Saturday’s fog, showers and clouds broke, making a sunny, breezy midday for one family’s first time at Alna’s Head Tide Dam. The Fairleys were visiting from Massachusetts.

Some members…

In summer, Nicholas and Mika Repenning and son Enishi, 8, swim and play at Alna’s Head Tide Dam. Saturday, in the wind and afternoon sun, the Whitefield couple was above the Sheepscot River…

A once vegetated spot upriver of Alna’s Head Tide Dam is now a hazardous, “sheer drop,” resident Chris Cooper told selectmen Dec. 23. Big rocks or some other barrier will go there, Atlantic Salmon…

Paddling from Kings Mills in Whitefield to Alna’s Head Tide Dam Sunday, Woolwich’s Catherine Kimball got out of a kayak and the Sheepscot River just before the dam. Fellow Penobscot Paddle and…

Here come the railings and bench for Head Tide Dam’s new overlook in Alna. And with their installation, underway through the week of Dec. 9, will come public access to the overlook, Atlantic…

Greg Shute figures he has canoed at Alna’s Head Tide Dam 100 times. It can get a little hazardous there, he said. But looking at it in the rain Thursday, Oct. 31, with all the changes weeks or…

Weather permitting, Chris Cooper expects to get all the plants in the ground at Alna’s Head Tide Dam by Thursday, Oct. 31. The dedication of the site Atlantic Salmon Federation and partners made…

Alna’s and Waterville’s Peter Love has been coming to Head Tide Dam and its swimming hole since 1971. He was 12 when his parents got a piece of land off Lothrop Road. Now it’s his. And though the…

With some ledge and the abutment gone from Alna’s Head Tide Dam, project manager Maranda Nemeth said Friday, she can already picture how the water and fish will likely travel the channel the work…

Part of Alna’s concrete, century-old Head Tide Dam became history last week, and on Monday continued being pulled off the Sheepscot River. And the dam, the site and the fish and people who…

Before Head Tide Dam gets a new viewing platform that gives the fish more room to get through, workers at the Head Tide Road, Alna site need a place to work in the Sheepscot River.

They…

Construction was set to commence after the July 4 holiday at the Head Tide Dam site in Alna. The construction period will last until Nov. 15. During construction, conditions will be unsafe and…

The century-old west abutment at Alna’s Head Tide Dam will stay put this year, an Atlantic Salmon Federation official said Friday. ASF and its partners on the Alna project and two others on the…

Alna selectmen are starting work on a deal with the Atlantic Salmon Federation for its project at Head Tide Dam. In March, town meeting voters authorized the board to negotiate a contract.

Alna’s Head Tide Dam is headed for a free fix-up if selectmen seal the deal with the Atlantic Salmon Federation; fireworks use now has local rules; and all properties are headed for a…

Taking about 30 inches off one end of the Head Tide Dam’s spillway would avoid taking some ledge off the Sheepscot River shoreline, a consultant said Tuesday night about one of the latest models…

The search for improved fish passage in Alna has selectmen’s OK to go another year, and new measures to help get a proposal the board can get behind.

A facilitator, a selectman and another…