The Lewiston girls’ hockey team, winners of the first girls’ state championship for the sport, were honored last week by lawmakers in Augusta.

Rep. Peggy Rotundo, D-Lewiston, told colleagues that for decades the Lewiston boys’ team has been winning championships, but finally the girls had the chance to earn statewide bragging rights.

“We start young, and we produce outstanding male and female hockey players,” she said during a floor speech. “We are so proud that finally this past winter our girls had the opportunity to show the world what terrific athletes they are.”

The team was honored by both the House and Senate and also met with Gov. John Baldacci.

– Rebekah Metzler

Lobsters, apple pie, French wine for view of ‘lost’ diary

Anyone out there got the “lost” diary of Dr. Hiram Francis Abbott, or historical photographs of Clarence Lesley Potter or Winfield Scott Robinson? There’s food and beverages in it for you.

Last week, noted mineralogist Vandall T. King, a Skowhegan native, was in Rumford and Newry promoting his newest book about the mining history of Oxford County.

Hoping to track down Abbott’s diary and the two photographs, he offered a culinary reward:

• For the opportunity to read from Abbott’s diary and write it down or photograph it: a two-lobster dinner, complete with corn on the cob, King’s homemade apple pie and a bottle of Liberty white wine from Paris, France.

• A two-lobster dinner for a genuine photograph of Potter, who was the superintendent in the early 1900s at the Dunton Quarry in Newry for the Oxford Mining Co.

• A Moxie and a box of Nissen or Dunkin’ Donuts doughnuts for a picture of Robinson, a Mount Mica miner who was also active in all area mines.

A Rumford Hospital wing is named for Abbott, but they don’t have the diary and neither do the Bethel or Rumford historical societies. In 1966, the diary was in the possession of Thurston Cole of Rumford Point, but he died that year and had no heirs, King said.

“I’ve won a neighborhood pie-baking contest, so it won’t be bad,” King said of his apple pie prize. “You won’t gag on it.”

King can be contacted at [email protected].

– Terry Karkos