JAY — Two children from Lewiston were injured Friday night when an ATV they were riding with an adult hit a stump in a yard and tipped over. It happened during a family reunion at a camp at about 7 p.m. off Macomber Hill Road, Maine Warden Tom McKenney said Wednesday. Driver Matt Churchill, 31, […]
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Paris board considers changes to non-standard use form
PARIS — The Board of Selectmen is considering changes to its non-standard use of public roads and property form to allow annual events to go ahead without filling out the application. Board Chairman Bob Kirchherr floated some language he believed could clarify the ambiguous distinction between “standard” and “non-standard” use. The form was drawn up by […]
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Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Teen killed on dirt bike is identified
CARTHAGE — The Maine Warden Service on Tuesday released the name of the 15-year-old Carthage boy who was killed Sunday night while riding a dirt bike on Tuesday. Tyla J. Thibodeau had been carrying a coil of rope while riding the small, motorized bike when it got entangled in the rear wheel. The boy became […]
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New Gloucester man dies in ATV crash
NEW GLOUCESTER (AP) — State police say a New Gloucester man has died after the all-terrain vehicle he was operating struck a tree. Police say 32-year-old Brock Thompson pulled out of a dirt driveway and onto the road at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday when he lost control and hit the tree. A neighbor heard the […]
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Carthage: Teenager dies in dirt bike accident
CARTHAGE — A 15-year-old boy died Sunday evening while driving a small, motorized, two-wheel dirt bike, a spokesman for the Maine Warden Service said in a news release Monday. The boy was carrying a coil of rope. While riding the bike, the rope became entangled in the rear wheel, and the boy became entangled in […]
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New Gloucester man dies in ATV crash
NEW GLOUCESTER (AP) — State police said a New Gloucester man has died after the all-terrain vehicle he was operating struck a tree. Police say 32-year-old Brock Thompson pulled out of a dirt driveway and onto the road at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday when he lost control and hit the tree. A neighbor heard the […]
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Storms leave investigators searching for clues to ATV rider’s death in East Millinocket
MEDWAY — Maine Warden Service investigators sought public help Saturday as they attempt to reconstruct a fatal ATV accident that had its traces obliterated by thunderstorms. An off-duty East Millinocket police officer found 50-year-old Gene Smith of Medway lying next to an upended Arctic Cat all-terrain vehicle in a wooded area near Rockabema Road just […]
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ATV rider hit in head when he pulls sign bracket out of tree
CLIFTON — A local man was injured Wednesday evening when a metal sign bracket struck him in the head, according to officials. Andrew Stearns, 29, was attempting to pull the bracket out of a large pine tree in his yard, according to Maine Warden Service spokesman Doug Rafferty, when the bracket snapped and hit him […]
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Amherst man killed in ATV crash
AMHERST — Authorities say an Amherst, Maine, man has died in an ATV crash near his home. The Maine Warden Service says 46-year-old Kevin Clements was riding Saturday evening when the machine rolled over and pinned him beneath it. Clements was found by his wife a short time later. The cause of the crash remains […]