Tell me again what multiple of four you’d like to see invited to a college football playoff? I only ask because four isn’t working. It’s a pointless exercise that takes the starch out of two bowl games and satisfies nobody. Since the start of the college football playoff, the average margin of victory has been […]
2018
Posted inEncore, sj-web
Looking Back on Dec. 31
100 years ago: 1918 The Annual Meeting of the Androscoggin Anti-Tuberculosis annual association will be held on Monday, January 6, 1919, at three o’clock p.m. for the following reasons: 1. To hear and set upon the records and reports of the officers and committee. 2. To elect officers. 3. To transact any other business that […]
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Patriots thrash Jets, clinch 1st-round bye
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots claimed two victories in one game. Actually, it only took them about a half. Tom Brady threw for three first-half touchdowns and New England clinched its ninth straight first-round bye in the playoffs on Sunday with a 38-3 victory over the New York Jets. The Patriots (11-5) […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
People You Know: Chris Silsbee takes over Bradbury Mountain State Park
POWNAL — At his last post, in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Caribou native Chris Silsbee had a four-hour commute to work, left his family for nine days at a time to live in the woods and might see more deer than people on any given day. Two years ago, deciding his family was ready for […]
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Hartley Block downtown Lisbon Street development to take applications soon
LEWISTON — The developers behind the Hartley Block building on downtown Lisbon Street will begin taking housing applications in January ahead of the expected completion date this spring. Construction for the mixed-use development at 155 Lisbon St. began in February and quickly took shape over the summer, filling a large gap of storefront downtown that had […]
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The case of the missing turkey still cold
LISBON — The town turkey has apparently flown the coop. The trail of the painted metal cutout depicting a 3-foot-tall turkey has gone cold, said Cherie Garnett, who works for the town’s Parks and Recreation Department. Garnet said the bird was nowhere to be found by town workers when they retrieved the display items last […]
Posted inBusiness, sj-web
Side By Each Brewing, Poutine Factory nearly ready to serve in Auburn
AUBURN — A winding, 87-foot, wooden bar top is installed. There is room for a dozen 275-gallon tanks. And one-quarter of an actual food truck is mounted on a wall. Side By Each Brewing Co. and The Poutine Factory are nearly ready to open. The new businesses, announced last summer, are in the former, 10,480-square-foot […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Waterford man still missing after eight weeks
WATERFORD — Maj. James Urquhart of the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office said the case involving a missing Waterford man has been handed off to the Major Crime Unit of the state police. Ricky Howard, 49, of 440 Norway Road was reported missing by his family eight weeks ago and was last seen at AJ’s Everything Store […]
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Nurse ‘hanging in there’ after cancer diagnosis
HEBRON — Nearly a year after she was diagnosed with lung cancer, Amy Richard said she is “hanging in there.” “I’m not as strong as I was. I’ve lost some weight,” she said. “But my scans have been stable, so that’s good news. And I’m getting into some advocacy work.” Richard, 42, is a wife, […]
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Robert H. Cashman Sr.
JAY – Robert H. Cashman Sr., 81, of Jay and Newington, Conn., beloved husband to Geraldine (Toce) Cashman, passed away unexpectedly in Farmington, on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, surrounded by his wife and children. Besides his wife of nearly 53 years, Bob leaves his children, Robert Jr. and wife, Sharon, Mary Houle and husband, Kevin, […]