Comment on Belfast mayor takes a job 4 hours away but maintains hold on her gavel

Belfast residents have grown accustomed to Mayor Samantha Paradis ruffling feathers for what she says and does, including the way she has run City Council meetings and for her frequent assertions at those meetings that her voice be heard. But now some are questioning what she’s not talking about. They would like the mayor to be more forthcoming about how she intends to complete her term as mayor of the midcoast city despite having taken a job in Fort Fairfield, nearly four hours north. Paradis’s employer at Northern Light Primary Care in the Aroostook County community on Thursday confirmed that she is working there as a family nurse practitioner.