PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • October 10, 2024
It’s divided neighbors and sparked heated debates throughout the state. But does the conflict behind a legal effort to expand public access to Maine beaches deserve a new ruling from the state’s law court? The Maine Supreme Judicial Court considered that question Thursday during a traveling session at Lewiston High School as the justices heard more than an hour of oral arguments about whether the intertidal zone, the area between the high and low tide lines, should be public.