AUGUSTA — In a unanimous vote, the State and Local Government Committee today rejected a bid by Peaks Island to secede from Portland.

Lawmakers say secession leaders did not follow the process as spelled out in state law. The panel voted 9-0 “ought not to pass.”
 


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