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At the start of each year, the city council elects "by majority vote one of its members as president of the council." [3]Ruth McInnis, ca.2003 [4]; Brian Schuth, ca.2008 [5]
The following is a list of mayors and council presidents of the city of Old Town, Maine, United States. View of City Hall building in Old Town, Maine, circa 1914 Part of a series on the
A representative town meeting, also called "limited town meeting", is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and permitted in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Representative town meetings function largely the same as open town meetings, except that not all registered voters can participate or vote ...
In Maine, a plantation is an organized form of municipal self-government similar to but with less power than a town or a city. One difference is that plantations cannot make local ordinances . Unlike towns or cities, with few exceptions, this type of municipality usually includes the word Plantation as part of its full name, which is also ...
In Maine, the town meeting system originated during the period when the District of Maine was part of Massachusetts. Most cities and towns operate under the town meeting form of government or a modified version of it. Maine annual town meetings traditionally are held in March. Special town meetings also may be called from time to time.
Fore Street is a restaurant at 288 Fore Street in the Old Port neighborhood of Portland, Maine, United States. Owned by Dana Street and Sam Hayward, the restaurant opened in 1996. It was named one of Gourmet magazine's top 50 restaurants in the United States in 2002, being placed 16th on the list.
Moulton Street is a historic downtown street in Portland, Maine, United States. Situated in the heart of the Old Port, it runs for around 233 feet (71 m), from Fore Street in the northwest to Commercial Street in the southeast. One-way from Fore Street, its surface is cobblestoned, with brick sidewalks. The street is named for William H ...
The meeting house is a rectangular wood frame structure with a gable roof, resting on a granite block foundation. It stands on the common, a parcel of land now reduced to 1.35 acres (0.55 ha) from its original 3, near the junction of Maine State Routes 26 and 121. The common is a large grassy area fringed at the non-street edges with mature ...