Proposed Carrier Site Voted Down ; the City Council's Decision Ends an Effort to Give the Uss John F. Kennedy a Home in the Harbor.
Portland Press Herald › January 20, 2011
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The City Council refused Wednesday to endorse a proposed site for the USS John F. Kennedy, effectively ending a private group's yearlong effort to bring the decommissioned aircraft carrier to Portland as a floating museum and tourist attraction.
The council was asked to support a site on the eastern end of the waterfront, to show Navy officials consensus on where the ship would go and the city's cooperation in the private effort to bring the carrier to southern Maine.See the full content of this document
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Proposed Carrier Site Voted Down ; the City Council's Decision Ends an Effort to Give the Uss John F. Kennedy a Home in the Harbor.
Instead, the council voted 9-0 against endorsing the site, and the leader of the effort conceded defeat.
Steve Woods, CEO and executive director of the USS John F. Kenned...See the full content of this document
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