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Teenage Girl Seriously Injured In Baldwin Car Accident
BALDWIN, ME – A teenage girl was seriously injured in a Maine car accident last night. According to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office at around 8:20 pm the were called to Pequawket Trail at the intersection of Depot Road in Baldwin Maine for a two vehicle accident.
When authorities arrived they found the 16-year-old Parsonsfield driver of a 2002 Pontiac Sunfire trapped in her vehicle with a head injury. The Cornish Fire Department used extrication tools to free the driver who had suffered serious but non life threatening head injuries.
Cumberland County Deputies said that after an investigation they believe the driver and sole occupant of the Sunfire failed to stop at the stop sign on Depot road, driving through the intersection and into the travel lane of Pequawket Trail. She was then struck by a Chevy truck driven by 60-year-old Raymond McKenney of Westbrook, Maine who was headed east.
McKenney was alone in his truck and suffered only minor injuries. A lifeflight helicopter was called for the for the 16-year-old, but weather prevented them from responding. The girl was instead rushed to Maine Medical Center via Standish Rescue, she was released this morning.
Deputies said that the investigation is still on going, but they believe the teenage driver was distracted by an electronic device.
State Issues Cyanobacteria Warning For Province Lake
EFFINGHAM, NH – State officials have released a cyanobacteria advisory for an Effingham Lake. Wednesday the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services said a cyanobacteria bloom has surfaced in Province Lake, and that based on visual evidence, the cyanobacteria bloom is accumulating along shorelines and is concentrated throughout the water column in deeper parts of the lake. As a result, NHDES issued a cyanobacteria beach advisory and lake warning.
Officials said that the warning is not based on a toxin evaluation and is intended as a precautionary measure for short term exposure. NHDES advises lake users to avoid contact with the water in areas experiencing elevated cyanobacteria cell conditions typically where lake water has a surface scum, green streaks or blue-green flecks aggregating along the shore. NHDES also advises pet owners to keep their pets out of any waters that have a cyanobacteria bloom.
NHDES routinely monitors public beaches and public waters of the state for cyanobacteria. Once a cyanobacteria lake warning or beach advisory has been issued, NHDES returns to affected waterbodies on a weekly basis until the cyanobacteria standards are again met.
Cyanobacteria are natural components of water bodies, but blooms and surface scums may form when excess nutrients are available to the water. Some cyanobacteria produce toxins that are stored within the cells but released upon cell death.
Contact with these toxins can cause both acute and chronic health effects that range in severity. Acute health effects include irritation of skin and mucous membranes, tingling, numbness, nausea, vomiting, seizures and diarrhea. Chronic effects include liver and central nervous system damage.
The warning remains in effect until bacteria levels have decreased.
Market Basket Coming To North Conway
CONWAY, NH – After rumors that have seem to been in the Valley for years it is finally confirmed, a Market Basket is coming to North Conway. According to the Conway Daily Sun plans for an almost 70,000-square-foot store have been filed with the Conway planning department. The Sun reports that Developer Robert Barsamian of OVP Management, owners and managers of the Settlers Green family of retail outlets, said that pending approvals they hope to have the project starting as soon as possible.
The store will be located between North South Road and Route 16 just east of McMillan Lane, about a mile from competitors Hannaford, Shaws, and Walmart. McMillan Road would be relocated east toward the North-South Road.
Market Basket is a Massachusetts based store chain that has 50 grocery stores in New Hampshire and Mass.
The Conway Planning Board is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Thursday to discuss the project at Conway Town Hall.
The Barsamian project is listed at the end of the agenda under other business: “1675 WMH, LLC/Settler’s R2, Inc/13 Green Street Properties, LLC/Rock Development, LLC and Barnes Development, LLC (PID 235-78.01, 82, 85, 90 & 92) – Request for concurrent site plan and subdivision review.”