MECHANIC FALLS — Town Manager Zakk Maher wants more business development at Five Corners, the junction of Routes 11 and 26. To do so, Maher said recently, “You have to build the conversation in order to get it to be what we want.” Shortly before Christmas, Maher posted a map of the Five Corners area […]
January 2019
Posted inNational Sports, Sports
Brady vs. Rivers headlines divisional round of NFL playoffs
For all of Rivers’ success during his 15 years in the NFL, he is winless in seven career starts against Brady
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Posted inNews
Residents recycled over 1,000 Christmas trees at Westbrook farm
The supply should keep the goats at Smiling Hill Farm ‘happy’ until summer, the farm says on Facebook.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Girls Basketball, sj-web, Varsity Maine
And One: Mountain Valley girls brace for tough stretch
Bench comes up big for Vikings … Phoenix still confident in Walton … Red Eddies rounding into form.
Posted inLocal Sports, sj-web
Junior Hockey: Twin City Thunder win twice at USPHL Showcase
The Thunder moved to 3-0 at the Showcase, despite facing the “challenge” of playing those games in a span of 24 hours
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Veterans get to try adaptive ski gear
Erica Baiguy, an occupational therapist volunteer with the veterans adaptive sports and training program at Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, demonstrates adaptive ski gear Sunday with the assistance of program director Kristina Sabasteanski, back, to a group of veterans and University of Southern Maine occupational therapy students. The program, free to veterans, runs every Wednesday […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
L-A This Week
MONDAY, Jan. 7 AUBURN — City Council workshop and meeting, 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber at Auburn Hall. Workshop agenda includes discussion on new Auburn Housing Authority properties and the city’s senior center project. Meeting includes authorizing the discontinuance of Niskayuna Street. TUESDAY, Jan. 8 AUBURN — Age-Friendly Community Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. at […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
No local candidates for Lewiston school superintendent
LEWISTON — None of the six applicants for Lewiston School superintendent is an in-house candidate, and only one is from Maine, according to the consultants’ report to the School Committee. Committee members are scheduled to interview candidates Monday, Wednesday and Thursday in closed-door meetings. Superintendent Bill Webster, who was hired in 2010, announced last summer he is […]
Posted inBethel, Franklin, Oxford Hills, River Valley, sj-web
This week's agenda
Monday Bethel: Public hearing, extension of ordinance establishing a moratorium on registered caregiver retail stores, 6 p.m., Town Office Bethel: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Jay: RSU 73 board of directors, 6 p.m., superintendent’s office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Building Buckfield: Economic Development Committee, 6:30 p.m., Municipal […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Growers see better days ahead for Maine’s wild blueberry crop
PORTLAND (AP) — Growers in the No. 1 wild-blueberry state suffered another bad year, but agriculture officials say there are reasons to believe Maine’s historic and troubled industry is about to turn a long-awaited corner. Maine farmers collected about 57 million pounds of the wild fruit in 2018, down nearly 11 million pounds from the […]