Winterport at odds with race track over more expensive lease

Winterport at odds with race track over more expensive lease

Winterport officials and the group that runs the local dragway can’t agree on a new lease that would allow car racing to resume at the town-owned property this year. For decades, the Winterport Dragway has organized races at Fernald Field, a property which now belongs to the town after the federal government previously used it as an airport. But the Winterport Dragway Association’s previous one-year lease expired on March 31, and it lost the abi…