Eight months after filming its first episode in Maine, Animal Planet’s “Finding Bigfoot” team will finally be seen on TV scouring the woods here for the big guy. The episode will debut at 10 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10.
The team filmed in April. The Sun Journal was the only media there for the town hall taping where dozens of people turned out, 14 of them claiming to have had eyewitness encounters.
Check out the b section next Sunday, Jan. 17, for photos, a look behind the scenes and more on the sighting stories that didn’t make it to TV.
In the meantime, the episode’s listing on Animal Planet promises good stuff:
“The team travels for the first time (to) Maine. They split up to interview eyewitnesses and embark on multiple solo investigations. Matt records multiple Bigfoot howls, and is confident they’ve pinned down a Pine Tree State Sasquatch.”
— Kathryn Skelton
A gift, from inmates to puppies
Since fall, a select group of Androscoggin County Jail inmates has crocheted items for children in need. Hundreds of hats. Hundreds of scarves. Lots of booties.
And, this week, more than two dozen rugs and blankets … for animals at the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society.
The blankets and rugs were made using scrap material and donated carpet yarn that was too rough for baby booties and children’s hats.
It was a hit with the animals, who used the colorful, crocheted squares for extra padding in their kennels.
“One (dog) in particular was completely fascinated with it,” said Sgt. Victoria Langelier, who runs the program. “He ripped open the bag as soon as the sheriff brought him near it.”
— Lindsay Tice
Thank you ‘Lewiston Rocks’ friends!
I owe a big thanks to “Lewiston Rocks” Facebook friends who helped me not write an incorrect story Wednesday night.
There I was at the Auburn School Committee meeting when three television crews showed up.
How ’bout that, I thought. Usually me and my phone are the only media there. Superintendent Katy Grondin and Tom Kendall explained that Auburn was the first in Maine, second in the nation, to pass a medical marijuana in schools policy, thus the media attention.
I was impressed. That Auburn was first naturally would be the headline, the lead of my story.
When I got back in the newsroom and was about to write that story that way, I had Facebook post emails from Heidi Sawyer and Linda Scott saying Auburn was not the first, Lewiston passed the same policy in October and November, and that Bonnie Washuk had already reported it.
I did?
At 9 at night, I called Lewiston Superintendent Bill Webster who said, Lewiston passed the medical marijuana policy in October and November.
I started to worry. I didn’t know that. I didn’t remember that. Did my mind wander at those meetings as they were discussing it, you know like the Peanuts “blah blah blah”? Or did I fall asleep in the chair? Do I have early dementia?
“We didn’t make a big deal of it. There was little discussion,” Webster said, perhaps trying to make me feel better.
Still, I was bothered. I looked up both stories from the two meetings.
Phew! I was not at either one! During the first Oct. 26 meeting I was in Augusta covering a charter school hearing; another reporter covered that meeting and the second one on Nov. 9. The stories did not report that the medical marijuana policy was passed.
So, I didn’t fall asleep, or zone out, or have dementia (there’s still time).
Thanks to Heidi Sawyer and Linda Scott, our story correctly said Lewiston had already adopted the policy. Merci.
— Bonnie Washuk
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