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GORHAM — New Trails Bureau Chief Craig Rennie of the state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources met on Monday evening with select board members Chairman Mike Waddell and Adam White as well as Town Manager Denise Vallee. Vice Chair Judy LeBlanc had said she would not be present. Rennie was accompanied by District I supervisor Clint Savage of Gorham, who acted as interim chief for seven months after former chief Chris Gamache resigned. Rennie took up his new duties on May 21, after he’d left his post at the Department of Environmental Services Wetlands Bureau. He met with Wadd...

GORHAM — ATV traffic on Lancaster Road (Route 2) to the state-owned parking lot on the edge of the Presidential Rail Trail has been reduced substantially, reported select board member Judy LeBlanc at Monday evening’s biweekly meeting on June 14. LeBlanc explained that she lives in the neighborhood in which many residents have complained they are badly affected by ATV enthusiasts off-loading and re-loading their OHRVs and gunning their vehicles as they speed off to reach Jericho Mountain State Park in Berlin. Noise levels are also far less. A short stretch of trail alongside the lot ...

GORHAM — An unextinguished campfire is blamed for a forest fire Sunday on Mount Surprise that has proven difficult to extinguish. Firefighters from Gorham, Randolph, Shelburne, Milan and the National Forest Service were called out to fight the fire. The smoke from the fire could be seen clearly from Libby Pool in Gorham and it was reported through 911. Fire crews accessed the fire from the Carter Moriah trailhead at the end of Bangor Street, where a staging area was set up. The fire was about 2,500 feet up Mount Surprise and about 500 feet from the Carter Moriah trail. Originally it cove...

BERLIN — After turning 100 years old, the Androscoggin Valley Fish and Game Association has survived the COVID-19 pandemic and the club’s board of directors is planning to resume its regular programs and activities this year with the revised CDC guidelines and protocols. People can follow the schedule on the new club website at avfga.org. The first AVFGA activity in this calendar year would normally be the annual banquet in late April, but this year the board is planning to hold its 101st banquet in September and the plans will be revealed as they are solidified. The club’s nex...