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After 24 years, it looks like Maine will finally get a new license plate, with the “chickadee plate” set to be retired, beginning in 2025. Secretary of State Shenna Bellows presented the plan for almost two hours before the Legislature’s Transportation Committee last week, and it was a skillful performance. Bellows had satisfactory answers to […] ....
The State House complex appears through trees at the top of Augusta’s Howard Hill during a walking tour of the land on April 18. The wooded hill forms a backdrop to the State House. Staff file photo by Joe Phelan Sue Bell, left, city councilor Dale McCormick and Brian Kent look down on Kennedy Brook during a walking tour of Howard Hill on Friday April 18, 2014 in Augusta. The wooded hill is backdrop to the State House. Staff file photo by Joe Phelan They did so without $337,500 in voter-approved Land for Maine’s Future funds awarded to assist in the purchase but held up by Gov. Paul LePage’s refusal to issue $6.5 million in bonds approved by voters in 2010 and $5 million approved in 2012. Those bonds include money the Land for Maine’s Future program has approved for 30 conservation projects, including the $337,500 Kennebec Land Trust officials were counting on to help fund the $1.2 million Howard Hill project. ....