Report: Lepage Will Allow Highway Signs For Katahdin Monument

Gov. Paul LePage has apparently lifted his ban of road signs along state roads showing the way to Maine’s national monument. LePage spokeswoman Julie Rabinowitz told Maine Public on Monday that LePage reversed course on his previously stated ban because U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke opted to keep the monument intact ― against LePage’s wishes ― and Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Superintendent Tim Hudson submitted a second request for signs on March 28. LePage had refused to allow official signs along Interstate 95 and routes 11, 157 and 159 — all Katahdin region main roads — saying that it would be wasteful to do so if Zinke recommended that President Donald Trump rescind former President Barack Obama’s designation of the monument.