But it was the Ramblers who shook off the early-morning Memorial Day weekend wake-up call, pounding out 14 hits in a 10-1 win in windy and cool conditions. Winthrop left Lisbon with a 10-2 record, while the Greyhounds fell to 10-3. Lisbon will host St. Dom’s on Tuesday and the Ramblers will face at Mt. […]
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H.S. Baseball: Lisbon pitcher Kyle Bourget makes rapid recovery
Lisbon’s senior football quarterback and baseball pitching ace knew enough from a lifetime in sports to diagnose the injury: A torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. While the Greyhounds gutted out a playoff victory in his absence, Bourget added and subtracted numbers in his head, seeking reassurance that his high school athletic career […]
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$15.1 million school budget to go to Lisbon voters
LISBON — Town councilors Tuesday night voted 5-2 to cut $399,610 from the proposed general education budget submitted by the School Committee. The total council-approved school budget, including adult education, is $15.1 million, which is $163,115 more than this fiscal year. The School Committee’s proposed budget called for $15.5 million. Councilors voted 5-2 to reduce […]
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Lisbon townspeople implore council not to cut school budget
LISBON — Emotions and frustration ran high Tuesday night as parents and students begged the Town Council to approve the school budget as proposed. The council has directed the school board to reduce the budget by $600,000. Under the Town Charter, the council decides on the total budget amount and the School Committee decides how […]
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Richard A. Hale
1921 – 2015 BETHEL — Richard “Dick” Augustus Hale died peacefully Sunday morning, May 17, after a short period of declining health. He was born in Lewiston on Oct. 5, 1921, the son of Elliott K. and Geraldine (Rideout) Hale. He attended local schools and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1939. After attending […]
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H.S. Track: Collier shatters personal best in 300 hurdles as Lisbon sweeps MVC meet
Collier accomplished that feat Tuesday, and did so against one of the top Class C hurdlers in the state, Boothbay’s Morgan Crocker. In her first meeting of the season with Crocker, Collier ran a personal best of 49.46 seconds in the 300 as Lisbon once again swept a Mountain Valley Conference meet. “I had tougher […]
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Lisbon to hold Memorial Day parade
LISBON — A Memorial Day Parade, coordinated by Nelson-Conley American Legion Post 66 and American Legion Post 158, will take place Monday, May 25. It will begin at Crafts Cars on Route 196 in Lisbon Falls at 9 a.m. and end at Coombs-Mountfort Post 158 in Lisbon. Parade participants should arrive between 8 and 8:30 […]
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H.S. Softball: Telstar pushes past Lisbon with late surge
LISBON — Coach Jim Lunney had his newspaper headline picked out well before the end of Telstar’s 12-3 victory over Lisbon on Monday. “Howard’s double clears the bases; Johnson drives her in,” Lunney said. That is what he told Becca Howard during a stoppage of play with no outs and the bases loaded in the […]
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Yolande Roux Gagne
1923 – 2015 SCARBOROUGH — Yolande Roux Gagne, 91, formerly of 59 Tampa St., Lewiston, and a resident of Birchwoods Assisted Living Community in Portland for the past three years, died Friday, May 8, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House of Scarborough. Yolande was born in Lisbon on Aug. 22, 1923, the daughter of Roland […]