The proposal comes after snowmobiling groups launched unsuccessful legal challenges of the previously designated critical habitat.
September 2013
HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY NOTEBOOK: Messalonskee still a power
While both were expected to be in rebuilding mode this year, Skowhegan and Messalonskee are still the top two field hockey teams in the Eastern A Heal points.
LOCAL ROUNDUP: Madison girls soccer scores late to win
RUMFORD — Madeline Wood scored with 13:41 left in regulation to give the Madison girls soccer team a 2-1 win over Mountain Valley in a Mountain Valley Conference game.
SNAPSHOT: Heave-ho
Sonny Black, left, and farmhand Randy Pierce toss hay bales Wednesday into a trailer at Black’s Litchfield farm. First cut bales are selling briskly to other farms, Black said, with a second crop of hay expected to be cut this week.
STILL LIFE: Men at work
Men work on the top of the Brookfield Renewable Energy dam on the Kennebec River in Skowhegan this week.
STILL LIFE: Fall traditions
Jordan Gurney places some of the dozens of pumpkins for sale at the Riverdale farm stand in Benton on Tuesday.
Route 41 bridge in Vienna gets maintenance updates
The work includes repairing wing walls and replacing rails, and installing rails along the downstream wing wall.
LOCAL ROUNDUP: Hall-Dale girls soccer team earns 5th victory
WALES — Eva Shepherd scored twice and Maura Stottler had a goal and an assist as the Hall-Dale High School girls soccer team earned a 3-0 win over Oak Hill in a Mountain Valley Conference game Wednesday.
Morning Sentinel area police log, Sept. 25, 2013
IN CANAAN, Tuesday at 5:49 p.m., a report of theft was investigated on Salisbury Road.
COMMENTARY — ON FOOTBALL: 49ers decision to play Smith a sign of desperation
The decision to play Aldon Smith against the Indianapolis Colts before sending him into rehab was questionable at best, though San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh must have thought it was worth a shot.