1. Man stable after Frenchville motorcycle crash
FRENCHVILLE- Aroostook Country Sheriff's Deputy Kris Malmborg said a Frenchville
man is stable after losing control of his motorcycle while driving on Starbarn Avenue in
Frenchville Thursday evening.
At approximately 6 p.m., 49-year-old Allen Boucher of Frenchville was operating his
motorcycle down the hill near where Cleveland Road intersects with Starbarn Avenue
when he lost control of his machine on the gravel in the roadway.
"He over corrected and ended up in the ditch with the bike on top of him," said
Malmborg.
Tracy Beaulieu of Frenchville said she was driving by the scene on her way to a store and
noticed the motorcycle in the ditch, but was unable to see anyone nearby at first. When
she returned from the store, she drove slowly by the scene and though she was still
unable to see anyone, she said she heard a man saying "Help me." She located the man
lying in the ditch and called 911.
"I was talking to him and he was alert," Beaulieu reported.
Frenchville Ambulance and ASI from Fort Kent responded to the scene and transported
the man to Northern Maine Medical Center at approximately 7 p.m. Frenchville Fire
Department blocked the road and directed traffic.
Malmborg said at 8 p.m. Thursday evening that the investigation was ongoing.
"My first instinct was just to make sure he was all set," he said.
Friday morning, Joanne Fortin of NMMC confirmed that the hospital had transferred
Boucher in fair condition to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor for further
treatment.
Malmborg was the investigating officer. Deputy Vance Palmer assisted with the
investigation.
"It's pretty cut and dry," said Malmborg.
There is no information available at this time about damage to the motorcycle.

2. School committee cancels meeting, cites
superintendent's resignation as reason
MADAWASKA - Right up until 6 p.m. when the meeting was supposed to open, concerned
citizens of Madawaska, the town manager and members of the Madawaska Education
Association filed into the superintendent's chambers on the top floor of the municipal
building to hear the latest news on the school budget progress. Only, there was no
meeting.
Roger Thibodeau, the school committee chair, was the only member of the school
committee present. Promptly at 6 p.m., he called the audience to attention and announced,
"We will not have a meeting."
Thibodeau said that due to the abrupt resignation of Superintendent Terry Wood earlier
that day, the committee was unable to convene at their previously scheduled time.
"They wanted me to put a sign on the door, but I felt it was not correct to have people
come to this meeting to find a sign on the door," he said.
Thibodeau said Wood called him at the Chamber of Commerce, where he is executive
director, at 11:15 a.m. that day and informed him over the phone that she was resigning
effective at noon. He declined to comment any further on her reasoning, but said that
after he made some phone calls to the Department of Education for advice on the
situation, the committee would likely convene next Wednesday in executive session to
discuss the matter.
"We're in bad, bad times right now," said Thibodeau. "I'm sorry. Thank you all for
coming."
With those parting words, the meeting was officially over before it even began.
Madawaska HS graduate recounts dramatic story of
bomber manhunt
WATERTOWN, Mass. / Madawaska – Lori Ann (Michaud) Richardson, a 28-year-old
2002 Madawaska High School graduate, joined nearly a million other Boston area
residents under lockdown Friday morning as police and military conducted an
unprecedented search for one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings less
than two miles from her home in Watertown, Mass.

3. “We were woken up around 2:41 a.m. to Watertown alert text messages that there was an
incident, and we were advised to shelter in place,” said Richardson. “We didn't know
what happened. There was a video posted of the shoot-out on Mt. Auburn - right next to
my favorite vegetarian restaurant.”
Richardson lives with her husband, U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant W. Eli Richardson IV,
their dog Mason, and two cats. She said her boss told her to work from home this
morning, and they are locked inside their home, even afraid to take their dog outside to
go to the bathroom.
Watertown is 4.2 square miles, with a population of approximately 32,000 people
according to the 2010 census. Richardson said the mall area where law enforcement
officials are concentrating their search is on Arsenal Street, less than two miles from her
home.
“The streets are empty and quiet, just law enforcement cars driving by,” she said.
Richardson’s parents, Dan and Michelle Cyr of Limestone and Norm and Sue Michaud of
Madawaska are calling her a few times an hour to check in.
The massive manhunt in Watertown is to locate Dzhokar A. Tsarnaev, 19, who was the
man wearing the white ball cap in the video and photos the FBI made public in the late
afternoon of Thursday, April 18.
Just hours after authorities released the images to the public, they received information
identifying the subjects as Dzhokar A. Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan
Tsarneav.
Shortly after 10 p.m. that evening, they received a report of shots fired on the MIT
campus. According to news reports, police found an MIT campus police officer had been
shot – he died from his wounds. A short time later, authorities investigating the incident
viewed one of the suspects on a video surveillance camera of a 7-11 store in Cambridge.
He apparently robbed the store before the MIT incident.
After the MIT shooting, the brothers carjacked a vehicle and held a man hostage at
gunpoint for a half hour before letting him go. Police began chasing the carjacked vehicle
and exchanged gunfire with the occupants. News reports also indicate that the men were
throwing explosive devices from the carjacked vehicle.
At some point during the chase, which led them to Watertown, another police officer
received a serious injury. After a shoot-out resembling something one might see on an
action movie screen, the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarneav, received fatal wounds.
Dzhokar escaped into the neighborhood, however, hence the manhunt, which was
ongoing at the time of this report.

