A bill passed by both the House of Representatives and Senate would change the referendum date from this fall to November 2026 and establish a commission to assist the secretary of state in approving the design of the flag.
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Maine voters may have to wait until 2026 to vote on new state flag proposal
A bill endorsed last week would push off the referendum for two years and would create a five-member commission to recommend a new flag design to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.
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Unfurling the facts in the 1901 Maine state flag debate
History, politics and design sensibilities collide as residents of the Pine Tree State consider which banner to embrace.
Posted inConnections, Lewiston-Auburn
Post 158 remembers veterans
Lisbon Post 158, American Legion, placed 377 flags on veteran graves in area cemeteries and memorials for Memorial Day. Members placing flags at Lisbon Cemetery are, from left, George Warren, Jack Lachance and Jerry Smith. Missing from the photo is Brian Govang. Lisbon Post 158, American Legion, placed 377 flags on veterans’ graves in area […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Volunteers needed in Lewiston to place 7,000 flags on veterans' graves
LEWISTON — The city needs volunteers over the next two weekends to place American flags on every veteran’s grave. Help is being solicited for the city’s three largest cemeteries — Mt. Hope, St. Peter’s and Riverside. Teams of five to 10 volunteers will be assigned an area to cover the cemetery in a grid fashion […]
Posted inFranklin
Flags held high
Veteran Don Simoneau of Fayette sits Monday in the wind and rain in front of Richardson Cemetery on Main Street in Livermore Falls. It was the second-to-last Monday of the Flags Held High program, which runs from the first Monday in May through the Monday before Veterans Day. (Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal)
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U.S. flags vandalized on Memorial Bridge in Livermore Falls
LIVERMORE FALLS — Nearly half of the U.S. flags that line Memorial Bridge that goes over the Androscoggin River were snapped off either Friday night or early Saturday. It was not the first time the flags have been vandalized. Twenty-five of the flags were snapped in June 2015. Pat Knowlton and her husband, Wayne of […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Honoring our veterans
Jim Handy of Lewiston looks closely at a gravestone at Riverside Cemetery in Lewiston Saturday morning as he checks to see if the person buried there was a veteran. Volunteers placed flags in front of the gravestones of veterans Saturday morning in cemeteries throughout the state in preparation for the upcoming Memorial Day Celebration on […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn
Jay to discuss lighted Christmas decorations, flags, banners
JAY — Selectpersons will be asked tonight whether they want the new utility poles rewired and brackets put up for lighted Christmas decorations or move toward holiday flags or banners. The meeting is at 6 p.m. at the Town Office. When the Route 4 road reconstruction was done, the utility poles were mostly replaced in […]
Posted inFranklin
Franklin County agrees to Madrid Historical Society request
FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners agreed Tuesday to request an application from Central Maine Power Co. for decorative temporary attachments to utility poles on behalf of the Madrid Historical Society. Members of the society would like to put up 12 to 16 U.S. flags on poles along a short section of Route 4 and Reeds […]