POLAND — This habit of playing late-season girls’ soccer games with playoff implications is equally new to Poland and Freeport. The upstart WMC and Western Class B rivals each are in that frame of mind for the second year in a row. Wednesday night it was the Falcons who made the surroundings look like familiar […]
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Boys’ soccer: Freeport, Poland settle for draw
FREEPORT — Western Maine Conference foes Freeport and Poland entered Wednesday’s high school boys soccer clash holding down the final two playoff spots in Western Class B. A 0-0 double-overtime deadlock, though not glamorous, might have done the trick, as both teams picked up valuable Heal Points in their quest for a postseason berth. “I […]
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H.S. Field Hockey: Freeport holds off Gray-New Gloucester
GRAY — The momentum had shifted in the second half of Thursday’s Western Maine Conference high school field hockey game. Visiting Freeport held a two-goal lead nine minutes into the frame, but it was Gray-New Gloucester forward Skye Conley’s goal off a pass from Jenny Holmquist that had the Patriots tilting the field in their […]
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Neighbors raise concerns over new L.L. Bean paddling hub
FREEPORT (AP) — Some Freeport residents are expressing concerns over L.L. Bean’s plans to expand its paddling center with a new 7,200 square-foot lodge. The new building in the Flying Point neighborhood will house indoor showers, lockers for paddlers. The company started kayak and stand-up paddle boarding instruction and tours several years ago. Some residents […]
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Dead Poets founder, a Freeport resident, visits his 300th grave
PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine man who’s devoted himself to honoring the memory of poets from the past has now visited 300 grave sites of poets ahead of this weekend’s fourth annual Dead Poets Remembrance Day. Walter Skold of Freeport reached the milestone Monday when he visited the burial sites of Anne Whitney, William Reed […]
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Police say they chased 13-year-old in SUV on Interstate 295
TOPSHAM — A 13-year-old boy in Maine is facing charges after he allegedly took his parents’ sport utility vehicle and led police on a high-speed chase. Topsham police say the boy took the vehicle after an argument with his parents Monday afternoon and drove to Interstate 295. Police tell the Times Record of Brunswick that […]
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T. Doughty: Story was missing something
After reading the Sept. 7 article by staff writer Kalle Oakes on the Spruce Mountain-Freeport football game, I felt the need to provide more information about the “bizarre finish.” It is disappointing that the Sun Journal would print a story that smears the Freeport football program without contacting the Freeport coach to get a balanced […]
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Battling moose displays at the Fryeburg Fair
FRYEBURG — The only two existing displays of antler-locked moose in North America will be on display at the Fryeburg Fair next week. In a statement from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Director of Public Information and Education Doug Rafferty said Maine has partnered with New Hampshire Fish and Game to bring […]
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H.S. Soccer: Patriots edge Falcons
FREEPORT — Gray-New Gloucester’s Tyler St. Pierre made run after run as his teammates tried to send the speedy forward on a breakaway behind the Freeport defense. Three times, the plan — both in timing and execution — worked perfectly as St. Pierre’s hat trick lifted the Patriots to their first win, a 3-2 Western […]
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L.L. Bean has best spring sales since 2008
FREEPORT (AP) — L.L. Bean just finished its best spring and summer season in five years, with a performance that was strong enough to warrant the first midyear employee gift since 2007, the company announced. Sales from March through August for the outdoors retailer were up 3 percent from the same period last year, bolstering […]