4. As she switches between news stations, which she has been doing since 5 a.m., watching
reports of events unfolding in her own town while she stays holed-up safe in her home,
Richardson said, “I'm a little uneasy, but feel safe and have faith in Greater Boston's
finest (law enforcement).”
She added, “I am stunned that this is all happening around me. This is a nice suburban
neighborhood of Boston. Boston is a safe, exciting, culturally rich, opportunity-filled city.
I feel patriotic and protective, anxious, glued to the news, and excited that justice is
within reach.”
Richardson has friends in the area who live in surrounding communities and some who
were at the marathon on Monday when the explosions occurred. Everyone she knows is
safe.
“We have all been checking in with each other, to make sure everyone is safe and doing
ok, co-workers included, and out-of-town family and friends have been
calling/texting/Facebooking,” she said.
Though Boston and its suburbs is an urban area with a population over a million,
Richardson says today it feels more like a small town. In the wake of the bombings,
residents have pulled together and put their Boston pride on display for the world to see.
At the start of a Boston Bruins game Wednesday evening, the first major sporting event
in the city since the bombings on Monday, the entire stadium of people joined in singing
the national anthem while holding signs and flags in support of the city and moving
forward.
“It's really amazing to see that small town, ‘I've got your back’ camaraderie eight hours
from ‘home’ - the Valley,” she said. “Some folks are donating/delivering coffee to the
officers who have been on duty for hours.”
The situation continues to unfold Friday morning. News reports are suggesting that the
brothers may have accomplices. The investigation will likely take weeks or months to
fully resolve. In the meantime, the entire area is under lockdown. Amtrack’s Downeaster
has suspended trains in or out of Boston, a representative of Concord Trailways bus line
reported that Boston’s South Station was closed, but they are continuing other bus routes
around the region, and the Boston Police Department suspended all taxi service in the
town. Businesses, colleges, universities and schools are all closed Friday morning.
“It's been a tough morning,” said Richardson. As she looked outside at the normally busy,
but now empty street in front of her home, she added, “It's a beautiful 71 degree sunny
spring day, birds are chirping - wish I could play outside.”
“[It’s] so quiet now,” said Richardson, who is looking forward to things returning to
normal.

5. When the situation in Watertown resolves, and Richardson receives word that she can
leave her home, she said the first thing she will do is “take our dog out for a walk along
the Charles River path on the beautiful spring day. Fresh air. Freedom. Appreciation. We
are serving breakfast at a soup kitchen for homeless veterans in the early a.m.”
Emergency crews rescue injured man from remote
location on snowmobile trail
FORT KENT – An emergency rescue crew from the Fort Kent Fire Department
responded to a report of a snowmobile accident on the Carter Brook trail somewhere in
the vicinity of Wallagrass Wednesday afternoon at approximately 1:30.
Eddie Boutot, 68, of Presque Isle was riding with another snowmobiler when somehow
the two machines collided, injuring the man, according to Fire Chief Ed Endee.
The Fire Department received the call at 1:22 p.m. Wednesday, informing them that the
incident had occurred somewhere on the trail between Fort Kent and Eagle Lake. Few
“very sketchy details” were initially available as crews ventured into the woods with the
department’s rescue boggan, said Endee.
Endee said because the snowmobilers were unable to tell rescuers their exact location,
there was some initial confusion with emergency crews as to where might be the closest
access point to reach the injured party. First, the ambulance and rescue workers headed
up Violette Settlement Road in Fort Kent where they dispatched the rescue boggan down
the trail to find the scene, which ended up being nearly all the way to the Carter Brook
Clubhouse in Wallagrass.
As more information became available as to the location of the accident, the dispatcher
redirected them to a trail access point off of Michaud Road near where local route 73C
crosses Route 11 just north of the Wallagrass Stream where the crew waited for the
rescue boggan to come out with the injured man. That trail connects with ITS 85, a major
snowmobile corridor that runs from Fort Kent to points in southern Maine.
At the scene, Endee said, “They’re in there quite a ways. We’re going in there to get
them.”
It took about an hour and a half for the rescue workers to bring the man off the trail and
place him into the ambulance.
“Part of that was because they could not give us a good location and we had to find
them,” said Endee.

6. An ambulance was standing by at the trail head near the access point. Endee said that
when the man came out of the woods, he appeared coherent and comfortable, despite
some pain from his injuries. The ambulance transported him to Northern Maine Medical
Center for further treatment.
This was the second time this year that the Fort Kent Fire Department has had to deploy
the rescue boggan to the scene of a snowmobile accident. The department has no
snowmobile to pull the boggan.
“We had to borrow a snowmobile again,” said Endee.
Fortunately, Endee said they were able to borrow a snowmobile from Jean LaBlanc of
Camel Brook Camps on Violette Settlement Road.
Maine Game Warden Gary Sibley also responded to the scene.

7. An ambulance was standing by at the trail head near the access point. Endee said that
when the man came out of the woods, he appeared coherent and comfortable, despite
some pain from his injuries. The ambulance transported him to Northern Maine Medical
Center for further treatment.
This was the second time this year that the Fort Kent Fire Department has had to deploy
the rescue boggan to the scene of a snowmobile accident. The department has no
snowmobile to pull the boggan.
“We had to borrow a snowmobile again,” said Endee.
Fortunately, Endee said they were able to borrow a snowmobile from Jean LaBlanc of
Camel Brook Camps on Violette Settlement Road.
Maine Game Warden Gary Sibley also responded to the scene.