July 20, 2012
From Morning Sentinel Staff
EUSTIS — A Stratton man training his dogs drowned Wednesday in Flagstaff Lake.
Cpl. John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service said Leo Pepin, 81, was training hunting dogs on the shoreline off Flagstaff Road shortly after 3 p.m.
“He entered the water swimming to retrieve a piece of dog training equipment and went under,” MacDonald said in a news release.