Since the Red Sox won the World Series, team members and owners have been popping up in more places than Wal-Mart supercenters. Eager to celebrate, Sox leaders promised they would take the trophy to every New England state – a gracious thank-you to a long-suffering Red Sox Nation.

They appear to be sincere. They’ve been all over Massachusetts and have stopped in Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire. And on Saturday, the championship trophy and pitcher Bronson Arroyo will be in Vermont.

On Monday, the Sox will kick off a weeklong celebration at their spring training camp in Fort Myers, Fla.

They may still make it to Maine. (Mr. Henry, there are six states in New England.)

Lewiston City Administrator James Bennett is even hopeful that they will make a stop in the Twin Cities.

The day after the team’s victory, Bennett sent an invitation to Fenway Park, encouraging the team to come here for a rally. He’s heard no response.

“I’m not discouraged,” Bennett said. “I guess the good news is that they haven’t said no.”
– Daniel Hartill
A good deed nearly done
Gail Theberge got a call Monday morning at 8:45. The woman who’d lost her necklace at Washburn School on Election Day was ecstatic.

She’d read a small story in Saturday’s newspaper about Theberge finding a necklace and was so relieved. Theberge, the school secretary, had taken a call from the woman nearly a month ago when she realized she’d misplaced it on the day she’d voted in the school gym.

It took two weeks for a student to spot something in the grass by the buses and turn it over to Theberge. By then, she didn’t have a way to track the woman down.

So on Monday the woman headed down to the school with a gift for the third-grader who found it, anxious to get her special belonging back.

Only it was the wrong necklace.

The woman had lost a different silver pendant, a cross with diamond chips. The silver cross found at the school, on a silver necklace, wasn’t hers.

A disappointed Therberge wondered, What are the odds? She’s still looking for the owner of the found necklace.
– Kathryn Skelton
Two generations, one dream

Soon after an Auburn businessman approached Judge Paul Cote about starting the Lewiston-Auburn Youth Court five years ago, Cote knew he would have to get involved.

The program seemed to be in his blood.

The same week Cote was approached, his father gave him an old Lewiston newspaper article about a similar program. And a similar judge who wanted to start it.

The story, printed in 1944, told readers that Cote’s grandfather wanted teenagers to advise judges on cases that involved teenage criminals. He wanted teenagers to serve as jurors when a peer was charged with a crime.

Basically, he wanted Youth Court.

Cote never found out what happened to his grandfather’s novel plan. But 55 years later, he agreed to start a Youth Court of his own.

Said Cote, “How could I say no after that?”

– Lindsay Tice