Of all the high school sports on the fall spectrum, you might not expect to find many common denominators between field hockey and football. When Mountain Valley field hockey coach Melissa Forbes and her husband, football coach Jim Aylward, get home from work and have that late-dinner conversation, however, they can almost complete each other’s […]
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Bobcat Beat: Zeltner’s Gorham run rated best in NESCAC
Out of 243 runners at the University of Southern Maine Invitational, only two women finished ahead of Bates College sophomore Hannah Zeltner. Among NESCAC competitors scattered throughout the northeast that day, Zeltner stood alone. She has been named the league’s performer of the week. Zeltner, of Bedford, N.H., led three Bates runners in the top […]
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Off the Clipboard: Injury career-ending for Spruce sub
First, the extremely good news. Spruce Mountain sophomore running back Zack Black is back on his feet and on the mend after a scary scene at the end of Saturday’s game with Freeport. The bad news is that Black’s career on the gridiron is likely over before it really got rolling. Black confirmed this week […]
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One pledge leads to another and another and another
JAY — In a matter of minutes, members of the Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls Chamber of Commerce pledged $900 for the Packs for Progress program at their Friday meeting. The United Way of the Tri-Valley Area, Farmington Rotary and BigLots! in Farmington have partnered to offer backpacks stuffed with school supplies for children in […]
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TD Bank 250: Good draws, bad draws lead to place in the show
OXFORD — Forty summers have changed countless elements of the TD Bank 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway. With an exception or two when it was a NASCAR Nationwide Series race in the early 1990s, one thing that hasn’t changed is the vaunted draw. It’s the pull-a-number-from-a-bucket lottery that determines your starting position in the all-important, […]
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TD Bank 250 Notebook: New owner hard at work continuing tradition
Tom Mayberry is walking around the Oxford Plains Speedway complex with red, slightly peeling skin on his forearms, the evidence of hours spent canvassing the grounds aboard a ride-on lawn mower in this past week’s scalding sun. “I’ve been down south quite a bit this year, and when I got back here, he put me […]