LISBON — Ross Cunningham wanted his three-member business panel “to be brutally honest” Monday night about the town where he has lived for the last 11 years. And they were. Speaking before a newly formed group called Positive Change Lisbon, Brunswick developer Jim Howard admitted, “My first impression of this town was it’s old, and […]
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Military notes
Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Adam R. Thibeault graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn […]
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Hundreds got fit with Healthy Androscoggin
LEWISTON — Healthy Androscoggin has completed their 12th annual Get Fit & Win Program, an eight-week physical activity challenge. There were 650 participants in this year’s program who set a personal goal for exercise throughout the summer. Participants logged their exercise over the course of the eight weeks, getting activity any way they liked. They […]
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W. Bauer: Leave water operations alone
I have served on the Lisbon Water Board for the past 35 years and I am against the takeover of the operations of the water company by town officials. When residents vote on Nov. 6, the choice is simple: a yes vote will mean that the Lisbon Water Department will be run by the town […]
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Class C quartfinal: Raiders hold off Greyhounds, 28-21
Oak Hill’s Kyle Flaherty works to get past Lisbon defender Brandon Hovey in football game at Oak Hill on Saturday. WALES — The script for Saturday’s Campbell Conference quarterfinal looked distressingly familiar to Lisbon in the first half and uncomfortably familiar to Oak Hill in the second half. The result, much to the favored Raiders’ […]
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Class C Field Hockey Championship: Lisbon tops Winthrop
ORONO — After a loss in the 2011 West regional semifinal round, Lisbon wanted another chance to prove it could play with the best field hockey teams in Maine. Now, the Greyhounds are the best in Maine. Arianna Kahler scored 1:02 into the game and Hannah Jordan added another early in the second half as […]
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Tin Man, Lion, others headed for Lisbon
Jen Fox photo The “Wizard of Oz” will take the Yellow Brick Road to Lisbon the weekend of Nov. 9, courtesy of the Lisbon High School drama club. Playing lead roles, from left, are Devan LaBrecque, Cameron Ramich, Andrea Danforth and Robert Dall. Students from Lisbon Community and Philip W. Sugg Middle School are also featured in the […]
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Girls’ Soccer: Flyers finish with flurry
LISBON FALLS — Juliana Harwood didn’t have much time to ease into the game Friday. The Waynflete goaltender was faced with a breakaway bid in the first minute of play. Lisbon scorer Kayla Angelico burst through the defense and was in alone on the Flyer keeper. “I saw her coming, and I knew I just […]
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Class C Field Hockey: Familiar foes face off
Like-minded, like-skilled perfect strangers, mind you, but the stage on which they are about to play makes a regular-season tie and MVC title game meeting seem like preseason scrimmages. The Greyhounds (16-0-1) and Ramblers (15-1-1) will meet Saturday in the Class C state championship game. It’s a return trip for Winthrop, which fell to NYA […]