Deirdre Fleming covers the outdoors for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and has been a newspaper reporter in Maine for 25 years - and an outdoor writer for the past 20. During that time, she’s seen biologists trap 500-pound bear, watched fishermen land high-jumping makos, camped on Moosehead Lake in the winter, and retraced Gov. Percival Baxter’s first trip to Mt. Katahdin. She is often asked, but still does not know her favorite wildland in Maine. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, she lives with her husband in Buxton near the Saco River, where they both fly fish.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
Shopping for snowshoes? Technological advances create a variety of options
From the 60-inch traditional wooden style to the 20-inch racing models, snowshoes have changed dramatically over the decades.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2022
Indoor track: Scarborough boys capture sixth straight Class A title
The Red Storm edge Lewiston, while Bangor successfully defends its girls’ state championship.
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2022
Indoor track: Surprising Red Riots head into state meet with new energy
The South Portland boys’ track and field squad has defied the pandemic odds by more than doubling its roster.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2022
Casco couple teaches young son to ski despite physical challenges
Kara and Chad Kilmartin want their children to live an outdoor lifestyle and have helped 5-year-old son Cooper, who has spina bifida, learn to enjoy the slopes.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2022
SMAA indoor track: Gorham girls, South Portland boys prevail as athletes relish support from parents
After competing with no spectators during the regular season, the league’s top athletes said having parents present helped them set personal-best marks and take down league records.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2022
Belfast’s most enthusiastic rowers embrace the cold
The community rowing program, Come Boating, launches six-oar Cornish pilot gigs year-round.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2022
Sports Digest: Kate Hall-Harnden to compete for first time since knee injury
The Casco native is entered in the long jump at an indoor track meet in New York on Sunday, a year after tearing her anterior cruciate ligament.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2022
What’s in a name? Ask the skiers at Shawnee Peak
The Bridgton ski area was called Pleasant Mountain for 50 years before being renamed after a ski resort in Pennsylvania. Some skiers hope it will revert to its original name under new ownership.
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2022
Team of biologists makes daring rescue of loons trapped in iced-in waters
A new recovery effort is helping to bolster Maine’s loon population.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2022
Naples man, 46, killed in snowmobile crash
He died after his machine veered off a trail in Harrison and crashed into trees.
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