Flagg has gone from sitting on a bucket for hours at a time harvesting peas to finding a place in the NBA as the No. 1 draft ...

On a cold winters day fitting for the occasion, Alaska became an official “United State” on January 3, 1959, however, you ...

PORTLAND, Maine (CN) — Maine will keep its official state flag as is. Voters on Tuesday rejected a referendum to replace the current state flag with a modern version of the original design, which flew ...

Maine Question 5, the State Flag Referendum was on the ballot in Maine as a legislatively referred state statute on November 5, 2024. The ballot measure was defeated. A " yes " vote supported ...

In the new version created by Adam Lemire of Gardiner, the tree is an Eastern White Pine, which is Maine’s state tree, and has 16 branches to represent the 16 counties in Maine.

The latest push to change Maine's flag was partly fueled by the popularity of a design introduced by a Portland-based flag company in 2017 featuring a version of the original state flag with a more ...

We also couldn't have been in favor of a state flag design so new that it was brand new; as voters are by now very well aware, the design up for consideration is a version of the 1901 Maine state ...

Carey and Fish, as it turns out, aren’t as concerned about the flag debate as much as they are about the waste of state resources that could be focused on larger issues. “Car-killer roads ...

Sep. 28—'Woke,' white nationalist, or just a symbol of the state? The answer, truly, is blowing in the wind. Ahead of a November referendum on replacing Maine's flag with a modernized version of ...

The current version of the Maine state flag is unfurled Thursday by U.S. Army veteran Geoffrey Spunn at his home in Waterville. He opposes a new state flag, saying, "I just don't think the design ...

A dancing lobster, Chuck Norris, and lots of trees: Take a look at the rejected Maine flag designs By Shannon Larson Globe Staff,Updated August 9, 2024, 5:54 p.m. 9 ...

A stylized version of the first flag took the state by storm during the Maine’s bicentennial in 2020, and has appeared on hats, sweatshirts and soon license plates.