BETHEL — For those who don’t participate in outdoor activities during the chilly months, winter can seem long, cold and miserable. To combat the winter blues, Mahoosuc Pathways in Bethel is getting people outside and active. In November 2016, after learning the Nordic ski center at the Bethel Inn Resort was not going to open […]
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Nostalgic for the ol' Ski-Doo
There was a day when Ski-Doo was simply a generic name for a snowmobile. Early on, as I recall, Ski-Doo was the only game in town. In the early 1960s you went “ski-dooing,” not snowmobiling. The machines were the invention of Canadian Joseph-Armand Bombardier. Although the inventor worked many years trying to come up with […]
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Hanging around the neighborhood
Emily Burke hangs from a tree Wednesday afternoon as she plays with her friends in her Lewiston neighborhood. The warmer temperatures have brought schoolchildren outside to play after the extended cold snap that kept many people of all ages inside. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal)
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Baby moose rescued from snow by passers-by is put down after observation
Maine game wardens say the calf was ailing and had little chance of survival. A baby moose that was rescued from deep snow by nine people in a small Aroostook County town had to be put down by game wardens because it was sick. The moose, which weighed a couple hundred pounds and was likely […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Looking back at what made the news in 2017
The slate is clean as we start another year anew. Nobody knows what lies ahead, even as friends and family offer seasonal salutations that wish us well. As we look ahead with hopeful expectations, it doesn’t hurt to check the back track. For the Maine sportsmen and women, 2017 was, like most years, marked by […]
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Who’s afraid of freezing? For diehard runners, it’s never too cold to get outside.
Ed Tumavicus claims he is not clinically insane, and he should know. He’s a physician. Yet on Friday morning, when the air around Back Cove hovered around minus 10, and before the sun could burn off the last tendrils of sea smoke, there was Tumavicus, 54, defying common sense to get in the first half […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Is closing caribou hunting in Canada political or biological?
Given the fact that the native communities in Quebec and Labrador apparently have not had their caribou harvest quotas decreased by government closures, some are questioning whether the sport hunting ban is as much political as it is biological. Starting the first of next year, the sport hunting of migratory caribou will be indefinitely suspended […]
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Greg Hutchinson
CHAIN OF PONDS – Greg Hutchinson, 51, died Monday, Dec. 11, at Chain of Ponds from injuries sustained in an auto accident. He resided in Carthage. Born in Rumford on June 11, 1966, he was a son of Lee and Elaine (Clark) Hutchinson. He was a graduate of Dixfield High School where he was a member […]
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Outdoors in Maine: A success story of the 'comeback' variety
When it comes to the quality of the sport fishery, once-fabled fishing lakes like Branch Lake, Green Lake and Beech Hill Pond have had their ups and downs. When I was a kid, Branch Lake was a red hot game fishery. Beech Hill gave up a record lake trout that has never been bested. In […]
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Marie Beaule Therrien
BIDDEFORD — Marie Beaule Therrien, 86, of Biddeford, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 21. Family came from miles away to pay their last respects. Marie was born Jan. 29, 1931 in Lewiston, a daughter of John and Yolande (Dostie) Beaulè. On Oct. 25, 1952, she married Normand F. Therrien at St. Mary’s Church in Lewiston. They spent […]