes it starts to hear a quick video story, see who the person is to connect, relate with the person on the other end of the wire, wireless signal.

    In an impersonal, 200 mile an hour pace many American lead that robs life and removes the person from the process, starting with on line videos, blog posts help define the blogger. Make the person more transparent and to step in front of the camera, come to the forefront of this Maine living blog, MeInMaine. I appreciate your following the posts, welcome your comments. Maine, always, always your best case scenario. This is how I knew I was cut out to list, market, real estate in Maine, on another Active Rain blog I feed, post on.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Maine, Easier To Be Content, Happy, Grounded, Centered Here.

    Remove What Robs Your Happiness, Consider A Move, Relocation To Maine.
    Remove What Robs Your Happiness, Consider A Move, Relocation To Maine.

    When you climb Mt Katahdin with your family, looking out from the summit in all four directions around Baxter State Park and from Maine’s highest mountain, all in the party go speechless.

    Something clicks, hits deeply and you suddenly start to figure out what is important. Where you need to be. It’s easier to be happy here in Maine just with the four season surroundings as a back drop to all you do here. Minus all the problems that come with too many people is one big postive check mark or reason to circle in red the word, place called Maine.

    Being lake side with your family, a sun setting after a good meal, laughter, conversation in Maine is healthy, the way life was meant to be. Add in other positives to just further enhance the experience of living in Maine which include low low, yes cheaply priced real estate so you get way way more for less. Maine is the 4th lowest crime state. Toss situations, stressors like wall to wall traffic, pollution too in Maine. And the best thing about Maine besides the wildlife, scenery, low population? The people we do have are family oriented, hard working, home town proud of their area of “Vacationland”.

    So if you find an anxious feeling, jittery and wondering is this living in fear due to crime, over population, or just you…maybe Maine is all you are lacking. Happy is a choice, an attitude of counting your blessings, being grateful for all you do have. But if your surroundings on the outside in Maine help the inside work you do to be content, at peace and centered, maybe you should check this right hand corner state out first hand.

    Maine, you’re not you when you’re not here.

    Ever thought about moving here, a relocation to Maine? Or to own a piece of Maine for seasonal use, recreational purposes to give you something to look forward to?A place to run away on those vacations, three day weekends? That’s my day job…and I start by listening to your Maine real estate requirements, your budget, about that burning desire. Scope out some videos on Maine living, the low cost ME property options here. Maine, it’s always your best case scenario.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Aroostook County “Lady” In The Abandoned Mars Hill Maine Field.

    Not The Place You Expect To See This Elegant A Maine Memorial Or Statue.
    Not The Place You Expect To See This Elegant A Maine Memorial Or Statue.
    How She Got Placed In This Aroostook County Field, By Whom, A Mystery.
    How She Got Placed In This Aroostook County Field, By Whom, A Mystery.

    You have to look carefully, slowing down on the Knoxford Road in Mars Hill Maine to see her standing in the field, all alone.

    North of the mountain the town in Central Aroostook County is named after. One of the first places the sun hits in the Eastern United States. How she got placed in this field, and by whom no one knows.

    Have lived, driven around in all kinds of weather in my job as a Maine real estate broker for the last thirty years. Running kids to Big Rock’s Ski area, to hockey games in Canada. But someone missed seeing this “Lady In Waiting”, reaching for the sky, toward heaven. It took a fellow who left Houlton Maine at the age of eleven who is now retiring back to Aroostook County to point it out to me.

    Suffering thru all types of weather, and no one sure of when she appeared, why she stands and waits in this Maine field. Called the “statue lady” by some locals, the few that know she is north of the Knoxford Road, north of Mars Hill Mountain in Mars Hill.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573

  • Maine Gubernatorial Democrats, Republicans, Independents…All Make Sense.

    Maine Governor..Lots Of Folks Lined Up, Vying For The Job.
    Maine Governor..Lots Of Folks Lined Up, Vying For The Job.

    The field of Maine gubernatorial candiates..those men and women who want to live in the Blaine house. To be governor of this state Of Maine way way up in the right hand corner of the nation.

    The phone calls of pre-recorded rhetoric, promises, campaign platform plank positions are coming in with intensity as primaries approach, the campaigns drag on.

    And when you look over the emails, the social media web 2.0 claims, insertions along with the direct mail propaganda for the Maine governor’s race, something strikes home. The fact that all of the candidates have common agendas, simple common sense approaches to problem in Maine state government, life in the Pine Tree state.

    The promises made in the glossy circulars that the mail lady here in Houlton Maine is going to get a hernia from carrying the extra campaign load poundage, tonnage. Here is some of the wisdom anyone able to vote in Maine is getting hit with, hearing without spelling out the candiate or endorsing the author of the wisdom being broadcast, circulated, promoted.

    “June 8th, Tuesday, vote to fix Maine’s economy”. Who would not want to do a tightening up, crusing the facility and looking for slack of Augusta’s nuts, bolts, mechanics? “Politicians in Augusta have forgotten where all the money comes from”. It boils down to spending other people’s money is not so much fun when it runs out thinking.

    “Cut the state of Maine bureaucracy”, “Get the facts, learn the truth, decide for yourself” makes you think someone is pulling your leg. Not being totally honest and here’s a guy, gal to set the record straight. Get everything out in the open. If the candidate is highly educated, or did not work in the private sector, some Maine voters will come away with this gubernatorial candidate is over qualified. Out of touch with the average blue collar worker.

    And may never have made what they term “an honest dollar” outside the public sector that is perceived too big, wasteful, slow and Goliath like. Not David sling shot effective, accurate, speedy.

    “Competence, Character, Accountability” are all qualities you want in anyone you deal with right? So playing the integrity card when maybe not all politicians are perceived as straight arrow pure and noble seems standard lingo to weave in to the message for some Maine Governor wannabees too.

    But if all boils down that if government is too big and wasteful, if change of any type is welcomed, embraced from dissatisfied voters, tax payers, why hasn’t something been reined in, tweaked by the present folks in Augusta? The crowd holding down the senate, house, governorship seats already? All of them seem bright, involved. All got elected by Maine voters who thought they could serve them, represent them to get the job done.

    Replacing the players with new ones knowing everyone on board already is trying hard. Up to speed involved. Is not dumb, wants the best for the state right? Makes you wonder when considering which boxes to check off behind the voter’s polling place curtain for the new regime players why is change going to make a difference if the system is flawed from within?

    A leader, governor, with perception as someone with enthusiasm, vigor, creativity and folks around him/her with the same over the top excitement to get the state of Maine ship shape is a wonderful concept. But why does a new lead reindeer, the trickle down government dog and pony process guarantee anything different? Why doesn’t change, improvement come from within already?

    And are all the promises to do this, this and fix that to unburden the small business operator, the local tax payer just wishful thinking? Words from someone outside looking in on what needs to be done but not explaining why any one with common sense now serving is not already doing the best that can be done, implementing what seems so obvious?

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com