INDUSTRY — A retiree with Parkinson’s disease rescued three canoeists from the cold water of Clearwater Pond on Sunday morning, even after his personal watercraft overturned. James Grant pulled two women and one man from the water, which had been whipped into large whitecaps by high winds. “It was the way I was taught” as […]
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Presque Isle man dies after canoe capsizes
PRESQUE ISLE — A 19-year-old Presque Isle man has died after the canoe he was in capsized. The Maine Warden Service says the body of Jacob Caldwell was recovered from Echo Lake late Sunday morning. Lt. Thomas Ward says Presque Isle police received calls of an overturned canoe in the lake at about 2:30 a.m. […]
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Sunshine and fast times buoy St. George River Race paddlers
APPLETON — Hundreds of people flocked to the rural riverfront between downtown Searsmont and the Route 105 bridge here Saturday, grateful for the chance to observe what they hoped would be the belated meteorological kickoff to a spring the calendar said should have started weeks ago. Some were busy navigating the 101 canoes and kayaks […]
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Brownville hunter pulls himself from Pleasant River after canoe mishap
BROWNVILLE — A 52-year-old Brownville man scrambled out of the Pleasant River before hypothermia could set in after his canoe tipped over as he paddled toward a deer hunting site on Friday, police said. Brownville Police Department Cpl. Chad Perkins met Paul Bucci on Interconnected Trail System 110 near Front Street and took him home […]
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Hartford man builds cedar-strip canoes by hand for a hobby
HARTFORD — Dixfield native Tom Mawhinney can build most anything once he decides to do it. All it takes is some free time, Internet research and some books written by experts. The heavy equipment operator, who flies a seaplane and runs his own business, Mawhinney’s Excavation, built what he calls his “man cave.” It is […]
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Recreation with a theme: Source to Sea Trek
Diane Paaso, right, of Hanover and Polly Mahoney of Newry and Mahoosuc Guide Service, wait on the Androscoggin River for about 30 participants in a paddle in July from the Hanover Boat Launch to the Rumford Boat Launch during the Androscoggin River Source to the Sea Trek. Paaso said their wooden canoe was handmade by […]
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Androscoggin River Source to Sea Trek now paddling through River Valley
HANOVER — After getting help carrying his kayak to the Androscoggin River bank Thursday afternoon at the Hanover Boat Launch, Don Nodine of Millinockett was ready to paddle 9 miles to Rumford. Nodine and about 30 other paddlers were waiting for the eighth leg of the Androscoggin River Source to the Sea Trek to begin, […]
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Old Town Canoe rises with the tide of renewal
OLD TOWN — The low hum of machinery, heat from the ovens, and the hollow echo of a large, enclosed space meet visitors to Old Town Canoe’s manufacturing floor. Between 175 and 225 people work at the four-year-old facility on Gilman Falls Avenue depending on the season. They work three shifts during the week, churning […]