PARIS – Another hunter involved in a Nov. 21, 2015, incident on Stock Farm Road has been indicted by an Oxford County grand jury on charges of fraudulently obtaining a hunting license and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Stephen Bean, 55, of West Paris is the third hunter among a group of […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Nonresident hunters — The kiss-off
When it comes to cultivating one of its last remaining industries, tourism, it seems that Maine is its own worst enemy. Take hunting for example. In 2002, there were 41,538 nonresident hunters who bought a Maine big-game hunting license. Less than a decade later, in 2010, that number fell to 27,898. Think about that. Over […]
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Outdoors in Maine: The cost of search and rescue missions
Search and Rescue. Just the term itself rings with urgency. Finding lost persons in the woods of Maine is one of the key missions of the Maine Warden Service. Often overlooked, or taken for granted by the average citizen, search and rescue operations run the gamut, from locating a lost hunter or an overdue snowmobiler […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Bean pleads not guilty to firearms, hunting and OUI charges
PARIS — A judge set bail at $10,000 cash Monday for a Paris man who is facing his tenth charge of operating a vehicle under the influence. Andrew Bean, 51, of 292 Christian Ridge Road, has been arrested twice on OUI charges since Nov. 21, the second arrest coming just days after an Oxford County Grand […]
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Nine years after daughter’s death, father says no progress on hunting reform
PARIS — There is no bringing Troy Ripley’s daughter back. Ripley, whose 18-year-old daughter, Megan, was shot and killed by a hunter in the waning days of the 2006 hunting season lives with that hard fact every day. Ripley, 52, also lives with the reality that efforts to strengthen landowner rights and public safety laws […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Protect our right to hunt and fish
Recently, in a sweeping, breathtakingly cavalier — if not bizarre — editorial, the Bangor Daily News called for the Maine State Legislature to “eliminate once and for all” the practice of trapping bears or hunting them with hounds. Apparently, the newspaper was moved to take its bold position by an announcement made this fall by […]
Posted inLetters
What about wildlife watching?
I take exception to the Sun Journal article (Nov. 1) extolling the virtues of hunting and its economic impact on the state. It is a one-sided piece of pro-hunting propaganda. The story made no mention of the value of live wildlife and wildlife watching, on which some $800 million is spent annually in Maine (source: […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Hunting in Maine brings big bucks: $231M and counting
Eight years ago, Mike and Wendy Yates sold their New Hampshire home, quit their jobs and bought one of Maine’s oldest hunting lodges, almost an hour north of Rangeley. It’s 13 miles off the road, way off the grid and surrounded by a quarter-million acres of former paper company land. “We’re not going to compete […]
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Regional numbers low for opening day of deer season
Tagging stations reported low numbers in the region Saturday, opening day of the deer season for Maine residents. Tagging station owners in Franklin and Oxford counties were hopeful that their numbers would rise as it gets further into the season, even though there were fewer permits given this year. A news release from the Maine […]