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WARREN, R.I. — A boulder-sized pumpkin weighing 1,661 pounds has taken top honors at a New England regional contest, though it fell short of the world record.
Joe Jutras of Scituate, R.I., won the annual Southern New England Giant Pumpkin Growers’ Annual Weigh-off. His pumpkin fell 150 pounds shy of the world record of 1,810.5 pounds, set last year in Wisconsin. He said the pumpkin started as a seed May 1, and he tended it two or three hours nightly and 10 hours on weekends.
