Article: Sanford's Struggle Fierce casino debate highlights divisions between classes, regions

Special Report Part Five

In a newspaper box near the steps of Sanford's Town Hall, the front page of the local weekly screams, "Selectmen disagree on casino."

Replace "Selectmen" with "Families," "Friends" or "Neighbors" - or "Mainers" for that matter - and that headline could run anywhere in the state, where in November voters will decide whether to allow Maine's two largest Indian tribes to open a $650 million casino resort.

Nowhere is the debate more intense than in this blue-collar southern Maine town. When residents voted last November to keep the door open to an Indian casino, they made their community ground zero for what is destined to be a bitter political battle.

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