Jamie Azulay

Portland

Reporter at WMTW-TV (Auburn, ME)

Articles

Operation Reboot Outdoors fundraising to expand nonprofit into Byron

1 week ago | wmtw.com | Jamie Azulay

Operation Reboot Outdoors, a nonprofit that aims to reconnect U.S. veterans to the wilderness, had a successful opening day hunt Monday. Two veterans, one from Maine and the other from Virginia, harvested three birds with the help of registered Maine Guides. Operation Reboot Outdoors was founded in 2019 by Daniel Waite, an Army veteran. He and a team of volunteers lead visiting veterans on free, guided hunting and fishing trips and other outdoor excursions.
Maine railroad could soon become a recreational trail

2 weeks ago | wmtw.com | Jamie Azulay

The Maine Legislature will soon vote on LD29, a bill to approve the creation of the 26-mile-long Merrymeeting Trail. The project would turn the lower road railroad corridor into a recreational path between Brunswick and Gardiner. "There's a trail in Brunswick now, the bike path, and in Gardiner there's the Kennebec River Rail Trail, so it would really connect Augusta all the way to Brunswick," said Jeremy Cluchey, chair of the Merrymeeting Trail board of supervisors.
Bath firefighters raising funds to restore hand tub from 1800s

2 weeks ago | wmtw.com | Jamie Azulay

The Bath Fire and Rescue Department is hoping to raise $10,000 to restore the city's first piece of firefighting equipment, the Kennebec Hand Tub. It was purchased in 1847. "Back before we had motorized vehicles to pump water, they had horse-drawn apparatus such as this one," said Bath Fire Chief Lawrence Renaud.Renaud went on to explain that long poles on both sides of the tub were deployed, and several men on both sides would pump the unit to move water to the fire.
Viral social-media challenge raising mental health awareness

3 weeks ago | wmtw.com | Jamie Azulay

It's been more than a decade since the ice bucket challenge first went viral in support of ALS research and awareness. Now, social media users are pulling the buckets and bags of ice back out for mental health. Active Minds is a mental health non-profit with chapters in 48 states - 5 in Maine. The chapter at the University of South Carolina started this movement.
Local nonprofit providing comfort, care to families in hospital

3 weeks ago | wmtw.com | Jamie Azulay

A hospital stay in the neonatal intensive care unit or pediatric intensive care unit can feel overwhelming, so the Babygirl Foundation is stocking parent closets with items to make the stay a little bit more comfortable. Tammy Dube, a co-founder, and her family spent years in and out of the Maine Health Barbara Bush Children's Hospital with their daughter Addison. She remembers that experience as feeling scary and lonely.
Maine greenhouse kicking off gardening season at annual celebration

3 weeks ago | wmtw.com | Jamie Azulay

Garden experts at Young's Greenhouse say Easter weekend is the perfect time to start thinking about your garden. Plan your garden and shop for plants but wait for the weather to warm up before putting those plants in the ground. Co-owner Katherine Young said, "You'd want to wait until we're clear of some frosting. You can put them out on your porch. You can bring them in if it's going to be a frost. But you have some perennials, shrubs that could definitely go outside now.
Mass. man leads Maine officers on high-speed chase after shots fired incident, police say

4 weeks ago | wmtw.com | Jamie Azulay

24 year old Luis Andres Lorenzo Rondon of Massachusetts is being held here at the Oxford County Jail, facing several charges after leading police on a high-speed chase overnight. That chase ended in a field off Route 26 in Mechanic Falls, Pigeon Hill Road, after police put down a spike strip. And I heard, like a thud and a thud and then a boom. So I figured something's going on. Debris now scattered beside the snowmobile trail.
Maine woman charged with her son's murder diagnosed with delusional disorder

1 month ago | wmtw.com | Russ Reed |Jamie Azulay

WHETHER SHE'S FIT TO STAND TRIAL. JAMIE AZULAY WAS THERE. THE JUDGE DID NOT SAY WHETHER MEGAN MCDONALD WILL STAND- TRIAL BUT WE DID HEAR FROM A FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST WHO PRESENTED A FORMAL DIAGNOSIS -- DELUSIONAL DISORDER. DR. APRIL O'GRADY CONDUCTED THE PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION ORDERED BY THE JUDGE WHEN MCDONALD WAS OFFICIALLY CHARGED WITH THE INTENTIONAL OR KNOWING MURDER OF HER SON -- SOMETHING MCDONALD SAID SHE WAS INSTRUCTED BY GOD TO DO. DR.
Old Orchard Beach community rallies behind Little League

1 month ago | wmtw.com | Jamie Azulay

AND THEY DON'T DO IT ALONE. JAMIE AZULAY INTRODUCES US TO THIS WEEK'S COMMUNITY CHAMPION. IT'S AN ALL HANDS ON DECK EFFORT HERE IN THIS SEASIDE TOWN WITH 25 LOCAL BUSINESSES ALL CHIPPING TO SUPPORT THE LITTLE LEAGUE IN WHATEVER WAY THEY CAN. "WITHOUT THOSE DONATIONS AND THAT KIND OF VOLUNTEER EFFORT, THE LEAGUE WOULD CEASE TO EXIST." FOR ANNA AND PETE AT THE RED DOOR MARKET AND DELI -- THEY'RE MAKING THE PASTA.
Portland Sea Dogs bring perfect record into 2025 home opener

1 month ago | wmtw.com | Jamie Azulay

The Portland Sea Dogs are set to play their first home game of the season on Tuesday, as they host the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.The Sea Dogs started the 2025 campaign with a three-game sweep of the Reading Fightin Phils on the road in Pennsylvania."It was just a lot of fun baseball and made us even more excited to come back to Portland," said Emma Tiedemann, Sea Dogs director of broadcasting and the team's play-by-play announcer.Portland will look to keep the momentum going in their first...