Call it showdown season. Several of the top teams in the area have been, or will be, squaring off against top rivals as we’ve passed the midway point of the 2012-13 winter sports season. Here’s a glimpse at what’s occurred and what’s to come: Boys’ basketball Cape Elizabeth’s always competitive boys’ basketball team continues to […]
2013
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Angela Mary Caruso, 97: Defied all odds
BRUNSWICK — Angela Mary Caruso, 97, died Jan. 8. She was the wife of the late Joseph S. Caruso and a long time resident of Everett, Mass. Caruso was born in East Boston, Mass., on March 21, 1915, the daughter of Joseph ad Mary Grilli. She was raised in Everett and graduated from Everett High School […]
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Marilla Rose Feldman
BOSTON — Marilla Rose Feldman, daughter of Samuel Feldman and Skioka Kudo, died shortly after birth in a Boston hospital on Jan. 4. She is survived by her parents; twin sister, Maya Rachel Feldman; paternal grandparents Michael and Mary Beth Feldman of Bowdoin; maternal grandparents Makoto and Etsuko Kudo of Northvale, N.J.; great-grandparents Lucille Hornbeck of […]
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Mid-Coast Meetings: Jan. 18-24
Brunswick Tue. 1/22 7:30 a.m. Brunswick Downtown Association THTue. 1/22 7 p.m. Town Council MBWed. 1/23 3 p.m. MRRA BSWed. 1/23 6 p.m. School Board BSThu. 1/24 7:30 p.m. Recycling and Sustainability Committee BS Harpswell Mon. 1/21 Town offices closedTue. 1/22 CANCELED: Board of Appeals site visitTue. 1/22 3 p.m. Conservation Comission THTue. […]
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Freeport takes step back at Wells
WELLS—The Freeport girls’ basketball game found itself in a pivotal spot Thursday evening at the site of a painful setback from a year ago. Coming off perhaps their biggest win this century, a decisive home triumph over reigning regional champion Lake Region, the Falcons had a chance to further cement their playoff status when they […]
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Animal cruelty charge after alleged youth drinking
BRUNSWICK A report of a disturbance on Dunning Street led police to charge two teens with underage drinking and a 20-year-old man for cruelty to animals. Brunswick police Deputy Marc Hagan said police were called to 7 Dunning St. at 9:48 p.m. Thursday for a disturbance. Upon arrival, they found Lauren Arsenault, 18, of 91 […]
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Still guilty of murder
Maine’s highest court has rejected an appeal from a construction worker serving a 47- year sentence for the 2002 bludgeoning death of a Brunswick teenager. Olland Reese of Bowdoin was convicted of murder for killing 16-year-old Cody Green with the blunt end of a hatchet. The teenage girl was buried behind Reese’s mother’s home, and […]
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Running – lots of running – for a cause
BRUNSWICK A 20-time Boston marathoner and lifelong runner, Gary Allen recently decided that at 56, if he was going to do something big, he was going to make it count. Something big — like run more than 700 miles from Maine to Washington, D.C. On Jan. 7, he hitched a ride up Cadillac Mountain on […]
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King: No issue with Hagel for Defense
U.S. Sen. Angus King said Thursday he sees no strong reason to oppose President Barack Obama’s pick for secretary of defense. The newly elected senator, an independent from Brunswick, said in an interview with The Associated Press he won’t make a final decision on former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s nomination until confirmation hearings are finished. King […]
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Nameless mascot turns 100
BRUNSWICK You’d think a hundred years would be time enough to name a bear. It was Jan. 18, 1913, when an assembly of Bowdoin College alumni decided to adopt the polar bear as the school’s official mascot. Four years earlier, famous arctic explorer and Bowdoin alum Robert Peary — Bowdoin class of 1877 — officially […]