INDIANAPOLIS Klay Thompson scored 25 points in 26 minutes and two-time MVP Stephen Curry added 22 points as the Golden State Warriors routed the Indiana Pacers 120-83 on Monday night. The Warriors (12-2) have won eight straight and kept their starters on the bench for the entire fourth quarter after taking a 29-point lead. Indiana […]
November 2016
Klinnsman fired as U.S. men’s coach
NEW YORK In a sign of just how much American soccer has grown up, U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann was fired after a pair of losses in the final round World Cup qualifying. Six days after a 4-0 loss at Costa Rica dropped the Americans to 0-2, Klinsmann was terminated after nearly 5 1/2 […]
Oilers blow out Blackhawks; Penguins fall
EDMONTON, Alberta Leon Draisaitl scored twice and Cam Talbot made 31 saves for his third shutout of the season, helping the Edmonton Oilers beat the Western Conference-leading Chicago Blackhawks 5-0 on Monday night. Oscar Klefbom, Andrej Sekera and Anton Slepyshev also scored for the Oilers. Corey Crawford made 22 saves in the loss as the […]
Bowdoin swimming hits the pool in opener
WORCESTER, Mass. The Bowdoin College men’s and women’s swim teams opened the season on Saturday with a dual meet against WPI and MIT. In the women’s competition, the Polar Bears split with a 171-129 win over the Engineers of WPI, while falling 213-87 against the Engineers of MIT. Sterling Dixon posted three first-place finishes for […]
BIRTHS
Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston A boy, Quintin Bennett- James Marcoux, to Brianna Marcoux and Mark McDonald of Topsham, Oct. 7, 2016. A boy, Sawyer Jude Stevens, to Angie and Ashley Stevens of Auburn, Oct. 7, 2016. St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Lewiston A girl, Emilia Irene Harlow, to Angel and Corey Harlow of Auburn, […]
Geneva and Joseph Campbell
HARPSWELL — Geneva McLeod Wilgus Campbell and Joseph Lee Campbell were married on Sept. 24, 2016, in a ceremony at Live Well Farm in Harpswell. It was officiated by Joanne Campbell, a notary and stepmother of the groom. Serving as the maid of honor was Madeleine Wilgus, a sister, of Phippsburg, while the bridesmaids were […]
70th anniversary
BRUNSWICK — Muriel and Ernest Jones, who reside at Sunnybrook Senior Living in Brunswick, recently celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. The couple are both retired, with Muriel being a homemaker and Ernest a master mechanic. The couple have two children: Peggy Bernstein of Nashville, Tennessee, and Roger Jones of Newburyport, Masssachusetts, and five grandchildren and […]
Cyber learning
ERIE, Pa. It’s not a typical classroom. Students work on laptops at tables set up in an open area at the junction of two main hallways at Erie’s Central Career and Technical School. Three teachers stationed at desks beside and behind them are available for help when the students need it. Most of the time, […]
Making biscotti for a snack or a gift
I remember the first party I ever hosted. I was 5 and my mom invited all of my kindergarten girlfriends and their moms for a holiday singing gathering. We knoshed on homemade cookies dunked in hot cocoa made from packets of powder dissolved in boiling water. Standing there around our piano, surrounded by tiny off-key […]
Waking up to reality after 2016 election
We are the children. We are the children who woke up on a Wednesday morning after listening to our parents fighting for hours the night before. Except, make that, “fighting for more than a year.” That’s what this election felt like. Since as far back as October 2015, when Hillary Clinton, during a Democratic primary […]