Paul Coulombe's Mysterious Relationship With The Press

A hidden Pay-To-Play past revolved around negotiations made on the golf course.

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Events have continued to evolve around the Working Waterfront Park. An article in the Boothbay Register titled Series of responses to CEO’s BHWP notice of violation tells that the Code Enforcement Officer of Boothbay Harbor Geoff Smith issued a stop work order against the Park, alleging the Park did not have a series of permits.

Shortly thereafter the Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation Board of Directors published a commentary in the Register with their own timeline of occurring events. titled Why is the Eastside Waterfront Park not open? The Park says that all the permits that The Code Enforcement Officer says they do not have were reviewed by the Shoreland Zoning compliance prior to site plan approval in 2020 which the Code Enforcement Officer saw and that the Park and Marina Building Permit that is currently under appeal is completely unnecessary and redundant to the approved 2020 site plan.

The Park presents facts and records but the Code Enforcement Offi…