The actress who starred in The Blair Witch Project says she may have to leave her adopted and beloved Maine after getting thrown out of office.
Heather Donahue was voted out last week from her elected town select board position in a battle over road rights.
The retired actress had provoked the ire of some townspeople in Freedom, Maine, when she marked trees with orange spray paint along Beaver Ridge Road.
After getting elected a year ago, Donahue got embroiled in a dispute with neighbors who insist at least part of the road is private.
Donahue took her role as a town official so seriously she began marking the trees that she believes are public property.
But a number of townspeople said she exceeded her authority and petitioned for a recall vote.
The witch actress, who moved to Maine two years ago, ended up on the short end of a broomstick, losing the vote 122 to 91 last Wednesday.
Donahue said her safety has been threatened since national news stories broke about the recall, with many focusing on her starring role in the movie “The Blair Witch Project.”
Cameras surround her house, she said, and she is receiving threatening calls from people across the country.
“This is completely insane,” Donahue said. “Because, this is where I planned to live the rest of my life, and now I have to reconsider that as well.”
The retired horror-movie star, an avid hiker and snowshoer, said she moved to the area because trails were an important feature to her.
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Plenty of trails in Canada
Entitled drama. People from away find our Maine paradise and insist they know better than the generations of local citizens. Making new rules and mandates so they can be the last one into paradise.
I wish more people cared about public access. Used to be it wasn’t all about what’s mine
She could do us all a favor and blaze a path to the border so that the liberals can follow.
Good News.
Go back to where you came from .
We won’t miss you or the rules you decide will make us better.
We don’t need your help .
Stick to the “make believe world” of hollyweed. Maine is the REAL world. You ought to thank your lucky “stars” Freedom let you get as far as you did. Think about that while your packing.
what bothers me is that she wasn’t even originally from Maine and yet had the liberty to become an elect town official. I have been saying for a while now, that we need to make Mainers the priority here. You should have to have lived here for four years before being able to vote for Maine issues or run in Maine elected positions. Out of staters have been treating Maine like a getaway paradise for years retreating to our state and then demanding they make changes according to their preferences.
As the saying goes, “You have to winter ’em and summer ’em before you elect ’em.”
Prime example of someone from away being attracted to ‘life the way it should be’ (except for our crumbling cities run by democrats ) and then working to change what drew them here in the first place. Southern Coastal Maine is no different than living in liberal Massachusetts.
For those interested look up Roberta Manter from Maine Roadways. She is an expert on abandoned/discontinued roads in the state of Maine. Lawyers contact her for her expertise. All Roadways discontinued after 1968 have an automatic public easement any road discontinued prior to 1968 revert back to whom ever owns both sides of the road or down the middle of the road if separate ownership on either side. Our property in Pittston went through similar issues and we always allowed public to hike…horseback riding clubs…and nature buffs to enjoy until a neighbor built a shooting shack and started shooting down this very straight road…thank goodness for Roberta Manter who explained the law and were able to stop the hunter(I am a hunter) and now hikers, horse riders and nature buffs can enjoy our property safely.
Plenty of trails in California!
What weak person.
take ur out of state mentality and get outta our state! if she knew the game like a seasoned town councilor, she would have asked the warden to do, ( offiacial they cant, but i have caught them more than once posting private land!). then when anyone asks questions the warden says town posted it and the town says the warden did. round and round it goes with no real answer. its how they shut down half the wheeler trails accross the state!
My husband and I moved here ten years ago after visiting my daughter and her born and bred Caribou husband. We KNOW we will always be from away. That’s fine. And except for the wacko politicians and some liberals and “new Mainers” we don’t want to change anything. Maine is a paradise. Period.