FRYEBURG, Maine — Members of the Eastern Slope Regional Airport Authority are seeking to remove activist board member Steve Bender of Lovell, Maine, because of his recent criticisms of the authority's executive board.
But the Lovell Board of Selectmen's chairman said Bender's term doesn't expires until next January and no action will be taken before then.
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