MINOT — Enrollment in Minot-Hebron Athletic Association programs is way up, board of directors member Mike Rioux told selectmen Monday. And with success comes problems, two in particular that Rioux wanted to discuss with selectmen: The need to develop a T-ball field and the need to clarify scheduling priorities and who has first dibs on […]
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Minot board reviews Community Day events
MINOT — Selectmen on Monday discussed events scheduled for Community Day, which begins at 7 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, with a 5K run. The run starts at the new athletic fields behind the Minot Consolidated School and proceeds along the network of walking trails. Fire Chief Dean Campbell told the board that the Fire Department […]
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Center Minot Grange No. 266 to disband
MINOT — Selectmen on Monday learned that the Center Minot Grange No. 266 is disbanding and that Grange members have voted to donate funds remaining in its accounts to the Arthur Harris Scholarship fund. Selectman Eda Tripp, who is a member of the Center Minot Grange, told the board that the Grange agreed that Arthur […]
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Maine’s top National Guard official tells soldiers: ‘There has been no decision’ to move 133rd Engineer Battalion’
AUGUSTA — In an email to soldiers and their families Tuesday, the head of Maine’s Army National Guard attempted to quell concerns raised by reports that the state’s 133rd Engineer Battalion would be relocated and replaced with an infantry unit. “Let me be absolutely clear: There has been no decision to move the 133rd Engineer […]
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Portland man pleads guilty to robbery, bomb threat at city pharmacy
PORTLAND — A Portland man who claimed he had a bomb in a backpack during a pharmacy robbery last month has pleaded guilty. Jason Campbell pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland on Wednesday to robbing a Congress Street CVS store on April 11. Prosecutors say the 39-year-old Campbell approached the counter, told the […]
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Teacher, parent support boost Buckfield’s top two students
BUCKFIELD — Mickayla Wiley and Abby Campbell are the top two students in Buckfield Junior-Senior High School’s Class of 2014. They are close friends, active in a variety of activities and have attended school in Buckfield their whole lives. But they are different, too. Wiley, 18, the valedictorian, plans to attend the University of Maine […]
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Minot voters agree to spend $1.5M: ‘no shouting, no broken bones”
MINOT — Voters at Saturday’s annual town meeting approved warrant articles that call for spending about $1.5 million — and that includes paying an Androscoggin County tax bill of more than $187,000. “As near as I can figure it,” Selectman Eda Tripp said, “what we approved amounts to about $21,354 over last year, and I’d […]
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Maine prosecutors get guilty verdicts without bodies in murder trials
HOULTON — When Assistant Attorney General Andrew Benson entered the courtroom in November to begin prosecuting George Jaime Sr. for murder, he believed he had a solid case, even though he had a big obstacle to surmount. While Benson contended that Jaime had stabbed and beat to death his live-in girlfriend, Starlette Vining, in a […]
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Spruce Mountain High School to join Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference
LIVERMORE FALLS — The RSU 73 board on Thursday overwhelmingly approved moving from the Mountain Valley Conference to the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference for all sports except football. The football team will remain in the Campbell Conference. The vote came following a presentation by Spruce Mountain High School Assistant Principal and Athletic Director Lee Hixon, […]
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Lake Auburn Half, 5K and Bike Tour draws record numbers, despite the weather
AUBURN — Close to 800 people took to the route around Lake Auburn to participate in the Lake Auburn Half, 5K and Bike Tour (LAHM) on Sept. 8. One hundred seventy-three of the participants were children taking part in the kids’ run. It was a challenging and fun way to support the community. Though a […]