Banished Blair Witch, Seeking Political Revival, Running For Return To Midcoast Maine Selectboard

The Blair Witch is seeking political redemption in a Maine town where voters fired her last year amid a bitter property dispute.

The witch’s name on Friday The 13th will appear as the more common Heather Donahue.

March 13, a Friday, townspeople in a town called Freedom, Maine will go to the polls to decide whether Donahue will get another term on the selectboard.

Donahue was removed from the board last year after she allegedly overstepped her municipal authority.

The retired actress, who moved to Freedom four years ago, was grounded for allegedly vandalizing trees along a road that’s the center of a protracted legal battle between the town and those who live along the diet path.

Donahue said at the time she marked some trees with orange paint merely to delineate the property boundaries.

She argued she was surveying the road in her official capacity as selectboard member.

Amid the political brouhaha, Donahue said she was threatened after national news stories broke about the recall, with many focusing on her starring role in the movie “The Blair Witch Project.”

Cameras surrounded her house, she said last year, and she got 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.”

The Maine transplant believes she has been bullied and maligned simply for trying to protect her adopted town and its taxpayers.

In fact, Donahue insists she’s no more a witch today than she was before she was cast in The Blair Witch Project.

The downside to acting infamy may be getting typecast by a role unrelated to Maine’s motto: “Life The Way It Should Be.”

Fame preceded Heather Donahue to the Pine Tree State, the geography of which appealed to her love of the outdoors.

In wanting to serve Freedom, she successfully ran two years ago for a seat on the town’s governing board.

Within a year she was ousted in the fight of ownership over Beaver Ridge Road that has split the town into two bitter, competing factions.

The Blair Witch Project, a 1999 horror film, was one of the most successful independent films of all time.

In the movie, three young students, including Donahue, hike into the Appalachian Mountains to shoot a documentary about a myth known as the Blair Witch.

The film purports to be footage found in their discarded cameras a year after they disappeared.

Donahue disappeared temporarily from politics but she’s back, hoping for reincarnation as a revived selectperson to serve Freedom as she cherishes it.

The ex-actress faces Kory Boulier and Matt Grotton Jr. in the upcoming election.

Friday The 13th, National Good Samaritan Day and Election Day in a place called Freedom.