To the editor:
The Working Waterfront February issue featured two stories: “Proposed Cutler center would work with addicts” and “The benefits of a rehab center” by Muriel L. Hendrix. Muriel might professionally have spoken with our first selectman, Linda Throckmorton, who took a poll at our annual town meeting last summer after the drug rehab proposal was presented to Cutlerites. Not one hand was raised in favor of the drug rehab.
The Maine Lighthouse Corporation, MLC, in pushing the rehab here in Cutler in yet another presentation was rejected by a petition of Cutler citizens. The Cutler Development Corporation, CDC, authorized by Congress to decide on reuse of the former Navy Base then rejected MLC’s drug rehab.
MLC, against the wishes of Cutler citizens, came back with even another altered proposal before the CDC along with Sunrise Timeshare proposal, and Sunset’s private property proposal.
The CDC with an historical record turnout of Cutler residents met on February 12 and politely rendered “stony silence” to the MCL scheme as reported in the Bangor Daily News.
Why can’t Muriel L. Hendrix journalistically travel to Cutler and learn from Cutler selectmen and Cutler people about the aspirations of our community?
The people of Cutler have never been so united in determining our own destiny as best served by private property either from the Sunrise or Sunset proposals and not MLC’s scheme. We are being nailed and crucified by MLC and so-called journalists with pre-conceived notions.
Robert Kord
Cutler
(Robert Kord is former first selectman of Cutler, charter founder of the Cutler Volunteer Fire Department, contributing author of Cutler’s Shoreland Zoning Committee, published author of a history titled “Down East To Cutler” [1985], former vice president of the philanthropic “Cutler Association, Inc.,” and member of American Legion, Post No. 9.)