Massabesic/Old Orchard Beach/Bonny Eagle – a.k.a. the MOB – picked up a straightforward win over visiting Gray-New Gloucester/Oak Hill/Poland (the 26ers) at USM Ice Arena on Saturday night, Feb. 13. MOB standout and Captain Tanner McClure tallied a hat trick – not to mention a pair of assists – in the 9-0 rout. Asked what […]
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Boys Basketball: Gentlemen Lakers dispatch Knights on big second half
Laker Jack Lesure led his squad to a 64-50 quarterfinals win over Poland at the Portland Expo on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 13, tallying 22 points, most of them real fireworks. Through the opening half, the score actually hung quite tight: Heading into the break, LRHS held just a four-point advantage, 27-23. But Lesure & Co. […]
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EDITORIAL: Don’t videotape ME
If surveillance cameras located on lampposts, buldings, at road intersections and just about everywhere else didn’t already make us feel like we’re constantly on “Candid Camera,” the news last November of a group videotaping voters as they signed a petition at a Portland polling place brought the intrusion to a new level. Project Dirigo, a […]
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S’no kidding – it’s slippery?
During a recent snowstorm I did what most well-informed people do in these media-centric times – I sat and watched television and my laptop screen. On this particular morning, the news anchor went from one snowbound reporter to another. The reporters were standing at strategic places in the station’s viewership area, all bundled up in […]
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Medicare help and more
The Southern Maine Agency on Aging, based in Scarborough, frequently offers a seminar called “Welcome to Medicare” at various locations in southern Maine, as well as in the agency’s Scarborough office. On Tuesday, March 1, the seminar will be offered at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church at 919 Roosevelt Trail in Windham, from 10 […]
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Ramblin’ gamblin’ man
Free Shawn Scott. I mean that metaphorically, of course, since Scott, a Las Vegas gambling developer, isn’t currently incarcerated. My call for his liberation has less to do with shackles and chains and more to do with him being constrained by legalities in his effort to build a casino in York County. I admit that […]
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Don't videotape ME
If surveillance cameras located on lampposts, buldings, at road intersections and just about everywhere else didn’t already make us feel like we’re constantly on “Candid Camera,” the news last November of a group videotaping voters as they signed a petition at a Portland polling place brought the intrusion to a new level. Project Dirigo, a […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE: S’no kidding – it’s slippery?
During a recent snowstorm I did what most well-informed people do in these media-centric times – I sat and watched television and my laptop screen. On this particular morning, the news anchor went from one snowbound reporter to another. The reporters were standing at strategic places in the station’s viewership area, all bundled up in […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES: Ramblin’ gamblin’ man
Free Shawn Scott. I mean that metaphorically, of course, since Scott, a Las Vegas gambling developer, isn’t currently incarcerated. My call for his liberation has less to do with shackles and chains and more to do with him being constrained by legalities in his effort to build a casino in York County. I admit that […]
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Standish man apprehended after K-9 chase
A Standish man was captured Wednesday morning after leading a Cumberland County sheriff’s K-9 team on a 1-mile foot chase through woodlands near Watchic Lake and Route 113. At 8 a.m. Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies were informed by a state parole officer of the location of Jacorey Vincent Monterio, 22, who was living at 45 […]