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PHOTOS: Lifeguards needed at nine state parks
Range Pond State Park in Poland is one of several with no lifeguards on duty.
Free ice fishing weekend brings out new, experienced fishers
Tim Parker of Winthrop sets a trap Saturday morning on Maranacook Lake in Winthrop. (Sun Journal photo by Russ Dillingham) Every year, on the third weekend in February and the first weekend in June, The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife allows people to fish for free or without a license. According to the department, the […]
Lewiston Middle School student, 13, drowns during Range Pond field trip
POLAND — What should have been a fun, end-of-school-year field trip to the beach turned tragic Tuesday when a Lewiston Middle School student drowned at Range Pond State Park. The Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of the 13-year-old boy. The seventh-grader was missing underwater for at least half an hour, according to […]
Watch: Stretching out ice fishing season on Range Pond
Dave Flynn of Lyman, bottom right, and several of his friends stretch out the ice-fishing season on Range Pond in Poland on Tuesday afternoon. “It’s better than sitting on the couch and is a whole lot of fun, especially when they are biting,” Flynn said. With about 18 inches of ice left, Range Pond is […]
Brothers get ice-fishing tips at Range Pond
Dominic Cataldi, 11, and his brother, Gavin, 8, get some ice-fishing tips from Brian O’Mearlaigh at a free ice-fishing derby at Range Pond in Poland on Saturday morning. The event, put on by the Sebago Lake Rotary Club, provides a free fishing trap to every child and Special Olympics participant. More than 200 children attended […]
Frozen road in Poland
Curt Lane of Randolph drives onto Upper Range Pond in Poland on Friday to go ice-fishing. Lane said a fisherman who keeps his shack on the pond plowed a path for people to drive on the pond. Lane said he has had luck pulling in brown trout and brook trout on Lower Range Pond this […]
Edith M. ‘Pat’ Landean
1929 – 2015 AUBURN — Edith M. (Ford) “Pat” Landean, 86, of Auburn died on Monday, Sept. 21, at the Odd Fellows’ & Rebekahs’ Home of Maine. She was the wife of the late Maurice Landean. She was born on March 4, 1929, in Lewiston, a daughter of the late John Ford and Alice H. […]