MAINE PUBLIC • January 3, 2023
State wildlife officials are warning that warm early winter weather is making it unsafe to venture out onto the ice on many Maine ponds and lakes. Mark Latti, of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, says a man died early Sunday morning after his side-by-side utility vehicle fell though the ice on North Pond in Smithfield. And last week, a father and son fell though the ice on Searsport's Half Moon Pond, but made it safely back to shore.