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Bald eagle hit by car, currently in ICU at Center for Wildlife
CAPE NEDDICK (WGME) -- The Center for Wildlife is helping a Maine bald eagle after he was hit by a vehicle on the highway and suffered serious injuries. The Center for Wildlife says someone saw the eagle get hit. The rescuer took action and brought him straight to the center.
Southern charm on northern roads: Tennessee transplant opens mobile auto repair shop
YORK, Maine — Maine and Tennessee are not too different, according to Blake Hicks, save their proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. “I do have a beach, that is true,” said Hicks, who moved with his family two years ago from the Volunteer State to York. With them came an idea Hicks had been dreaming of since he was a teenager fixing cars in his high school shop class – a mobile mechanic who came to one’s front door.
NH Author and Storyteller Cindy Pierce announces Kittery performances
KITTERY, Maine — Acclaimed author, comic storyteller, innkeeper, and UNH alum Cindy Pierce will perform back on the Seacoast in May. Pierce’s latest solo show is called Keeping It Inn – an intimate, rousing portrayal of her functioning, dysfunctional family. Cindy Pierce wrote, produced, and stars in the show. She plays the role of her mother, Nancy Pierce, through six decades of raising seven kids and running an inn. ...
New Hampshire lawmakers debate bill on transgender youth in sports
MANCHESTER, N.H. — New Hampshire lawmakers held a contentious hearing Monday about a bill that would organize interscholastic and collegiate sports by assigned sex at birth. Supporters said the bill is built on female athlete safety, and fairness and opportunity for those who are assigned female at birth. State...
Eagle to lead Portsmouth Tall Ships festival July 26 to July 28. Here are the details.
PORTSMOUTH - The 2024 Sail Portsmouth festival will take place Friday, July 26 to Sunday, July 28, and features the return of the country’s most famous tall ship, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, to Portsmouth. Joining the Eagle during the weekend-long festival will be the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey and the S/V Denis Sullivan, returning to Portsmouth after participating in last year’s Sail Portsmouth festival. ...
2003 fatal beating of man in Barrington still unsolved
HUDSON, N.H. — The case of a man found beaten to death in his Barrington home is still unsolved. Officials said Michael Zsigray, 46, was found dead in his mobile home on Route 4 in Barrington on April 23, 2003. An autopsy revealed he died of blunt force trauma...
UNH frat brothers, Durham bar deny any responsibility for 2021 death of Vinny Lirosi
DURHAM — A UNH fraternity, fraternity brothers and a local bar deny any wrongdoing in their responses to a wrongful death civil lawsuit filed in Strafford County Superior Court by Robin Lirosi, the mother of a UNH student who died in 2021. No trial dates have been scheduled and...
Three generations of Marshwood students to perform joint show
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Three generations of Marshwood students who all perform music that bares their souls will do a joint show Friday, May 3, at Marshwood High School to kick off the community’s summer concert season Dan Blakeslee, class of 1990, will be joining 2002 graduate Connor Garvey and junior Mackie Bogh for Rhythm & Bloom in a fundraiser for the Hot Summer Nights Concert Series. Food trucks will sell outside the school. ...
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