The Maine Warden Service is offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man who shot a domestic dog on a hiking trail in North Yarmouth on Friday.

The incident happened at about 11 a.m. as three people were walking their dogs on a marked trail in the Knights Pond Preserve, according to the Warden Service.

One of their dogs was shot about 20 feet ahead of them.

According to the Warden Service, the shooter was described as a man in his 30s, with dark hair and scruffy facial hair. He was wearing a blaze orange vest, a blaze orange hat and camouflage pants. The owners of the dog had a brief encounter with the shooter, but he quickly fled the scene.

A man matching this description was seen leaving the area in a dark-colored, full-size pickup truck, according to the Warden Service.

“This atrocious, negligent shooting is both heinous and inexcusable, and is aggravated by the cowardly act of the shooter fleeing the scene,” Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Commissioner Judy Camuso said in a statement. “The incomprehensible and appalling act of one individual tarnishes the reputation of all of Maine’s 230,000 hunters.”

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Maine Warden Service at 207-624-7076, or contact Operation Game Thief at 1-800-ALERT-US.

The Warden Service is also urging the shooter to call 207-624-7076 and turn himself in.

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It’s never been simple to get repairs and expansions done on Maine’s coastal properties. Owners must work with a handful of firms that specialize in marine construction to get their projects designed, permitted and built.

But those projects got even harder this year, after a handful of storms last winter did widespread damage across the state. Some of the heaviest destruction was along the coast, where two storms in January tore out many docks and wharves while severely eroding parts of the shoreline.

That created a big backlog for companies like Prock Marine of Rockland. While it previously took the firm 10 to 14 months to complete projects such as dock rebuilds and shoreline stabilization, the timeline roughly doubled — to between 18 months and two years — as repairs from last winter’s storms came in, according to project manager Sean Kelly.

The company could eventually shorten that timeline by expanding its staff of 35 to 40 people. But construction firms such as Prock have had a hard time filling positions even as its more experienced staff approach retirement.

“We’d love to put together another crew, another barge crew, but it’s hard to maintain what we’ve got,” Kelly said.

By now, it’s well understood that Maine needs more workers to replace those who are aging out of vital industries such as construction and other trades. But state officials recently singled out marine construction as one that’s most in need of new workers if Maine’s lucrative working waterfronts are to be ready for storms that are growing more severe with climate change.

“Increased contractor capacity, particularly in marine construction and the engineering, planning, and permitting components of these projects, will be critical,” according to the new four-year climate action plan released this month by the administration of Gov. Janet Mills

The report calls for studying the recent storms and working with industries, organizations and community colleges to expand the number of builders who can do coastal construction. More broadly, it calls for creating opportunities for 7,000 new registered apprentices to serve as the state’s “climate-ready workforce” by 2030 and increasing the number of women working in construction, among other steps.

As it stands, there are few firms that coastal property owners can look to when they are trying to rebuild from storms, according to Linda Nelson, economic and community development director in the fishing port of Stonington, where the busy local lobster co-op suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage in January.

“There is Prock Marine and there is Prock Marine, pretty much, and if you can get Prock Marine, if you have a job that’s big enough and lucrative to get on their schedule, great,” said Nelson, who also is co-chair of a state commission that’s studying how to make Maine’s infrastructure more resilient against similar storms.

But, Nelson went on, Maine will need more “human and financial resources” to quickly repair roads, docks, bridges and other infrastructure that are essential to Maine’s peninsula and island communities in the wake of severe storms. There’s also the broader challenge of rebuilding that infrastructure so that it’s higher and more protected from future damage.

There are several things that make marine construction more laborious than traditional land-based projects, including additional permitting requirements, the need to work off barges, and the difficulty of ensuring that structures will sit level on the ocean floor while withstanding tides, corrosion and other forces.

At Prock Marine, Kelly said there is no “silver bullet” to bringing in more workers, but he welcomes the efforts of the state and private organizations to create more of a pipeline for young Mainers to join the trades. He is now working with the state Labor Department to start the company’s own apprenticeship program.

He’s hopeful that more students coming up through the state’s schools will see the value of receiving vocational training and entering the trades, particularly at an established company where they can receive ongoing training and mentorship as well as a full set of benefits.

“Now the trick is to get the people who are interested to walk through the door to fill out an application,” he said.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — At least five Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut were targeted by bomb threats on their homes Thursday, the lawmakers or their offices said.

Sen. Chris Murphy and Reps. Jim Himes, Joe Courtney, John Larson and Jahana Hayes all reported being the subject of such threats. Police who responded said they found no evidence of explosives on the lawmakers’ properties.

There was no immediate word whether Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the fifth Democratic House member from the state, and Connecticut’s other Democratic senator received threats.

The bomb threats against Democrats happened a day after a number of President-elect Donald Trump ‘s most prominent Cabinet picks and appointees reported that they had received such threats, as well as “swatting attacks,” in which perpetrators initiate an emergency law enforcement response against a victim under false pretenses.

Murphy’s office said his Hartford home was the target of a bomb threat, “which appears to be part of a coordinated effort involving multiple members of Congress and public figures.” Hartford Police and U.S. Capitol Police determined there was no threat.

Hayes said the Wolcott Police Department informed her Thursday morning that it had received “a threatening email stating a pipe bomb had been placed in the mailbox at my home.” State police, U.S. Capitol Police, and the House sergeant at arms were notified, Wolcott and state police responded “and no bomb or explosive materials were discovered.”

Courtney’s Vernon home received a bomb threat while his wife and children were there, his office said.

Himes said he was told of the threat against his home during a Thanksgiving celebration with his family. The U.S. Capitol Police, and Greenwich and Stamford police departments responded.

Hines extended his family’s “utmost gratitude to our local law enforcement officers for their immediate action to ensure our safety.” Echoing other lawmakers who were threatened, he added: “There is no place for political violence in this country, and I hope that we may all continue through the holiday season with peace and civility.”

Larson also said Thursday that East Hartford Police responded to a bomb threat against his home.

The FBI declined to give details on the latest episodes except to say it is investigating them in partnership with other agencies.

The threats follow an election season marked by violence. In July, a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing him in the ear and killing one of his supporters. The Secret Service later thwarted a subsequent assassination attempt at Trump’s West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course when an agent spotted the barrel of a gun poking through a perimeter fence while Trump was golfing.

Among those who received threats Wednesday were New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick to serve as the next ambassador to the United Nations; Matt Gaetz, Trump’s initial pick to serve as attorney general; Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, whom Trump chose to lead the Department of Labor, and former New York congressman Lee Zeldin, who has been tapped to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

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