SANFORD — The 2011 baseball season has been back-to-basics for Matt Verrier. A year ago, he was sitting on top the Maine high school baseball world. He was tabbed as both the Maine Gatorade Player of the Year, as well as Mr. Maine Baseball, given to the top high school player in the state. As […]
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Bicyclists peddling climate awareness
Bicyclist college students Lauren Audi stops before dismounting from her bicycle as her group takes a break, as Greg Lemieux adjusts his pack in the background. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)
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Verrier continues catching education with Mainers
Matt Verrier won a Class A State Baseball title against the Biddeford Tigers last season with Oxford Hills. He spent the past spring as a backup catcher for the University of Maine baseball team and is now playing for the Sanford Mainers in the NECBL. (DAN HICKLING/Journal Tribune)
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Bicyclists peddling climate awareness
BIDDEFORD — Six college students spent eight hours riding bicycles from Salisbury, Mass. to Biddeford on Monday. The 85-mile trip was the first on their journey to help build the climate movement, discourage the use of fossil fuels, and document and share the efforts by local people to build more environmentally sustainable communities. The students, […]
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Violence over sports events is never warranted
After the Boston Bruins beat the Vancouver Canucks last Wednesday night to win the city’s first NHL Stanley Cup since 1972, the City of Vancouver erupted into violence. While the Bruins’ win should’ve been the story line around the world, people were instead viewing images of police cars in Vancouver lit on fire, rioters breaking […]
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Red Sox 14, Padres 5:Not a prayer for Padres
BOSTON — Facing his former team was just another game for Adrian Gonzalez. His current team’s 10-run inning was something special.
Gonzalez drove in three runs Monday night with a single and double in the big seventh inning and the hot-hitting Boston Red Sox rolled to a 14-5 victory over the struggling San Diego Padres.
“I had fun with it. I have fun out there every day,” said Gonzalez, who leads the majors with 67 RBI and a .353 batting average. “It was good to see them before the game and catch up with them, but once the game started it was all about playing the game.”
The Red Sox have been playing better than any other team the past 2½ weeks. They are 14-2 since June 3. They scored at least 10 runs for the fifth time in nine games and lead the majors with a .277 batting average.
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Local Dispatches, June 21, 2011
PORTLAND Haadoow becomes city’s 13th candidate for mayor The race for mayor has another candidate. Hamza Haadoow, a Somali immigrant with deep community ties, announced Monday in a news release that he will seek the office this fall. Haadoow, former owner of BNS Transportation and Jubba Halal Market, co-founded both the East Africa Family Association […]
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Project to help Casco Bay gets fast-tracked, will increase sewer rates
Portland’s City Council decides to act more quickly on stopping storm-driven sewage that overflows into the bay.
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New Portland graffiti ordinanceremoves fines for property owners
People who get caught vandalizing property with graffiti will be punished, and their victims won’t, under a new ordinance adopted Monday night by the City Council.
The ordinance, which was developed over the course of about six months, passed on a 5-3 vote, with Councilors Edward Suslovic, Kevin Donoghue and John Coyne opposed.
The minority bloc of councilors opposed an amendment, offered by Councilor David Marshall, that removed . . .
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Sports Digest, June 21, 2011
BASKETBALL Maine men announce November game with defending national champ UConn Maine men’s basketball coach Ted Woodward likes a challenge. That explains the Black Bears’ Nov. 17 date with the University of Connecticut, the defending national champion. “We always take pride in challenging ourselves against some of the top programs in the country,” said Woodward. […]