PORTLAND — Zach Glazier, a running back who led the Winthrop/Monmouth cooperative football team to an undefeated regular season, won the 22nd John Taglienti Award on Sunday night. The trophy is presented each year to the outstanding player in the small-school division of the Campbell Conference. With the expansion of Maine high school football to […]
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Two communities, one team
WINTHROP — The combined Monmouth Academy and Winthrop High School football team celebrated its first awards banquet as one team Sunday. The story of this unique merger will soon be the subject of a documentary about their first year. Athletes passed a football in front of Winthrop High School as parents and coaches tended to […]
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Monmouth Museum takes orders for Thanksgiving goodies
MONMOUTH — The Monmouth Museum is taking orders for the following sumptuous holiday delights: Cornbread; gluten-free cornbread with nuts and cranberries; cranberry-orange bread; pumpkin bread — plain, with raisins or with nuts; date and nut bread; apple bread — with chocolate chips or with nuts; pecan pie; sweet potato pie and custard pie. All breads […]
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Military notes
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The following area residents graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The airmen 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 four credits toward an […]
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H.S. football: Dirigo stuns top-seeded Ramblers
WINTHROP — It may have seemed like a good idea at the time and it almost worked. But the fourth-down gamble that Winthrop-Monmouth opted for Friday night proved to be a fatal blow to their playoff hopes. Dirigo made the defensive stop, got the ball back at the Rambler’s 26 and scored just three players […]
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Weekend Blitz: It’s an all-local Western D playoff
Western Class C No. 5 Cape Elizabeth (6-3) at No. 1 Leavitt (8-0) Friday, 7 p.m. Hornets dominated time of possession on Cape’s turf back in Week 1. The emergence of Nate Rousseau, Adam Poulin and Billy Bedard and the likely return of Conor O’Malley mean they’ll try to do more of the same at […]
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Free dental care on Nov. 8 LIVERMORE FALLS/AUBURN — More than 30 dentists around Maine will volunteer their time this Friday, Nov. 8, to provide teeth cleanings, fillings and extractions to people who cannot afford regular dental care and are not covered by dental insurance. The program, Dentists Who Care for ME, offers one oral […]
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Monmouth Cemetery Association upset by student help
MONMOUTH — Students from Monmouth Academy and Monmouth Middle School had no idea that when they spruced up the Monmouth Center Cemetery, they would receive a civics lesson from a disgruntled cemetery association. On Oct. 28, as part of a history lesson, social studies teacher Jocelyn Gray led a group of 15 students on a […]
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Knights plan blood drive LEWISTON — Knights of Columbus Rev. Louis J. Fortier Council 106 will sponsor an American Red Cross Blood Drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, at Holy Family Church Hall, 607 Sabattus St. Entrance to the hall is in the back of the church and there is plenty […]
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Monmouth textile plant monitoring well water in town
MONMOUTH — A Maine textile manufacturer has started monitoring well water at more than two dozen homes around its Monmouth plant after the discovery of a contaminant at a new well last spring. State environmental officials tell the Morning Sentinel that Tex Tech Industries has been regularly testing the water from 11 residential and 11 […]