PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — After working on offspeed pitches in a simulated game, Clay Buchholz focused on them some more Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays. Relying on his curveball and changeup, Buchholz allowed one run and four hits in five innings as the Boston Red Sox won 8-4. His lone run allowed came […]
2012
Softball in 5-1 start
CLERMONT, Fla. — The Bowdoin College softball team split a pair of games Saturday against Plattsburgh State and Taylor University. The Polar Bears hammered Plattsburgh State 8- 0 in a mercy-rule six-inning game. Bowdoin lost its first game of the season in the nightcap, 6-4 to Taylor, an NAIA school from Indiana. Bowdoin ( 5- […]
Engineering and math are focus of spring camp
BRUNSWICK — St. John’s Catholic School will host a junior engineering and mathematics camp during April vacation, April 16-20. According to a release from the school, “ students are exposed to an incentive program to grasp science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts with handson, naturally motivating building sets, programming software, and curriculum relevant activity materials. […]
16th annual M.C. Smith essay contest
SKOWHEGAN — The University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Library is accepting entries for its 16th annual essay contest for high school seniors. From church sermons to conference sessions and campaign speeches, high anxiety is expressed in these years of post-9/11 and the Great Recession that the American Dream is unraveling and that succeeding generations […]
A Day in The Life
These photos represent a small sampling of those taken around the country on Wednesday, March 14 — a snapshot of one day in America. The Daily Life feature is provided by The Associated Press and its member publications.
Second Taser blast subdues Mass. man in Bath
BATH — A Massachusetts man who tried to outrun officers on Commercial Street early Saturday morning ended up in the hospital — and then in jail — after they detained him with two Tasers. Just before 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Bath Police Officer Ted Raedel pulled over a car driven by Christopher A. Brazee, 39, of Pittsfield […]