BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 12, 2022
When Cindy Philbrick got a call from Hampden’s public safety director on Tuesday about two loose calves outside her yard, she responded the only way she said made sense — she told him to herd the cows inside the fence and shut the gate behind them. The pair of calves is the most recent instance of escaped livestock in Greater Bangor. In the spring a group of five Highland cattle escaped in Old Town during transport to their new home, and just last week four other Highland cattle from a different farm bolted from their pasture in Orland. But while those cattle evaded capture, these calves made it home later that day.