AUGUSTA (AP) — The state is taking aim at a projected gap between the number of high-tech jobs coming to Maine and the lack of qualified people to fill them. Project Login, spearheaded by the University of Maine System and Educate Maine, aims to double the number of computer science and information technology graduates from […]
2012
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Scrappy ’Builder boys get past Belfast, 55-47
A dive here, a scrum there, all for a loose ball. Saturday’s Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B boys high school basketball game between host Morse and visiting Belfast at Bath Middle School turned into a sandlot battle, where the team that wanted it the most was going to win the game. The Shipbuilders wanted […]
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Lions hold off Morse, 52-41
Morse High School girls basketball coach Becky Roak was looking for that little something extra against a good and visiting Belfast unit. Saturday, at the Bath Middle School gym, Roak received a competitiveness from whistle to whistle, but a paltry shooting display (35 percent) and a 16-point halftime deficit were just too much for the […]
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Brunswick downs Devils, 57-45
The little practice the Brunswick High School boys basketball team had around the Christmas holiday focused on two things — putting last Saturday’s 53-48 loss to Bangor behind the Dragons and getting ready for an athletic Lewiston squad on Friday in the team’s final Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference game of 2012. Brunswick’s work paid off […]
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Buzzer-beater drops Dragons
As Lewiston High School broke from its timeout in the closing seconds Friday night, Emily Paione had no expectations of a final shot. The Lewiston senior knew the play was to go through somebody else, but those plans changed in a hurry. It then became a shot conceived out of desperation and one that Paione […]
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Mt. Ararat girls remain perfect; boys fall to 3-3
TOPSHAM — The unbeaten Mt. Ararat High School girls basketball team outscored Cony 16-8 in the third quarter and held off the visitors 44-41 in a key Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference match on Friday. Cony (3-3) led 13-8 and 24-17 after the first two quarter breaks, but the Eagles came back in the third quarter […]
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NHL labor talks expected to resume
NEW YORK (AP) — It took nearly three weeks and a new contract offer to get the fighting sides in hockey’s latest labor dispute back to the bargaining table. While nothing concrete was announced Sunday, the players’ association indicated that the plan was for talks with the NHL to restart today in the final hours […]
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Blue Devils skate past Dragons
Lewiston’s had the chance to watch its girls’ hockey players grow up in the past couple of seasons. Friday, the Blue Devils took another step toward the rejuvenation of a program that won the inaugural MPA-sanctioned state tournament, vanquishing a nemesis that’s haunted them in recent years. Sophomore Erica Lemieux notched a hat trick and […]
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Bowdoin women prevail
BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College women’s basketball team defeated Clark 58-53 in the championship game of the 2012 Bowdoin Holiday Invitational at Morrell Gymnasium on Sunday. Bowdoin was paced by three players in double figures, including 11 from Tournament MVP Kaitlin Donahoe, who also dished out four assists and collected five rebounds. The Polar Bears […]