{"id":704273,"date":"2026-06-14T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704273\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:49:09","slug":"bear-spotted-wandering-into-old-orchard-beach-from-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704273\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear spotted wandering into Old Orchard Beach from woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (WGME) &#8212; If you were at Old Orchard Beach Sunday, you may have seen a bear roaming around.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Old Orchard Police Department, a bear was spotted near Saco Avenue by the town fire department at around 9:15 Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A second sighting was also reported near Lucette Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the animal came from the woods, and that it returned there.<\/p>\n<p>Old Orchard Beach Animal Control is monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<p>if you see a bear out there, residents are urged to keep their distance, and call 911 right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (WGME) &#8212; If you were at Old Orchard Beach Sunday, you may have seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-704273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}