RICHMOND — The odds were stacked against the fourth-seeded Rangeley High School girls’ soccer team when it traveled to top-seeded Richmond on Saturday for a Class D South semifinal. The Bobcats blew past Rangeley twice during the regular season, 12-0 and 7-0. Things went about the same way in the Saturday rain, the Bobcats rolling […]
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Boys’ soccer: Bucks beat Richmond boys soccer 2-1 on late penalty
Both the Richmond High School boys soccer team and visiting Buckfield were handed favorable bounces at the end of each half in Tuesday’s Class D South tussle, and both turned the bounces into goals. With the score deadlocked in overtime, it was one last bounce that proved deadly for the Bobcats. A Buckfield shot heading […]
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Girls’ soccer: Richmond outlasts St. Dom’s
AUBURN — Richmond High School girls’ varsity soccer coach Troy Kendrick had this one circled on the calendar from the get-go. He called Thursday’s match with St. Dominic Academy a “measuring stick” for his team. He certainly learned a lot. Despite a two-goal cushion and an extra player, the Bobcats were tested when the home […]
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Analysis: Fact checking Gov. Paul LePage’s Richmond town hall meeting
AUGUSTA — When Gov. Paul LePage comes to your town, expect his defiant brand of bombast. Just don’t expect all the facts to check out. The Republican governor started doing town hall-style meetings last year as a way to take his case to the publicduring a budget battle with the Maine Legislature. Since then, he’s […]
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Gov. Paul LePage blames lobbyists for blocking prosperity
Gov. Paul LePage hosted a lively town hall meeting in Richmond on Wednesday with one of the most supportive audiences he’s seen on the tour, which began last year. Several people stood up to thank him for his work and he drew applause after applause as he discussed issues ranging from the five referendums on […]
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High school baseball: Bobcats drain Lakers
RICHMOND — A few errors in a high school baseball game can be costly. Ten errors is nothing short of deadly. Richmond forced East-West conference foe Rangeley to learn that the hard way on Thursday, when the Bobcats capitalized on the mistakes and drove in 14 runs en route to a dominant 10-run mercy-rule win […]
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Class C South girls’ quarterfinal: No. 8 Searsport shocks No. 1 Richmond
AUGUSTA — There is no more need to wonder how top-seeded Richmond, up from its long and successful run in Class D, will match up with the MVC’s relative giants in the Class C girls’ basketball tournament. The Bobcats were bounced from the quarterfinals Tuesday afternoon by a traditional opponent, one with whom they had their […]
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Class C boys’ quarterfinal: Dirigo routs Richmond
AUGUSTA — No. 8 Richmond didn’t buckle or back down from the challenge of being the little fish in the big pond known as the Class C South boys’ basketball tournament. Drawing the quarterfinal assignment of a top seed that has made this Augusta Civic Center setting its second home in the past decade, the Bobcats […]
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Girls’ soccer: Richmond hangs on, tops Ashland for Class D crown
PRESQUE ISLE — Richmond High School junior midfielder Meranda Martin took advantage of some rare breathing room to slot home the game-winner 10 minutes into the second half as the Bobcats were able to outlast the Ashland High School Hornets 1-0 to capture the Class D girls soccer state title Saturday at the Dr. Gehrig […]
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Class D South final: Buckfield edges Richmond in PKs
The Buckfield senior just wasn’t sure whether it would be a good memory, or one he’d like to forget. “I was talking to my coach saying, ‘You’ve put me in an awkward position,’” Chabe said as he waited to take a penalty kick to decide Wednesday’s Class D South championship game. “We take PK’s all […]