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Article: Commissioners mull moving office Washington County may buy building for district attorney's space
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- January 6, 2006
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MACHIAS - Facing the renewal of a $27,000 annual lease by the end
of January for the district attorney's office, Washington County's
commissioners decided Thursday to look elsewhere for a place to call
home.
They have another Machias building in mind that they may want to
buy: 34 Center St.
"I can understand a county leasing a photocopier," said Michael
Povich, the district attorney for both Washington and Hancock
counties, who drove from Ellsworth for the commissioners' regular
monthly meeting. "But it doesn't make sense for the county to
continue leasing a building."
The county has rented a house at 12 Cooper St., owned by Larry
Barker and Michael Hennessey, for the last 12 or 13 years. ...