OTISFIELD — You just can’t get there from here. That’s the message contractors at the Ridgefield Bridge project and homeowners on Gore Road want motorists who continue to drive up the closed road to understand. The bridge is gone and there is no way to get to the other side. Gore Road, a well-traveled shortcut […]
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Football: Poland plows over Freeport
POLAND — All Ted Tibbetts could do was smile after watching his Poland Knights vanquish a scrappy Freeport team on a chilly Friday night. The Knights made quick work of the Falcons on an opening-night football game as Poland marched off with a 49-12 victory. Freeport was a handful in the first half, but time […]
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GOP’s Rand Paul brings campaign to Maine
The Kentucky senator warned of free-spending lawmakers from both parties, along with a loss of checks and balances in government and loss of personal freedoms, thanks to government wire-tapping. “There’s an unholy alliance in Washington between the right and the left. The right believes in unlimited spending for the military, and the left believes in […]
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Freeport ‘farm’ to harvest, share solar energy
FREEPORT — A community solar farm will soon open for residents who can’t have solar panels at their homes. The solar farm will be at Maine Idyll Motor Court on U.S. Route 1. Construction is expected to start in November. Nine shares in the farm are being sold by ReVision Energy of Portland. “Solar farms […]
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L.L. Bean continues retail expansion, opening Kansas store
PORTLAND — L.L. Bean plans to open a store outside of Kansas City, Kansas, later this year, marking the retailer’s 26th bricks-and-mortar store outside Maine and the latest in a series of expansion announcements. The company this year has announced expansions to Richmond, Va., Cleveland, Ohio, and Columbus, Ohio, and this week announced the expansion […]
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Dempsey Challenge offers two-day bike tour of Maine countryside
LEWISTON — The sixth annual Dempsey Challenge is set to start on Oct. 17 — but new to the Challenge this year will be a two-day ride, covering approximately 140 miles. The beautiful scenery, food and sleeping accommodations, as well as guaranteed fun for its riders makes the Dempsey Challenge Two-Day Ride something that riders […]
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June Moore Andrews
1931 – 2015 SOUTH PARIS — June Moore Andrews, 84, a lifelong resident of the South Paris area, died at Market Square Health Care Center on Thursday, July 9, in South Paris. June was born on May 7, 1931, in South Paris at McAllister’s Nursing Home to parents, Wayne and Lillian (Harrington) Moore. She was […]
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Margaret F. Rendall
1912 – 2015 FALMOUTH — Margaret F. Bowie Rendall, formerly of Falmouth, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 5, at Bay Square in Yarmouth, where she had been in residence for the past five years. Margaret was born in Durham, on June 16, 1912, to Leon R. and Almeda Libby Bowie. She attended Durham schools […]
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At the Maine Outdoor Challenge, Zen and the art of firing a shotgun
Editor’s note: Sun Journal Staff Writer Christopher Crosby participated in the annual Maine Outdoor Challenge in Freeport Monday. Below is his first-person account of the competition. FREEPORT — The instructors were unanimous: Holding a shotgun aloft while terrified wasn’t a recipe for success. Behind me, as others waited their turn at the target-shooting range, it seemed […]
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High school baseball: Poland comes back to top Freeport
Friday, a pitcher with something to prove and a patient sophomore catcher keyed a late-innings rally, lifting the Knights to a thrilling 11-0 win over visiting Freeport. “That’s been a strength of these guys all year,” Poland coach Mike Connor said. “They’ll take a mistake back into the dugout, and when they come back out, […]