Maine
Maine #1 in USA in…Pairs of Shoes Owned. Seriously.
Easy query. What number of pairs of sneakers do you personal?
Male or Feminine. Whether or not you put on them or not doesn’t depend, only a easy guess as to what number of you’ve got.
Motive to ask, there was a survey that was despatched to me yesterday. And the outcomes initially shocked me.
Firstly, your reply doesn’t actually matter. The common Mainer within the survey says they’ve 16 pairs of sneakers. Personally, that’s in all probability proper round what I personal. However I wager I solely put on 5 or 6 pair. Ever.
Some clearly would counsel that having 16 pair is extravagant. Some would say that’s an novice.
The survey included all types of sneakers, together with snow boots and mountaineering boots and gown sneakers and informal sneakers and trainers plus issues like sandals and crocs.
And Maine is listed because the #1 state in America with the very best variety of sneakers per individual.
That baffled me. Here is the survey.
Aren’t we easy? Carrying the identical pair of all-purpose sneakers till they’re actually worn out?
What’s your favourite shoe that you just put on most frequently? Most picked sneakers,
adopted by boots,
adopted by flip flops.
These are the highest 3. Irrespective of the season.
Possibly Mainers personal essentially the most pairs of sneakers as a result of we don’t do away with sneakers which may not be prepared for the landfill.
Oh, these are nonetheless okay. I’ll put on them once more sometime.
And sometime by no means comes.
Take pleasure in your assortment. And congrats on being #1 in all of the land.
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Maine
Investigation underway after fatal fire in Amity
AMITY, Maine (WABI) – Human remains have been found after a fire heavily damaged a home in Amity, officials said Sunday.
The fire broke out at the home on Emily Drive on Saturday.
Investigators with the Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office responded around 2:30 p.m.
We’re told human remains were found in amongst the fire debris.
The remains will be transported to the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta for positive identification.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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Maine
A Maine man took his friend into the woods for one final deer hunt
This story was originally published in December 2022.
Jerry Galusha and his best friend, Doug Cooke, share a friendship that dates back to 1984, when they were living in Rangeley and were introduced by mutual friends.
Over the years, they have often gone fishing or deer hunting, activities they both have enjoyed immensely.
“The relationship that we have is just unbelievable,” Galusha said. “We’ve had some really amazing adventures.”
This fall, Galusha was confronted with a heart-wrenching task. He would take Cooke into the woods, one last time, in search of a big buck.
The difference was that this time they would not be walking the tote roads and trails together. Instead, Galusha would be carrying Cooke’s cremains in his backpack.
Cooke died on Sept. 5 at age 61 after a long struggle with renal failure. Galusha said after 40 years of dialysis or living with a transplanted kidney, Cooke opted to cease treatment and enter hospice care when his third transplant failed.
Doctors had originally told Cooke he would be lucky to celebrate his 30th birthday. Thus, he tried all his life to avoid getting too emotionally attached to people. He seldom asked anyone for favors.
Cooke and Galusha hadn’t seen each other much in recent years as Galusha focused on raising a family. But in late August, Cooke left a voicemail for Galusha explaining that he planned to enter hospice care.
Cooke told Galusha he didn’t need to do anything, but wanted him to know. He did not want to become a burden to anyone else.
“His body was telling him that he’s had enough,” Galusha said. “He couldn’t golf. He couldn’t play his guitar. He hadn’t been hunting in years.”
Galusha couldn’t let it end like that. In spite of Cooke’s reluctance to have his old friend see him in such poor health, he went to visit him.
But as Cooke faced his own mortality, he asked one favor of Galusha.
“He said, ‘Promise me one thing, could you please, just one time, take me in to Upper Dam to go fishing before you dump my ashes?’” Galusha said.
The dam separates Mooselookmeguntic (Cupsuptic) Lake and Richardson Lake north of Rangeley. It was a favorite spot of theirs, one Cooke introduced to Galusha, who grew up in New York.
“He really loved the wilderness and Rangeley,” Galusha said of Cooke, who was a Vermont native.
Galusha immediately said yes but, knowing how much Cooke also enjoyed hunting, he didn’t feel as though the fishing trip was enough to adequately honor his friend.
“I said, I’m going to take you for the whole deer season, every time I go,” Galusha said. “He looked at me and started crying and said, ‘That would be so awesome.’
“It was hard. We cried and hugged each other,” he said.
When Galusha went deer hunting near his home in Rangeley during the third week of November — a week the two buddies often spent together over the years — he tried his best to make it like old times.
