FRYEBURG — The Fryeburg Academy Music Department presents the annual Spring Concert at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center on Thursday, May 10 at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but donations will be gratefully accepted at the door. All donations will benefit the Fryeburg Police Department’s efforts to raise money for Saco River patrol […]
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Nathan M. Desjardins
LEWISTON — Nathan Michael Desjardins, 20, of Albion died on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston as a result of injuries sustained in a search and rescue operation while working for the Fryeburg Police Department who were assisting the Maine Warden Service. Nate was born on June 12, 1996, in […]
Fryeburg officer succumbs to injuries from Saco River rescue
The Saco River claimed the life of another on Tuesday when Fryeburg Police Officer Nathan M. Desjardins, 20, died from injuries he sustained during a water rescue attempt on May 27. On May 30, Maine game wardens recovered the body of a South Berwick woman from the Saco River on Tuesday, three days after her […]
Fryeburg Police rescue stranded campers on Saco River
FRYEBURG — Police on Thursday conducted their second river rescue in three days, helping three woman and a dog stranded when the Saco River rose unexpectedly and swept their canoe away. Fryeburg Police Chief Joshua Potvin said in a news release that dispatchers received a distress call from a 21-year-old woman around 7:15 a.m. that she […]