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Article: Hancock County wants state to fund drug task force
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- July 21, 2004
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ELLSWORTH - Hancock County officials have decided to go all the
way to the governor's mansion to get state funding for the only
county drug task force in Maine.
County officials and municipal police chiefs met Tuesday night
with members of the county's state legislative delegation, and with
some of their opponents in the general election this fall, to try and
win support for getting the state to fund the county initiative
starting in 2006. State funding for the task force is not available
before then because of the state's two-year budget cycle.
Hancock County Sheriff Bill Clark told the group that the county
funded the three-member task force with $200,000 in 2004 because,
even though the ...