Galusha spared no effort. He carried the cardboard urn containing Cooke’s cremains inside a camouflage can, which was wrapped with a photo showing Cooke posing with a nice buck he had harvested many years earlier.
He also packed Cooke’s blaze orange hat and vest, along with his grunt tube, compass, doe bleat can, deer scents and a set of rattling antlers.
Galusha chronicled the events of each hunting day by posting to Cooke’s Facebook page, complete with observations, recollections and photos.
Lots of deer were seen and there was one encounter with a buck, but after missing initially, Galusha refused to take a bad shot as the deer was partially obscured by undergrowth.
“I just did what Doug would have done. He’s not going to shoot and I wasn’t going to shoot,” Galusha said.
He spoke reverently about Cooke’s resilience through the years in the face of his constant battle with health problems, which included not only kidney failure, dialysis and transplants, but four hip replacements and, eventually, a heart attack.
The arrival of muzzleloader season provided one more week to hunt. On Friday, Dec. 2, Galusha walked more than 3 miles along a gated road to an area where he had seen deer a week earlier.
That got him off the beaten track, away from other potential hunters, something Cooke would have appreciated.
“He wasn’t afraid to go do stuff,” Galusha said. “It might take us a little bit longer, but he didn’t care.”
Galusha, who still often refers to Cooke in the present tense, said he vocalized some of his reflections while in the woods. He saw eagles, which he thought might be Cooke keeping an eye on him.
“I talked to him a lot,” Galusha said, who also enjoyed telling the handful of hunters he encountered that he was not out alone, rather with his friend.
He then explained the story of his promise to Cooke and reverently removed the urn from his pack to show them.
When Galusha finally saw the buck, it wasn’t quite close enough. He uses one of Cooke’s favorite tactics to coax the deer closer.
Galusha tried the grunt tube, and then the doe bleat can, but the deer didn’t seem to hear it. Then, he blew harder on the grunt tube and finally got the buck’s attention.
“I irked one right in, that’s what Doug would say,” said Galusha, recalling Cooke’s affection for using the alternating calls.
The spikehorn turned and walked directly at Galusha, who shot it.
“I cried,” he said of the moment, recalling that Cooke had been there when he shot his first antlered deer, also a spikehorn.
During the long drag back to his truck, Galusha had plenty of time to think about how much Cooke would have enjoyed the hunt — and watching him make the drag.
At one point, a crew of loggers had approached.
“I was pointing to the sky saying, ‘We got it done,’ shaking my hand,” Galusha said. “A guy came up behind me and said, ‘You all set?’ and I’m like, yup.”
Cooke and Galusha had lived together for 10 years at one point, but they also had gone long periods without talking with each other. Even so, whenever they were reunited it was as if they had never been apart.
The last few visits were difficult. Cooke’s health was failing, but Galusha just wanted to be there for his buddy.
“It was emotional,” said Galusha, who was present when Cooke died. “I held his hand to his last breath.”
Next spring, hopefully when the fish are biting and the bugs aren’t, Galusha will grant Cooke — who he described as a fabulous fisherman — his final wish by taking him fishing at Upper Dam, just like they used to do.
“I’m thinking maybe around his birthday [July 19]. It might be sooner, depending on how buggy it is,” said Galusha, who expects to make more than one excursion with Cooke.
Galusha said he will know when it’s time to say goodbye.
“I really don’t want to let him go, but I promised him I would, so I will,” he said.
Maine
Maine loses ‘Battle for the Brice-Cowell Musket' 27-9
ORONO, Maine (WABI) – On Saturday Maine Football hosted their bitter rivals the UNH Wildcats for their 112th all-time matchup with the coveted Brice-Cowell Musket on the line.
The Black Bears were the first team to make their mark on the scoreboard as Joey Bryson converted a 39-yard field goal with 3:56 left to play in the first quarter.
Maine would score again just a few minutes later as quarterback Carter Peevy connected with Montigo Moss for a spectacular one-handed touchdown.
After the Black Bears failed to score on a two-point conversion Maine held onto a 9-0 lead.
Maine’s ‘Black Hole’ defense was able to keep UNH off the board for nearly all of the first half.
But with 11 seconds to go before halftime the Wildcats scored their first touchdown of the game.
UNH would score their second touchdown on their first play from scrimmage in the second half giving them a 14-9 advantage.
That score would end up being the decisive one.
The Wildcats were able to shut out Maine the rest of the game en route to a 27-9 victory.
Saturday’s loss marks the third consecutive season that the Black Bears have lost in the Battle for the Brice-Cowell Musket.
Maine’s season has now come to an end as the Black Bears finish their season with a 5-7 record.
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