Androscoggin Bank’s MainStreet Foundation, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, is accepting applications for its largest award, the annual $25K for Kids grant. The grant, designed to improve the lives of as many kids as possible, is awarded annually to a nonprofit organization that not only benefits at-risk youth in Maine, but focuses on the […]
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Legion baseball: Rogers Post uses a big sixth inning to get past Augusta
AUBURN — After Augusta tied the game in the top of the sixth inning, Rogers Post scored six in the bottom of the frame, for an 8-2 victory in American Legion baseball action Thursday. Grant Hartley, who had three singles in the game, drove in the game winning run. Damien St. Pierre followed that up […]
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Maine Amateur Championship: Jack Wyman wins 2nd straight title
Jack Wyman holds the trophy after winning the Maine Amateur Championship on Thursday at the Belgrade Lakes Golf Club. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal Photo) BELGRADE — For two days, Belgrade Lakes Golf Club’s seventh hole had been defending champion Jack Wyman’s personal bugaboo at the 99th Maine State Golf Association Amateur Championship. In Thursday’s final round, […]
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Norway Savings elects two new board members
NORWAY — Norway Savings Bank has announced the recent election of two new members, Todd Gauger and Ed Gardner, to its board of directors. Gauger is a veterinarian and owner/operator of Norway Veterinary Hospital. He joined the Norway Veterinary Hospital in 1988 as an associate veterinarian following his graduation from Michigan State University. His special areas […]
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Summer youth track meet in Poland
Mason Weed, left, 4, of Norway starts the 100-meter dash during the USA Track and Field Developmental Meet at Poland Regional High School on Thursday. Eight youth track programs participated in the meet hosted by the Auburn Recreation summer track and field program. Auburn coach Angie Jalbert said 350 kids competed during the event that […]
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Lewiston High grads credit Olympia Snowe for changing their lives
AUBURN — Three years ago, a couple of rising sophomores at Lewiston High School got an unexpected opportunity. Jenna Burton and Julia Chabot were tapped among an inaugural group of 49 young women at seven Androscoggin County high schools to join a new initiative by former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe. Snowe said her mission was […]
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Judge rules that infant murder case against Farmington man can move forward
A judge has ruled that a 39-year-old murder case can move forward because a crime was committed when a four-month-old infant died in his crib. Cumberland County Superior Court Justice Thomas Warren ruled this week that evidence that has come to light since Nathan Hagar was found dead in his crib in a Brunswick apartment […]
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Donald Trump's claim that NATO will boost defense spending disputed
BRUSSELS (AP) — President Donald Trump closed out his chaotic two-day visit to NATO Thursday by declaring victory, claiming that member nations caved to his demands to significantly increase defense spending and reaffirming his commitment to the alliance. But there were no immediate specifics on what Trump said he had achieved, and French President Emmanuel […]
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Paul LePage says he’d go to jail before he expands Medicaid
WESTBROOK — The political debate over Medicaid expansion in Maine continued Thursday with Attorney General Janet Mills and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee slamming Gov. Paul LePage for continuing to block expansion despite voter approval. LePage, meanwhile, vowed this week that he’d risk jail time before putting Maine in “red ink” amid his ongoing battle with lawmakers over […]
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Man who killed grandmother with golf club, wrench and knife seeks reduced sentence
ALFRED — A convicted killer’s life sentence for the murder of his grandmother is too severe, his attorney said Tuesday, arguing that the crime wasn’t “the worst of the worst.” Derek Poulin, 29, is asking the court to reduce his life sentence for murder and a concurrent 30-year sentence for arson. When he was 23, […]