HISTORY AND MEANING OF MAINE FLAGS. Advertisement. ... “Anyone can draw it. Anyone can recognize it. We’re the Pine Tree State. People are already flying the 1901 flag.

Maine’s current flag shows the state’s seal, ... five-pointed North Star in the upper corner. It must also be simple enough for a child to draw from memory.

Maine is now accepting designs for a new state flag to be voted on in the November general election. The secretary of state announced last week that a contest will be held to pick the design that ...

Sep. 28—'Woke,' white nationalist, or just a symbol of the state? The answer, truly, is blowing in the wind. Ahead of a November referendum on replacing Maine's flag with a modernized version of ...

Maine is seeking design ideas before voters in November determine whether to adopt a new, more distinctive flag. By Amanda Holpuch Anyone with an idea for how the Maine state flag should look has ...

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.

Referendum question number 5 on this year’s ballot is in regard to a yes or no vote to reinstate the original 1909 Maine State Pine Tree flag model.

The Maine Department of the Secretary of State said Friday that it had received over 400 submissions in a design contest for the new flag that voters will consider adopting this fall. The deadline ...

[Images: Maine.gov] In 1909 Maine adopted its current flag depicting the state’s coat of arms on a blue field, which is what vexillologists refer to as a “seal on a bedsheet,” to replace its ...

“They see the Ukrainian flag all over here, on cars and on buildings, and they feel the good of the people of Maine,” Mr. Opalnyk said, referring to the new arrivals.