WALES — You can’t throw a water bottle at the Oak Hill football huddle without hitting a senior. If a senior gets hurt, a classmate replaces him. When a senior makes a rare mistake, another one provides a play to balance the books and protect the lead. There’s little doubt that maturity is the primary reason […]
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Class D South football championship: Oak Hill outlasts Lisbon, 21-20
The Raiders get a stop, helped by the fickle fate of a loose pigskin, to protect the lead in the fourth quarter. Then they bleed the clock dry. It worked again on a blustery Saturday afternoon, and yet again at Lisbon’s expense. After the Greyhounds’ third unanswered touchdown of a titanic comeback ended in a […]
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Class D South Football Final: No secrets between Oak Hill, Lisbon
Two Class D championship runs showed Oak Hill the value of regular-season losses as teachable moments and motivators. The Raiders were knocked off by Old Orchard Beach and Winthrop in 2013 and Dirigo in 2014 before hoisting championship gold. Now Oak Hill enters the Class D South title game undefeated, at home, against a Lisbon […]
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‘Butt dialing’ leads Lisbon police to vandalism suspects
LISBON — Attention vandals: If you have mischief in mind and you’re carrying your cellphone in a pocket, make sure you don’t have 9-1-1 on speed dial. In Lisbon, an errantly placed call to emergency dispatchers led police to three teens who were first charged with illegally consuming alcohol and, later, with vandalizing a fleet […]
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H.S. Football: Oak Hill, Lisbon series not one-sided as it looks
If those people get restless and seek another gridiron topic that seems to defy logic and the laws of probability, may we suggest certain elements of the high school rivalry between Class D South regional finalists Oak Hill and Lisbon? They collide at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, in Wales, in a playoff game for the fourth […]
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H.S. Football: Oakes’ regional championship prognostications
Class A North Portland 17, Windham 14 Class A South Thornton 41, Bonny Eagle 22 Class B North Brunswick 35, Brewer 21 Class B South Falmouth 21, Marshwood 19 Class C North Winslow 21, Old Town 12 Class C South Yarmouth 15, Wells 13 Class D North MCI 42, Mattanawcook 7 Class D South Oak […]
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Cross Country: Lewiston’s Doorow has sights set on New England title
That is to say that Doorow hasn’t really been tested, winning every race he’s entered (including the Class A state championship and the Festival of Champions race in Belfast) by at least 13 seconds. At Saturday’s New England Championship in Thetford, Vermont, that figures to change. “When we looked at the beginning of the season, […]
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H.S. Football: Halls has Lisbon running on all cylinders
LISBON — Tyler Halls won’t soon forget his first start at quarterback for Lisbon High School. He was a sophomore summoned into emergency duty one week earlier when senior and three-year starter Kyle Bourget suffered a torn ACL just before halftime in a semifinal win over Old Orchard Beach. Halls, a speedy receiver with good hands […]
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Class D South football semifinal: Adams’ catch vaults Lisbon past Dirigo
DIXFIELD — Lisbon’s heart-stopping football playoff history includes The Drive. The Stand, times two. And now you can add The Catch. Henry Adams reached up to cradle Tyler Halls’ throw to the Lisbon sideline with his fingertips. He tucked it in, planted his left foot inside the chalk and kept his right foot in the air. […]
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Grand Opening for Dollar General store in Lisbon
LISBON — Dollar General will celebrate the opening of its new location at 167 Lisbon St. at 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, with free prizes and special deals. The first 100 adult shoppers will receive a $10 Dollar General gift card and the first 200 shoppers will receive a Dollar General tote bag, among other […]