LISBON— The Half Moon Jug Band will bring its toe-tapping, hand-clapping brand of musical mayhem and comedy to Lisbon’s Moxie Festival on Saturday, July 9. Band members Troy R. Bennett, Carter Ruff, Mike the Drummer and Steve Brewer will play at 11:30 a.m. at the Marion T. Morse Center on School Street. Besides live music, […]
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Topsham getting Renys
It’s not Lisbon, but it is next door. Four years after the town rallied to attract Renys, the department store will open in neighboring Topsham. The new store is taking up 32,000 square feet in the former Village Candle, President John Reny said. It’s tentatively set to open the third week of August. He said […]
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Historical Society to hold Moxie Day events
LISBON — Moxie Days 2011 at the Lisbon Historical Society will take place July 8-10. A guest appearance and book signing by Eugene P. Elcik, a native of Lisbon, will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 8, and from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the MTM Center, Lisbon Falls. There […]
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Fire damages Lisbon garage
LISBON — No injuries were reported and loss was estimated at $50,000 in an early-morning garage fire of “undetermined origin” Thursday at 11 Grandview St. The fire was spotted shortly after 5 a.m. by a passing motorist who drove to the police station to report it. The blaze started on the first floor of the […]
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Moxie Festival Committee announces changes
LISBON — The Moxie Festival Committee announces changes to the Moxie Festival Recipe Contest and the Chug-n-Challenge to be held on Saturday, July 9, during the three-day Moxie Festival weekend. Last year’s entrants hailed from Bangor to Weymouth, Mass., and Moxie recipes included a cake, barbecue sauce, mustard and Moxie couscous. There is no fee […]
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They come as friends: Wrestlers from Nebraska share mats in Maine
The wrestling will be genuine when competitors step onto the mat for the 27th annual Maine/Nebraska Friendship Series this week. Mt. Blue High School in Farmington will host the second leg of the event on June 23 at 6 p.m. The venue at the home of the Cougars will feature 15 wrestlers from Mountain Valley, […]
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The Hot Corner: Devils, Saints pulled rank in 2010-11
It’s the third Sunday in June, and it’s more than Father’s Day. It marks the end of the fiscal year for anyone who covers high school sports for a living. Here in the cozy confines of the Sun Journal toy department, we could celebrate this passage in a variety of ways. — Imbibe moderately. But […]
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Military note – Sheri Jansen
KEENE, N.H. — Army Reserve Spec. Sheri L. Jansen is returning to the U.S. after a deployment to Iraq serving in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom/New Dawn, or Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations. The soldiers return to Joint Base Dix-McGuire-Lakehurst, N.J., for debriefing, evaluations and out-processing procedures before […]