Oxford Hills’ Tommy Bancroft tries to muscle his way through several Brunswick players during Monday afternoon’s game at Gouin Complex. The Dragons knocked the ball out of Bancroft’s basket and went on to dominate the Vikings, 21-0, to keep their perfect season in tact and the Vikings winless on the season. Oxford Hills’ Tommy Bancroft […]
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Girls’ lacrosse: Lewiston breaks through to beat Brunswick
Brunswick High School’s Jenna Brooks (4) controls a faceoff in front of Lewiston High School’s Morgan Eliasen during their game in Lewiston on Wednesday. LEWISTON — Wednesday’s KVAC Class A North girls’ lacrosse clash between Lewiston and Brunswick was a goalkeeper duel. With the score just 1-1 at halftime, it was on one of the […]
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H.S. baseball: Mt. Blue roughs up Brunswick
FARMINGTON — Corey Rogers scattered seven hits and allowed two earned runs over five and two-thirds innings, and Mt. Blue’s batters took advantage of eight walks in a 13-4 victory over Brunswick in KVAC baseball action Friday afternoon at Hippach Field. After a leadoff walk and a single in the first inning, Rogers, a senior […]
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Boys’ lacrosse: Undefeated Brunswick burns Lewiston
Roman Dennis, top, of Lewiston and Christian Jenson of Brunswick tangle during a first quarter faceoff in Lewiston on Friday. LEWISTON — Brunswick was in the zone Friday night, figuratively and literally. And that spelled doom for Lewiston, which fell behind and didn’t recover. The Dragons jumped out to a 5-0 lead, then held the Blue Devils to just five goals total in […]
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Radio host joins fray in Brunswick school bullying case
BRUNSWICK — The attorney for the School Department believes a local radio host violated a court-ordered confidentiality agreement pertaining to a recent federal lawsuit during an on-air broadcast last week. The information Jim Bleikamp revealed in the scathing May 5 broadcast prompted the vice chairwoman of the Town Council to speak out as the first […]
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Brunswick School Board pushes back against school assault story
BRUNSWICK — The School Department defended itself Tuesday against what it called “unfounded allegations” in an Associated Press investigation published Monday that spotlighted new details in a 2015 bullying lawsuit the district settled for $125,000 last fall. The article accuses the district of mishandling its response to over 50 incidents of bullying and harassment — including […]
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Aline G. Boisvert
BRUNSWICK — Aline G. Boisvert, 82, died Wednesday, April 19, at Dionne Commons. She was born in Lewiston, Jan. 16, 1935, the daughter of Alcide and Maria Baillargeon Boisvert and attended Lisbon schools. She was employed at Mary Joseph Academy for eight years in Biddeford and St. Mary’s Kitchen in Lewiston before moving to Brunswick […]
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Hidden horror of sex assaults by K-12 students
BRUNSWICK — Chaz Wing was 12 when they came after him. The classmates who tormented him were children, too, entering the age of pimples and cracking voices. Eventually, he swore under oath, the boys raped him and left him bleeding, the culmination of a year of harassment. Though Chaz repeatedly told teachers and administrators about […]
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Wilton man in possession of fentanyl arrested in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK – A Wilton man was arrested Tuesday after getting off a train in downtown Brunswick with 120 grams — 1,200 doses — of fentanyl in his pocket, according to a release from Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Public Safety Department. The drugs had a street value of $20,000. Maine Drug Enforcement agents from […]
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Brunswick planners OK housing subdivision, medical offices
BRUNSWICK — The Planning Board approved plans Tuesday for a seven-home subdivision on Route 1, near the Freeport town line. It also approved a common development plan and sketch plan for a commercial office and retail complex on Bath Road in the Cooks Corner area. The Rolling Meadows subdivision at 720 Old Portland Road will […]