Richmond baserunner Matt Rines, left, dives back to second base in time to beat the tag from Buckfield second baseman Dylan Harvey during Tuesday’s game at the Gerald N. Seigars Memorial Baseball Field in Richmond. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) RICHMOND — According to Richmond High School baseball coach Ryan Gardner, it’s “good to play a close […]
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H.S. baseball: Perseverance paying off for Mt. Abram seniors
Lisbon catcher Hunter Davis puts the tag on Mt. Abram’s Bryce Werzanski during an MVC baseball game in Lisbon last week. (Tony Blasi/Sun Journal) The four Mt. Abram players suddenly experienced a senior moment before they could recall and agree on the last time the baseball team won a game. Winning five games and playing […]
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Bethel's Troy Murphy retiring from U.S. Ski Team
Troy Murphy, of the United States, jumps during the men’s moguls qualifying at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in February. (AP file photo) Troy Murphy, the Bethel native who competed in the PyeongChang Olympics in moguls skiing, has retired from the U.S. Ski Team. The 25-year-old Murphy finished 17th […]
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Preparing for Memorial Day
Mike Small, owner of Roak the Florist, Main Street, Lewiston, plants flowers in front of a Roak grave marker. Small started hundreds of geranium seedlings to plant at local cemeteries for Memorial Day. Among those graves are those of his ancestors. (Leroy G. Walker Sr. photo)
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Human Resources group wins awards
ROCKLAND — Central Maine Human Resources Association, a Maine Chapter affiliated with the Society for Human Resource Management, was recently recognized for three awards. The society awarded its prestigious EXCEL Gold Award for the chapter’s accomplishments in SHRM EXCEL 2017. The award aligns individual chapters’ and state councils’ activities with SHRM’s aspirations for the human […]
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Lawn chairs away! L.L.Bean announces 2018 free concert lineup
FREEPORT — Get your lawn chairs ready. L.L.Bean announced its free summer concert series lineup on Tuesday. The shows kickoff July 4 with Devon Gilfillian, a singer-song writer who lives in Nashville and released his first album last year, and wraps Sept. 1 with The Fray, a Grammy-nominated and Billboard Music Awards-winning rock band out […]
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Windham man gets 25 years for mailing cyanide to suicidal Englishman
Sidney Kilmartin, the Windham man who was convicted of sending cyanide to a suicidal Englishman who used the chemical to kill himself, was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison. The case has been in federal court for more than four years and the most serious charge he faced was “mailing injurious articles resulting in […]
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Planting petunias, lilies
Dana Drew of the Lewiston Public Works Tree and Landscape Division plants canna lilies and petunias Tuesday in one of the city’s 40 raised flower beds. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal)
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Livermore Falls police arrest Jay siblings who now face multiple charges
LIVERMORE FALLS — A Lewiston man and his sister were arrested when he failed to stop for police and she interfered with an investigation, Lt. Joseph Sage said Tuesday. James Daniels, 31, and Alicia Mackerron, 26, were booked at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn on Friday. He is being held without bail, and she […]
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'MacBeth' winds up theater season at Chocolate Church
BATH — The Chocolate Church Arts Center, located at 804 Washington St., announces the theatrical production of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” as the conclusion of their 2017-18 performance season. Described as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, “Macbeth” is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt, and revenge directed by John Willey that debuts on […]