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Girls' basketball: Monmouth wins physical matchup with Lisbon

LISBON — Monmouth Academy pulled away from the Lisbon Greyhounds in the second half to seal a 43-30 Mountain Valley Conference girls’ basketball win Wednesday. Pressure from the Mustangs frustrated the Greyhounds, who opened the game shooting 2-for-8 from the field. Lisbon coach Julie Petrie thought her team’s offense was a little tentative against the […]

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UMaine football adds four players on first day of early signing period

Vinnie Pasquali of Portland High School tackles West running back Jack True of Yarmouth in the fourth quarter of the Maine Shriners Lobster Bowl Classic in July. (Portland Press Herald photo by Derek Davis) With the University of Maine playing deep into the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs for the first time in school history, coach […]

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Boys' hockey: Caleb Sellinger saves Scarborough against Edward Little

Scarborough’s Ethan Jasa skids out on the ice while handling the puck as Edward Little’s Kegan Rodrigue watches the play from the right during Wednesday night’s hockey game in Auburn. (Sun Journal photo by Andree Kehn) AUBURN — Facing five minutes of penalty-kill time across two periods, Scarborough needed a little extra something to survive the […]

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Girls' basketball: Winthrop stays hot, beats Richmond

Winthrop’s Madison Forgue guards Richmond’s Hannah Moholland during a girls’ basketball game Wednesday in Winthrop. (Kennebec Journal photo by Andy Molloy) WINTHROP — Wednesday’s game couldn’t have started much better for the Winthrop girls’ basketball team. And a hot start ended up being all the Ramblers needed to extend what’s been a hot start to […]

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Main-Land wins excellence award

Main-Land Development Consultants Inc. of Livermore Falls has won the prestigious Maine Governor’s Award for Business Excellence. The award, administered by the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, recognizes Maine businesses that demonstrate a steadfast commitment to employees, customers and the community. Main-Land has the distinction of being the only company in Western Maine […]

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Area police officers graduate from Justice Academy

VASSALBORO — Maine’s newest police officers have graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro. The officers spent 18 weeks in study and training, and most will begin patrolling immediately, in time for Christmas and New Year’s Eve enforcement efforts. The new officers studied many topics, including crime scene processing, emergency vehicle operation, first […]