Freeport’s Sam Wogan earned a hat trick in his team’s home bout with Falmouth Thursday afternoon, but his efforts weren’t enough to keep the Falcons aloft. Despite a stellar second quarter, they ultimately fell 17-4. The loss drops Freeport to 3-2; they began the season with three solid victories – two over Fryeburg and one […]
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District Art Show delights the senses
The weeklong Windham-Raymond District Art Show kicked off at Windham High School Monday evening, with painting, drawing and pottery demonstrations, a student performance of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, and a Cinco de Mayo parade. According to the show’s organizer and art teacher, Angelika Blanchard, more than 2,000 pieces of art composed by Regional School Unit 14 […]
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Inside Gray – 5/9
In Memorial The Gray Annual Memorial Day Parade will be held on Monday, May 26, at 11 a.m. A procession will begin at the Russell School and continue to the Monument at the center of town where the 15th Alabama Regiment will hold a salute. The parade will then continue to the Henry Pennell Municipal […]
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Temperatures leave syrup producers out in cold
The temperatures conducive to robust maple syrup production have been elusive this year. The conditions, which have been alternately too cold and too hot, have left southern Maine syrup producers with a significantly reduced crop this season, according to Lyle Merrifield, the president of the Maine Maple Producers Association. “It was a poor season,” Merrifield […]
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Night Vision
Projected on the side of Westbrook’s Disability RMS building, an art project known as “Presumpscot: Restoring the ‘Rough Places’” is celebrating life on the Presumpscot River and recent advances to restore natural fish passage. The shows will also run for the next two weekends at dusk on either Friday or Saturday, depending on the weather. […]
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Westbrook budget accord reached
WESTBROOK – Following tense debate between city and school officials and a vote to decline the 2014-15 school budget last week, the Westbrook City Council reconsidered the decision Monday – on the condition that the two sides work more closely in the future. The council voted 4-2 to approve the budget, with councilors Michael Foley […]
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LETERS: Sign still missing
One year ago, on a sunny May spring Sunday, the four-way intersection of Libby Avenue and Main Street/Route 25 in Gorham was the scene of a multiple vehicle crash. A few years earlier, this same intersection witnessed a violent crash involving a loaded gravel dump truck with a truck that carries large portable steel Dumpsters, […]
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LETTERS: We are not who they say we are
On Friday, May 2, 39 Westbrook High School students gathered together as a group to engage one another in conversations on difficult and painful issues affecting the climate and culture of our school. Nicole Manganelli from the Unity Project led our students through a series of discussions and activities to help us experience first hand […]
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American Journal Arts Calendar – 5/8
Theater Thursday, May 8 “The Summer King,” world premiere of a new opera by Daniel Sonenberg, about baseball player Josh Gibson. 7:30 p.m., Merrill Auditorium. Presented by Portland Ovations, USM School of Music and American Opera Projects. $42-$10 students. 842-0800, or PortlandOvations.org Thursday, May 15-Sunday, May 18 “The Seven Voyages of Sinbad,” presented by Vivid […]
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Baseball: Rams can’t hold on to early lead
Jordan Ward scored Trent Bassingthwaite in the first and Dylan Turner in the third to put Gorham ahead of Portland 2-0 at Hadlock Field Saturday evening – but the Bulldogs bit back in their next at-bats, pounding home four of their own to seize the lead. The Rams couldn’t keep up with Portland’s newfound fight, […]