Washington County

The Down East town of fewer than 500 people has been eyed as the site of a multibillion-dollar veterans memorial park and a 1,400-foot flagpole, envisioned at the world's tallest.

Columbia Falls, a town with fewer than 500 people, will vote on a proposed large-scale development moratorium later this month. The town's attorneys have said a moratorium is necessary to plan for and protect Columbia Falls from the impacts of any major development, whether it's a multibillion-dollar veterans memorial park or something else.

Wreaths Across America Founder Morrill Worcester and his sons want to build the world's tallest flagpole and a multi-billion-dollar veterans memorial park, which they say will attract millions of visitors from across the country — not to Washington, D.C., but to the remote Washington County town of Columbia Falls.

Local officials say that the town could harm families living on both sides of the border, and devastate the local economy.

New York University's College of Dentistry operates outreach programs that routinely send its dental interns to far-off locales such as Sri Lanka, Nepal…