The local schoolteacher who’s been a longtime tenant at Castine’s town-owned historic lighthouse will continue to live there along with her husband.

The Select Board approved a two-year lease with Tracy Lameyer and Mark Hurvitt at a Monday meeting after discussing concerns about a separate home that Hurvitt owns in Blue Hill. Hurvitt ultimately agreed to give up his permanent residence status in Blue Hill as a condition of the new lease in Castine.

Lameyer, a teacher at the town’s elementary school, has lived in the keeper’s house at the Dyce Head Lighthouse for 13 years. The property is owned by the town and rented out on multi-year lease terms.

When that lease has come up for renewal in recent years , some residents have suggested the town would make more money by using it as a s

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