Print article An Anchorage man died Friday when the snowcat he was driving broke through lake ice in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the Alaska State Troopers said. Scott Gagne, 57, was driving the snowcat around 4:30 p.m. on Hewitt Lake near Skwentna when the large tracked vehicle fell through the ice, troopers wrote in an online report. Austin McDaniel, a spokesman for the troopers, described the snowcat as a “a larger tracked vehicle with a front plow that was transporting a snowmachine.” Snowcats are often used to groom ski trails, but McDaniel said it was not clear if Gagne was grooming a trail when the machine broke through the ice.
Maine COVID vaccine rollout: York County town leaders feel out of loop
State and county officials say they, too, are dealing with constricted flow of intel
KITTERY, Maine – Early on in the pandemic, when Maine began documenting its very first cases of COVID-19, some local leaders expressed concern about the state s responsiveness to the needs of its southernmost communities.
Kittery Town Manager Kendra Amaral said it felt like municipal leaders in southern York County had to ring alarm bells loudly and publicly to get state leaders in Augusta to recognize that the circumstances on the ground in Maine s southern tip, where residents live closer to Boston than to their own state s capital, were quite a bit different from the circumstances in Maine s central or northern regions.