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To find a potential alternative, the state has launched a contest and is asking for submissions. However, there are some design limits. The new flag must be on a buff background with a pine tree ...
AUGUSTA, Maine — Adam Lemire of Gardiner was selected Monday as the winner of the Maine State Flag Redesign Contest. “I am delighted by the number and quality of the submissions and the myriad ...
She got it, and then some. The Maine Department of the Secretary of State said Friday that it had received over 400 submissions in a design contest for the new flag that voters will consider ...
The proposed pine tree flag design to be voted on was chosen from more than 400 submissions in a contest hosted by the Secretary of State’s Office. For some, the decision on the flag's design ...
A state committee selected a contest winner from more than 400 submissions. The Chuck Norris flag didn’t make the cut. By Alex Vadukul For more than a century, Maine’s state flag has been a ...
The rules and design brief for the contest adhered to the law passed last year: An Act to Restore the Former State of Maine Flag. Should voters approve of Maine returning to a flag like the state ...
For example, Maine does already have a beautiful, unique design that features a pine tree and star and came about as a result of an open, statewide, Legislature-instigated, real design contest ...
This design does not immediately become Maine’s new flag. In November, Maine voters will decide if they wish to keep the current flag, which was put forward in 1909, or replace it with Lemire ...
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said Lemire's design stood out as a "beautiful, faithful representation of an Eastern White Pine tree." Maine names winner of state flag redesign contest: Here's ...
She got it, and then some. The Maine Department of the Secretary of State said Friday that it had received over 400 submissions in a design contest for the new flag that voters will consider ...