Claude Montgomery used the money he earned from selling his paintings to help feed homeless people in Portland. An artist of national renown with roots in Maine and Oklahoma, Montgomery and his wife, Louise, tapped their savings to buy a home in Portland in 1985 and convert it into a homeless shelter for men. Five […]
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Mike Johnson: The Firewalk
The red-hot coals were easy to spot in the darkness. So were the white tops of our feet that would soon walk on them. Outsiders would surely look at us as crazy to learn we had driven 200 miles and paid a considerate amount of money to attend a four-day seminar that began with a […]
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Book award named for author Ernest Gaines raises cash prize
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The cash prize that goes with the book award named for author Ernest Gaines is growing. The Baton Rouge Area Foundation, which underwrites the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, says the 2019 prize will increase to $15,000 from $10,000. The award recognizes outstanding work by rising African-American fiction […]
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Saco beats Biddeford in District 4 Little League Tournament opener
SACO – A midsummer classic worthy of the majors unfolded between a pair of local little league teams on Friday. Saco erased a three-run deficit and pulled out a 9-7 victory over Biddeford in nine innings at Summer Street Field in Saco in a first-round contest of the 2019 Maine District 4 Little League Baseball […]
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BASEBALL: 2019 All-Star Team
SACO — Thornton Academy senior Cameron Seymour didn’t just participate in the most important moments throughout the Golden Trojans’ season. The senior thrived when the lights were brightest. Seymour converted all 12 of his save opportunities, striking out 26 hitters in 15 innings with a 2.80 earned run average, and he also finished his final […]
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Mainers rally for walk-off win over Bay Sox at Goodall Park
SANFORD — Comebacks have become part of the norm for the Sanford Mainers this season. Last Saturday, Sanford rallied from eight runs down to beat the Marthas Vineyard Sharks. Then, on Thursday, they erased a 4-3 lead by scoring five runs in the eighth to take down Winnipesaukee. So it was only fitting that Sanford […]
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US advances to World Cup semis with 2-1 win over France
PARIS — Controversy didn’t drive Megan Rapinoe, the big moment did. Rapinoe turned turmoil into triumph Friday night, scoring twice in the much-anticipated clash with host France to send the defending champion United States into the semifinals of the Women’s World Cup with a 2-1 victory. Two days earlier, Rapinoe had been called out on […]
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New England’s last thoroughbred horse track winds down
BOSTON — New England’s last thoroughbred horse track, Boston’s Suffolk Downs, is hosting its final live races this weekend, but it’s not clear what comes next for the industry, which continues to receive millions of dollars in casino tax subsidies. Sterling Suffolk Racecourse, the company that operates the once grand, 84-year old track, has been […]
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Red Sox, Yanks come to land of high tea
LONDON — High cheese comes to the land of high tea on Saturday. When Boston’s Rick Porcello throws the first pitch to the New York Yankees at Olympic Stadium, the national pastime of the onetime colony will try to plant itself in the mother country. After looking at the cozy distance — 385 feet to […]
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BASEBALL WORLD: The Boston Red Sox are an embarrassment
There is no nice way to put it. At the halfway mark of the 2019 Major League Baseball season, the Boston Red Sox are an embarrassment to their fans. This team that Chris Sale called “the greatest team ever to walk the face of the planet,” last August, won just 44 of their first 81 […]
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