FRYEBURG — A 69-year-old Florida man died on Route 302 on Friday night when he lost control of his motorcycle and hit a utility pole and a large rock. Norman Lee of Merritt Island, Florida, was riding west on his 2017 Harley-Davidson FLHXS when he left the road on a curve, according to Fryeburg Police […]
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Rider hurt in Fryeburg motorcycle crash
FRYEBURG — A motorcycle rider was seriously injured Friday night when the bike collided with another vehicle on Bridgton Road. Police and fire crews shut down a southbound lane as emergency crews responded to the wreck at about 6:30 p.m. Bridgton Road is Route 302, which continues into New Hampshire. No further information about the […]
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Fryeburg Fair organizers confident they can rebuild by opening
FRYEBURG — In the 60 years that Rachel Andrews Damon has been attending the Fryeburg Fair, she has never seen anything as bad as the fire that destroyed sheep and cattle barns Tuesday night and left six more buildings with melted fronts. “The fair is in its 168th year, and I can’t think of anything along […]
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Investigators: Fryeburg Fairgrounds fire started in electrical subpanel
An electrical malfunction is believed to have caused the fire that destroyed two large buildings and damaged several others at the Fryeburg Fairgrounds on Tuesday, a State Fire Marshal’s Office investigator said Wednesday. Sgt. Ken Grimes, a fire investigation supervisor, said witness interviews led his team to the area where the blaze originated in an […]
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Fryeburg Fairgrounds fire destroys sheep and cattle barns
UPDATE: Investigators: Fryeburg Fairgrounds fire started in electrical subpanel | Fryeburg Fair officials optimistic they can rebuild by October FRYEBURG — Two buildings burned to the ground Tuesday night at the Fryeburg Fairgrounds and five others were damaged, according to Fryeburg Fire Chief Andrew Dufresne. Firefighters were dispatched to 1154 Main St., the site of the fairgrounds, just before 7 […]
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Fryeburg police: 8 juveniles ran away after SUV crashed into tree
FRYEBURG — A vehicle driven by an unlicensed 15-year-old female and containing seven other juvenile passengers crashed into a tree Friday morning, the 15-year-old fleeing into the woods, according to Fryeburg police. The white 1999 Cadillac Escalade was taken without permission from a residence on Meadow Lane, Fryeburg Police Chief Joshua Potvin wrote in a news […]
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Custom cars at Fryeburg Fairgrounds
Laurie Whitman and her father, Joe Milstead, relax at the 33rd Rod & Kustom Kruisers Annual Rod Run in front of Milstead’s 1929 Essex jalopy in Fryeburg on Friday. Milstead has been driving the car for 40 years. Organizers of the event promote it as a low-stress alternative to a classic car show, with homemade […]
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Pilots in all-female race land in Fryeburg
Brenda Thibodeau and her grandsons, Brett Thibodeau, 3, left, and Tucker Thibodeau, 4, meet fly girls Gabriella Lindskoug and Jordan Cantrell at the Eastern Slope Regional Airport in Fryeburg on Friday afternoon. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) FRYEBURG — Pilots participating in the Air Race Classic finished the cross-country contest for the first time in Maine, landing […]
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Fryeburg police ask for information about hit-and-run
The impact threw a 43-year-old pedestrian into a ditch. (Fryeburg Police Department) Fryeburg police are asking for help with information about a hit-and-run incident in which a pedestrian was injured Wednesday. A 43-year-old man was walking on River Street toward East Conway Road about 10:50 a.m. when he was struck by an oncoming vehicle. The […]
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Charles Allan Trumbull
LEWISTON — Charles Allan Trumbull, 79, a lifelong resident of Fryeburg, passed away Tuesday, June 5, at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston after a short illness with his family by his side. Allan, as almost everyone knew him by, was born Aug. 25, 1938, a son of Charles F. and Mary (Sanborn) Trumbull. He graduated […]