Bowdoin in a sentence

BOWDOIN — Police say a woman reported missing — Jessica Woerter Giberson, 43, of Bowdoin — is safe in Mississippi.

She was a long time member of the West Bowdoin Baptist Church, the Mission Circle, and the Bowdoin Historical Society.

A member of law enforcement walks with a police dog outside a property on Meadow Road, in Bowdoin, Maine, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

At the corner of West Road and Wood Schoolhouse Road in Bowdoin, police from several different agencies were on the scene Thursday morning, directing traffic away from the area and sending people back in the direction they came.

At the scene in Bowdoin, yellow crime scene tape hung around a home with a long, gravel driveway in a wooded area.

Bauman graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick and owned a home in Portland that she rented out intermittently, but she’d never lived here full time.

Bowdoin SJP’s open letter to King and Collins has garnered more than 1,500 signatures in less than a week, including hundreds of students from more than 15 Maine colleges.

By late afternoon, police had converged outside a home in Bowdoin that was owned by Card’s brother and sister-in-law but that a neighbor said was unoccupied.

Card, who lives in Bowdoin, is a trained firearms instructor who police believe is in the U.S. Army Reserve out of Saco.

Four people were first found dead inside a home in Bowdoin, and a short time later, around 10:30 a.m., three people were shot while driving south on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth, police said.

His last known address was at 941 Meadow Road, Bowdoin, Maine, around 10 miles away from Lisbon, where he reportedly abandoned his car following the deadly shooting.

Instead, he easily got hold of his mother’s pistol and eight more unsecured guns he found in the Bowdoin home of his family friends, according to court documents.

Joseph Eaton, 34, of Bowdoin could not live in a house where there were firearms under federal law because he is a convicted felon.

Law enforcement personnel surround a house in Bowdoin as they search for the suspect in the mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, USA on October 26, 2023.

Maine State Police later posted Thursday morning that it was expanding its shelter in place advisory and school closings to include the town of Bowdoin.

People looked up the name and found another man who shared it but was several years younger and lived in Fairfield, not Bowdoin.

Schools like Brown University, Washington University in St. Louis and Bowdoin College already have an optional video introduction that students can submit.

Seven people were shot and the state gripped in fear when Joseph Eaton allegedly killed four people in Bowdoin and then injured three others when he opened fire on cars driving on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth.

The district covers Harpswell, Topsham, Bowdoin and Bowdoinham.

The loud bangs heard outside a home on Meadow Road in Bowdoin were not gunshots, according to Department of Public Safety spokesperson Shannon Moss.