LEWISTON — Considered bad luck in many circles, No. 13 has significant meaning to Cody Dussault, and to volunteer assistant lacrosse coaches Caleb Daigneault and Tim Roy. “There’s a tradition at Lewiston, the top defenseman wears No. 13,” Dussault explained. A senior, Dussault first picked up a lacrosse stick as a freshman, enamored with the […]
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Lahey Foundation awards scholarships
LEWISTON — The Thomas E. Lahey Foundation will hold its 23rd annual golf tournament at the Springbrook Golf Club on Friday, July 15. The foundation was established to honor Tom Lahey, an outstanding Lewiston athlete and successful businessman who died Oct. 3, 1987, at the age of 43. The purpose of the foundation is to […]
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Face Time: Lawyers-turned-nurses Peter Michaud and Jean Nichols Wood
Two of the 51 students graduating from Central Maine Medical Center’s College of Nursing last month shared a special distinction: they were lawyers who had already worked for large and prestigious companies and agencies. Jean Nichols Wood and Peter Michaud are now nurses, having graduated and passed their licensing exams. No more pencils, no more […]
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Eastern A Baseball Semifinals: Keene, Blue Devils blank Dragons
LEWISTON — The Brunswick Dragons weren’t surprised or overwhelmed by Jeff Keene’s pitching repertoire Saturday, but they soon found the odds of scoring off of him overwhelmingly against them. Keene tossed a complete game four-hit shutout to send top-seeded Lewiston to the regional final with a 4-0 victory in the Eastern Class A baseball semifinals […]
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H.S. Tennis: Lewiston boys back on top
WATERVILLE — Scott Gagne celebrated with a backward flip of his ball cap. Eric Morin pumped his fist. Alex and Ben Chicoine yelled and high-fived. Within 10 minutes, a tenuous lead for the Lewiston High School boys’ tennis team turned into yet another state title. Gagne, Morin, the Chicoines and Brett Vallee and Jake Berube […]
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H.S. Tennis: Six in a row for Lewiston girls
WATERVILLE — Jessica Bowen felt the fire this season. Bowen, the Lewiston girls’ tennis team’s top player, was one of her team’s top doubles players a year ago. She made the shift to singles, and immediately began to face some of the state’s top players. Though she lost her fair share of those matches — […]
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Lewiston-Auburn police log
CHARGES Lewiston * Lisa Marie Vallee, 37, of 77 Rideout Ave., on a warrant, 5:50 a.m. Thursday at 12-6 Hillview Lane. * Kenneth Keith Ouellette, 42, of 221 Scribner Blvd., on charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and criminal trespass, 11:31 p.m. Friday at 207 Lincoln St. * Alberto Rosado II, 39, of […]
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H.S. lacrosse: Devils vanquish Bulldogs
LEWISTON — It took four tries over a span of 13 months, but Lewiston finally vanquished its demon in boys’ lacrosse Saturday. And the Blue Devils did it in style. Curtis Robinson netted five goals, Sam Cloutier added four more and the Lewiston defense held Portland to three goals in each half as the Blue […]
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More Somali students graduate, find success
LEWISTON — It’s a quiet success story, says Lewiston High School Principal Gus LeBlanc. Ten years after Somalis began moving to Lewiston, their children are doing well in school, he said. At the graduation ceremony June 3 at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, groups of Somalis enthusiastically cheered their graduates. Each graduate is given 10 tickets […]
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Eats: Cool in the Kitchen: Barbara Bush, Mailhots don’t fluster Franco cook
Move over Rachael Ray. Back of the line Paula, Giada, Ina, Sandra, Emeril, Bobby, Tyler and Mario. The Food Network’s celebrity chefs have nothing on Kennebunk’s Diane Valliere Mailhot, whose little biscuits with French-Canadian creton (pork sausage sauteed with onion and spices), puffed pastry hors d’oeuvres and homemade pinwheel sausage rolls with spinach and cheese […]