Good news for moose: The overall population is up, but the number of car-moose collisions is trending down. In 2017, there were 287 car crashes in Maine involving a moose, according to new data from the Maine Department of Transportation. That’s less than half the 646 crashes 10 years earlier, in 2007, and down 32 […]
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Watch a deer use an ice chunk to raft 2 miles downriver
ALLAGASH (AP) — A video of deer surfing an ice flow down river before nimbly jumping to safety is causing a sensation.
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Marion Ham
FREEPORT — Marion “Marnie” Ham of Yarmouth died peacefully at Hawthorne House in Freeport on Tuesday, Aug. 8. Marion was born in Auburn on Dec. 31, 1926. She attended Edward Little High School and was a member of the graduating Class of 1944, attending class reunions whenever they were held. Marion lived in Maine her […]
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Maine rangers say people still need to be wary of thin ice
TOWNSHIP 6, RANGE 11 (AP) — Maine officials are warning that there’s still thin ice in many locations, even as a winter storm dumps heavy snow across most of the state. Rangers on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway say the ice is still spotty in late December: They found only 1 to 3 inches on Chamberlain […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Lights in the sky, fictional and not
Cathie Pelletier left Allagash in August 1976, right before four campers claimed to have a close encounter that would become known as the Allagash Abductions. The author jokes that she was pretty wild back then. No one would have wanted to abduct her. But those stories, she’s sure, were in the back of her mind, […]
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Westbrook man dies in Allagash motorcycle crash
ALLAGASH — Police say a Westbrook man has died in a weekend motorcycle crash in Allagash. The Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office says 23-year-old Dana Watts was headed east on Route 161 just before 6 p.m. Saturday when he failed to negotiate a corner and lost control. The motorcycle left the road and Watts sustained fatal […]
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Westbrook man dies in Allagash motorcycle crash
ALLAGASH (AP) — Police say a Westbrook man has died in a weekend motorcycle crash in Allagash. The Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office says 23-year-old Dana Watts was headed east on Route 161 just before 6 p.m. Saturday when he failed to negotiate a corner and lost control. The motorcycle left the road and Watts sustained […]
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State senator’s bill attempted to undermine DEP
AUGUSTA — A state senator and candidate for Congress last month tried to get special legislation passed to help a single constituent by undoing at least part of a legal agreement with the state designed to protect a lake in Aroostook County. State Sen. Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, said his bill would allow the constituent to […]
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Eight Aroostook County residents face poaching charges
ALLAGASH (AP) — Maine authorities have charged eight Aroostook County residents in a crackdown on illegal hunting in the region. Seven residents of Allagash and one Palermo man were charged Thursday with various poaching offenses from hunting with a suspended license to possession of a moose killed at night. The Maine Warden Service said the […]