Dustin Cole doesn’t do anything lazily, and he especially doesn’t score 39 points that way. But he sure can make a three-point shot look languid. Relaxed. Easy. Really, he can do that with most any shot; his three just happened to take center stage for a while Friday night, Feb. 7. As did Ben Malloy’s, […]
Lakes Region Weekly
Weekly news from and about Windham, Raymond, Sebago, Standish, Bridgton, Casco and Naples.
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Girls Swimming: South Southwesterns make waves in Westbrook
Swimming’s Southwesterns, a major dustup requiring two days and two pools, unfolded this past weekend, Friday and Saturday the 7th and 8th of Feb. The sport’s lead-in to States, Southwesterns are divvied into “North Southwesterns” and “South Southwesterns,” the latter of which took place in and around the Davan Pool at the Westbrook Community Center. […]
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Girls Swimming: South Southwesterns make waves in Westbrook
Swimming’s Southwesterns, a major dustup requiring two days and two pools, unfolded this past weekend, Friday and Saturday the 7th and 8th of Feb. The sport’s lead-in to States, Southwesterns are divvied into “North Southwesterns” and “South Southwesterns,” the latter of which took place in and around the Davan Pool at the Westbrook Community Center. […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster
Coed Track: Western regionals unfold at USM
The Falmouth boys and girls took the team victories at Saturday’s Western Maine Conference Indoor Track Championship, in both cases besting York. The competition included more than a dozen schools. Lake Region coach Mark Snow expressed satisfaction with his kids’ performances, even though the team is at its smallest since he and Dana Caron took […]
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Coed Track: Western regionals unfold at USM
The Falmouth boys and girls took the team victories at Saturday’s Western Maine Conference Indoor Track Championship, in both cases besting York. The competition included more than a dozen schools. Lake Region coach Mark Snow expressed satisfaction with his kids’ performances, even though the team is at its smallest since he and Dana Caron took […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS: FAQs on new refund program
Remember the so-called “circuit breaker” program some of us enjoyed for quite a few years? When we received the forms from the state and completed them, some of us received a refund or rebate depending on how much we earned. This little financial boon helped some of us pay property taxes and for renters, it […]
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POLITICS & OTHER MISTAKES: Dropkick me, Jesus (through the goalposts of life)
Are you there, Angus? It’s me, God. I’m getting in touch, Sen. King, because, even though I’m supposed to be all-knowing, I’m totally flummoxed by your effort to impose taxes on one of my most cherished institutions. It has come to my divine attention that you’re attempting to persuade your colleagues in Congress to repeal […]
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LETTERS TO MYSELF: Debt reaches crisis mode
Times are hard out there. We are in a time of economic crisis, a time of austerity, a time where poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer at a faster pace than any other time in recent U.S. history. During all of this, the situation has greatly affected college students, who are […]
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LETTERS TO MYSELF: Debt reaches crisis mode
Times are hard out there. We are in a time of economic crisis, a time of austerity, a time where poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer at a faster pace than any other time in recent U.S. history. During all of this, the situation has greatly affected college students, who are […]
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Professor turns Haitian glass into jewels
Steven Bridge, a professor of theology at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, has been traveling to Haiti since 1992. But this year, inspired by a recent trip to Guatemala, Bridge brought his $3,000 diamond-cutter along – a first. “I was in Guatemala a few years back, and we were digging a foundation,” said Bridge, a […]