The state approved a settlement that included a $3,000 fine but no acknowledgment of guilt for a tree poisoning that riled people in scenic Rockport, Maine.
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WASHINGTON — Nearly five years after the Maine Board of Pesticides Control found that a New York couple had killed a neighbor’s trees in Rockport, Maine, to improve their waterfront view, the state Friday approved a settlement that included a $3,000 fine but no admission of guilt.
A lawyer for the couple — Stephen Antonson and Kathleen Hackett of Brooklyn — released a statement from Antonson saying he was “glad” that the board and Maine’s attorney general approved the agreement. But he did not acknowledge responsibility for the death of the trees…