Georges River News

Thanks to a grant from The Georges River Education Foundation, fourth-graders in Susan Davenport's class at Lura Libby School, were provided with new science materials.

Spring Bird Walk on the Pleasant Point Nature Preserve, Cushing, led by Georges River Land Trust volunteer and Midcoast Maine Audubon Society former president Bill Goodwill.

Each student has a Wittfitt stability ball "chair" to use during the day. The balls were purchased in fall 2012 as part of a grant funded by the Georges River Education Foundation.

Georges River Land Trust along with the Lura Libby School fourth-grade class will host a family event Thursday, May 23, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Village Trail in Thomaston.

Antiques Appraisal Party with Kaja Veilleux at the riverside home of Jock and Day Cowperthwaite.

The Georges River Land Trust continues its popular tradition of an early season bird walk led by Bill Goodwill, GRLT volunteer and former president of Midcoast Maine Audubon Society.

Rockport Garden Club monthly business meeting at Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St.

Miner BHP Billiton has been given until the end of 2016 to halt most of the pollution discharged from one of its coal mines into the Georges River south-west of Sydney, a verdict that has split environmental groups.

Flood studies carried out in the early 1980s identified the Moorebank area along the Georges River as one of the worst floodways in the state.