PORTLAND — Nine days after winning his first Professional Bowlers Association Tour title in Germany, Josh Blanchard of Gilbert, Ariz., made it back-to-back titles, winning the PBA’s Xtra Frame Maine Shootout at Bayside Bowl Tuesday with a 2-1 victory over Australia’s Jason Belmonte in the best-of-three-game title match. The Maine Shootout, the first PBA Tour […]
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Portland PBA event on ESPN Sunday
PORTLAND — The road to the PBA League Elias Cup continues with quarterfinal action on Sunday on ESPN from Bayside Bowl. The third and fourth quarterfinal matches will air at 3:30 p.m. The four quarterfinal winners advance to the semifinals, which will air on ESPN April 12 at 2 p.m., with the title match shown […]
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Patriot 5K to offer bonus for record
GRAY — The Patriot 5K is scheduled to be held on May 16. This year’s event will feature a $1,000 bonus for the first man or woman to break the all-time Maine 5K record. Runners can register for the road race at www.patriot5k.com. The Patriot 5K will be capped at 1,200 runners. An individual runner […]
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Kentucky’s Calipari citing more numbers than ’1-and-done’
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Here are the numbers. John Calipari doesn’t care if you want to hear them or not: Kentucky’s grade-point average: 3.1 Number of players with a 3.0 GPA or better: 13. Number of players who have graduated over his first five seasons at Kentucky: 10, with four more coming this year. The Kentucky […]
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Piercy shoots 63, holds 1-stroke lead at Houston Open
HOUSTON ( AP) — Scott Piercy tied a tournament record with a nearly flawless 9- under- par 63 Thursday to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the Houston Open. Alex Cejka, playing in one of the afternoon groups, made four birdies on his back nine — the course’s front nine — to […]
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Bates College Museum of Art presents two new exhibitions
LEWISTON — Beginning April 10 and running through May 30, Bates College Museum of Art will feature two new exhibits — one displaying the senior thesis work of Bates College students and one displaying prints and drawings by artist Greg Shattenberg. From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. April 10, The museum will host an opening […]
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Greg Shattenberg: Prints and drawings
Greg Shattenberg employs a variety of media to create artworks that explore the use of language as an element of image making. He is an accomplished printmaker who, over the years, has experimented with a wide variety of printing methods from woodcut, etching and lithography, to photographic processes such as collotype and color copy transfer. […]
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Freeport First Fridays: Just Desserts
FREEPORT — The next concert in the popular Freeport First Fridays – Just Desserts series at the Freeport Community Center is at 6:45 p.m. tonight. This month’s performance is from the band Northwood — a dynamic quartet that has a rootsy mix of music influenced by bluegrass, folk, country and rock. Northwood features Ann Murray […]
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‘The Early Evening Show’
GARDINER — Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center on Water Street in Gardiner will present “The Early Evening Show” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 4. Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for seniors and $5 for children 17 and under. “The Early Evening Show” is a family friendly, laugh-out-loud show. Maine’s renowned variety entertainer and Johnson […]