JAY — Melora Lavoie was running hard. Head down, determined to reach base, she was hoping her two-out hit would land somewhere. She didn’t think she hit it very well, and it wasn’t until her team celebrated that the junior first baseman learned it’s fate. It was over the fence, her first home run. The […]
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Poland Regional High School graduates say goodbye
POLAND — “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” That was the message on a large blue-and-white banner that the Class of 2012 walked toward as they marched into the Poland Regional High School gymnasium Sunday afternoon for the 13th annual commencement ceremony and the start of their future. Sporting silver flip-flops, purple […]
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G. Pare: Live according to God’s laws
This is in response to Judith Taylor’s letter of May 26, in which she stated that there is no mention of homosexuality in the New Testament of the Bible. Two selections allude to it, but the word does not appear anywhere in the Bible. The Bible refers to it as abusers of themselves with mankind, […]
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Class B Track and Field: Hutchins, Shafer, Kohtala win gold
Three local champions and boys’ team co-champions highlighted the Class B track and field championship Saturday at Mount Desert Island in Bar Harbor. Falmouth and York finished in a tie for the boys’ title, only nine points ahead of Waterville. It is the Yachtsmen’s third championship in the past four seasons and the Wildcats’ first […]
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H.S. Softball: Young Mustangs ready for next step
When the softball season began, Rachel Bernier had four seniors, holes to fill, a season-ending injury to her shortstop and a whole lot of youth and inexperience. Even after coaching for 20-plus seasons, the Monmouth Academy softball coach wasn’t sure what that might all add up to. How about a 12-2 record, and a No. […]
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Girls’ Track and Field: Turton turns it up
POLAND — The difference between a good track and field sprint and a great one for Emma-Jane Turton is measured in fractions of a second. Funny, because there was a day when the Poland Regional High School junior didn’t imagine her entire career would last that long. Turton was a reluctant newcomer to Coach Dan […]
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Baseball: Close shave as Cape clips Poland in eight
POLAND — Need a five o’clock rally? Go with the five o’clock shadow. Hey, in baseball, game of eccentricities and age-old superstitions, Cape Elizabeth’s strategy for snapping out of a late-season slump makes sense. As much sense as having chicken every night for dinner or wearing the same sanitary socks in back-to-back-to-back games. “We had […]
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Swingin’ Bears name officers, honor graduates
PARIS — The Swingin’ Bears Square Dance Club graduated nine class members on May 9. Caller Ray Hilton will continue calling workshops of mainstream and plus each Wednesday through June 13 at the Oxford Hills Middle School on Pine Street. At the annual meeting of the club on May 10, officers were installed.