9225-R1_MSA_December2025_Newsletter

MSA Club News

port Vehicle for those of you who may have forgotten). The Sno-goers have made great progress with the trail system and work continues to revitalize the trail system towards the southern part of town. Some fun stuff- By the time you read this, the Sno-goers will have hosted the annual Christmas Party (That’s right, I said Christmas party). Always a great time with awesome food and a lot of laughs. A little business - The Sno-Goers meet the 2 nd Thursday of each month at 6:00 p.m. As a reminder, meetings are held in the Wiscasset Fire Dept training facility located just down the drive from the Sno Goers club house and trail maintenance central. New members are always welcome! Trail work and hopefully grooming will be in full swing as we progress into January. The new WSTSV has already proven itself but will certainly shine with a groomer behind it. Of course we have to give a shout out to our landowners! Without their support we would not have the trail system that we all enjoy. From the Sno-Goers - Happy New Year! WINDHAM DRIFTERS Windham, ME December already!!! Happy Holidays from our club to you and yours! The Drifters have been hard at work pre paring for another great snowmobile season (Mother Nature willing)!! The club has been busy mowing a large portion of the trail system, rebuilding bridges, clearing down trees, establishing new trail reroutes, maintaining equipment, contacting landowners for access and much more! Watch for trail changes throughout our system. It is critical that we work with our generous landowners to maintain the system the club has worked on for decades to create. As land is bought, sold, and/or developed, we often have to change trails to satisfy every one’s needs. Please obey signs and stay on marked trails. New this fall we have established a text alert service to notify those who care to contribute to club work functions and events. If you would like to be added to the list, please con tact the club via Facebook or website. Don’t miss out on our pig raffle fundraiser! Tickets are still available and you could win a freezer full of locally raised pork!! The club has 4 sponsorship renewals and 1 new sponsorship already!! We are very fortu nate for these generous entities! Please follow our Facebook page and fre quent our website for projects and events dates. The club meets the second Monday of each month at 6:30 at Pat’s Pizza in North Wind ham. Please join us if you’re interested. Lastly, a special Thanks to those dedicated officers and members who work year-round for our club. THINK SNOW!!! Do you snow dances folks!! Ride Right and Ride Safe! Seasons Greetings, Shane Spencer-Club Reporter WESTERN REGION Thank you to our members who have renewed their memberships before the snow falls! The trailmaster has been busy mowing the trails, cutting up blowdowns, trimming back those face whackers, and inspecting bridges. We have two very large bridges on the West Bethel pipeline that need to be repaired and redecked and a few other bridges that need minor repairs. Your early donations to the club help with these pre-season expenses. Our ‘93 Tucker needs significant repairs, such as a new radiator, new tracks, and repairs to the steering. In addition, due to our terrain, we would like to install a locker to help get up the icy hills and a blade on the front to deal with drifts and to pull in snow from the sides of the trails. Track, Inc., has provided us an estimate of over $33,000 for this work, which we do not have. Because our ‘73 Tucker needs even more work, we may give it to Track, Inc., to offset some of the repairs, but we still need WILD RIVER RIDERS Gilead, ME

to raise a significant amount of money to have all the repairs and upgrades completed. If you can help with a donation, please visit our web site (https://wildriverriders.wixsite.com/club/ memberships-donations). We are a Maine nonprofit corporation and a 501(c)(3) corpo ration. Your donation may be tax deductible. We’re excited about the early cold weather and light snow and have a lot to do before the trails open, but we hope to make this season the best in several years. norwaytrackerssnowmobileclub@gmail.com Mount Washington is boasting five feet of snow by mid-November. Not quite that much here in Norway yet, but we have had some accumulated snow. Bring it on. Memberships are rolling in. Thank you to all who have joined and supported our club. We have sold quite a few Super Raffle tickets. Good luck to everyone who bought tickets. Check out MSA’s trail map app. We have added our trails to it. Looking forward to using it this winter. Everyone, keep doing snow dances. Hope fully we all get a snowy winter for Christmas. Merry Christmas to all from the Norway Trackers. Dan Trouant, Club Reporter NORWAY TRACKERS Norway, ME Find us on Facebook

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property for a new permanent home for the Branch Duckers. A location was requested to store club equipment and provide parking for volunteers when doing trail maintenance and/ or grooming operations. The club currently stores trail equipment in several different loca tions throughout Sebago. The Selectmen were very supportive of the proposal and permis sion was granted by the town. More to come on this big win for the club.

