| PITTSFIELD, Maine — Captain Lester Slate of Exeter was still a tiny speck in the blue summer sky Sunday afternoon as his family and friends began cheering him on during his 90th birthday present to himself — his first skydiving jump from an airplane. Then the speck got bigger and ... read more | comment LEBANON, Maine — A 2-year-old girl is being treated for serious burns at a Boston hospital after falling into a fire pit at a resort cabin. Officials tell WMUR-TV the child was playing outside with family members at the Flat Rock Bridge Family Resort on Sunday morning when she apparently ... read more | comment LIMESTONE, Maine — Bangor's Dave Sleeper accomplished his goal of 200 mph when he raced his Kawasaki ZX 14 four-cylinder motorcycle to a personal best of 200.540 mph Sunday morning during the Loring Timing Association’s Land Speed Races at the former Loring Air Force Base. "Yeeeeha!" said Sleeper, a Bangor ... read more | comment DEXTER, Maine — Just before walking into Saturday's sometimes heated public forum about the proposed east-west highway, Ripley resident Gordon Canning stopped to find his property on a Maine map that had a rough estimate of the corridor drawn in a thick red line. "I'm here to get information — ... read more | comment ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — A Frenchman man was injured Sunday while hiking along a trail with a view of Frenchman Bay, according to a park ranger. The 40-year-old man was hiking up the Kurt Diedrich's Trail toward the summit of Dorr Mountain when he slipped, Ranger Richard Rechholtz said ... read more | comment CHINA, Maine — Police continued over the weekend to investigate the suspicious death Friday night of a man in China. No details were released about how James Dodge, 38, was fatally injured at his 324 Hanson Road home and no charges had been filed by Sunday afternoon, according to Maine ... read more | comment LAMOINE, Maine — The summer of 2011 was a deadly one for kayakers in Hancock County, where three people died while paddling in coastal bays or ponds. A year later, their deaths have not been forgotten. Two local residents, one of them the owner of a kayak rental business, are ... read more | comment | |
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