Man finds lost ring 27 years later

June 19, 2010|Associated Press

HALLOWELL, Maine — A Maine man who lost his high school class ring 27 years ago while swimming in a quarry found it right where he thought it was all along.

The owner of the Granite Hill quarry in Hallowell is draining the quarry to restart mining.

When Jason Cottle saw a picture in the Kennebec Journal in Augusta of the draining, he decided to go look for his ring.

The 45-year-old carpenter from Gardiner found his ring Thursday on a ledge that would have been 35 feet under the water line, right where he and his friends used to swim.

He also found other jewelry, clothing, keys, four pairs of glasses, unexploded blasting caps, $3 in change, and a safe with a hole cut in the side. He also found the diving mask he lost when searching for the ring in 1983.

Cottle is not the only one celebrating an amazing find.

This week in Orono, two University of Maine grounds workers found a class ring lost in a snowball fight in 1982 or 1983.

“Shrewsbury High School 1982’’ was engraved in the ring and the name Lisa M. Prue was on it. The university’s police communications coordinator tracked down the owner — Lisa Prue Lawrence of Worcester — and it will be returned to her, according to The Bangor Daily News.

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