Hunt to run for District 9 Senate seat

    ISLAND FALLS — Patrick E. Hunt of Island Falls has announced his candidacy for the Maine State House of Representatives in District 9.  District 9 contains the towns of Bancroft, Benedicta, Crystal, Dyer Brook, Glenwood Plantation, Haynesville, Hersey, Hersey Town, Island Falls, Linneus, Ludlow, Macwahoc Plantation, Merrill, Moro Plantation, Mount Chase, New Limerick, Oakfield, Patten, Reed Plantation, Sherman, Silver Ridge, Smyrna, Stacyville, and Weston, as well as the North Penobscot Township and South Aroostook Township.
    Hunt is an attorney with his own law practice in Island Falls, serving the greater Aroostook County and northern Penobscot areas since 1983.  
    Hunt is a 1964 graduate of Island Falls High School, where he was a three-year varsity letter-winner in basketball.  He served in the U.S. Army in Korea in 1967-68. He received his B.S. in Economics from Ricker College in 1971. He served as an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Boston from 1971 to 1983. He received his J.D. from the New England School of Law in 1982.  Hunt ran the Boston and New York marathons 9 times between 1976 and 1989.
    Hunt married Rose Ann Flynn of Yonkers, NY in 1970.  She has worked as a Nurse Practitioner in the Island Falls and Millinocket areas since 1983.  They have three children, all graduates of Southern Aroostook Community High School.  
    Hunt is a member of the Island Falls VFW post and the Ashland American Veterans post.  He belongs to the Island Falls Historical Society, the Maine Historical Society, and the New England Historic Genealogical Society.  He is a member of the Aroostook County Bar Association and the Maine Bar Association.  He has been a trustee of the Millinocket Regional Hospital since 1987, a trustee of the Emma V. Milliken Medical Center, and a former trustee of the Katahdin Valley Health Center. He belongs to the Benedicta Snow Rovers, the Island Falls Three-Wheelers All-Terrain Cycle Club, the Island Falls Lakes Association, the Maine Snowmobile Association, and the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine.  He is a sponsor of several local teams, including the Hunt Law and Sherman softball teams in the Houlton, Sherman, and Millinocket areas.
    Hunt outlined the platform for his campaign: Think local. Save our community schools and boost our regional economy.  Give our youth economic reasons to come home after college. His motto is simple, “Hunt for Maine.”