nowed a lot and then rained a lot.
The roller coaster weather prompted me to call Tim Boutin at Absolute PowerSports in Gorham to ask how business was going. Absolute PowerSports is a locally owned operation in business for many years specializing in snowmobiles, ATVs, side by sides and the like.
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