BOWDOIN COLLEGE GRANT EAST TOWNSHIP — A Maine family with two young children may make the record books with its 2,160-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail. David, Emily, Nathan and Maddy Kallin are expected to complete the end-to-end hike of the trail on Monday, becoming just the 16th family with young children to do so. […]
appalachian trail
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Environmental steward working in Weld this summer
WELD — Tumbledown Conservation Alliance is providing funding this summer for an environmental steward in Weld, according to Conrad Heeschen of the Alliance. Nate Bartnick, a former Appalachian Trail through hiker, has been on the job since the end of May and will work through the fall. Bartnick is based at the Mount Blue State […]
advertisement
Posted inMaine, sj-web
‘Go out and really adventure’: Blind, deaf Winthrop native completes Appalachian Trail hike
MILLINOCKET — Roger Poulin, who is deaf and blind, ascended the summit of Mount Katahdin on Tuesday to likely become the first person with both disabilities to finish the entire 2,180-mile Appalachian Trail. He hiked the rugged footpath, which spans from Georgia to Maine, with the support of Roni Lepore, a support service provider who […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Franklin County rescuers hike miles to reach ill South Carolina hiker
WYMAN TOWNSHIP — A South Carolina man became sick Tuesday afternoon while hiking the Appalachian Trail on Crocker Mountain and needed help, Maine Warden Justin Fowlie said Wednesday. Warden Scott Stevens responded to the rescue call along with members of Franklin Search & Rescue and NorthStar EMS medics, who hiked the 5½ miles to where […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Maine resumes search for AT hiker missing since 2013
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — Authorities have resumed searching for a Tennessee hiker missing from the Appalachian Trail in Maine since July 2013. Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says Maine game wardens, state police, the Maine Association of Search and Rescue and federal border patrol workers resumed the search for 66-year-old Geraldine Largay on Tuesday. […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Keepsakes lost in fire spure Auburn man to hike the Appalachian Trail
Fire tore through Stephen Martelli’s home in 2006, and a few days later the Auburn Fire Department gave him the go-ahead to go inside. He saw his hiking stick leaning in the corner. “I went to grab it, thinking, ‘At least I have something,’” he said. The stick was given to him in lieu of […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Largay family offers reward for information on missing hiker
LEWISTON — George Largay and his family are offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the location of Largay’s wife, Geraldine, who was last seen hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Franklin County in July. According to a press release from the Maine Warden Service, Largay started her hike on the AT on April […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Bethel Historical Society sponsoring Appalachian Trail lecture on Sept. 21
BETHEL — The Bethel Historical Society will sponsor a lecture by retired professor David B. Field at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Mason House Exhibit Hall. Executive Director Randall Bennett said in a news release that Field, who is a retired University of Maine professor of Forest Resources, will present an “illustrated talk about […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Deaf, blind AT hiker gets help in Bethel
BETHEL — A deaf and nearly blind hiker is nearing the end of his 2,185-mile hike of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, and several Bethel residents have been helping him out as he approaches his goal. Roger Poulin of Winthrop was born with Usher Syndrome, which affects vision and hearing and causes problems […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Maine Wardens ask for more volunteers in search for missing hiker
AUGUSTA — The Maine Warden Service issued a call Wednesday evening for volunteer searchers affiliated with the Maine Association for Search and Rescue in its ongoing effort to locate a Tennessee hiker who hasn’t been seen since July 21. “At this time, the Maine Warden Service seeks searchers who are only affiliated with MASAR as we move […]