BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 5, 2020
Tom Coon, a dyed-in-the-wool outdoorsman from Medway, reveled in canoeing, fishing, fiddleheading and the quarter century he spent as a ranger on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. And when the 63-year-old died Sunday of complications from COVID-19 at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, it was in a hospital room with a view of the Penobscot River down below. According to Matt LaRoche, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Superintendent, Coon, a colorful character who did his job memorably and well, didn’t hold back if he saw something that didn’t seem right. “He’d just tell it like it is.“