Local girl wins Elks Hoopshoot contest Falmouth’s Camille Clement was the girls’ 8-9 age division champion of the Elks Lodge 188 Hoop Shoot contest held Sunday at McAuley. Clement advances to the regional championships to be held at McAuley Sunday. Winners there move on to the state finals Jan. 29, at Cony High School in […]
2012
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New year arrives triumphantly in Forecaster Country
(Ed. Note: For the Falmouth-Lewiston boys’ hockey game story, please visit theforecaster.net) If the rest of 2012 is anything like the first week, local sports fans are in for a non-stop treat. There was drama galore a week ago and plenty of big games to come. Here’s a glimpse: Boys’ basketball Falmouth’s boys’ basketball team […]
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Street work to be a fact of life in South Portland's Knightville neighborhood
SOUTH PORTLAND — It could be a bumpy spring, summer and fall in Knightville. Drivers can expect detours and lane closures along Cottage Road and Ocean Street for more than half of 2012 thanks to a construction project that will include work on water, utility and sewer systems, plus roads and sidewalks. Preliminary estimates put […]
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Northern School Notebook
Falmouth High School Honor Roll Quarter 1 Grade 12 – High Honors: Toby Aicher, Hannah Brown, Sean Connolly, Evan Eklund, Timothy Follo, Catherine Hebson, Aaron Kane, Analise Kump, Morgan Larrabee, Conor McGrory, Matthew Packard, Kristen Peters, Benjamin Shapiro, Madison Tierney, Harrison Van der Kloot, Jane Yoon, Xiangyu Zhao Grade 12 – Honors: Monica Aaskov, Vanessa […]
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Miller named Hobart lax captain
Yarmouth’s Sam Miller, now a senior at Hobart College, was recently named one of the captains for the Statesman’s men’s lacrosse team. Miller led Hobart with 26 goals and 30 points last spring and earned All-ECAC second-team honors. The Statesmen open the 2012 season Feb. 19 against Siena in Syracuse, N.Y.
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This Week in Go
‘Mamma Mia!’ at Merrill; Poco plays One Longfellow; Meryl as Maggie in ‘The Iron Lady’; a Maine filmmaker’s sci-fi opera; ‘Derby Lite’ introduces exercise with an attitude; Tardy boys bring AudioBody to Fryeburg.
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Jewelry theft yields prison term
A 35-year-old Brunswick man with a history of committing residential burglaries will serve 15 months in jail after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a September 2011 burglary at Linnhaven Mobile Home Park. Terry Elwell, 35, of Maquoit Road, pleaded guilty in December to felony burglary and theft, as well as the lesser charges of […]
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Petition opposes proposed care cuts
A mental health counselor hand-delivered to lawmakers on Wednesday a petition with the signatures of nearly 9,000 people who oppose Gov. Paul LePage’s planned MaineCare cuts. Jennifer Lunden, executive director of the Center for Creative Healing in Portland, gave the 917-page document to Rep. Pat Flood, R-Winthrop, co-chairman of the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee, before the […]
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Municipal wind power projects touted
Approximately 100 wind energy professionals gathered in Freeport on Wednesday to discuss the future of small, community-owned wind turbines in Maine. Sue Jones, executive director of the nonprofit wind energy group Windependence, hosted Wednesday’s forum, which focused on a relatively new concept in wind power that allows individuals hooked into an existing power grid to […]