MORNING SENTINEL • January 8, 2023
Divers from the Maine Warden Service recovered the body Saturday morning of a Bradford man whose snowmobile had broken through the ice Friday on Seboeis Lake. Allen Cole Jr., 74, was out Friday afternoon on his 2006 Arctic Cat with his dog, looking for areas to ice fish. The incident marks the second time in a little more than a week a Mainer has died after breaking through the ice while operating a vehicle. Early on Jan. 1, Jeremiah Meader, 42, of Smithfield was driving himself and three passengers across North Pond on a utility terrain vehicle, when the UTV broke through the ice. Meader’s passengers managed to escape. His body was recovered later that day.