U.S. Border Patrol agents conducted an 11-hour vehicle checkpoint on Interstate 95 in eastern Maine on Wednesday, stopping southbound vehicles near Lincoln in Penobscot County to ask drivers and passengers for their citizenship and immigration status, and to search vehicles with sniffer dogs. Agents from the Houlton Border Patrol sector manned the checkpoint, arresting a […]
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Project Graduation fundraiser raffling off 9 mm gun
PORTLAND (WGME) – A fundraiser for a Project Graduation in northern Maine is sparking controversy online, after recent school shootings in Florida and Maryland. A 9 mm gun is being raffled off. The parent who donated the gun sees no problem with the prize. She just wants to help raise money so students can have […]
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Monmouth tops Houlton, repeats as Class C girls’ basketball champion
The Monmouth Academy Mustangs celebrate with gold ball emblematic of winning the Class C state championship Saturday in the Paul G. Poulin Auditorium at the Augusta Civic Center. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) AUGUSTA — Monmouth’s offense came ready to defend the Class C state championship. The Mustangs started fast and held on to defeat Houlton 56-50, […]
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Tale of the tape: Class C girls’ state championship
Who: Monmouth (20-1) vs. Houlton (21-0) What: Class C state championship Where: Augusta Civic Center When: Saturday, March 3, 7 p.m. Starting fives: Monmouth — Tia Day (Sr. G), Abby Ferland (Jr. G), Abbey Allen (Sr. F), Hannah Anderson (Sr. F), Destiny Clough (Jr. C); Houlton — Kolleen Bouchard (Sr. G), Tegan Ewings (So. G), […]
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Houlton holds off Madison for C girls' soccer championship
Houlton’s Mia Hanning jumps into the arms of a coach after a second half goal as Madison players walk back to the team bench during the Class C title game Saturday at Hampden Academy. (Michael G. Seamans/Kennebec Journal) HAMPDEN — Houlton girls soccer coach Tim Tweedie marveled at Kolleen Bouchard’s senior season, one in which […]
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Beverly N.A. Estes
NORWAY – Beverly Nadine Ahonen Estes passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 2, at Norway Health and Rehabilitation Center where due to illness, she had resided for the past few years. Beverly was born in Houlton on June 23, 1936. She grew up in Bolsters Mills and graduated from Norway High School in 1955. Through […]
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Class B girls’ basketball final: Houlton was both a star and a Big Dipper
BANGOR — The debate prior to the Class B girls’ basketball championship game Friday night at Cross Insurance Center: Would the Gold Ball go to the best player, or the better team? With apologies to a terrific Gray-New Gloucester group, once Kolleen Bouchard and Houlton got their hands on that coveted state trophy for the second […]
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Gray-New Gloucester falls to Houlton, 48-35, in girls’ basketball final
BANGOR — Many basketball state finals feature one team that’s more experienced in that environment than the opponent. Thanks to the alternating, north-south host sites, one team is always more familiar with the building, the baskets and the court, too. It’s always debatable how much those distinctions matter, but they surely didn’t appear to hurt Houlton, […]
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Class B girls’ basketball: Gray-New Gloucester, Houlton stark contrast in styles
Something has to give. It’s a clash of styles. Fill in the blank with your own favorite description of a championship clash that pits outstanding offense against dynamite defense. Then slap an exponent next to it, because rarely are the metaphors more precise than in consideration of Friday night’s battle between Houlton and Gray-New Gloucester […]
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Anthony Lord pleads not guilty to kidnapping, fatal shootings
BANGOR — A Houlton man charged with kidnapping a woman and killing two men in separate shootings has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Anthony Lord, who was arraigned Monday in Bangor, is accused of going on a shooting rampage in July in northern Maine. Police said 58-year-old Kevin Tozier and 22-year-old Kyle Hewitt died […]