Quinton Hanna, who appeared in court Thursday, told police he was in a car accident but did not acknowledge any criminal actions before invoking his right to an attorney.
Friends of Jim Pearson, stunned by his killing outside his home Sunday, remember how he touched their lives when he taught at Gorham High School and ran his Christmas tree farm on Beech Ridge Road.
YORK, Maine The fiberglass head of a watchful Paul Bunyan sits atop a weathered tree stump near an empty field on a quiet back road, dutifully looking after the nearby river and the community.
Like many old tales, the history of where this statue was placed first and how it came to rest in its current spot has little documentation and relies heavily on oral accounts, including from family of the property owners, neighbors and giant statue fans. Details are hard to come by and even harder to confirm.
The family of residents David and Sharan Gross, who own about 100 acres where the bodiless statue head is now perched alongside Birch Hill Road near the York River, would like for now to keep the statue s story within their small circle, according to their daughter, Amanda Bouchard, who described the giant head as a benevolent presence.