Maine Senate enacts Sen. Bailey bill to honor veterans by renaming Salmon Falls Bridge in Buxton and Hollis

AUGUSTA – On Thursday, April 10, the Maine Senate enacted a bill from Sen. Donna Bailey, D-Saco. LD 672, “Resolve, to Rename the Salmon Falls Bridge Between Buxton and Hollis the Salmon Falls Veterans Memorial Bridge,” would honor Maine veterans by renaming Salmon Falls Bridge the Salmon Falls Veterans Memorial Bridge. Last month, the Legislature’s Transportation Committee gave its unanimous, bipartisan support to the bill at its work session. 

“With this vote, I have been able to help rename three bridges in Senate District 31,” said Sen. Bailey. “Each bridge — whether in Buxton, Old Orchard Beach or Saco — will honor Maine’s veterans, including local heroes Captain Cash and General Nutting, with new names. I am proud to support our veterans. When the ice and the snow melt, I look forward to seeing the signs, knowing they will remind all who travel these bridges of the sacrifices our veterans have made.”

In the 132nd Maine Legislature, Sen. Bailey has honored veterans by working to rename bridges across Senate District 31. In Old Orchard Beach and Saco, LD 37, which Sen. Bailey sponsored, renamed Goosefare Brook Bridge the Captain Christopher S. Cash Memorial Bridge in honor of a local Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran. In Biddeford and Saco, LD 79, which Sen. Bailey co-sponsored, renamed Saco Memorial Bridge the General Wallace H. Nutting Memorial Bridge in honor of former mayor and Korean and Vietnam Wars veteran Wallace Nutting.

Both bills received unanimous, bipartisan support in the Transportation Committee. They also passed both the Maine House and Senate and were signed into law by Governor Janet Mills. They will go into effect on June 20, 2025.

LD 672 now goes the Governor’s desk where she will have 10 days to sign it, allow it to become law without her signature or veto it.

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