REDINGTON TOWNSHIP — For the second time in less than two weeks, a North Carolina woman was carried off the Appalachian Trail on Tuesday after becoming ill. Andrea Pincumbe, 21, of Asheville, called the Franklin County Regional Communications Center in Farmington at about 8 a.m. from the Poplar Ridge lean-to atop Saddleback Mountain to say […]
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Defense Agency says interceptor missiles only to be fired to protect U.S.
FARMINGTON — A potential intercontinental ballistic missile interceptor base would encompass 600 to 800 acres of about 12,000 acres at the U.S. Navy’s training site in Redington Township. The Navy already has several buildings on the site and some would have to be relocated, Gary Dion-Bernier, a community plans and liaison officer for the U.S. […]
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Mixed emotions shared at second Rangeley meeting on potential missile interceptor base
RANGELEY — People expressed mixed emotions Wednesday during the second day of a three-day meeting about the possibility of a missile interceptor base being added to the 12,000-acre U.S. Navy’s survival, evasion, resistance and escape training facility in Redington Township. Some were dead set against the location in Maine or anywhere in the U.S., while […]
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Missile Defense Agency to hold meetings on potential Franklin County interceptor site
RANGELEY — The federal Missile Defense Agency is holding four meetings in Franklin County to seek input on environmental issues and other concerns that people may have if a potential missile interceptor site is located in Redington Township, near Rangeley. The U.S. Navy’s remote training school in the Rangeley Lakes area is one of four […]
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Maine Appalachian Trail hiker still missing one year later
One doesn’t vanish without a trace from the Appalachian Trail in Maine. But Geraldine “Gerry” Anita Largay, 66, did a year ago Tuesday. However, Maine’s biggest-ever search for a missing AT hiker didn’t start right away. When Largay failed to show up at a prearranged meeting place with her husband, George, on Route 27 in […]
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Largay family offers reward for information on missing hiker
LEWISTON — George Largay and his family are offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the location of Largay’s wife, Geraldine, who was last seen hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Franklin County in July. According to a press release from the Maine Warden Service, Largay started her hike on the AT on April […]
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Pentagon to consider Franklin County site as potential missile interceptor site
REDINGTON TOWNSHIP — The U.S. Navy’s remote training school in the Rangeley Lakes area is one of five sites on the East Coast that the Missile Defense Agency is considering as a potential missile-interceptor site, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced Thursday. The Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape site in northern Franklin County will be studied […]