WINDHAM — Stephen Ochan converted a penalty kick with 5:54 remaining to send Deering to a 1-0 win over Windham in an SMAA boys’ soccer match Saturday. Frankie Alvarez was taken down while breaking down the left side, leading to the penalty kick. Anthony Russo recorded the shutout with five saves as Deering improved to […]
September 2013
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Portland’s fresh connection with Iceland
Market opportunities and a wealth of potential flow both ways in a new North Atlantic sea-trade partnership that relinks Maine’s largest port to a far wider world.
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On Baseball: Sox need October heroes, but who will step up?
BOSTON — Now what? The Boston Red Sox won their first American League East title in six years. While winning games remains important – and claiming the best record in the AL to earn home-field advantage in the playoffs – Boston can also look ahead. Here are a few players and topics to keep an […]
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Steve Solloway: Sobriety scores against all odds
STANDISH — The speeding tickets piled up but Kyle Shangraw didn’t care. When he looked in a mirror, the sight of his sunken eyes and hollowed-out cheeks didn’t register. Eight years ago, he was the touted Westbrook High soccer star expected to do wonderful things in college. Instead his passion for the game was replaced […]
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Too many drops lead to receivers being tossed aside
All around the NFL, quarterbacks are finding their targets aren’t always the good-hands people.
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More women work, but settle for less
Unemployment has eased for women, but most of their gains are in lower-paying jobs.
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World/Nation Dispatches
BAGHDAD Suicide bombers kill at least 96 at funerals in Shiite areas Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 96 […]
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Negative trends provoke ‘painful’ cuts in UMaine System
Education officials believe eliminating degree programs may be the key to adapting. For others, the implications are ‘shocking.’
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Maine mills’ decline coincides with spike on disability rolls
Former papermakers are part of a national shift: using the program for long-term unemployment relief.
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Women on the rise in organic farming
At the Common Ground Fair, entrepreneur Deb Soule talks about success, leadership and agriculture.