Carrabassett Valley New Town

 

(Editor’s note: this story is taken from the Vol. 4, #6, November 1971 issue of the Sugarloaf Irregular and is reprinted here in its entirety. ©The Original Irregular)

 

Edna "Mom" Judson expresses views with election clerk Lorrain Fleury.

Carrabassett Valley voters went to the polls for the first time to make the unorganized township of Jerusalem into the town of Carrabassett Valley. Thirty-four voters turned out for a 21-13 margin in favor of the proposed bill. The bill was drawn up and thrown into the 105th Legislature’s hopper by Chris Hutchinson last spring. A meeting by concerned potential townsfolk asked for an inclusion of both Sugarloaf and Wyman townships as well, but voters in these two townships were against the inclusion. So Jerusalem voters went it alone to the polls Oct. 26.

 

As it was a special election, ballots had to be supervised by State officials. In attendance for the proceedings were Deputy Secretary of State Peter M. Danborg, two election clerks Mrs. Rachel Lemieux and Lorraine Fleury, and State Trooper Harland Pierson. The first voter, Mr. Frank Rogers, X’ed his ballot at 10:35 a.m. in Judson’s Motel, the voting site.

 

 

First voter of new town election, Frank Rogers, is handed ballot by election clerk  Rachel Lemieux of Augusta.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cathy Monroe, new Carrabassett Valley resident, grins at polls.