Mysterious Human Remains Found During Cleaning of Home in Maine
On 5/11/21 at 7:17 AM EDT
Police have launched an investigation after the skeletal remains of a human were found at a house in Cumberland County in southern Maine. The remains were discovered by a family member who was cleaning out the home of their father who died earlier this year, according to Maine State Police.
The Cumberland County Sheriff s Department received a 911 call around 3:26 pm on May 8 from the unnamed individual, who found the remains in an outbuilding of the home at 196 Poland Springs Road in Casco, around 30 miles outside downtown Portland, according to the statement.
Ever wondered where road markings came from? Wonder no more.
It’s the early days of the 20th century. The motor car is still a relatively new invention. Roads are rudimentary, despite sealed tar-paved roads first making an appearance in the Middle East in the 8th Century.
Roads continued to evolve over the centuries, but it was the advent of the motor car that saw a rapid rise in development and construction. Sealing the surface became commonplace, once British engineer Edgar Purnell Hooley patented his idea for tarmac in 1901.
While John Loudon McAdam invented the method of road surfacing that would become known as macadam, it was Hooley who added tar to the macadam aggregate mixture to create tarmac, the process creating a smooth surface and with reduced levels of dust and detritus. What those first sealed roads lacked, however, were any type of line markings.
Gamble Family Vineyards / Photo by Sarah Risk
When Mary Ann McGuire landed in Napa Valley as a 20-year-old in 1960, she felt a special connection to the area.
“We saw it as a bountiful garden,” she says. “I felt this sense of power that came from the land…For me, it carried a spiritual imprint that a mother feels towards a child that you want to protect.”
For her first few years in the Valley, McGuire, who had moved to the region with her new husband, cattle rancher George Gamble, saw no reason to act on that protective instinct.
But in the mid-60s, California entered an era of development. And as more agricultural acreage gave way to subdivisions and shopping centers, the grape growers, farmers, ranchers and residents of Napa County began to feel the pressure of what that development might mean for the region.
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Yosemite National Park reports that plows have reached Tioga Pass on the eastern side of the park.
Plowing of side roads, turn-outs and parking lots are still in progress, as are road and utility repairs and removing trees that could fall in the road, according to the Park’s web site.
Work to plow up to the gate from Highway 395 has been completed, the California Department of Transportation announced last week.
Highway 108 over Sonora Pass has reopened for the season, CalTrans said on Thursday.
CalTrans Districts 9 and 10 have been clearing the road of snow and debris for the past few weeks.