The committee has looked at options including contracting with Augusta and sharing the fire station in Farmingdale.

The nine-day fair, which has been around since 1888, attracted more than 100,000 people, which officials said was even with last year’s attendance.

Boston Post Cane holder Ervina Goodridge presides as grand marshal over ringers band, quarterscale tractors, an airplane float and politicians.

Michael Bowles, 38, was in end stage kidney failure when Davine Grantz, of Saco, saw his December Facebook post about his desperate need for a kidney and offered one of hers.