AUBURN — The embattled owner of Harvest Hill Farms in Mechanic Falls, where a haunted hayride gone awry last fall claimed the life of a high school student, is facing foreclosure on his home in nearby Poland.
Peter J. Bolduc Jr. and his wife, Kathie, owe a total of nearly $600,000 in principal and nearly $40,000 in interest on two mortgages with Androscoggin Savings Bank on their home at 260 Megquier Hill and Russell roads, according to papers filed in Androscoggin County Superior Court.
The Bolducs took out a loan on the property on May 14, 2008, for $415,000 and a home equity line for $280,000, according to court documents.
The Bolducs went into default and failed to make the required payments until the loans were fully repaid, according to an affidavit by a bank official. As of March 12, the Bolducs owed nearly $324,000 in principal, plus nearly $25,000 in interest for a total of more than $356,000 including back escrow, plus attorneys’ fees, according to the affidavit of Stephen A. Etzel, a vice president at the bank. On the second mortgage, the Bolducs owed more than $265,000 in principal and more than $13,000 in interest for a total of more than $278,000, plus fees for attorneys and collection services, Etzel wrote in an affidavit.
A hearing on the bank’s motion for summary judgment is scheduled for July 14.
The Bolducs also are in default of a loan by Tomi Chipman Inc., which sold its Pumpkin Land business to the couple, according to a complaint also filed in Androscoggin County Superior Court. The June 2009 sale included the business name and signs as well as sheds and shacks, picnic tables, food preparation equipment and machines, inflatables, carts, swings, tents, a sound system, cash registers, wagons and a generator, according to court papers.
The Dec. 24 complaint claims that the Bolducs and their company, October 22 LLC, owed more than $200,000 of the original $575,000 loan. The plaintiff was seeking an attachment of roughly $165,000 and a judge ordered an attachment in May of $100,000.
Meanwhile, an Androscoggin County grand jury has been meeting monthly since May to consider possible criminal charges stemming from the death of a 17-year-old girl from Oakland who died from injuries sustained in an Oct. 11 incident in which a flatbed hay wagon spilled dozens of riders into the woods when the Jeep pulling it down a steep hill jackknifed and slammed into a tree. Nearly two dozen of the passengers were badly hurt, suffering broken bones and head, back and neck injuries.
Prosecutors have declined to name those who might be indicted.
That grand jury is expected to meet for a third straight month in the beginning of July to take up the case once again.
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