February 21, 2026. Registration will be from 9:00 AM to Noon with a 50/50 raffle, Chinese Auction and food for sale from the kitchen. We hope to see everyone there! Here’s hoping that we had lots of local win ners from the Super Raffle drawing this year! Sincerely,

Bridget Gorton Club Secretary

PLEASANT MOUNTAIN sc Bridgton, ME

On November 14 th , members of the Pleasant Mountain Snowmobile Club (formerly Bridg ton Easy Riders) gathered for our monthly meeting and to enjoy the Fabulous Pot Luck Supper at 6PM. What a delicious meal it was! President Blaine Chapman called the meet ing to order at 6:45 with a Pledge of Alle giance. After the reading of the Treasurer’s Report and the Secretary’s Report, Blaine asked each member to stand up, and introduce themselves, including the town they are from. It is always nice to welcome new members to the Club. Blaine reported that memberships are com ing in and there are 85 Family Memberships and 25 Business Memberships. Blaine read on FB that a woman was com plaining that someone dumped a bunch of tires, and debris on her land that has a snow mobile trail across her land. The Work Crew cleaned up the mess and took it to the dump. It cost the Club $78 to get rid of the tires, but it was worth it to keep one of our landowners Happy! Blaine thanked Paul L’Heureux for putting electricity in the Clubs new enclosed trailer, which is working out very well. He also reported that Ron and Paul were able to sell the old 1999 Polaris 6 wheeler. The Club is now looking for tracks for the new Polaris side by side. Steve Brill removed tree stumps near ITS 89 near Hayes Ace Hardware. Thanks Steve! Blaine presented Steve with a Gift Certifi cate as a “Thank You” for his many years as Trail Master for the Club. Several Bridges have been repaired or replaced at Willis Park, Power House, and Pond Road. There will be a new trail into Nuria for direct access to the gas pumps. Bill Preis reported that the 2026 Snowmo bile Trail Map will be ready within two weeks. Blaine suggested that we could hand out maps to those who attend the Christmas Party so the Club can save some postage. The Club Poker Rally will be on February 14, 2026. We are looking for volunteers to get raffle prizes for the Chinese Auction. If you are interested, please call Blaine. Trail work is proceeding and Work parties will meet at the Bridgton Walgreens on Sun day mornings at 8AM. Work is usually com pleted by noon. More hands make light work. There is much need for brushing overgrown trails and filling water holes. The next meeting of Pleasant Mountain Snowmobile Club is scheduled for Friday, January 9 th , 2026 at the Bridgton Community Center. The Fabulous Pot Luck Supper begins at 6PM followed by the business meeting at 6:45. Come to our meeting - renew your member ship if you have not already done that - and

The Norway Trackers decorated and donated a tree in the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce Festival of Trees.

FRYEBURG AREA SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION Fryeburg, ME

Hello all, I sure hope everyone had a great Thanksgiv ing holiday! Winter is just around the corner and the temps are dropping fast. The fellas have been out there re-decking a couple of bridges out on the trails. Our dedi cated volunteers are amazing, that’s for sure! Thank you all so very much for your hard work! Another reminder going out about the annual Poker Rally. It will be held at the North Fryeburg Community Chapel on Saturday,

Thank you to our trail maintenance team who continue to volunteer and dedicate their time to making Sebago trails the best they can be. Stay Safe on the Trails, Jim LaPointe WISCASSET SNO-GOERS Wiscasset, ME Greetings and Happy Holidays from the Wiscasset Sno-Goers, By the time you’re reading this it will be late December and with some luck the ground even here on the mid-coast will have a solid white coating. It’s been a busy fall for the Sno-goers with some trail and bridge maintenance. Huge thanks to the folks who have dedicated some Sunday’s to keeping the maintenance going. We’ve had to “expand” a couple of bridges to allow easy passage of the new WSTSV (That’s right, Wiscasset Sno-Goers Trail Sup-

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