Leavitt’s Alexandra Ryan nears the top of a hill.Oxford Hills’ Olivia Swift gets encouragement from her coach Chris Easton on the second hill of the course.Oxford Hills’ Tommy Bancroft collapses in the finish corral.Mt. Ararat’s Hayden Libby takes off at the starting line.Oxford Hills’ Dom Scalfani completes his first lap.Telstar’s Koley True is congratulated by […]
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Police charge 12 Colby students with underage drinking
WATERVILLE — Police in Maine say a dozen Colby College students received summonses off campus after officers responded to a report of people smashing beer bottles on a city street. Deputy Chief Bill Bonney tells The Morning Sentinel officers arrived at the scene in Waterville early Tuesday and reportedly found two men under the age […]
Posted inLocal Sports
Running clock showing little mercy in high school hockey
Thanks to a mercy rule, the game got over as fast as it could. The “Mercy Rule,” created by the National Federation of State High School Associations, and implemented by the Maine Principals’ Association, kicks in via a running clock once a team reaches a 10-goal deficit in the third period of a game. If […]
Posted inLocal Sports
Girls’ Soccer: Yarmouth wins Class B title with second-half onslaught
HAMPDEN — That feeling of inevitability can either have a positive or negative swing on a soccer team over the course of a state championship confrontation. For the Yarmouth girls team, which was sailing all over Waterville’s defensive third of the field in the second half of the Class B state championship match, the inevitable […]
Posted inFranklin
Man accused of giving alcohol, marijuana to teens in Kingfield
FARMINGTON — A Franklin County judge set bail at $2,500 or a pretrial contract Wednesday for a man accused of furnishing marijuana and liquor to two 16-year-old girls in Kingfield in May. Scott A. Leo, 27, with a last-known address of Waterville, was arrested Wednesday on a Franklin County Sheriff’s Office warrant and taken to […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Film inspired by Lewiston mom premieres
LEWISTON — Four years ago, Doreen Gummoe was a mom on a mission. A mission to help her three young daughters — Jordan, Julia and Jorja Flynn — stay healthy despite their Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic blood disorder that destroyed their bone marrow and made them extremely susceptible to cancer. She’s fighting to increase […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Author shares work on tracking Somalis’ journey to Lewiston
LEWISTON — Muhidin Libah still marvels sometimes at how easy it is to make soup in this country. Back in Somalia, he said, he would have had to travel half a mile just to get water and then spend considerable time and effort heating it. A dozen years after he came to Lewiston as a refugee, it’s […]
Posted inFranklin
Farmington to pursue grant to construct sewer main for proposed memory care facility
FARMINGTON — Selectmen voted Tuesday to have Town Manager Richard Davis pursue a Northern Border Regional Commission grant to help pay for the construction of a sewer main on Knowlton Corner Road. The sewer main would serve the proposed Woodlands Memory Care of Farmington. The grants are up to $250,000. The town could provide the […]
Posted inObituaries, sj-web
Frank J. Patten
1969 – 2016 WATERVILLE — Frank J. Patten, 46, of Hartland and formerly of Lewiston, passed away Friday, March 25, at the MaineGeneral Hospital in Waterville. He was born in Hartford, Conn., on Nov. 14, 1969, the son of Frank and Sophie Patten. He attended Hartford schools until his high school graduation. He worked at […]