US EditionStill Finding Trouble in the Woods: 'Blair Witch Project' Star at Center of Maine Road Dispute
- Heather Donahue, a former Select Board member and star of The Blair Witch Project, lost a recent recall election in Freedom, Maine, over a rural road dispute.
- The conflict originated from Donahue marking trees with orange blazes on Beaver Ridge Road, which locals contest is private, while she and the town claim it is public.
- Beaver Ridge Road is narrow, partly hilly, changes from paved to dirt, and stretches into forested areas inhabited by wild plants and songbirds, fueling the local dispute.
- Donahue used historical maps to place blazes indicating a public easement, prompting the town's first successful recall in its 212-year history, with Donahue removed in April.
- The road’s legal status remains unresolved as the town and adjacent landowners continue court battles, while Donahue, 51, says she has found peace living in rural Maine despite the tensions.
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Finding trouble in the woods: 'Blair Witch Project' star at center of Maine road dispute
Heather Donahue is walking through the woods once again. The star of the successful low-budget horror movie ” The Blair Witch Project ” has an on-screen history of getting into scary situations in a forest. But this time she is merely picking up an old soda can someone carelessly left on a trail. And she wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. “For me, reading fairy tales, I always wanted to live in the forest,” said Donahue, 51, who moved on from ac…
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Still finding trouble in the woods: 'Blair Witch Project' star at center of Maine road dispute
Heather Donahue starred in the low-budget hit movie “The Blair Witch Project” and has been embroiled in a spat with locals in her tiny Maine town after she started marking trees to help people find their way in the dense forests.
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