COPLIN PLANTATION (AP) — Maine game wardens say a woman was killed when she crashed her all-terrain vehicle in Coplin Plantation, near the town of Eustis. Police say the victim, a 25-year-old from Eustis, died Tuesday night after the ATV rolled on top of her. Her body was found by friends when she didn’t return. […]
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Eustis woman dies in ATV rollover
COPLIN PLANTATION — A 25-year-old Eustis woman is dead after the ATV she was driving Tuesday night appears to have rolled onto her, according to a statement from the Maine Warden Service. Krystle J. Lincoln had been driving alone and was found by friends when she did not return, according to the release. She was […]
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Selectmen in Franklin County Commission District 3 to elect budget committee rep
FARMINGTON — Selectmen in Franklin County Commission District 3 will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, at the county courthouse to elect a representative to the Franklin County Budget Advisory Committee. The elected selectman will replace former Avon Selectman John Calloway, who chose not to seek re-election this year. The term for the new […]
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Selectmen in Franklin County Commission District 3 to elect budget committee rep
FARMINGTON — Selectmen in Franklin County Commission District 3 will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, at the county courthouse to elect a representative to the Franklin County Budget Advisory Committee. The elected selectman will replace former Avon Selectman John Calloway, who chose not to seek re-election this year. The term for the new […]
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Police: Intruder assaulted Coplin Plantation couple
COPLIN PLANTATION — An Eliot man is accused of entering a home on Carrabassett Road late Tuesday and assaulting the homeowners. The couple, ages 59 and 65, did not know the intruder, Garrett Morrow, 25, Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said. The husband suffered cuts to his forehead, ear and wrist, the sheriff said. Morrow was arrested […]
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Carl Baade Shorey
1960 – 2015 STRATTON — Carl Baade Shorey, 54, of Coplin Plantation, beloved husband, son, brother and friend, died suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday, March 25. Carl was born July 27, 1960, the son of Raymond and Elizabeth Shorey of Scarborough. Carl was a genuine jack-of-all-trades, and a master of many. He worked […]
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Dead River Historical Society receives grant
STRATTON — The members of the Dead River Historical Society have received a grant of $3,300 from the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust, to replace two rotted sills, clapboards and sheathing on the west and southwest side of the museum building. The building was built as a church in 1878. In 1963 an annex was added onto […]
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Coplin Plantation man thankful no one hurt in fire
COPLIN PLANTATION — Steve Clark is thankful no one was hurt late Monday night when a fire destroyed the home he and another couple and a baby were staying in at Hedgehog Village. “Nobody got hurt. We didn’t get hurt. The firefighters didn’t get hurt,“ Clark said. A chimney fire spread into the walls of […]
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Firefighters fight flames, cold in Coplin Plantation camp fire
COPLIN PLANTATION — Four people, including a baby boy, escaped injury late Monday night when a two-story camp they were renting on Warrens Way in Hedgehog Village was destroyed by fire, Eustis fire Chief Sprague Wise said Tuesday. The camp is owned by Steven Warren of Florida. The names of those staying there were not […]