Something did not feel as peppy, Midcoast Railservice Vice President and co-founder George Betke recalled an engineer saying after the last Coastliner passenger run in October, a Damariscotta Pumpkinfest excursion. Turned out, there was a problem.
A Harvard student fulfilled a life-long dream when he paddled a 1,500 pound giant pumpkin across the Charles River on Saturday. Here's why he did it, and what it was like.