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EAGLE LAKE - For the second year in a row the Eagle Lake ATV club hauled out the grills, the tongs, and a bunch of steak to raise money for the local club of off-road enthusiasts.

MSAD 27 - Administrators and teachers are calling it the No Touch Policy.

In general, the policy is in place to discourage aggressive physical contact.

FORT KENT - University of Maine at Fort Kent President Wilson Hess told an assembly of Community High School freshmen that the university would provide a $1000 scholarship to all freshmen who graduate on-time from CHS and qualify for entry into UMFK.

Hess made the announcement at the beginning of an orientation program that the ninth grade team of teachers had designed for the first day of high school.

Ninth grade team leader Brigitte Morse said, "That's awesome."

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On Saturday, Bossie landed a 40 and 1/2-inch muskie that stayed at the top of the leader board until the derby officially ended at 5 p.m. on Sunday.

FORT KENT - Earlier this week there was a crisis.  The iconic bell, which organizers mount at the muskie weigh station near BeeJay's, was missing.

But lucky for the derby, the Musky Planning Committee found the bell.

Darlene Kelly-Dumond said, "I found it."

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Linda Cyr said, "It was right where it was supposed to be."

FORT KENT - There may have been a bad man in the area.

For Fort Kent Police Chief Kenneth Michaud, the story begins when the local police department received a bulletin that said to be on the lookout for a black Chevy GMC Z71 pickup with license plate 59425B.

FORT KENT - This weekend in Fort Kent is going to be huge.

There is no other way to describe it.  The number of things to see and do could keep some people busy for 24 hours each day.

Check out our coverage of one of the most amazing festivals in northern Maine:

Derby & Fest

Fest Guide

He may be the only UMS president who has eaten whale blubber.

Dr. Wilson Hess, the new president of the University of Maine at Fort Kent, said he had the unique opportunity to eat whale blubber while studying native groups in Canada when he was the executive director of the Audubon Expedition Institute out of Belfast, Maine.

(For a video of Dr. Hess' opening remarks to the UMFK Board of Visitors, please click HERE)

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ALLAGASH - Jeremy McBreairty's house on Walker Brook in Allagash caught fire on Sunday around 5:30 p.m.

According to Nola Begin at the Allagash Town Office, McBreairty is her nephew.  She said he called in the report and the 14 volunteers members of the fire department converged on his home.

Lead by Fire Chief Sean Lizotte, the firefighters put out the blaze, saving the home.  Begin said the home appeared to have sustained primarily smoke damage and had little structural damage.

FORT KENT - Emergency personnel air-lifted a New Brunswick teen to Eastern Maine Medical Center on Sunday as a result of an accident on Strip Road near Wallagrass.

According to a spokesperson at the Fort Kent police, the accident occurred Sunday morning, just before 11 a.m. where New Canada Road intersects with Strip Road.

According to police, John Michael Fongemie, 16, of Edmundston, New Brunswick, was driving a white 2004 Chevrolet Silverado pickup north on New Canada Road.

FORT KENT - She's belted out songs of patriotism, love and hope for state and national leaders, for military veterans and for judges at competitions across the North American Continent.  She can sing tunes from classical to jazz, Disney to folk tunes.  Yet things have been changing for the maturing young singer.

ST. JOHN - Fort Kent police say that two brothers found a .45 revolver in the water near the American Dream Resort.

The report came to police around 5:30 on Saturday night.  According to police reports, the two unidentified men were on the left side of the boat landing behind the restaurant, where they discovered the gun.

The gun is very rusty.