With frigid temperatures stunting sap runs well into March this year, many local maple producers plan to tap their entire syrup reserve this Maine Maple Sunday, while others may not even open their doors. Typically, sap starts flowing in late February, leaving sugarhouses well stocked for Maine Maple Sunday, which will take place for its […]
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Frigid temps sap maple yield
With frigid temperatures stunting sap runs well into March this year, many local maple producers plan to tap their entire syrup reserve this Maine Maple Sunday, while others may not even open their doors. Typically, sap starts flowing in late February, leaving sugarhouses well stocked for Maine Maple Sunday, which will take place for its […]
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Exit plans refined
The Maine Turnpike Authority is moving ahead with plans to overhaul the exit 63 interchange in Gray, with a goal of completing the project in the summer of 2017. Turnpike representatives presented a preliminary plan to overhaul the interchange and the nearby intersections at a Gray Town Council meeting Tuesday night. In November 2012, turnpike […]
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WMC announces basketball awards at annual banquet
The Western Maine Conference held its annual Basketball Awards Night last Monday, Mar. 9, and followed that up with senior girls and boys all-star games on Tuesday the 10th. Both events took place at Southern Maine Community College (with the assistance of Matt Richards, Director of Athletics at SMCC, and students in the Sports Management […]
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Indoor Track: Hall wins Nationals, looks to a bright future
Lake Region’s Kate Hall has been big news in Maine sports ever since she hit high school, four years ago, but now she’s bigger news than ever. Hall is the newly-crowned National Long Jump Champion, and with college – and perhaps even bigger stages – still ahead of her, she shows no signs of slipping […]
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Indoor Track: Hall wins Nationals, looks to a bright future
Lake Region’s Kate Hall has been big news in Maine sports ever since she hit high school, four years ago, but now she’s bigger news than ever. Hall is the newly-crowned National Long Jump Champion, and with college – and perhaps even bigger stages – still ahead of her, she shows no signs of slipping […]
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Boys Hockey: Maine Winter Classic is seniors’ last hurrah
West trumped East in both games – Class A and Class B – of Saturday night’s Winter Maine Classic, back-to-back hockey matchups that bring together Maine’s top senior skaters to benefit the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital. The A bout was a neck-and-neck affair that ended in true all-star fashion: 7-6 after a shootout, while the […]
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Suicidal driver arrested after eluding deputies in Windham
A woman who had been declared missing by Maine State Police earlier in the day was arrested after eluding a Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy during an attempted traffic stop in Windham on Friday. At 3 p.m., Deputy Lucas Hallett attempted to stop a Jeep Commander on Route 115 in Windham. According to Chief Deputy Naldo […]
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Health teacher lobbies Congress on nutrition rules
Eliza Adams, a health teacher at Windham Middle School, went to Washington, D.C., in late February to urge Maine’s Congressional representatives to re-authorize the Child Nutrition Act, a 50-year-old federal law that mandates nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and expires on Sept. 30. Adams, as well as 50 other educators hosted in […]
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Health teacher lobbies Congress on nutrition rules
Eliza Adams, a health teacher at Windham Middle School, went to Washington, D.C., in late February to urge Maine’s Congressional representatives to re-authorize the Child Nutrition Act, a 50-year-old federal law that mandates nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and expires on Sept. 30. Adams, as well as 50 other educators hosted in […]