UPDATED 2:54 P.M. | PORTLAND — Maine voters have approved a ballot question making recreational marijuana legal for adults age 21 or older. The proposal will allow Maine residents to cultivate, manufacture, distribute, test and sell marijuana and marijuana products. Marijuana will be taxed at 10 percent and subject to local restrictions. The vote was […]
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Hillary Clinton’s support in Maine found mostly along coast
Election 2016 results: U.S. President | 2nd District U.S. House of Representatives results | Maine legislative races | Maine Referendum Questions | Statewide results by town PORTLAND — Republican President-elect Donald Trump claimed much of Maine Tuesday, with Democrat Hillary Clinton counting on urban and coastal wins that delivered her most of the state’s electoral […]
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GOP keeps Maine Senate; Democrats keep Maine House
Local legislative results on this page: Maine House | Maine Senate AUGUSTA, Maine — Republicans narrowly preserved their Maine Senate majority Tuesday and, barring results overturned by recounts, will hold an 18-17 advantage over Democrats, according to Republican Senate President Mike Thibodeau of Winterport. Democrats won a majority in the House, but it will be […]
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Sen. Susan Collins: ‘I learned so much from defeat’
LEWISTON — Four-term U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who declared in August that she couldn’t vote for Donald Trump, opted on Election Day to write in House Speaker Paul Ryan for president. The Maine Republican said she doesn’t always agree with Ryan, but he is “a person of great character” who’s not afraid to take […]
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SAD 44 rejects new cost-sharing formula
BETHEL — Residents of School Administrative District 44 voted Tuesday against changing the cost-sharing formula for the four member towns. The formula, which is based 100 percent on valuation, will stand. The proposed change, reportedly aimed at preventing Newry from withdrawing from the district, would have resulted in a tax increase for Bethel, Greenwood and […]
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Dixfield, Canton, Carthage, Peru vote to withdraw from RSU 10
DIXFIELD — The towns of Dixfield, Canton, Carthage and Peru voted Tuesday to withdraw from Regional School Unit 10 and form their own district. Voters from the four towns had two questions on the ballot: whether or not to withdraw from RSU 10; and whether to form a separate school unit. Both questions received a […]
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Crockett defeats Kreckel in Oxford County probate race
PARIS — Bethel attorney Jarrod Crockett will replace Dana Hanley as the Oxford County judge of probate. Crockett defeated his Democratic opponent, attorney Jennifer Kreckel of Rumford, on Tuesday. As of 1 p.m. Wednesday, vote counts from Byron, Stow, Sweden and Upton had not been reported. Hanley is retiring from the position at the end […]
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Dixfield wind ordinance stands
DIXFIELD — Residents voted Tuesday not to rescind the town’s 2012 wind power ordinance and adopt the state’s governance of wind power projects. The vote was 616-642. The Wind Energy Facility Ordinance was written after Patriot Renewables of Quincy, Massachusetts, approached town officials in October 2010 about constructing wind turbines on the Colonel Holman Mountain […]
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Voters approve $1.3M road bond
HARRISON — Residents on Tuesday voted by roughly a 2-1 ratio for a five-year road bond not to exceed $1.37 million. The vote was 995-487. The bond will pay for work on Dawes Hill, Deer Hill, Buck, Fogg, Town Farm and Maple Ridge roads. Town Manager George “Bud” Finch previously said he is aware the town […]
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Two Androscoggin County Republicans lose re-election to Maine House
Two Republican members of the Androscoggin County delegation lost their bids for re-election to the state Legislature on Tuesday. In the closest legislative race in the county, Michael McClellan of Raymond lost his attempt to win a fourth term for District 66 when Democratic challenger Jessica Fay of Raymond won with 50.6 percent of the […]