RUMFORD — A benefit dinner and dance will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Rumford Eagles Club to raise money for resident Lloyd Billings, who was injured in a logging accident in May. Jim Peterson, a friend of Billings and responsible for helping organize the benefit, said Billings was injured while […]
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Maine’s 2012 seafood harvest worth record $528M; haul by weight was largest since 1950
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s seafood harvest topped half a billion dollars for the first time as fishermen had the second-largest haul by weight since 1950, according to preliminary 2012 statistics released by the Department of Marine Resources. For the year, fishermen harvested 318 million pounds of fish, shellfish and other marine species valued at $527.7 […]
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Above-average blueberry harvest expected after heavy rains
CHERRYFIELD — Maine could yield an above-average harvest of wild blueberries this year, according to both the state’s leading expert on low-bush wild blueberries and to officials with a leading blueberry producer Down East. The harvest is about to begin, and the barrens have begun turning blue as the berries ripen. University of Maine horticulture […]