Charges Lewiston * Paul Hersom, 24, of 256 Lisbon St., warrant, 5:14 p.m. Monday on Park Street. * Heath Alan Goding, 30, of 61 River St., domestic violence assault and violation of bail conditions, 8:46 p.m. Monday at that address. * William Shepley Hilton, 52, of 2 Dill St. No. 1R, violating condition of release, […]
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Quint running for state Senate
MINOT — Colleen Quint has launched a campaign to represent state Senate District 17, which comprises Mechanic Falls, Minot, Turner, Leeds, Livermore, Livermore Falls, Greene, Wales, Sabattus and Lisbon. Quint is the former executive director of the Sen. George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute. She has been a member of the Minot School Committee and […]
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RSU 16 seeks towns to plow school grounds
POLAND — RSU 16 Superintendent Dennis Duquette asked selectmen Tuesday if the town would assume responsibility for plowing school facilities. Duquette suggested an exchange. The town would plow the School Department’s three lots in exchange for the free use by the town — primarily the Recreation Department — of school facilities. Duquette noted that prior […]
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Class B Indoor Track: Waterville girls repeat; York wins first boys title
LEWISTON — The Waterville girls made it back-to-back titles and the York boys won their first title ever in the Class B state indoor track and field championships at Bates College Monday. Waterville breezed to its fourth title in six years with 118 points, followed by Greely (73.40), Fryeburg Academy (44), Lake Region (33), Winslow […]
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Western B boys’ quarterfinal: Falmouth holds off Poland
PORTLAND — “What-ifs” and “woulda-coulda-shouldas” abound at tournament time, but none was greater Saturday than this: What if Falmouth’s Jack Cooleen didn’t have a career day in his team’s first playoff test after an undefeated season? The answer likely would have been a Poland Knights victory. But Cooleen, the team’s senior leader and only member […]
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Boys’ Basketball: Western B tournament overview
Players to watch Falmouth — Jack Cooleen (Sr. C), Matt Packard (Sr. G), Matt Kingry (Sr. G), Jeremy Lydick (Sr. F); Spruce Mountain — Jake Bessey (Sr. G), James Barker (Sr. F), Zach Bonnevie (Sr. G), Nate Shink (Sr. F); Yarmouth — Josh Britten (Sr. G), Chris Knaub (Sr. F), Sam Torres (Sr. G), Christian […]
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Darius E. Chadbourne
AUBURN — Darius E. Chadbourne, 66, of Poland, died Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the Hospice House. He was born in Poland, April 13, 1945, the son of Edward Sr. and Amy Gary Chadbourne. He attended Poland schools. He is survived by his sisters, Rose Pratt of Poland and Susie Leighton of North Yarmouth; and many […]
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Girls’ basketball: Phoenix rise above nerves
JAY — There’s planning for the jitters and then there is curing them. Spruce Mountain girls’ basketball coach Gavin Kane expected his team to be a little nervous Wednesday. It was the first playoff game in the program’s history and much of his roster had never played a varsity tournament game before. What he was […]
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High school roundup: Patriotic Knights roll
GRAY — After a slow start, the Poland/Gray-New Gloucester boys’ hockey squad erupted for five goals in the third period and skated to a 8-1 romp over Fryeburg/Lake Region in a late-season matchup Wednesday. Evan Bagg, Ryan Davala and Lucas Nickerson led the Patriotic Knights (3-13) with two goals apiece, while David Despins and Evan […]
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Western Class B Boys’ Preliminary: Knights get well, flatten Falcons
RUMFORD — If you don’t believe timing is everything in life, you never broke a bone in the middle of your senior basketball season. Jake Littlefield suffered the fractured right wrist on Jan. 6. The moment he was given the customary six-to-eight-week recovery window and left the hospital, the Poland Regional High School big man’s […]