Winthrop goalie Aiva Agri celebrates after the Ramblers defeated Dexter in the Class C North championship game at Thomas College in Waterville on Wednesday. (Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) WATERVILLE — For the third year in a row, the Winthrop and Dexter high school field hockey teams met in the Class C North playoffs. For the […]
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Man who allegedly stole Dexter police cruiser while handcuffed indicted on dozen charges
A LaGrange man who allegedly escaped custody, stole a police cruiser and led officers on a high-speed chase in Dexter has been indicted by a Penobscot County grand jury on charges related to the May incident. Tyler Tibbetts, 23, is charged with escape, eluding an officer, driving to endanger, operating after revocation, aggravated criminal mischief, […]
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Handcuffed man slipped through tiny opening to steal Dexter police car
Dexter police say the suspect who stole a police cruiser after he was taken into custody Friday squeezed through a small opening in a partition in the vehicle to get from the back seat into the driver’s seat. According to a statement by the department and an officer there, Tyler Tibbetts, 22, was placed in […]
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Perkins OT winner lifts Winthrop past Dexter in C North final
Winthrop High School’s Kinli Dibiase-Patenaude (11) gets tripped up by Dexter High School’s Makayla Bigness (19) right and Rebecca Batron (21) back center, in the Class C Northern Championship game at Hampden Academy in Hampden on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. (Michael G. Seamans/Kennebec Journal) HAMPDEN — One go-ahead goal didn’t count. And neither did a […]
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H.S. Football: Regional final weekend blitz
No. 3 SCARBOROUGH (8-2) at No. 1 BONNY EAGLE (9-0) Friday, 7 p.m. A Bonny Eagle-Thornton Academy rematch was all set up … until the Red Storm went and upset the Trojans. What we get now is a rematch of a week two game that the Scots won, 21-7. But that was on the road. […]
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H.S. Football: Pigskin prognostications
Maine Central Institute 35, Dexter 12 Bonny Eagle 41, Scarborough 21 Portland 28, Windham 16 Biddeford 20, Kennebunk 14 Brunswick 48, Brewer 14 Cape Elizabeth 28, Wells 20 Winslow 36, Mount Desert Island 26
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9 suspects plead not guilty to running drug ring in Dexter
DEXTER — Nine people charged with participating in a central Maine cocaine and oxycodone ring are pleading not guilty. Police say the defendants were arrested in an early morning drug raid after an investigation by Dexter police that took more than 18 months. They say more arrests are likely. The arrests come after a wiretapping […]
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Strong school teacher given 21-day leave over Ebola fears
PHILLIPS — A teacher at Strong Elementary School who recently attended a conference in Dallas has been required to take a 21-day leave of absence, after parents told SAD 58 directors Thursday night that they were concerned the teacher could have been infected with the Ebola virus. The board requested the teacher not be named […]
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Dexter residence destroyed by morning blaze considered ‘crime scene’
DEXTER — One cabin and two other outlying buildings on Charleston Road burned to the ground during an early Sunday morning blaze that fire investigators consider suspicious, according to Dexter fire Capt. Mike McCormick. “It is considered a crime scene,” McCormick said. The fire at 515 Charleston Road was reported by a neighbor at 2:02 […]
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Hayden Bros. Shoe Co in Wilton prepares to close
WILTON — After more than 40 decades in business, Hayden Bros. Shoe Co. started a closing sale last week. No closing date has been set but before winter, Manager Victoria Geis said Friday. The sale is to liquidate stock before the building is sold, she said. Evangeline Hayden, Geis’ mother, is the sole owner and has […]