The bill would replace the current flag with the state flag used from 1901 to 1909, which features a pine tree in the center of a white field and a blue star in the upper left corner. Sign in or ...

Mainers voted Nov. 4, 2024, to keep the official state flag (top) rather than replace it with a design (bottom) that harkens to the state's original flag. (Wikimedia, Maine secretary of state) ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Chris Korzen tells a story about a controversy that has smoldered in Maine for three decades and that now is flaring again, about whether to change the official state flag.

AUGUSTA — A bill proposing to change Maine’s general issue license plates from the chickadee to the 1901 Maine State Flag is scheduled for a public hearing at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the ...