A man from Mount Desert Island and two girls “narrowly escaped with their lives” Wednesday night after their snowmobile went through the ice on Long Pond in Southwest Harbor. Eli Strauss, 43, and his daughter, 12-year-old Julia Strauss, were rescued along with 12-year-old Jolie Beal, said Cpl. John MacDonald, spokesman for the Maine Warden Service, […]
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Maine wardens searching for 3 after boat capsizes in northern Maine
SQUARE LAKE, Maine (AP) — Maine game wardens say three boaters are missing after their vessel capsized in windy conditions on Square Lake in northern Maine. Cpl. John MacDonald said only one of the four occupants who headed onto the lake Tuesday afternoon made it back to shore. Three others are presumed to be in […]
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Wardens search for missing paddler on Panther Pond in Raymond
RAYMOND — Maine Game Wardens are searching Friday morning for a missing person in Panther Pond. Game Wardens say they responded to a call for a possible drowning around 10 p.m. Thursday. They say a 52-year-old man from Connecticut was paddling a canoe along the eastern shore of the pond. Friends told searchers they heard him […]
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Three women snowmobilers rescued after night in Maine woods
MILLINOCKET (AP) — Maine game wardens say three women are safe after they became separated while snowmobiling near Millinocket. Wardens say 62-year-old Dorothy Gould, of Glenburn, Maine, Alice Meadow of Texas and Valerie Morrow, of Garland Maine, both of whom are in their 50s, were staying together at a camp on Smith Pond west of […]
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Wardens find sleeping toddler less than mile from Bradford home
A Maine game warden found an 18-month-old missing toddler Monday, Sept. 19, in the town of Bradford. According to a Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife statement, the boy’s mother said she opened a door to let out the family dog very early Monday morning. She might have left the door open. When the […]
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Lawmakers won’t plan public hearings on wardens
AUGUSTA — The state legislature won’t hold public hearings this year into the conduct of undercover game wardens after a newspaper reported on tactics including providing alcohol and encouraging poaching, and one legislator said lawmakers lack the stomach to question law enforcement ahead of elections. Chairs of the committee that oversees the warden service said such […]
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Mark Eves asks open records committee to review Warden Service conduct
AUGUSTA — A top state Democratic leader is calling on the Legislature’s Right to Know Advisory Committee to look into concerns that the Maine Warden Service either delayed or ignored requests for public records under the state’s Freedom of Access Act. On Thursday, outgoing Speaker of the House Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, sent a letter […]
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Warden Service defends undercover stings
AUGUSTA — The head of the Maine Warden Service on Wednesday endured a barrage of questions from legislators about how wardens handled an undercover investigation that resulted in convictions for poaching and felony possession of firearms. Col. Joel Wilkinson told the Legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee, which has jurisdiction over the service, that his […]
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Two men reported missing in Franklin County found alive and well
MADRID TOWNSHIP — What was supposed to be a drive on a dirt road to try a new Jeep off-road Tuesday turned into an overnight stay in the woods, lots of publicity and a ticket for a Rangeley man. The Maine Warden Service had been searching for Travis S. Mosher, 42, of Rangeley and Douglass Richmond, […]
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Serious injuries in boat crash on Thompson Lake
OTISFIELD — At least seven people, including a child who suffered critical injuries, were hurt in a two-boat collision on Thompson Lake on Thursday. Witnesses said the collision knocked children and an adult into the water. The Maine Warden Service later identified the operators of the boats as Matthew Nolan of Potomac, Md., and Ken Bartow […]