If pressure is defined by either exorbitant expectations or competition nipping at its heels, Edward Little should be nice and relaxed heading into Saturday’s Class A track and field championship at Brewer Community School. The team championship is expected to be a spirited scrap between Cheverus and Scarborough. Next in line and living somewhat on […]
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Driver hurt in Lisbon crash
LISBON — Police believe a medical condition may have caused an out-of-town driver to lose control of his pickup on Route 196 late Friday morning. Lisbon police officer Ryan McGee said Rodney Poulin, 41, of Greene, was driving west at a slow speed, according to witnesses, when his pickup veered across the eastbound lane near […]
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Sugg students ‘Kick Butts’
LISBON — Students at Philip W. Sugg Middle School researched and educated peers, parents and teachers on a modern day headline news topic of smoking by joining the national “Kick Butt” campaign. Kick Butts Day was developed to inform students and adults about the risks of becoming a regular tobacco user. The students made public […]
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Allen S. Glidden
AUGUSTA — Allen Stinson Glidden, 83, of Lisbon, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 28, at the Veterans’ Hospice Palliative Care Unit at the Togus Hospital. He was the beloved husband of 35 years to Joanna M. (Albert) Glidden. He was born in Rockland, Sept. 23, 1929, son of the late Harold and Marjorie (Sawyer) […]
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Lisbon driver hurt in car crash
DURHAM — A Lisbon driver was injured Tuesday night when he lost control of his car on Pinkham Brook Road and it rolled over, state police said. Howard Wilson, 69, was taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston with neck and back pain, Trooper Michael Smith said. Wilson was driving north in his 2002 […]
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H.S. Tennis: Winthrop advances past Lisbon
WINTHROP — Hardly a word was spoken, because there really wasn’t need for anything more. When Kevin and Alex Chamberland started slowly Tuesday in their doubles tennis match, the brothers didn’t have to talk it out. A few glances told the story. “We don’t really have to talk,” said Kevin Chamberland, a sophomore. Alex is […]
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The Hot Corner: Time to put those ‘Hounds on track
The week’s interminable spring showers pelted the well-worn path surrounding Thompson Field at Lisbon High School, rapidly transforming the 10-foot-wide swath of sand and gravel into mud. Kitty litter, the athletes and locals affectionately call it, sometimes while cleaning the residue from open scrapes. Undaunted, the Greyhounds’ track and field went through its routine of […]
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Track and Field: Eight wasn’t easy, but Lisbon sweeps
AUGUSTA — The boys’ half of Thursday’s Mountain Valley Conference track and field championship came down to a match race between a Hall-Dale 4×400 relay squad that hadn’t run together all season and a Lisbon group out of its customary order. The Greyhounds’ shuffled deck finished one spot ahead of the Bulldogs’ stacked deck, and […]