Warm spells and rain have left the ice on many lakes and ponds nowhere near as solid as might be expected in late January.
Bonnie Washuk
Bonnie Washuk is the weekend reporter for the Portland Press Herald. She previously was the education writer and a general assignment reporter for the Sun Journal, focusing on Lewiston-Auburn schools. She began as a Lewiston Daily Sun reporter on Halloween, 1983. Since then she's worked for the Lewiston Evening Journal, Sunday, and the Sun Journal covering just about every beat. For 10 years she covered politics as the State House reporter. Bonnie's interests are cooking, dogs, the environment. She's an avid recycler, drives a Prius and does a lot of dog walking with her dogs Lucy and Zoe. A wife, mother of three sons and grandmother of four, she loves children. A great assignment for her is interviewing students. She lives in Portland, grew up in Augusta and attended the University of Maine at Augusta.
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Carmel grieves tragic loss of town manager who drowned saving young son
Kevin Howell, 51, drowned Friday when he and his 4-year-old son fell through the ice at Etna Pond. The son survived.
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South Portland residents mourn loss of historic Fisherman’s Point shacks
Willard Beach residents on Sunday said they were sad about losing the fishing shacks, which had stood on the rocky point for over 100 years before being swept away in Saturday’s storm.
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Coastal Maine dries out – and begins cleaning up – from Saturday’s historic storm
Municipal officials in the hardest-hit areas say cleanup will take days, and repairing the damage is likely to take even longer.
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Another potent storm brings historic coastal flooding, high winds to an already-drenched Maine
Powerful storm surges, coinciding with the monthly astronomical high tide, flooded low-lying streets in Portland and other coastal communities while damaging businesses and landmarks.
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Two injured in New Gloucester crash
Both people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
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Firefighters battle house fire in Baldwin
When firefighters arrived, ‘the house was fully engulfed by fire. There was no ability to make an interior attack. We couldn’t enter the house,’ the fire chief said.
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Portland declares citywide parking ban into Monday morning
The parking ban prohibits motor vehicles from being parked on city streets from 10 p.m. Sunday through 6 a.m. Monday
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Winter arrives in southern Maine at last, as storm drops 10 inches of snow or more across the region
Some areas in York and Cumberland counties recorded more than 15 inches of snow, while the extreme northern parts of the state got little or even none.
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With first big winter storm arriving at last, southern Maine braces for a foot of snow – or more
Many Mainers spent the day stocking up on last-minute supplies and putting on snow tires before the expected arrival of a snowstorm.