Orland Motorcycle Crash
(Orland) – A Bucksport man is recovering from serious injuries suffered when he had to dump his motorcycle on Route 1 in Orland to avoid striking a vehicle pulling onto the road. The Life Flight helicopter carried 29-year old Gregory Farmer to Eastern Maine Medical Center this weekend. Farmer was behind another vehicle that turned right on the Upper Falls Road from Route 1. A vehicle exiting that road pulled in front of Farmer. No charges are yet filed against the 17-year old driver who pulled into Farmer’s path.
Bar Harbor Mansion
(Bar Harbor) – The huge Bar Harbor building that serves as headquarters of the Maine Seacoast Mission may become the town’s historical society’s property. The Mt. Desert Islander reports the Historical Society signed a purchase and sale agreement last Friday. A sale price was not disclosed. The Seacoast Mission is moving to a much smaller and less valuable building. The Town of Bar Harbor assesses the so-called Larochelle Cottage at about $5-point-7 million dollars.
Rockland Police Chief
(Rockland) – Rockland’s next police chief knows the department well. Chris Young has served as the deputy chief for 3-years and served 22-years on the force, the last 17 as a detective. Village Soup dot-com reports the city council selected Young to run the department, replacing Chief Bruce Boucher who retired earlier this year.
Clown-Lamoine
(Lamoine) – It does not appear that the creepy but fictitious Pennywise the Clown is hanging around Lamoine, though police responded to a call there last week. The caller said a person wearing a clown mask and carrying a hatchet was walking along Route 184 in the coastal Hancock County town. Two deputies responded but didn’t find anyone fitting the description. When the latest Stephen King movie “It” came out last year clown sitings were common, but they’re rare now. King has relatives who live along the same road where the Lamoine siting was reported.
Etna Robbery Charges
(Etna) Police have charged 3 boys with Robbery for the heist at the Etna Village Variety Store last week. They’re not releasing the suspects’ names because of their ages. Police say the trio entered the store on Route 2 while one held a shot gun and the others stole a cash drawer from the register. The boys fled with an undisclosed amount of money. The shotgun used in the crime has been recovered. The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department wants to hear from anyone with information on the crime.
Hiker Rescued
(Millinocket) Authorities say a hiker who fractured her ankle hiking a trail on Mount Katahdin has been airlifted to safety. Baxter State Park officials say a team of volunteers and staff carried the unidentified 57-year-old woman down the slope to a campground early Thursday. The Bangor Daily News reports that the woman remained there until the Maine Forest Service airlifted her to the Millinocket Municipal Airport.
Football-Illness
(Scarborough) Officials cancelled a high school football game over concerns about hand, foot, and mouth disease. Scarborough High School called off last Friday night’s homecoming game against Massabesic High School because Massabesic had reported several cases hand, foot, and mouth disease. Symptoms of the highly contagious illness include fever, painful sores around the mouth and a skin rash on the hands and feet. Most people recover from the disease in about a week without medical treatment.
Bear Hunt Successful
(Augusta) The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says hunters shot more than 28-hundred bears as of September 17th. It’s been a productive hunting season but the department reports the bear population continues growing, with more than a 50-percent increase since 2004. The department supports bear hunting as a way to control the population.
More Hunting Seasons
(Augusta) The fall wild turkey hunting season starts today for hunters using a bow and arrow or a shotgun. The season ends November 7th. And you can manage the abundant population of gray squirrels with hunting allowed as of today and continuing through December 1st. The daily bag limit is 4 with possession of 8.
Silver Airways
(Trenton) Silver Airways had a successful first season at the Hancock County-Bar Harbor airport. The air carrier had to acclimate quickly when the previous company Pen-Air withdrew its service from the airport a month early. Airport manager Bradley Madiera tells Star 97.7 that of the 278 flights that Silver Airways operated to and from the airport, they only canceled 3 flights and each was due to weather. Madiera says Silver Airways provided affordable, reliable service this summer and the airport looks forward to having Silver Airways return next year.
Sports
- New England Patriots 38 Miami Dolphins 7
- Boston Red Sox 10 New York Yankees 2 (Sox finish the regular season with 108 wins, Mookie Betts win the batting title, JD Martinez wins the RBI crown).
- Two extra games in the National League to break division title ties today: Cubs vs. Brewers and Dodgers vs. Rockies.
- Boston Celtics 115 Charlotte Hornets 112 (Exhibition)
- Ryan Blaney wins the NASCAR race in Charlotte
- Europe defeats the US for the Ryder Cup this weekend.
