Comment on Bucksport could buy food vouchers for laid-off residents and pay businesses

Click here for the latest coronavirus news, which the BDN has made free for the public. You can support this mission by purchasing a digital subscription. Bucksport could give vouchers and other aid to those hardest hit by coronavirus as part of a $115,000 proposal from Town Manager Susan Lessard to soften the blow of the pandemic in town over the next two months. With the money coming from the town’s $5.5 million Undesignated Fund Balance, Lessard proposes to give town residents who have lost jobs due to the pandemic $100 food vouchers for April and shuttered and hard-hit small businesses grants of $500 a month for April and May.