AUBURN — Trust the process. With apologies to the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, the Central Maine Community College women’s basketball team has built a process that has shown results, and thus has reason to be trusted. But after using that process to go all the way to USCAA Division II National Championship Game, and winning it, […]
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CMCC women's basketball team gets its day to celebrate national title
Hayley Peterson, of Bethel, center, holds the National Championship trophy she and her teammates from Central Maine Community College basketball team recently won. She and teammates Holly Decourcey, left, Ellie Harrington, right, and the rest of the players and coaches, were honored for winning the championship during a ceremony at the CMCC gym Thursday afternoon. […]
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Local roundup: Fighting Spirit fend off Minutemen
MIDDLETON, Mass. — Dylan Vrees started what he finished for the L/A Fighting Spirit on Sunday, putting the game away late in the third period for his second goal in a 4-2 NA3HL victory over the East Coast Minutemen at Essex Sports Center. Vrees started the scoring midway through the first period, with assists from […]
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Men’s Hockey: CMCC earns first win, puts away Dartmouth club team
AUBURN — Local standout Matt Poulin gave the home fans something to cheer about, scoring a pair of goals in Central Maine Community College’s first men’s hockey win of the season Saturday, a 6-3 victory over the Dartmouth College club team in an ACHA contest at Norway Savings Bank Arena. “It means a lot. No […]
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Lewiston Middle school hosts math meet
LEWISTON — Lewiston Middle School recently hosted the first Central Maine Math Meet of the year, said the school’s math coach and teacher Kirsten Laflin. Thirty-four teams of more than 100 seventh- and eighth-grade students competed. Lewiston’s eighth-grade team placed fourth in the event. Lewiston’s seventh-grade team split into two teams, with one team placing […]
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Are you a manager or a leader?
If you’re going to be successful as an owner of a small business, particularly one with employees, you have to perform both roles well. Management expert Peter Drucker writes, “Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things.” SCORE-Central Maine mentor Maurice Dube observes, “If you have already demonstrated leadership qualities by taking the […]
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Fast-moving storms make an impression
Thunder and lightning rolled across central Maine on Monday night, dropping trees and power lines in its path. As the storm moved through Oxford County, it left over 1,000 Central Maine Power customers in the dark. Reporter Tom Standard, on the road from covering the Peru selectmen’s meeting, had to be creative on his way […]
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More money, less money: the effects of not expanding MaineCare
The head of the Portland Community Health Center and her chief financial officer sat down last week to figure out which bills they could pay. They don’t have the money to pay all of them. More than half of their patients are uninsured, up from about 30 percent a few years ago. The health center […]
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College basketball: Top-seeded Mustangs upset in OT
The depth that was Central Maine Community College’s calling card this season didn’t translate to success when the season went to sudden death. Despite a tournament-record 46 points from Shaun Hill, the Mustangs fell in overtime, 103-101, to No. 8 Penn State Beaver in the quarterfinals of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association DII tournament […]