PARIS — A judge set bail at $10,000 cash Monday for a Paris man who is facing his tenth charge of operating a vehicle under the influence. Andrew Bean, 51, of 292 Christian Ridge Road, has been arrested twice on OUI charges since Nov. 21, the second arrest coming just days after an Oxford County Grand […]
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Posted inOxford Hills
Nine years after daughter’s death, father says no progress on hunting reform
PARIS — There is no bringing Troy Ripley’s daughter back. Ripley, whose 18-year-old daughter, Megan, was shot and killed by a hunter in the waning days of the 2006 hunting season lives with that hard fact every day. Ripley, 52, also lives with the reality that efforts to strengthen landowner rights and public safety laws […]
Posted inLocal Sports
Outdoors in Maine: Protect our right to hunt and fish
Recently, in a sweeping, breathtakingly cavalier — if not bizarre — editorial, the Bangor Daily News called for the Maine State Legislature to “eliminate once and for all” the practice of trapping bears or hunting them with hounds. Apparently, the newspaper was moved to take its bold position by an announcement made this fall by […]
Posted inLetters
What about wildlife watching?
I take exception to the Sun Journal article (Nov. 1) extolling the virtues of hunting and its economic impact on the state. It is a one-sided piece of pro-hunting propaganda. The story made no mention of the value of live wildlife and wildlife watching, on which some $800 million is spent annually in Maine (source: […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Hunting in Maine brings big bucks: $231M and counting
Eight years ago, Mike and Wendy Yates sold their New Hampshire home, quit their jobs and bought one of Maine’s oldest hunting lodges, almost an hour north of Rangeley. It’s 13 miles off the road, way off the grid and surrounded by a quarter-million acres of former paper company land. “We’re not going to compete […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn
Regional numbers low for opening day of deer season
Tagging stations reported low numbers in the region Saturday, opening day of the deer season for Maine residents. Tagging station owners in Franklin and Oxford counties were hopeful that their numbers would rise as it gets further into the season, even though there were fewer permits given this year. A news release from the Maine […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Maine hunters to start stalking deer, moose
PORTLAND — The busiest stretch of Maine’s hunting season is approaching as sportsmen head to the woods in search of deer and moose. The state’s “resident only” day for deer hunting is Saturday, and the full season runs from Nov. 2 to Nov. 28. Saturday is also “resident” only day for moose, and the longest […]
Posted inSports
Democracy in action will leave many hunters snickering
A sage once offered this definition of democracy: “Democracy is like a raft. It never sinks, but damn it, your feet are always in the water.” This cynical tidbit comes to mind if you sift through all of the proposed Maine legislative bills that wound up in the ONTP trash bag. (ONTP is an Augusta […]
Posted inLocal Sports
Hunting for Works for Maine does indeed work for this outdoorsman, too
As a rule, I don’t get too fired up about joining yet another new organization, but Hunting Works for Maine, which just got off the launch pad, has me stoked. This is a national movement with Maine being the 11th state in the country to participate. Hunting Works for Maine has a two-fold mission that […]