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Clothing of missing Maine students found on island

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:10 pm    Updated: 12/24/12 at 3:37 pm
Tags: Maine   missing students  

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) -- Clothing belonging to two missing boat-building students from Massachusetts and Vermont has been found on an island near Kennebunkport, Maine.

Marine Patrol Col. Joseph Fessenden told the Portland Press Herald that searchers looking for 21-year-old Zachery Wells and 23-year-old Prescott Wright found pieces of their clothing early this morning.

Wright, of Barnstable, Mass., and Wells, of Burlington, Vt., were last seen while drinking beer with a small group of friends at Wells' home in Kennebunkport on Wednesday night. They both are students at The Landing School, a boat building and yacht design school in Arundel.

Fessenden said the ongoing search will include flyovers at low tide of the area where the clothing was found.

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