Environmental park coming to Kent Island

Kent Island is getting a new park, courtesy of the developers behind the 280-home Gibson's Grant project in Stevensville.

Of the 139 acres in Gibson's Grant, 55 will be set aside for the park. Right now it's just a bunch of piles of dirt, but soon it will feature scores of native plants and meandering streams, said John Wilson, one of the partners in Gibson's Grant.

The park - to be called the Chester River Environmental Park at Gibson's Grant - abuts the Cross Island Trail. It has woods to the east, Macum Creek to the west and the Gibson's Grant housing to the north.

"This is open to the public forever and paid for by...