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A Referendum That Poses No Options to a $89 Million Dollar School Should Be Voted Down.
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A Referendum That Poses No Options to a $89 Million Dollar School Should Be Voted Down.

Bring back fairness in Maine's political processes!

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Mackenzie Andersen
Jul 30, 2023
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Last week for the first time I attended the building exploratory workshop for the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor high school. It was the right time to attend for the first time because as it turned out it was a meeting to discuss what options should be on the referendum scheduled for November, a discussion that should have occurred in the beginning.

When I peeked into the room where the Building Committee was meeting, I was waived in by a welcoming gesture from one of the presenters.

The arrangement of the seating for the building exploratory workshop was inclusively arranged in a circle with participants all facing each other.

I sat down next to Steve Lorrain who repeated often and under his breath that all they set out to do in the first place was to build a new security entrance for the school, adding that originally the committee was only tasked with making an assessment of what was needed. I assumed he meant the repairs needed for the existing building.

Then…

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