FRYEBURG, Maine — A member of the Eastern Slope Regional Airport Authority has charged that the authority’s executive committee violated its own bylaws by conducting secret negotiations regarding a proposed land sale for the purposes of putting a Poland Spring water bottling plant at the airport, despite the fact that building a plant there could create an aviation hazard.
The chairman of the authority called such concerns "premature."
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