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Happy Monday!
You may have noticed, if you get up early enough, that the mornings are getting crisper and, dare we say it, more fallish. Whether you like it or not, the time to pack in the pool and unpack the long pants and shirts will soon be upon us.
We’ve got dry days ahead after the week kicked off with a wet start. Monday and Tuesday will be sunny or partly sunny, with highs across the state in the low to mid-70s.
By Wednesday night that begins to change. The forecast calls for showers to move in across the state and linger into the day Thursday.
6 years after sawing his neighbor’s garage in half, Maine man says he’d do it again
It’s been six years since Gabriel Brawn cut his Dover-Foxcroft neighbor’s garage in half during a property dispute, and he says he would do it again.
“I’d do it every day,” Brawn said. “I’m not ashamed of it or embarrassed by it. I think anybody who’d gone through the same situation, if they had the ability, would have done the exact same thing.”
Today, neither Brawn nor the neighbor he feuded with live in their respective homes, but the remains of one of Maine’s most extreme neighborly disputes still stand. The act stunned people throughout the state and beyond, generating headlines worldwide even at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
While the fight between the two men appears to have quietly fizzled out, the partial garage shows how disputes between neighbors can drag on and leave visible marks on the community for years afterward.
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