Their opinion is valid for hudson valley, NY, Not Maine. I just went through this 3 weeks ago w/ my town. In Maine, road ROW's are not designated from centerline... they are strips of land that the entire roadbed must remain in, and a lot of the time are bounded by stone walls. In the case of my road, over the last century or so, the end of the it ran out of the ROW, and the town had to move it. They wanted to take out 3 pines and one white oak of mine. I let them take down the pines, but my oak still stands, because *I* said no.
Also, in Maine.... the county gov't is extremely weak... there are no county roads, there is no "out in the county" (Not talking about The County) In fact the only functions that even exist on the county level are the Superior Court, Registry of Deeds, Probate, and the Sheriff's dept. that's it.