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UPDATE: Search for missing boater suspended

By The Associated Press wire report November 09, 2008 07:45 PM

9:45 p.m.

BOWERBANK -- The Maine Warden Service has called off the search for the body of a boater missing in First Buttermilk Pond in Bowerbank.

Deborah Turcotte, spokeswoman for the Warden Service, said the search for 56-year-old Robert Pomeroy would resume on Monday.

The body of Foxcroft Academy English teacher James Brown, 57, was recovered on Sunday.

District Court Judge Kevin Stitham, 56, and David Perkins, 50, survived after the four friends' boat took on water and sank Saturday afternoon. The men had been deer hunting and were attempting to cross the pond when the boat started to take on water.

2 p.m.

BOWERBANK -- The Maine Warden Service has recovered the body of one of two men who went missing after their boat sank in a Piscataquis County lake.

According to the warden service, four lifelong friends from Dover-Foxcroft were crossing First Buttermilk Pond in Bowerbank about 4:15 p.m. Saturday when their boat began taking on water.

Fifty-year-old David Perkins and 56-year-old Kevin Stitham were able to make it to shore after the boat went down, but the other two men didn't make it.

The body of 57-year-old James Brown was recovered early Sunday afternoon, and the search for 56-year-old Robert Pomeroy was continuing. Brown was a longtime teacher at Foxcroft Academy.

Seventeen game wardens, a state trooper and members of the Piscataquis County Sheriff's Department and the Bowerbank and Milo fire departments were involved in the search.