BURLINGTON, Vt. — The following area students have been named to the dean’s list for the fall 2011 semester at the University of Vermont. Victor J. Dumais of Auburn, a senior majoring in psychology in the College of Arts & Sciences. Indigo M. James of Denmark, a sophomore majoring in women’s and gender studies in […]
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Snowmobile ride Sunday
BYRON — The Roxbury Slippery Sliders snowmobile club will host a club ride Sunday, Feb. 19. Members will meet at the Bryon schoolhouse at 11 a.m. A memorial sign in memory of Norman Young Jr. will be placed on his trail before the ride.
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$2,000 brook trout eludes ice anglers at 33rd Roxbury Pond derby
ROXBURY — Another ice-fishing derby came and went at Roxbury Pond on Saturday, but the money fish — worth $2,000 — continued its tradition of eluding anglers. Hosted by the Mexico Lions Club, the Larry Mercier Memorial 33rd annual derby drew 445 registered anglers. But “there was a lot more than that here,” co-organizer Roland […]
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$2,000 grand-prize brook trout added to Roxbury Pond for Saturday’s derby
ROXBURY — Five-year-old Aiden Gordon’s eyes widened Wednesday afternoon when Roland Patneaude lifted the cover of a large cooler on the ice at Roxbury Pond. Inside was a 16-inch brook trout that Patneaude and Gordon’s grandfather, Michael Worthley, picked up earlier at the Palermo Rearing Station hatchery in Palermo. “Oh, bigger than I thought,” Gordon […]
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Four Maine ice fishing derbies from Roxbury to New Gloucester still on
LIVERMORE — The ice might not be good for a derby at Crystal Pond in Gray now, but it’s thick enough at four derby ponds in Livermore, Auburn, New Gloucester and Roxbury, organizers said Thursday. The ice was about 9 to 10 inches thick last weekend on Round Pond in Livermore, Martin Castonguay of Jay […]
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New snow great for ski resorts, not enough for snowmobile trails
RUMFORD — Thursday night’s snowstorm brought powdery delight to area ski resorts like Sunday River in Newry. But for local snowmobile clubs, the 5 to 8 inches of dry, fluffy snow isn’t nearly enough, nor is it the right consistency. “A good windstorm will blow it all away and (sledders) will spin it off the […]
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R. Worthley: Where’s the outrage?
This is in response to the article in the Sun Journal about the outrage over the U.S. Marines who urinated on the bodies of suspected Taliban fighters. I am, and all Americans should be, outraged that Afghan rebels cut off the heads of American, or when dead U.S. soldiers were hung by their feet, had […]
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Clarification: Turbine noise complaints
ROXBURY — A story on wind turbine noise complaints published Thursday on Page B1 of the River Valley edition should have stated that the Maine Department of Environmental Protection doesn’t have the equipment, staff, or expertise to readily measure sound. When necessary, DEP hires a third party sound expert to review sound level data that […]
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Roxbury board addresses 911 concerns
ROXBURY — In November 2007, fire and a propane tank explosion destroyed an old camp off East Shore Road at Garland Pond in Byron. Half of the responding 25 firefighters got there late, because they were only given East Shore Road as the location. So they arrived quickly on East Shore Road, but it was […]