Lisbon’s Seth Leeman, left, breaks up a pass intended for Spruce Mountain’s Brandon Coates during Saturday’s football game in Lisbon. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LISBON — Undefeated Class D South high school football teams Spruce Mountain and Lisbon met on Saturday, both looking to go 3-0 and gain an edge in obtaining a home advantage come […]
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College football: Bates puts up fight, falls to Amherst
LEWISTON — Amherst broke a scoreless halftime tie by scoring on its first two drives of the second half and avoided a stunning upset with a 19-7 NESCAC football win over Bates College at Garcelon Field on Saturday. New Bobcats coach Malik Hall said his team’s enthusiasm at halftime, when the score was 0-0, was […]
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Boys' soccer: Roadrunners ditch Falcons
Mt. Abram’s Oskar Martinez (10) watches the ball enter the Mountain Valley net for one of his two goals as the Falcons’ Cameron Chase (6) looks in a Mountain Valley Conference soccer game at Hosmer Field in Rumford on Saturday.Mt. Abram’s JB Jordan (1) keeps an eye on the ball and Mountain Valley’s Cameron Gallant […]
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Boys' Soccer: Patriots can't corner Capers
Cape Elizabeth’s Tiernan Lathrop, middle, tries to dribble up the field past Gray New-Gloucester’s Nick McCann, left and Kyle Mercier, right. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)Cape Elizabeth’s John O’Connor, center splits the gap between Gray New-Gloucester’s Hunter Brown, left and Nick McCann, right. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)Gray New Gloucester goalie Brannon Gilbert punches the ball away on a […]
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Born to play football, Lewiston’s Turcotte gained other priorities
LEWISTON — Mason Giroux gained a new appreciation for having Jared Turcotte as a teammate, the hard way, during the summer before Turcotte’s senior year at Lewiston. The Blue Devils were attending a football clinic at Bates College, but were lined up on opposite sides of the ball. Giroux, who was about to become a […]
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Claxton listens more than talks
Ned Claxton is exactly the type of legislator needed now. Many voters remember him as a gentle, primary-care doctor who always took the time to listen to his patients, engage them in conversation and treat them with kindness and respect. He will be the same as a state senator. As he has traveled around Auburn, […]
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Marilyn Joyce Grant
AUBURN — Marilyn Joyce Grant, 81, died in Auburn on Wednesday evening, Sept. 12. Marilyn was born in Lewiston on March 27, 1937, the daughter of Caleb and Ethel (Lothrop) Long. She had been a homemaker most of her life and with her late husband, Harold Wilfred Grant, raised two sons, Harold Grant Jr. of Florida […]
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Looking Back on Sept. 15
100 Years Ago: 1918 Today will be the closing day or the War Savings Stamp “drive” in Lewiston and Auburn, and it is expected that the results will exceed the expectations of those who have been in charge of the drive. Business has been good all of the week, and since Monday, when the little […]
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Michelle Andersen
KAMAS, UT — Michelle Anne Morin Andersen, 48, of Kamas, Utah, passed away on Sept 11 in South Jordan, Utah, after a brief struggle with cancer. Michelle was born in Lewiston and graduated from Gould Academy in Bethel. After graduating from the University of Utah, she attended medical school at the University of New England, graduating […]
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State fails those with mental illness
It is a sad fact that there are people in Maine who live with mental illness. This state has failed those people who are now being locked up. In my mind, people can and must do better and put more of a focus on community-based mental health treatment. Elected officials and the governor are all […]