WEST GARDINER — With the sun reflecting off the disappearing layer of snow, Judy Abbott was enjoying a calm moment Saturday morning. The turkeys that she and her husband, Tom, raise at Foggy Moon Farm had been shipped off the day before for processing. Customers who have reserved birds will stop by to pick them […]
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Class A: Bracamonte, Golden Trojans roll over Bulldogs for perfect season
PORTLAND — Anthony Bracamonte put his electrifying stamp on the Class A championship game quickly and often. The senior slot back scored on a 61-yard touchdown pass from Kobe Gaudette on the third play from scrimmage. By the time Thornton Academy finished its first unbeaten season since 1986 with Saturday’s 49-14 Class A championship win […]
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College basketball: Brandeis holds off Bates in opener
Bates College guard Max Hummel manages to get a shot off after being fouled by Brandeis ‘Corey Sherman during the first half of Saturday’s game in Lewiston. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) Bates College guard Max Hummel manages to get a shot off after being fouled by Brandeis’ Corey Sherman during the first half of Saturday’s game […]
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College football: Maine holds off Elon for CAA title
ORONO — The University of Maine’s defense made one last stand Saturday afternoon and the Black Bears claimed the Colonial Athletic Association championship. Sterling Sheffield hit Elon quarterback Daniel Thompson as he was throwing the ball, leading to an incompletion on fourth down from the Maine 42, and Maine held on to defeat the Phoenix […]
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Plowed out: Age, cost, hours are pushing more plow drivers to hang it up
Business has been pretty good lately at Reggie’s Sales & Service in Auburn. It could be just the normal gear-up for winter, with customers looking at new snowblowers or servicing old ones. But, owner Reggie Emery thinks there’s something else in play. He estimated that recently, more than 25 people have been in his store […]
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Sabattus man injured in Topsham hunting incident
TOPSHAM — A Sabattus man was shot in a Topsham hunting incident Saturday morning. Joshua Stark, 25, was shot in the hip around 7:30 a.m. while he was walking under a power line on Cathance Road, according to the Maine Warden Service. Stark’s girlfriend, Sasha Leslie, 21, of Sabattus, was walking behind Stark. Wardens said […]
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Outdoors in Maine: University of Maine will start testing ticks for disease
Ten years ago, few outdoor folks in this neck of the woods gave ticks a second thought. Not so today. Most of us who spend time outdoors have had encounters with deer ticks, the bad ones, or know someone with Lyme disease. Recently, University of Maine professor Jim Dill, a tick expert, appeared as a […]
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Poliquin’s campaign mum on whether he’ll request a recount
The ranked-choice ballots have been counted, but the fighting in the unprecedented race to represent Maine’s 2nd Congressional District may not be over. On Friday, one day after Democrat Jared Golden surged from behind to win the ranked-choice vote in the district, Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin and his advisers weren’t saying whether they would request […]
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Bigger deer draw out-of-state hunters
When Ronald McAlpine of Jacksonville, Florida, hunts for white-tailed deer in his home state, he can shoot as many as he wants. Florida has no bag limit. So why does he come each fall to Maine, which has had a bag limit of one deer for almost a century? “That’s something people down South talk […]
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Looking Back on Nov. 17
100 years ago: 1918 Mr. A. Waterman at East Auburn has been for many years manufacturing pegs. He makes nearly all of the pegs in the Lewiston and Auburn and vicinity, except those driven by machinery. He uses about 15 cords of white birch per year and makes from six to ten thousand bushels of […]