Having once been ousted from the Freedom, Maine selectboard, a retired actress was hoping for political redemption.
But voters Friday rejected Heather Donahue’s candidacy.
The former star of The Blair Witch Project was trounced by
Kory Boulier, who won the open seat with 92 votes.
Donahue placed second in the three-way race, receiving only 79 ballots.
The ex-actress was elected in 2024 to the board, only to be recalled last year after voters decided she overstepped her authority as an elected official.
Donahue, who moved to Freedom in 2022, was penalized for spraying orange paint on a string of trees along Beaver Ridge Road in her attempt to help solve a boundary dispute.
She argued she was only trying to show that the road is municipal property, not private as some of her neighbors claim.
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 the road that has divided the town into two 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.
‘Freedom’ Voters Cast A Final Spell On Former Blair Witch
By Ted Cohen
