The fire, which started at 5 p.m. Saturday, was extinguished by the Portland Fire Department.
Deirdre Fleming
Deirdre Fleming covers the outdoors for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and has been a newspaper reporter in Maine for 25 years - and an outdoor writer for the past 20. During that time, she’s seen biologists trap 500-pound bear, watched fishermen land high-jumping makos, camped on Moosehead Lake in the winter, and retraced Gov. Percival Baxter’s first trip to Mt. Katahdin. She is often asked, but still does not know her favorite wildland in Maine. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, she lives with her husband in Buxton near the Saco River, where they both fly fish.
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Coast Guard officer raises $17,500 by running nonstop across Maine
Katie Spotz, 33, ran 137 miles in under 34 hours from Quebec to Freeport while raising money for a nonprofit that provides clean water to third-world communities.
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Land trust protects 2,600 acres along Appalachian Trail
The Trust for Public Land announces the acquisition of forestland and shoreline around Bald Mountain Pond.
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These women prefer to go it alone on the trails
More women appear to be taking solo backpacking or camping trips, which require more work and preparation.
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Run and Eat: Hungry on the road? Make a stop at Harvest Moon
The deli has six locations around eastern Maine, perfect for people who travel the state.
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Cobscook Shores features 13 miles of Downeast coastline
Visitors to the new parkland along the Downeast coast revel in the scenery before the park’s official opening next spring.
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Owner rebuffs call to change name of ski area near Greenville
The resort near Moosehead Lake contains a derogatory term for Native American women.
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The Saco River’s good Samaritans
A group of four friends, three of them certified scuba divers, have made it their mission this summer to haul trash out of the Saco River.
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Maine to partner with Massachusetts in study of great white sharks
Biologists with the Maine Department of Marine Resources will put 20 acoustic receivers in near-shore waters in the Gulf of Maine to capture data from great whites that have been tagged by Massachusetts scientists.
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Bluefin tournament lands 23 giant tuna
This year’s 41-boat, three-day tournament was won by Pete Speeches of Scarborough and his crew on Backstabber with a 687.5-pound bluefin.