PARIS — A short time after midnight on Jan. 7, 2012, 18-year-old Kristina Lowe was driving east on Route 219 in West Paris and lost control of her car. She crashed her 10-year-old Subaru into a stand of trees, killing her backseat passengers, Rebecca Mason and Logan Dam. Mason was 16; Dam was 19. Lowe […]
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Leaks at N.H.’s Gorham Dam prompt National Weather Service to issue flash flood alert for communities downstream along Androscoggin River
GORHAM, N.H. (AP) — Leaking at the Gorham Dam prompted the National Weather Service to issue flash flood warnings for communities downstream of the dam. Chad Miller, director of emergency management in Gorham, says the dam’s owner, Brookfield Renewable Power, reported a potential failure after divers discovered “significant structural issues.” The company is drawing water […]
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Veazie Dam removal brings hope to salmon anglers
VEAZIE (AP) — Eighty-five-year-old Claude Westfall points to a photograph on the wall of the Veazie Salmon Club. In the 1992 photo, a smiling Westfall presents then-President George H. W. Bush with his prize: the first salmon pulled from the Penobscot River in the Bangor area that year. For nearly 80 years, the first salmon […]