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A year after the last Maine State Ferry Service rate hike went into effect, Islesboro residents and others loudly spoke out Wednesday morning against the Maine Department of Transportation’s proposal for another one. Wednesday’s public hearing at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast, like one held last November, featured impassioned comments from many folks who are distressed by and fed up with the 2018 rate hike, which caused their ticket prices to more than double. But it also included some words that weren’t said at last year’s public hearing, which was full of dire warnings about how the rate hike could destroy the Islesboro community.