Randolph’s Rally ’round The Flag Comes Up Short

RANDOLPH — The plan in this, the smallest town in Maine, was simple: join neighboring municipalities in the summertime rite of celebrating the United States and honoring veterans by mounting American flags on utility poles on the town’s traffic corridors. For about a year, Jim Kimball and the Randolph Fire Association have been raising money for the project and had gathered donations totaling about $1,000, just enough to pay for 20 flags and the mounting hardware. And so the flags went up. “It makes the town look better,” said Kimball, a captain in the Randolph Volunteer Fire Department and a member of the association, “and it shows we support the veterans.