MPA Class A basketball tournament Girls preliminary round: Wednesday, Feb. 15 7:00 – Marshwood (6-12) at Gorham (12-6) 7:00 – Bonny Eagle (10-8) at Kennebunk (10-8) If either team wins, they will play Tuesday at the CCCC Boys quarterfinals: Monday, Feb. 20, at the CCCC 7:00 – Bonny Eagle (10-8)/Kbunk (10-8) winner vs. Deering (17-1) […]
2006
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Buxton students on SMCC dean’s list Fifteen students from Buxton have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. They are: Kimberly Cressey, Shawn Franck, Jaime Frasca, Joline Gagnon-Frizze, Brad Gaumont. Chad Havu, Timothy Hubley, Matthew Maclean, Ryan Mater, Jenna Philpot, Eric Randall, Hidi St. […]
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Thankful for help
This is long overdue but needing to be said, many, many thanks to the crew at Sullivan Tire in Westbrook. They bailed me out in my time of need. It was the Saturday after Thanksgiving and my only responsibility was to get my daughter, the bride and her long white formal wedding gown to Kennebunkport […]
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Clint Kimball’s Meat Market was a fixture on Main Street in Gorham until approximately 1970. Photo courtesy of George Watson, Gorham Historical Society archivist. Gorham remembered 0215
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Core training helps female basketball players
It’s tourney time. Whether it’s the NCAA’s “March Madness” or long-time high school rivalries, the excitement of basketball is everywhere. For months, players have logged endless hours of practice, traveled hundreds (or thousands) of miles and competed in dozens of games. Now, the fun starts. Unfortunately, by now, the season has taken its toll on […]
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February 1981 U. S. Representative David Emery, speaking in Westbrook, said nuclear war is “unthinkable,” and went on to describe some aspects of today’s nuclear bombs, including a bomb with half the power of the Hiroshima bomb intended to knock out limited targets such as an airfield. Emery’s audience pressed him to work in Congress […]
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Gorham nabs 3 suspects in thefts
Three Limington men are facing charges of theft after being arrested in Gorham last week. Gorham Detective Lawrence Maxfield-Fearon arrested the three suspects on Feb. 7 on charges of theft of building materials during the past year from a construction site in Gorham. Maxfield-Fearon said a 52-year-old man and his two adult sons, all of […]
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'Senior leadership' paves way to SMAA title
It was fitting that the final event of Saturday’s SMAA boys track championship meet was the senior relay and fitting as well that Bonny Eagle topped the field in that race. After all, it was a committed group of seniors that propelled the Scots to a solid team victory in the competition, which they won […]
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Thoughts while watching the Torino Olympics
At around five o’clock Sunday evening, just before my wife left for work, I bundled up for my first trip out into the sorry excuse for a blizzard Southern Maine was being hit with. The mission was simple, but I had a schedule to keep. First, I would run across the street to the Mobil […]
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Lakes Region Calendar, Feb. 10-19
Feb. 10, 11: Valentine Cabaret Show, 7:30 pm. at the Denmark Arts Center, 50 W. Main St. in Denmark. $12. FMI 452-2057. Cafe-style seating, free popcorn, snacks, soda (BYOB). Feb. 11: North Yarmouth’s Skyline Farm’s annual sleigh rally, driving demonstration and competition from 12-3 p.m. Admission is $5 per person and includes admission to the […]