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Vermont uses strong pitching and two breakout innings to cruise past Sanford

SANFORD — Coming off their best win of the season — a thrilling 9-8 comeback victory over the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks on Saturday — Sanford Mainers head coach Cejay Suarez admitted his players seemed a little “emotionally hungover” in Monday’s game against the Vermont Mountaineers at Goodall Park in Sanford. It also didn’t help that […]

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Big East votes to invite UConn to rejoin

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — The presidents of the schools in the Big East voted Monday to extend an invitation to UConn to rejoin the conference for basketball and other sports. A person with firsthand knowledge confirmed that the schools’ presidents voted by conference call on Monday morning. That person spoke on condition of anonymity because […]

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Italy wins vote to host 2026 Winter Olympics

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Riding a wave of widespread Italian enthusiasm to be an Olympic host, Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo won the vote Monday to stage the 2026 Winter Games. International Olympic Committee members voted 47-34 for the long-favored Milan-Cortina bid over Stockholm-Are from Sweden that also included a bobsled track in Latvia. Milan-Cortina’s jubilant delegation […]

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Wells students focus on women’s suffrage movement

WELLS ─ STRETCH students of Wells Elementary School teacher Suzanne Laplante-Killoran welcomed several fourth-grade classes to the school’s second-floor atrium on June 6 to watch a presentation regarding the women’s suffrage movement in America. The right to vote was eventually granted to women after an arduous 70 plus-year campaign ending in 1920 with the passage of […]