Police said passers-by saw James Wiggins dragging his dog, now being treated for heat exhaustion and abrasions, down Norridgewock Road and many of them called police.
Rachel Ohm
Staff Writer
Rachel covers state government and politics for the Portland Press Herald. It’s her third beat at the paper after stints covering City Hall and education. Prior to her arrival at the Press Herald in the summer of 2019, Rachel worked at the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, covering Franklin and Somerset counties, and the Knoxville News Sentinel in Knoxville, Tennessee, covering higher education. She has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University and when she’s not writing and reporting enjoys running, cooking and traveling to new places.
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Open access is flashpoint for hunters, landowners
A shooting in Starks last October highlights the tenuous — and tense — relationship when it comes to hunting on private property.
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Police name 6 arrested in Fairfield track protest
The protesters tried to block a Pan Am train expected to pass through town Thursday evening by erecting a makeshift wooden scaffold on the tracks.
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Norridgewock vandalism may lead to heightened surveillance
‘The vandalism to our public facilities is getting to be expensive. It’s nauseating,’ says the town manager.
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Former Maine deputy gets four years for molesting girls
The former Somerset County sheriff’s deputy and husband of a daycare owner pleads guilty to four counts of unlawful sexual contact with children under the age of 14.
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Grand jury: No charges in shooting of Starks man
Kerry Hebert, then 56, was shot at close range on his own property last October following a confrontation involving a group of hunters.
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Corinna’s oldest resident credits wife for long life
Larry and Dorothy Burleigh have done everything together for more than 71 years.
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Rangeley Lake search comes up empty Tuesday, as lost snowmobiler’s father waits
The Maine Warden Service on Tuesday could not locate the bodies of John Spencer Jr., 41, of Litchfield, and Ken Henderson, 40, of China, both lost in December after going though the ice on Rangeley Lake.
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Anson skate park closing, too expensive to fix
For the last seven years, Susanne Lamb has tended to the park, built in memory of her son, Damon Lasley, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2004.
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Police: Two men confess to robbery of Kingfield store
Police say Kaleb Bowring, 20, of Madison, and Matthew Santamore, 22, of Vassalboro, confessed to robbing Tranten’s Too last June.