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PARIS Political newcomer Walter Perry defeated Rusty Brackett on Tuesday for a seat on the Select Board, denying the board chairman a third term.
Perry, a teacher, coach and science department chairman at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, mounted a spirited campaign against the incumbent. Perry finished with 225 votes, compared to 165 for Brackett, who had been on the Select Board since 2016.
Brackett received the endorsement of Town Manager Dawn Noyes, who cited that the present board worked well together and she hoped it would remain intact. Perry thought the endorsement, written on town stationary, was inappropriate, especially when he said it reflected support by the entire town.
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Our View: Oxford County town’s anti-mask resolution misuses Americans with Disabilities Act
Selectmen in the town of Paris are among those making a mockery of rights won by people with disabilities.
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Thirty-one years ago next month, a group of protesters with disabilities ditched their wheelchairs and crutches and began moving – slowly – up the 78 steps of the U.S. Capitol’s West Front, demanding their rights.
All five members of the Paris Select Board voted Monday night in favor of a resolution opposing Gov. Mills’ executive orders on face coverings, which they say violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability Rights Maine, an advocacy group for the disabled, supports the governor’s mandates.
Our View: Anti-mask resolution misuses the Americans with Disabilities Act
Selectmen in the town of Paris, among others, are making a mockery of rights won by people with disabilities.
By The Editorial Board
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Thirty-one years ago this month, a group of protesters with disabilities threw down their wheelchairs and crutches and went up the 78 steps of the Capitol’s West Front, demanding their rights.
Known as the Capitol Crawl, it was the culmination of a decades-long and ultimately successful effort to get Congress to pass the Americans with Disability Act. It took one protester, an 8-year-old with cerebral palsy, almost an hour to get to the top.