Airyn Jewett, left, and Kate Baker, both 14, haul a sled full of wood blocks they chiseled out of the Kennebec River Sunday, while removing shacks at Baker’s Smelt Camps in Pittston. Friends, neighbors and employees helped proprietor Mike Baker remove the fishing shacks, rented to anglers by the tide, after the ice became brittle over the weekend. The wood that balanced the shacks over race holes for the winter.


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