GREENE — Fiddlers Owen Kennedy, 13, and Josh White, 16, will be performing at 7 p.m. Friday, July 27, at the Sawyer Memorial. Owen Kennedy and Josh White are two up-and-coming musicians whose lively arrangements take their listeners from Quebec and the Canadian Maritimes over the sea to Eastern Europe, Ireland and Scotland, and back […]
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Moore Park Makers Fair offers something for everyone
SOUTH PARIS — From a car show with a mini monster truck, arts and crafts booths, and pony rides to super heroes, a bouncy house and great local foods, there will be something for everyone at the Moore Park Makers Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 28. The rain date is Sunday, […]
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Green and Mirror Pond Association OXFORD — Green and Mirror Ponds Association will hold its annual association meeting on Saturday, July 28, at the Oxford Recreational Center. The meeting will start at 3 p.m. Current members, future members and the general public are invited. The Association will provide hamburgers and hot dogs and all those attending are […]
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Have their heads in the sand
The public sector employees who felt compelled to pay union fees or dues to unions they did not belong to are probably celebrating the recent Supreme Court ruling that claimed it was a violation of the First Amendment on free speech (see Elliott Epstein’s Rearview Mirror article “Supreme Court’s Janus decision upsets union balance, in […]
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Legion baseball: Paradie's home run powers Rogers Post past Capitals
AUBURN — In the American Legion baseball playoffs, pitch counts are everything. Rogers Post used one of its top pitchers, Damien St. Pierre, in relief in the fourth inning, throwing 17 pitches with a one-run lead over the Capitals in the first round of the Zone 2 playoffs. In the bottom of the inning, Rogers […]
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Passion for the game has led Slicer to Maine Baseball Hall of Fame
Oxford Hills coach Shane Slicer pulls his players together during a pitching change. Slicer is being inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday in Portland. (Brewster Burns photo) Four decades after being introduced to baseball, Shane Slicer’s passion for the sport remains strong. These days, the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School coach […]
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29th Lobster Bowl rallies talent, rivalry for good cause
Winthrop/Monmouth’s Nate Scott of the West team defends a pass Mattanawcook’s Carter Ward of the East during the Lobster Bowl last year. (Brewster Burns photo) One thing the Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic has done consistently throughout its history as the state’s all-star football showcase is generate a rivalry between the East and West participants. […]
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Otisfield beach reopens after water test comes back clean
OTISFIELD — Less than a week after closing the town beach on Pleasant Lake because of E. coli bacteria in the water, Administrative Assistant Anne Pastore said the beach is open again. Pastore wrote on the town’s website that Friday morning’s test of Pleasant Lake “came back clean,” and that the beach would be reopened […]
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Bates College hosting dance festival in Lewiston
Maree ReMalia, center, leads a Bates Dance Festival class at Lewiston Middle School on Friday. The Gaga class teaches movement through nuanced gestures, over-the-top physicality, meditative moments, and absurd exchanges that aim to uncover new ways of moving, accessing the subconscious and cultivating fluidity between following bodily impulse and making decisions. The festival continues through […]
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Lewiston police, ICE detain woman
Zera Samson, center, is detained by several law enforcement officers at the bus station on the corner of Bates and Oak streets in Lewiston on Friday. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — A woman from Tanzania was detained at the Greyhound bus stop on Bates Street for about 45 minutes Friday while Lewiston police and an […]