AUGUSTA — A Maine-based organization that runs a retreat for wounded veterans is receiving half a million dollars from the winner of a recent Powerball jackpot. The $500,000 donation is a big boost for the nonprofit Travis Mills Foundation, which reported $1.55 million in annual revenue in 2016, according to documents filed by the tax-exempt […]
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Lewiston native Lauren DeBlois signs to play hockey at Providence College
Lauren DeBlois of Lewiston signed her National Letter of Intent to play at Providence College on Wednesday at New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire. DeBlois, a defenseman, is starting her fourth season at New Hampton after playing one year at Lewiston High School. She had five goals and three assists in 30 games […]
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College football: Physical defense key to UMaine's success
Maine’s Sterling Sheffield, left, celebrates with teammates Deshawn Stevens and Kayon Whitaker after Sheffield took down the New Hampshire quarterback during the season opener in August. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald) Sterling Sheffield can’t think of a better way to play the final regular-season game of his football career at the University of Maine. The […]
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DuBois presenter at national conference
LEWISTON — Trisha DuBois, RN, WCC, OMS, wound resource nurse at Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice, was a presenter at Wild on Wounds, a National Wound Care Conference in September in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dubois led the topic of “Collaborative Partnerships to Drive Cost-Effective Outcomes for Wound Management in Home Healthcare,” alongside representatives from Crawford […]
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Mulhus new executive director at RVHCC
RUMFORD — The board of the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition announces Tavia Melhus as its new, full-time executive director. She is taking over from part-time interim Executive Director Allie Burke, who remains with the agency as project director for River Valley Rising. Melhus, who has recently moved to Norway from Nashville, Tennessee, has an […]
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Men's basketball: Experienced, talented UMaine-Farmington ready to win now
University of Maine at Farmington’s Isaac Witham (11) draws a foul from Thomas College’s Justin Butler (14) at Thomas College in Waterville in January. (Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) Two years ago, they had potential. Last season, they were on the rise. The players on the University of Maine at Farmington men’s basketball team know the […]
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2018-19 Bates women's basketball preview capsule
Coach: Alison Montgomery (fourth year) Conference: NESCAC Last year’s results: 7-17 overall, 1-9 in conference. Returning players: Senior — Erika Lamere (1.1 points per game last season); Juniors — Melanie Binkhorst (10.3), Carly Christofi (injured); Sophomores — Julia Middlebrook (7.6), Skye Conley, Meredith Melendy, Olivia O’Regan, Taylor McVeigh (3.0). Key losses: Emily Freedland, Lyse Henshaw, […]
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Women's basketball: Erika Lamere, Melanie Binkhorst lead young Bates team
LEWISTON — Erika Lamere stepped onto the Alumni Gymnasium floor for the first time as a freshman with three other players in her class and first-year head coach Alison Montgomery. Fast forward to the present day, and Montgomery and Lamere are the last ones standing from that 2015 Bates women’s basketball team. While others fell […]
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'Oh no, it's gonna snow'
Jim Leclerc, manager of Paris Farmers Union in Lewiston, moves pallets of wood pellets in preparation of Thursday night’s snowstorm, making room for the plow to move snow. “We are typical Mainers: It ain’t gonna snow, it ain’t gonna snow, it ain’t gonna snow, oh no, it’s gonna snow,” Leclerc said. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal)
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Mainely awesome
Oprah Winfrey has fabulous taste, obviously — she’s flipping Oprah. So when her magazine came out with Oprah’s Favorite Things 2018, we went ooh. Then ahh. Then, wow. Because we’d love to buy a cool-looking electric bike if we had $1,800 and winter wasn’t coming in, like, 20 minutes. But we also got to thinking […]