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Heather Donahue is walking through the woods once again The star of the profitable low-budget horror movie The Blair Witch Project has an on-screen history of getting into scary situations in a forest But this time she is merely picking up an old soda can someone carelessly left on a trail And she wouldn t want to be anywhere else For me reading fairy tales I invariably longed to live in the forest reported Donahue who moved on from acting long ago and now lives in rural Maine It is absolutely as magical as it seemed in those storybooks But the last several months of Donahue s time in the Maine woods have been anything but magical or peaceful In a twist of fate harkening back to her movie career Donahue has been embroiled in a spat with locals in her tiny -resident town of Freedom that hinges on her marking trees with the kind of orange blazes that help people find their way in the dense forests Donahue had been a member of the town s governing body its Select Board but lost a recall balloting in recent times after a conflict about whether a rural road that cuts through the woods is citizens or private The matter remains unresolved with the town and abutting landowners fighting it out in court The road at the center of the dispute The road in question is Beaver Ridge Road a narrow partially hilly stretch flanked by wild plants and songbirds that goes from paved to gravel to dirt as it stretches deeper into the forest Several abutters of the road say the unimproved section is private and to use it for exercises such as all-terrain wagon riding constitutes trespassing Donahue and the town itself hold that the entire road is residents Donahue painted the orange blazes using historical maps to show what she holds is the center of a constituents easement Abutting property owners were incensed and the first triumphant recall petition drive in the town s -year history followed Donahue was removed in April and an voting process to pick her successor is planned for next month Tyler Hadyniak one of the abutting property owners mentioned the recall wasn t just about the orange blazes or the woodland trail He revealed it addressed a pattern of behavior by Donahue that chafed longer-established residents in the year since she took office I was relieved that the recall was thriving I thought Heather s demeanor and behavior toward others was just unbecoming of a town official Hadyniak noted Life after The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project Steve Covault Donahue who is originally from Pennsylvania and has spent long stretches of time living in California and traveling abroad commented she is aware of her status as what she called a lady from away She arrived in Maine after a winding journey in which she struggled with alcoholism left acting became a biological marijuana farmer and wrote a memoir Donahue commented she came to the Pine Tree State eight years ago overcame her addiction and bought land in Freedom in In the last few days she has worked as a life coach and shared her passions for gardening and medicinal plants with anyone who will listen She isn t especially interested in reliving the glory of starring in The Blair Witch Project which was issued in and is one of the greater part effective independent movies of all time The film sparked a resurgence of interest in exposed footage style horror movies wowed critics and polarized audiences with its homespun take on terror It also led Donahue to years of legal wrangling over compensation and the right to her likeness Donahue makes occasional tongue-in-cheek references to the movie in passing but also mentioned it struck her several years ago that her life was inseparable from the film in means that weren t entirely reassured I had this really challenging moment of realizing my obituary was written for me when I was Ordinarily the hottest gossip in Freedom concerns the peskiness of the local blackflies or the quality of the fishing on Sandy Pond But the row over the road has become the talk of the sleepy town several miles northeast of the state capital of Augusta Donahue has defenders in town Bob Kanzler who served on a local roads committee agrees the disputed path is populace Heather has done a wonderful job in researching these discontinued roads in town Kanzler noted I know the road is citizens Donahue stated she has exposed peace in Maine and doesn t plan to move despite the ongoing battle over the road I mean this is where humans flourish she announced of the Freedom woods I ve figured out a way to do a lot with very little That was all kind of centered around being able to walk in the woods