LEWISTON – Junior Kelsey Freedman struck out seven batters from the circle and recorded an RBI triple at the plate to help lead Bates College softball past Colby College, 6-2, at Lafayette Street Field on Tuesday afternoon. The Bobcats (8-15, 2-7 NESCAC East) took the season series from the Mules (5-16, 1-8 NESCAC East) after […]
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Role of books in digital age debated at Colby College
WATERVILLE (AP) — A debate is brewing at Colby College over the role of books in the digital age. Thousands of volumes from the Waterville school’s Miller Library have been moved to off-campus storage as part of a $12.3 million renovation project. The books moved amount to about 40 percent of the collection. Places once […]
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Waterford man gets 18 months for criminal threatening
PARIS — A Waterford man was sentenced to a year and half in prison after pleading guilty to threatening another man with a loaded handgun outside an apartment building in downtown Norway in September. Cory Colby, 34, pleaded guilty to criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, reckless conduct and illegal possession of a firearm in Oxford […]
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H.S. Football: Backs bring Devils to the forefront
LEWISTON — Balancing its offense has helped the Lewiston football team balance its won-lost record. Riddled by injury and winless through four games, the Blue Devils have turned to Quintarian Brown’s shiftiness and speed, Stone Colby’s toughness and Eddie Emerson’s arm strength. Suddenly they’re keeping the blood flowing in the scoreboard operator’s fingers with the […]
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College football: Colby hands Bates third consecutive loss
Colby shut down Bates’ top-ranked running game and picked off three passes to take the first game in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin rivalry, 21-3, on Saturday at Harold Alfond Stadium. Bates, whose CBB title last year included with a 31-6 win over Colby, has now lost three in a row and drops to 2-4 overall. Ryan Curit […]
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Bus full of partying Colby students stopped in Oakland
OAKLAND (AP) — Nearly two dozen college students have been summoned to court to face underage drinking charges after the bus driving them home from a party was pulled over for speeding. Police say the bus packed with students from Colby College in Waterville was stopped at about 1 a.m. Sunday in Oakland. Sgt. Tracey […]
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Colby College to give Lovejoy Award to investigative reporter Adam Clay Thompson
WATERVILLE (AP) — Colby College is awarding its 2013 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism to an online investigative reporter whose work led to federal charges against seven New Orleans police officers in connection with the shooting of unarmed civilians after Hurricane Katrina. Adam Clay Thompson will receive the award at an Oct. 27 […]
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Colby College to reopen revamped art museum
WATERVILLE — The gleaming glass building of the Colby College Museum of Art not only stands out on campus — surrounded by the red brick, Georgian-style classrooms and dormitories — but now also stands out across Maine. A new addition means the museum now has 38,000 square feet of exhibition space, the largest in the […]