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Article: Peaks Islanders try, try again to secede from city of Portland.
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- Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)
- Article date:
- January 7, 2006
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Byline: Kelley Bouchard
Jan. 7--A delegation of 15 Peaks Island residents boarded the 10 a.m. ferry Friday morning, landed in Portland 20 minutes later and slogged up the hill through the slushy Old Port to City Hall.
The mission: to deliver a petition for a public hearing on the island's latest call for independence.
Once inside City Hall, the group gathered in the first-floor rotunda to hear its moderator, Michael Richards, read a statement of purpose before handing over 600 signatures to the city clerk on the second floor.
"We, the undersigned registered voters of Peaks Island, Maine, wish to decide whether to secede from the city ...