FORT KENT – He doesn’t wear a badge or ride a horse, but for this weekend at least, call him Marshal Shawn Graham. Race marshal, that is. And his word is the law of the trail. When the Moosehead Lake Area 100-Mile Sled Dog Race… Read More
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher, who in 1986 became the race’s second female winner and brought increased national attention to its grueling competition, has died. She was 51. Butcher, who grew up in Cambridge, Mass., died Saturday in a Seattle hospital of… Read More
NEWRY – Twenty-three Yukon huskies are frantically barking and jumping up and down and sideways, their born-to-run bodies eager to pull the dog sleds that are hitched behind them. But the barking comes to a halt – almost as if somebody turned a switch to… Read More
NEWPORT – Out of more than 100 sled dog teams that ran this weekend in the fifth annual Sled Dog Races, Eddie Clifford and his team of 17 came in first in the open class, but Clifford points out that this fast-growing, cold-weather sport is not about competition. Read More
FORT KENT – Rita Lensing, a 36-year-old waitress from Shroeder, Minn., became the first woman ever to finish the 250-mile Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Race Monday when she crossed the finish line in seventh position. She limped across the finish line, and was taken… Read More
FORT KENT – Thousands of people lined Main Street on Saturday, braving intense cold for the start of the ninth annual Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races. A record number of mushers participated in the biggest sled dog race in the East. Seventy-seven mushers, using… Read More
ALLAGASH – Twenty-six-year-old Keith Aili sprinted to the finish line Sunday night and smashed the race record in winning the ninth Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Race. It was Aili’s first championship in three attempts. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
FORT KENT – The excitement of the Maine Principals’ Association’s Class A skiing championship and the U.S. Junior Biathlon Championships have not had time to diminish in this northern Maine town and the ninth running of the Can Am Crown International Sled Dog Race hits the trails Saturday… Read More
SHERMAN – It would be hard to say who was making more noise Saturday, the hundreds of Katahdin High School fans yelling, screaming and shouting support for their basketball team in the state Eastern Maine Class D championship game in Bangor or the hundreds of huskies barking, howling… Read More
FORT KENT – The ninth Can Am Crown International Sled Dog Race is 10 days away, and a record number of mushers have signed up for the 250-mile classic which takes off down Main Street of this St. John Valley town on March 3. Enthusiasm… Read More