NEW GLOUCESTER — A New Gloucester couple has donated 40 acres to the Royal River Conservation Trust to establish a trail system on the New Gloucester-Auburn line. The donation by Michael and Julie Fralich establishes a permanent owner for a scenic, waterfall-laden, 1½-mile hiking loop along Meadow Brook in the Royal River watershed. The donation was […]
2019
Posted inFranklin
RSU 73 directors mum after session with superintendent
LIVERMORE FALLS — Directors of Regional School Unit 73 took no action after meeting behind closed doors with Superintendent Todd LeRoy and legal counsel for 3½ hours Monday night. The board will hold a regularly scheduled meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Spruce Mountain Middle School cafeteria in Jay. Monday night’s executive session follows LeRoy’s email […]
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Posted inSun Spots
Sponsorships sought for Special Olympics Winter Games Teams
DEAR SUN SPOTS: I recently joined the board of Central Maine Adaptive Sports, which is based out of Lost Valley and provides adaptive sports opportunities to people with physical or intellectual disabilities. We’re looking for individuals or businesses to sponsor athletes on the Special Olympics Winter Games Team. The winter games are held at Sunday […]
Posted inDr. Roach, sj-web
Diet soda not a magic bullet for weight loss
DEAR DR. ROACH: My family members drink mega amounts of diet pop, including the kids, ranging from age 3 to age 10. All the adults have serious weight problems. They say they have to drink something besides water. What comments do you have? — A.H. ANSWER: There remains a controversy about the effect of diet […]
Posted inCommunity Sports, sj-web
Auburn-Lewiston YMCA defeats AYS
The Auburn-Lewiston YMCA 3rd/4th Grade Girls Travel Team improved to 3-0 with a 39-15 victory over AYS. Piper Croteau and Hope Fontaine led the scoring with seven points each while Abby Giroux added six points. Jenna Shea and Leigha Pelkey both had five points. Chloe LaPrell added three points. Leah Shannon, Alexis Creaser and Elizabeth […]
Posted inEncore, sj-web
Looking Back on Jan. 8
100 years ago: 1919 (This item shows a vast difference in the 26th president’s funeral and the more recent 41st president’s funeral.) The body of Theodore Roosevelt was laid to rest today in a family cemetery plot witnessed by members of the family and a Congregational delegation and a group of two hundred neighbors, among […]
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CLT's 'Lend Me A Tenor' opens Jan. 11
AUBURN — There will be laughs aplenty at the L/A Community Little Theatre (CLT) when “Lend Me A Tenor” opens Friday, Jan. 11. Twenty-five years after it last produced this show, CLT is proud to bring back this Ken Ludwig tour de force under the direction of Mitchell Clyde Thomas. “I chose ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Connections, Lewiston-Auburn, Livermore Falls Advertiser, Rumford Falls Times, The Bethel Citizen, The Franklin Journal
MBVS announces Maine Women Veterans Memorial challenge
AUGUSTA — The Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services is partnering with Joy Asuncion, Maine’s Ambassador for the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation (Women’s Memorial) for the first Maine Women Veterans Memorial Challenge. The challenge is a statewide, community-led drive to register all eligible women veterans from the state of Maine, past and present, […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
The irrational allergy to the wall
It’s a wonder that Democrats haven’t staked out a negotiating position demanding the destruction of already-existing barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Their opposition to President Donald Trump’s border wall (or, more properly, his so-called wall) is now so total as to be nearly indistinguishable from opposition to any serious infrastructure at the border at all. […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Connections, Livermore Falls Advertiser, Rumford Falls Times, sj-web, The Bethel Citizen, The Franklin Journal
Maine corn growers stand out in national contest
WALDO — Maine corn grain growers saw their highest yields in the 2018 National Corn Growers Association yield contest, according to University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor Rick Kersbergen, who supervises the contest with UMaine Extension associate professor Caragh Fitzgerald. “2018 proved to be an exceptional year for corn growers,” Kersbergen says. “With a long, warm […]