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‘We didn’t sell to a corporation knowingly’: Family unaware land would be slated for rock quarry

A woman with grey hair wearing a colourful printed shirt smiles against a background of a concrete road, trees and a blue sky.
Kim Meyerdierks is pictured in Bangor, Me., on June 12, 2022. Photo: David Gordon Koch.
David Gordon Koch - CHMA - Sackville • NB | 28-06-2022
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A wooded acreage in a rural New Brunswick village is slated to become the site of a rock quarry.

But Kim Meyerdierks wants area residents to know it wasn't her family's intention when they sold the property in 2019. 

"We didn't sell to a corporation knowingly," the Bangor, Me., resident said in an interview.

Opponents of the proposed quarry in the village of Calhoun believe it could destroy their small community, which is located about 30 kilometres northwest of Sackville, CHMA previously reported. 

Today, CHMA brings you details about how the land in question ended up in the hands of developers:

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