BATCHELDER’S GRANT TOWNSHIP, Maine — A Center Conway man was killed in a snowmobile accident Feb. 14 in Oxford County.

Paul Whitaker, 49, was operating his 2020 Ski-Doo MXLR 850 southbound on ITS 80 (Route 113) in the White Mountain National Forest at about 4:45 p.m. when he drifted off the left side of the trail and struck a tree, according to a press release from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

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