SCARBOROUGH (AP) — Scarborough voters have overturned an ordinance that requires dogs to be leashed year-round on town property. The law was enacted by the town council in October in response to the threat of a $12,000 federal fine after an unleashed dog killed an endangered piping plover chick on a town beach in July. […]
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Bid to overturn new dog leash law on Scarborough beaches fails
SCARBOROUGH (AP) — The battle over whether unleashed dogs should be allowed on Scarborough’s town-run beaches is not over. The town council earlier this month approved an ordinance that requires dogs to be leashed year-round on all town property after an unleashed dog killed a protected piping plover chick on Pine Point Beach in July. […]
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Owner of dog that killed plover comes forward
SCARBOROUGH (AP) — The owner of an unleashed dog that killed a piping plover chick on a Scarborough beach has come forward and is cooperating with the investigation. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said a witness told a Maine Audubon volunteer that the dog owner was warned and did nothing to stop the […]
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Officials investigate plover killed by dog at Scarborough beach
AUUGUSTA (AP) — Federal and state wildlife officials are investigating after a dog killed a protected piping plover chick on a Scarborough beach. A spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says a woman spotted an unleashed dog on Pine Point Beach on Monday morning approaching a plover nest. She warned the […]