WASHINGTON COUNTY, Maine — Many towns across Washington County are set to meet in the coming weeks to vote on plans to prepay their share of the county’s outstanding 2025 debt to avoid higher taxes in 2026. Others are refusing to do so.

Cynthia Gay, who is the treasurer, tax collector, registrar, road commissioner, town clerk, bureau of motor vehicles agent and assistant to selectmen in Beddington and Deblois, said, “I’m not going to do a damn thing until I get a bill” next year.

Voters in both towns were nearly unanimous in rejecting the county’s bond referendum in November.

“I asked the selectmen if they were going to bring it before the people, and they said ‘no.’ They already voted on it,” Gay said.

The Nov. 4 bond referendum, proposed by the Washington County Commission, sought

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