<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=12042k_1FJBKuUD00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=12042k_1FJBKuUD00" width="1200" height="800" ><figcaption>Chester B. Grover III (Lily Wasserman photo)</figcaption></figure>Chester B. Grover III, R-Wiscasset, has goals of lowering energy costs and government spending if elected.Grover faces Rep. Wayne Farrin, D-Jefferson, in the race for House District 47, which consists of Alna, Jefferson, Whitefield, and Wiscasset.A longtime Wiscasset resident, Grover graduated from Wiscasset High School in 1987. He went on to apprentice and worked with various construction contractors. In 2008, he started his own business, Grover Construction, where he currently works with two of his sons.“The business that I’ve been in has brought a lot of common sense approach to dealing with customers, dealing with subcontractors, reading detailed plans, problem solving, and just a common sense approach to everyday problems,” Grover said.Grover said he is active in the community as president of the Wiscasset Sno-Goers, which maintain snowmobile trails in Lincoln County, and as treasurer for the central coastal chapter of the Maine Trappers Association, a statewide organization advocating for ethical trapping.Grover said he wants to serve in the Maine Legislature for his family, which he considers his proudest accomplishment.“I have five grandkids, and those five grandkids, I believe, should be able to stay here if they choose to and raise their own families,” Grover said.Grover said he believes his “common sense approach to problem solving” and willingness to work with people is what sets him apart in the election.“Government has a function. I believe that it belongs in certain aspects of our lives. Other aspects of our lives, I don’t believe it has any business being there,” Grover said. “I will ask myself and I’ll ask my other legislators, ‘Is this a function of government? Should we be even entertaining the idea of getting involved with such things (and) programs?’”Grover said the Legislature should focus on roads, infrastructure, energy costs, and affordability. However, Grover said, while the government does have a responsibility to help citizens who are limited in come capacities, it has “overreached” in a number of areas.“We owe it as a society to help those people that necessarily have inabilities, intellectual and physical disabilities, we owe it to them,” Grover said. “But I do believe that there are a fair number of people that can help themselves, and I’d like to be able to provide that opportunity for them to be able to do that.”Concerns about the cost of energy are something people have continually brought up to Grover during his campaign, he said. He spoke with a man in Jefferson who commutes an hour to Portland for work. Between his high energy bill and the cost of car insurance, Grover said it is hard for the man to make ends meet.Based on that and similar conversations, Grover believes the state government should also explore additional options beyond wind power and solar power for energy generation, as he believes more choices will help drive down costs for Maine residents.“I feel as though it was a great experiment to go with wind power and solar power,” Grover said. “I don’t think that it has paid off to the people of Maine. I don’t know as though it’s been proven to be a viable source of energy.”Public education spending is another area that Grover said needs examining. He said schools and the Legislature should question if parents in the communities are getting value for the funding they are providing.“I do not believe that for the money being spent that we’re getting the value of our education dollars out of it and our testing scores prove just that,” Grover said. “We were the top of the nation at one point in time, and I believe there is a path for us to get back to that.”The cost of public education and energy impacts young families’ abilities to afford to move to Maine, start businesses, and obtain housing, Grover said.“If you have the ability for young families to come here, seek work, get a good education for their kiddos, a lot of things will fall into place,” Grover said.However, it’s not just young residents impacted by Maine’s taxation, according to Grover.“We are taxing some of these families, elderly people, fixed income folks out of their homes … how do we address that?” Grover said. “(There’s) going to be a lot of discussion about this in the next Legislature and how we address that. I’m not going to say we cut property taxes entirely; we just need to understand how those dollars are being spent and they need to be spent wisely.“We owe that to people that have lived here all their lives and will finish their lives here,” Grover said. “I think we need to know that those dollars that they are sending to these towns and the state are being used broadly and wisely.”With housing, Grover said, the market “will eventually level itself out” after the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a November 2025 report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the pandemic stalled home construction and caused increased interest rates.Grover added government has a role in looking at effective ways for to develop housing stock though in a guidance role.“If people want to be here, builders like myself will find a way to build their houses,” Grover said. “If good jobs are here, they will be able to afford those houses that I built.”In his spare time, Grover enjoys spending time outdoors hunting, trapping, and fishing, often with family.For more information, go to groverforme.com or email [email protected].The general election is Tuesday, Nov. 3.</div></body>

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Chester B. Grover III, R-Wiscasset, has goals of lowering energy costs and government spending if elected. Grover faces Rep. Wayne Farrin, D-Jefferson, in the race for House District 47, which consists of Alna, Jefferson, Whitefield, and Wiscasset. A longtime Wiscasset resident, Grover graduated from Wiscasset High School in 1987. He...

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Chester B. Grover III, R-Wiscasset, has goals of lowering energy costs and government spending if elected. Grover faces Rep. Wayne Farrin, D-Jefferson, in 

Grover Focused on Lowering Energy Costs, Reducing Spending

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