Wells weighs new $46.96 lodging fee — here’s how they got the number

By: Shawn P. Sullivan

Outlets: Portsmouth Herald

Published: March 12, 2026

Words: 1,313

Last Updated: 1 week, 1 day ago

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WELLS, Maine — Select Board members on March 9 offered an early look at what could become the town’s first increase in local lodging fees in more than 20 years.

In December, Select Board Chair Tim Roche appointed Vice Chair Jim Smith and Select Board member Kathy Chase to look at statistics about local first-responder calls and see how they could perhaps be used to calculate what the town’s new lodging fees should …

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