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Auburn running club shines state event
On Aug. 8, 68 members of the Auburn Running Club competed in the Maine USATF Track and Field Championship in Brewer. Olivia Jalbert won the girls 13-14 Turbo-javelin event, setting a new state record with her throw of 118 feet,9 inches. Seven Auburn Running Club athletes won individual events Matthew Syphers, racewalk; Leighton Girardin, 100 […]
Sea Dogs play twinbill to start season
PORTLAND — The Portland Sea Dogs kicked off their 22nd season with an Opening Day split of a doubleheader with the Reading Fightin Phils, winning Game 1 4-2 and dropping Game 2 9-0. The Sea Dogs offense got off to a quick start, with Keury De La Cruz hitting a three-run home run off of […]
Walsh joins Maine Initiatives
BRUNSWICK — Greg Field, president of the board of directors of Brunswick-based Maine Initiatives, announced that Philip Walsh will be joining Maine Initiatives as executive director on Monday, Feb. 2. Walsh was most recently the director of the Office for External Grants at Bates College in Lewiston. In the past, he also served with the […]
Time stands still in an Auburn cornfield
I can look from our living room window and see a fine field of corn, nearly ready for the harvesting vehicles to cut it and transport it to the neighbor’s farm, where it will feed dairy cattle in the winter. The view is pretty close to what I saw about 60 years ago from that […]
Bicyclist escapes serious injury in Wilton crash
WILTON — A Vermont biker escaped serious injury when he collided with a vehicle, was thrown onto the hood, smashed the windshield and fell onto the road at the intersection of Routes 2 and 4 and Route 156. Zachary Basch, 22, of Jericho, Vt., was taken to Franklin Memorial Hospital by a NorthStar ambulance, complaining […]
RSU 73 board welcomes new superintendent, principal
LIVERMORE FALLS — The RSU 73 board Thursday night welcomed newly appointed Superintendent Kenneth Healey and hired Kevin Harrington as principal of Livermore Elementary School. Healey, the former principal of Lisbon High School, said he had been spending many hours with the district’s administrative team, touring schools and learning about the budget and history of […]
Two new bargaining units formed at RSU 73
LIVERMORE FALLS — Two new bargaining units were approved for formation by the RSU 73 board Thursday night. Superintendent Robert Wall said the board voluntarily recognized a new unit known as the Managers and Directors Association. The bargaining unit will represent the adult education director, business manager, technical director, and transportation and maintenance director. The […]
Come snow, mud or rain, season will start … eventually
Scheduling Maine high school sports north of Portland and away from the coast before the end of April school vacation is a look-silly-if-you-don’t, jinxed-if-you-do proposition. Spring games and meets were set to begin Thursday and Friday for many teams. Those dates are postponed or moved for some and a laughable suggestion to others. “Our baseball […]