Buckfield Bucks Coach: Kyle Rines (seventh year) Class: D South; Conference: East-West Last year’s results: 15-2, lost in D South regional final. Returning athletes: Seniors — Noah Wiley (F), Dylan Harvey (F), Cole Merrill (D), Jacob Toomey (M), Abram Cormier (D), Hunter White (F), Corey Umstead (D); Juniors — Dan Perry (D), Caleb Chabe (M), […]
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H.S. cross country: Edward Little's Richardson second at Laliberte Invitational
Edward Little’s Jillian Richardson runs the annual Laliberte Invitational on Friday at Cony High School in Augusta. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) Edward Little’s Jillian Richardson runs the annual Laliberte Invitational on Friday at Cony High School in Augusta. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) AUGUSTA — The cross country running season hasn’t officially started yet, but Lisandro Berry-Gaviria, last […]
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Oxford 250: Bubba and Ben — Georgia's Pollard will race in friend Ben Rowe's part of the country this weekend
Bubba Pollard after one of his many victories. Pollard will be racing in his first Oxford 250 on Sunday at Oxford Plains Speedway. (Submitted photo) When Ben Rowe needed a ride to keep his championship hopes alive, Bubba Pollard was there to help. The two racers have been friends ever since, but rarely have they […]
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Portland's international cryptozoology conference full of beasts, Bigfoot and Nessie
PORTLAND — For the third annual International Cryptozoology Conference, Loren Coleman has packed the schedule with all things Bigfoot, beast and unexplained — and plans to announce he’ll lead an expedition in search of the Loch Ness monster in 2019. The conference is being held Sept. 1-2 at the Brick South building on Portland’s Thompson’s […]
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Auburn businessman gets award
Clayton Hoak of Pittston, left, talks with Keith Morrison, owner of Morrison & Sylvester, at the Auburn business Friday afternoon about Hoak’s 1983 International winch truck, right. Hoak and several other members of the Pine Tree Chapter of the American Truck Historical Society brought their vintage trucks to the parking lot to present Morrison with […]
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Bean gives $3M to national parks
Freeport — Outdoor retailer L.L.Bean is extending its support of the national parks community with a multiyear, $3 million premier partnership with the National Park Foundation for the Find Your Park/Encuentra Tu Parque movement. According to a written statement from the company, the movement inspires people of all backgrounds and abilities, including outdoor enthusiasts and […]
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Pro-Trump Super PAC to spend $1 million to help Bruce Poliquin
A super PAC devoted to supporting President Donald Trump plans to spend $1 million to help elect U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, a two-term Republican in Maine’s 2nd District. America First Action announced this week it plans to pour $10 million into midterm elections across the country where GOP candidates may have trouble in swing districts. […]
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Bates College's second-biggest class ever about to arrive
LEWISTON — After seeing a surge in applications last year, Bates College is preparing to welcome the second-largest class in its history. The college expects 550 students to arrive on campus next week, nearly 10 percent more than its typical class. Only once, back in 2001, was there a larger class. College officials said the […]
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Ex-treasurer of Litchfield Fair arrested; more than $120,000 missing
AUGUSTA — The former Litchfield Fair treasurer was arrested Friday morning and charged with embezzling more than $10,000 from the Litchfield Farmers’ Club, which runs the fair. Club officers said Wednesday that more than $80,000 disappeared from accounts over the past two years. On Friday, after a closer look at the books, that number rose […]
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Mass. man sentenced to 6 years in prison in Auburn stabbing
AUBURN — Corey Hayden, who was facing trial on a charge of elevated aggravated assault in connection with a stabbing in January, has pleaded guilty. Hayden, 30, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, had been scheduled for trial in Androscoggin County Criminal Court on Monday. He entered a guilty plea Friday morning and was sentenced to serve […]