At Friday’s Maine GOP Unity Rally party leaders say things are looking bright for their candidates this year.
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Fairfield-area residents approve $28.2 million school budget
Residents of the four towns in Maine School Administrative District 49 — Albion, Benton, Clinton and Fairfield — approved the budget Tuesday by a 1,003 to 636 vote.
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Benton residents return Cyr to board, approve change to tax payments
In municipal elections held Tuesday, Robin Cyr was elected to a one-year term on the Board of Select Persons.
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Voters approve MSAD 58 budget
The vote in the Town of Phillips was close, saw the budget defeated 68-64.
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Photos: Gov. Mills campaigns with familiar faces of Farmington
Mills met with constituents, family and friends at a campaign event in her hometown, Farmington on Tuesday. Photos by the Franklin Journal’s Kay Neufeld.
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Clinton residents give OK to $3.3 million municipal budget at Town Meeting
Voters on Tuesday approved all but two articles on the town warrant and reelected several town officials.
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Perkins wins Senate District 16 Republican nomination after ranked-choice count
State elections officials announce state Rep. Michael Perkins has defeated Kevin Kitchin 922 to 845 to win the Republican nomination for Senate district that covers greater Waterville.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, News, Politics
Jan. 6 panel sends letter asking Ginni Thomas to testify
A conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, she communicated with people in President Donald Trump’s orbit ahead of the attack and also on the day of the insurrection.
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Trump advisers tell Jan. 6 panel the plan for Pence to reject electors was ‘nuts’
The pressure Trump put on his vice president, including at a Jan. 6 rally, led directly to the insurrection at the Capitol, the panel said.
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Jan. 6 panel probes Trump’s ‘last-ditch’ effort to pressure Pence to reject 2020 election results
The panel is reconvening for a third hearing, plunging into Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to salvage the 2020 election by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electoral count.