Bangor City Councilor wins seat on Penobscot County Commission

A Bangor City Councilor won a seat on the Penobscot County Commission in Tuesday's election.

Councilor Dan Tremble, 59, beat opponent Cary Weston, 52, a former Bangor city councilor. Tremble, a Democrat, had 14,300 votes, and Weston, a Republican, had 12,462, according to unofficial results Wednesday morning.

They were running for the District 1 seat , which covers Bangor, Brewer, Clifton, Eddington, Holden and Orrington. It is held by longtime Commissioner Peter Baldacci, who is retiring after decades in the position.

The state of the jail and staffing shortages are issues both candidates said they wanted to address if elected.

Tremble previously said he would resign his seat from Bangor City Council if elected. That term ends in November 2025. He spent 12 years as the county treasurer from 2006 to 2018 and is entering his 15th year on the City Council, having served from 1999 to 2005 and again starting in 2020. He served as mayor in 2004 and 2021.

Weston served on the Bangor City Council from 2009 to 2012 and again from 2016 to 2019 and served as the mayor during one of those years. He is the president of Sutherland Weston, a Bangor-based marketing agency.