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Video: What happens when you drop 1,200-pound pumpkins on things

Most people who grow 1,200-pound pumpkins would make a lot of pumpkin pie. But the organizers of the 2015 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta must have figured they had enough pie. So they dropped the ginormos gourds on things. Things like vehicles and an inflatable pool. The Wiscasset Newspaper’s Ben Bulkeley captured the squashaggedon from various […]

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David Bryer

1930 – 2014 WISCASSET — David Bryer, 83, of Tower Road, Vienna, died Sunday, April 27, at his daughter Jeanette Reed’s home. He was born in Damariscotta on Nov. 3, 1930, a son of Harold A. and Susan E. (Gray) Bryer. He graduated from Boothbay High School and entered the United States Army. On Jan. […]

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Martha “Tiny” Belknap Reed

1920 – 2014 AUGUSTA — Martha “Tiny” Belknap Reed, 93, died on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at MaineGeneral in Augusta. She was born in Cambridge, Mass., on Aug. 16, 1920, and was the daughter of Dr. Robert W. and Martha Chapman Belknap. She grew up in Damariscotta. She married Howard William Reed on May 17, 1943. […]

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Waterborne gourds to close out Damariscotta festival

DAMARISCOTTA (AP) — Damariscotta’s seventh annual Pumpkinfest is ending on a wet note. The Pumpkinfest kicked off Oct. 5 and ends Monday with a regatta on the Damariscotta River featuring people piloting giant, carved-out gourds that have been transformed into boats. There are separate “Paddleboat” and “Powerboat” divisions. All teams in both divisions will be […]