PARIS — The Maine Veterans’ Home announces that Roy Lurvey is Veteran of the Month for January. Lurvey lived with his parents, Ida and Merle, and a younger sister, Beverly, at the family home in Locke Mills village in Greenwood. When he was 7, he started taking clarinet lessons and later performed on local radio station […]
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Tripp Middle announces first trimester honor roll
TURNER — Tripp Middle School has released the list of honor roll students for the first semester. Seventh grade Honors: Caden Adams, Alexis Barkman, Lindsay Bates, Emma Beedy, Logan Berube, Brendan Bickford, Nola Boutaugh, Jada Boutin,Noah Brisson, Sydney Bullard, Olivia Cameron, Noah Carpenter, Logan Chaput, Owen Chateauvert, Wyatt Clark, Tave Cloutier, Sierra Colby, Linnea Cooper, […]
Local roundup: Monmouth girls shoot past Mountain Valley
Winnie LaRochelle scores 22 points as Rangeley girls edge Pine Tree.
Girls’ basketball: Gray-New Gloucester puts pressure on, routs Old Orchard Beach
Patriots build 39-point halftime lead in what their coach says was “maybe our best half of offensive basketball of the year.”
Oxford Hills students compete in annual Tech Challenge
PARIS — Oxford Hills Technical School students competed Tuesday in a series of challenges — from making whoopie pies to taking blood pressure — to demonstrate their knowledge and prepare them for the workforce. The eighth annual Tech Challenge for hundreds of students at Oxford Hills Comprehensive and Buckfield high schools involved classes in engineering, early […]
Progress Center receives donation
LEWISTON — The Progress Center of Norway has been awarded a $5,000 grant from Androscoggin Bank’s MainStreet Foundation for the fourth quarter to 2018. Recognizing a need for at-risk children to be safe, healthy, active, happy, educated and nourished, the MainStreet Foundation awards grants to organizations actively working to help children thrive. The grants vary […]
Spencer Emerson returning as Poland’s football coach
Knights coach said “Last Chance U” job “wasn’t exactly what I hoped it was.”
Central Maine Healthcare to open walk-in clinic
LEWISTON — Central Maine Healthcare is opening a walk-in clinic in Bridgton, and more projects may be coming. The clinic will share a building with North Bridgton Family Practice at 14 Wyonegonic Road, off Route 37. Patients don’t need to have a relationship with the practice, Bridgton Hospital or CMHC in order to attend the […]
Pennsylvania man injured when snowmobile hits rear tire in Eustis
EUSTIS — A Pennsylvania man was injured Tuesday when the snowmobile he was driving hit a rear tire on an empty logging truck driving by on Tim Pond Road. John Derea, 71, of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, who was operating a 2014 Arctic Cat snowmobile with a party of snowmobilers, had brought the machine to a stop where […]
Two Lewiston males charged with animal abuse in connection with viral video
LEWISTON — Lewiston police Tuesday charged an adult and a minor with animal cruelty in connection with a video circulating on Facebook showing a man whipping a dog. Curtis Teague, 18, of Lewiston, was charged with cruelty to animals, as was a minor, also from Lewiston, who police declined to identify. According to an email […]