EATON — If not for the shortage of building materials and big jump in prices, Chris Kennedy says he’d be living in his new home in Eaton and still serving on the school board.
Instead, he and wife Heather bought a home in Fryeburg, Maine. He sold the property in Eaton and stepped down from the school board last month.
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