Mark Beaudoin News Today

With police, fire and prison security recruitment issues continually facing the state and vacancy rates as high as 20 percent, Group II retirement benefits for state employees was before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday where the issue died last year.

Mark Beaudoin, 53, died instantly in a wooded area near South Main Street.

The Oxford County Sheriff's Office said a tree fell on top of the man while he was on his property cutting trees.

The Oxford County Sheriff's Office said a tree fell on top of the man while he was on his property cutting trees.

The Oxford County Sheriff's Office said a tree fell on top of the man while he was on his property cutting trees.

Oxford County sheriff's deputies were called to South Main Street at about 8:30 a.m. for reports that a man had died after a tree fell on him.

Replies(3) Guy Beaudoin, left, and his son Mark inside Yankee Bait & Tackle on Main St. in Enfield. (Tim Jensen/Patch) ENFIELD, CT — Fishing enthusiasts who have flocked to Yankee Bait & Tackle in Thompsonville for the past two decades will have to find a new source for their gear and accessories, as shop owner Guy Beaudoin is retiring due to health issues. The personable 81-year-old Beaudoin, a U.S. Navy veteran who participated in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, closed t...