A Benedicta couple who oppose the governor’s ban of road signs showing the way to Maine’s national monument hung their own signage on a highway overpass.
But it didn’t last long.
Herman and Lisa Ammerman said they put up a spraypainted painter’s cloth sign advertising the Katahdin Woods and Water National Monument’s accessibility via exit 262 at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday. By the next afternoon, it was gone.
It was unclear exactly who took down the sign. Maine Department of Transportation spokesman Ted Talbot said state workers removed a sign left at the same location, Benedicta’s Casey Road bridge on the northbound side of Interstate 95, on Wednesday. But he didn’t know if workers removed Herman and Lisa Ammerman’s sign, or someone else’s. Talbot said the sign was illegally placed, and hazardous.
With Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument starting its first full season with the opening of its main Loop Road entrance on Thursday, Lisa Ammerman had hoped that motorists — and Gov. Paul LePage — would get the message.
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