BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College women’s tennis team will return to the NCAA Quarterfinals after winning three consecutive singles matches to pull away from Middlebury in a 5-2 victory Sunday afternoon at Pickard Courts. The seventh-ranked Polar Bears (16-6) advance to their third-ever NCAA Quarterfinal appearance and first since 2012. Bowdoin took a 2-0 lead […]
May 2014
Sea Dogs rally!
PORTLAND — The Portland Sea Dogs (22-12) battled back from a three run deficit and scored four in the ninth to down the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (15-20) 13-12 in Eastern League play on Sunday at Hadlock Field. The two teams combined for 25 runs on 37 hits in the nineinning affair. The ’Dogs trailed […]
Pats add depth to offensive, defensive lines
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots bolstered their offensive and defensive lines on the third day of the NFL draft Saturday. The Patriots, who allowed 40 sacks in 2013 — the most times quarterback Tom Brady has been sacked in a full season since he arrived in Foxborough — drafted three offensive linemen: […]
The Girl and the Glass Ball (a Welsh tale)
Once upon a time a woman had two daughters, Glenda and Carys. One day she gave each girl a beautiful glass ball. “These are to say I love you,” she told the girls. The girls cherished those glass balls from their mother and loved to toss them to each other. But one spring afternoon as […]
John Amato at his sandwich shop in 1959 — Flashback
A 1959 Press Herald photograph shows a familiar sandwich being made at Amato’s on India Street in Portland.
Our View: Portland voters should support school budget
Tuesday’s referendum is a chance for city residents to invest in their future.
Graphic testimony expected in slain student trial
DOVER, N.H. — Lawyers for a man accused of raping and killing a 19-year-old college student are concerned about the effects that graphic sexual testimony and evidence would have on potential jurors, according to court documents. Jury selection begins Wednesday in Strafford County Superior Court in the first-degree murder trial of Seth Mazzaglia, 31, of Dover. […]