Woodstock

“It’s a highly desirable segment,” broker Dennis Wheelock said of properties leased to the USPS. The Bryant Pond location includes a 14-foot-tall sculpture of a hand-crank telephone.

The protected lands range from a community forest in Woodstock to the headwaters of the Kennebago River to a deer wintering habitat in Aroostook County.

Maine will be receiving almost $73 million from the federal government for transportation and water infrastructure projects across the state.

Maine's Department of Environmental Protection said Wednesday that it has issued $800,000 for 15 projects in the first round of dispensing $5.4 million in funds earmarked for vital improvement projects by the November 2014 “Clean Water for Maine” bond.