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To our readers, Evangelos pushes to restore parole to Maine’s justice system By Douglas Rooks | Apr 20, 2021 Rep. Jeffrey Evangelos [Editor’s note: this column was originally published in The Maine Monitor.] If you are sentenced to a long prison term in Maine, your chances of being released early are almost nil. In 1976, Maine became the first state to abolish parole entirely, also doing away with the Executive Council, which once shared authority for pardons with the governor. Since then, sentence commutations, another form of early release, have been rare, perhaps non-existent. Rep. Je...

PHIL DI VECE News Contributor Tue, 04/06/2021 - 8:30am The Woolwich select board on Monday declined Bath Area Food Bank’s request to increase the town’s 2021-22 contributions from $1,000 to $1,500. In the request, food bank officials stated their client visits have doubled this past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Woolwich residents have visited the food bank 175 times, they noted. David King Sr., select board chairman, recommended keeping all donations at the same amount as last year. All of those were approved by voters at the 2020 annual town meeting. “We adopted a poli...

Maine legislators Vitelli and Hepler to host virtual public office hours The Times Record Share Sen. Eloise Vitelli, D-Arrowsic, and Rep. Allison Hepler, D-Woolwich, will hold virtual public office hours at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 3 via Zoom. Public office hours provide local residents a chance to meet with their elected officials, ask questions and get help with legislative or state government matters. The legislators will give updates on their work on various policy committees and of the legislature’s work more broadly. To RSVP on Facebook, visit https://fb.me/e/271oIIN74. To register f...

Sen. Eloise Vitelli, D-Arrowsic, and Rep. Allison Hepler, D-Woolwich, will hold virtual public office hours at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 3 via Zoom. Public office hours provide local residents a chance to meet with their elected officials, ask questions and get help with legislative or state government matters. The legislators will give updates on their […]

AUGUSTA — A group of state lawmakers has introduced LD 231 “An Act To Establish Open Primaries” to pave the way for semi-open primaries in Maine elections.  The bill would allow, if passed, an unenrolled voter to vote in a primary election, including a presidential primary election, without having to enroll in a political party. An unenrolled voter may vote in only one party's primary election. Republicans would not be able to vote in Democratic primaries and Democrats would not be able to vote in Republican primaries. Open Primaries Maine, a group working to support the passage of ...