In a short span Sunday night, four people died — the three men riding together and a woman who was riding separately — when they drove their machines into icy open waters. Nobody can recall any time when four snowmobile riders were killed in the same place at roughly the same time. “It’s hard to […]
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Let 2013 be a year of safer rides, less pain
Dawn Newell of Yarmouth, the 45-year-old mother of a 16-year-old boy, is the first snowmobile fatality of this winter season. Early Sunday evening during a light snow, Newell was snowmobiling on Rangeley Lake with her son, who was riding a separate snowmobile, when she crashed through thin ice. Her son was riding behind her and, […]
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Warden Service to search for three snowmobile riders in Rangeley Lake
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — The Maine Game Warden Service found several pieces of evidence while searching Rangeley Lake Monday for Yarmouth snowmobiler Dawn Newell that indicate three snowmobile riders reported missing Sunday night from Carrabassett Valley may have also ended up in the lake. The Warden Service will resume search efforts in Rangeley Tuesday morning to […]
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Wardens identify woman presumed dead when snowmobile crashes through ice in Rangeley
RANGELEY (AP) — Maine wardens are searching for the body of a 45-year-old woman who crashed through the ice on Rangeley Lake on her snowmobile and didn’t come up in Maine’s first snowmobile fatality of the season. The Maine Warden Service said Dawn Newell of Yarmouth and her 16-year-old son were riding on separate snowmobiles […]
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Snowmobile riding ‘very good’ in Rangeley, more snow needed to south
RUMFORD — After Thursday’s much-ballyhooed blizzard, River Valley roads bristled Friday with vehicles towing snowmobile trailers. Many headed north off Route 2 in Mexico and onto Route 17 toward Roxbury, Byron and Rangeley. Verna Holman of the Rangeley Lakes Chamber of Commerce said Friday that people have been calling and asking about snow and trail […]
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President’s Park Santa helper from Rangeley
RANGELEY (AP) — The Santa who’s been posing for pictures next to the National Christmas Tree in Washington will be heading not to the North Pole but to Maine after the holidays. Rob Hoffman, a retired pilot from Rangeley, has been moonlighting as Santa for eight years. This season, he was hired as the official […]
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Jacquelyn M. Brown
FARMINGTON — Jacquelyn M. Brown, 69, of Rangeley, died Sunday, Dec. 16, at Franklin Memorial Hospital, shortly upon arrival. She was born Feb. 9, 1943, in St. Albans, a daughter of Byron and Phyllis (Carr) Manchester. She was educated in Scarborough schools and was a graduate of the Farmington State Teacher’s College. On June 16, […]
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Trucks get stuck on Route 4
RANGELEY — Several trucks got stuck on slick Dodge Pond Hill on Tuesday, closing Route 4 for hours, fire Chief Tim Pellerin said. At about 10 a.m. a logging truck and another truck got stuck, he said. The Maine Department of Transportation was called and the road was sanded and the trucks went on their […]
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Man accused of sex crime has bail set at $20,000 cash
FARMINGTON — A 12th District Court judge set a Rangeley man’s bail at $20,000 cash Friday on a charge of sexual misconduct with a child. David F. Paquette, 35, of Rangeley was arrested on the charge by Rangeley police on Wednesday after they launched an investigation when they received a referral from Maine Department of […]