Alright, I confess. I used to be a trout hog. In the old days, you measured your success — your fishing prowess — by the day’s catch. “I got my five, how about you?” was the fishermen’s refrain. Today, there will be an occasional brookie taken home for my frying pan, but catch and release […]
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Peru hiker rescued after fall on Rumford Whitecap
PERU — A Peru woman leading her church youth group and adults on a hike and geocaching adventure Saturday on Rumford Whitecap Mountain, fell near the summit and injured her left leg, requiring rescue. Despite suffering a possible broken leg, Cathy Hazelton, 53, “scooched” her way down the 2,197-foot summit’s steep trail to an area […]
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College hockey: Huskies tie up Black Bears
ORONO — His aw-shucks attitude might be enough to fool you away from the ice, and his credit-others-before-himself banter following the game is convincing. Unless you saw Garrett Bartus play. The University of Connecticut netminder stopped 40 shots, many of them in jaw-dropping style against some of the best players he’ll face all season, and […]
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Bethel-Farmington couple win wife-carrying contest
NEWRY — A Bethel man who had a ligament replaced in his knee last year and the Farmington woman he carried upside down on his back won Saturday’s 11th annual North American Wife Carrying Championship at Sunday River Ski Resort. They beat last year’s winners, Dave and Lacey Castro of Lewiston, by less than a […]
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College football: Delaware wins sixth straight over Maine
NEWARK, Del. (AP) — Pat Devlin threw for 283 yards and Delaware scored 26 straight points in a 26-7 win over Maine on Saturday. The Blue Hens (6-0, 3-0 Colonial Athletic Association) scored on an 11-yard fumble recovery by Paul Worrilow and didn’t allow a point until less than 5 minutes left in the game. […]
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Trust hosting hike up Bald, Speckled mountains
NEWRY — The Mahoosuc Land Trust of Bethel is hosting a hike up Bald and Speckled mountains in Peru on Saturday, Oct. 9, to provide information about its newly-acquired Concord River Easement of more than 4,600 acres. Participants are asked to meet at the parking lot across from the Bear River Trading Post at the […]
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Vet running across nation to honor fallen comrades reaches Maine
GILEAD — Three years ago, Army veteran Mike Ehredt of Driggs, Idaho, awakened one morning and decided to run across the nation from Oregon to Maine. To honor and remember the U.S. soldiers and Marines who have sacrificed their lives in Iraq since 2003, Ehredt decided to place small American flags with names and information […]
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College football: Maine will have hands full with No. 2 Delaware
Saturday’s 1 p.m. kickoff at No. 2-ranked Delaware marks the mid-point of the University of Maine’s football season. It also marks the Black Bears’ first road conference game and the start of the season’s second half, where they will play four of their final six games on the road. Beyond Saturday, Maine head coach Jack […]
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Peak foliage color arrives in western Maine
RUMFORD — Foliage color is now peaking in the River Valley area and spreading through the lakes and mountains region of western Maine, according to the fourth fall foliage report from the Maine Department of Conservation. Forest rangers in the tracking zone covering Bethel, Rangeley, the Carrabassett Valley region, and Moosehead Lake (Zone 5) are […]
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Gay man’s message: ‘It gets better’
NEW YORK (AP) — David Valdes Greenwood was 15 when he climbed to the highest arch of a bridge in his small Maine town and got ready to jump. It was 1982. He was distraught over a pastor’s Sodom and Gomorrah sermon that his homosexuality would bring God’s wrath down on everyone around him. He […]