CUMBERLAND (AP) – A Windsor man is $1,400 richer after being credited with being Maine’s first pumpkin grower to break the half-ton barrier.

A pumpkin grown by Tom Lishness weighed 1,114 pounds at the Cumberland Fair, breaking the old state record of 978 pounds.

Lishness won $300 for heaviest pumpkin, $100 for breaking a fair record and $1,000 for topping 1,000 pounds, according to Judy Ambrose, supervisor of the fair’s Exhibition Hall.

The special $1,000 prize was offered Sunday at the fair’s 18th Annual Giant Pumpkin & Squash Weigh-In. Maine was believed to be the only New England state where no one had ever grown a pumpkin weighing 1,000 pounds or more.

While Lishness’ pumpkin reached that threshold, so did a 1,093-pound pumpkin grown by John Powers of Harpswell, Ambrose said. Because Lishness’ pumpkin was heavier, he got the special prize. Powers got $200 for second place.

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