LEWISTON — Few newly-minted college graduates have compiled the football coaching resume Spencer Emerson had even before he picked up his degree in sociology from the University of Maine last spring. Nevertheless, the Edward Little High School graduate had an inkling he’d still have some dues to pay if he wanted to continue coaching. So […]
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Lewiston 2016 baseball preview
Coach: Will Emerson (first year) Conference: KVAC Coach: A North Last year’s record: 5-12, lost in preliminary round Returning players: Seniors — Brady Cusson (2B/P), Corey Harvey (OF), Austin Wing (P/3B); Juniors — Chris Osgood (C), Jared Rubin (3B/P), Jacob Strout (UT), Nick Powers (OF), Eddie Turgeon (OF); Sophomores — Brock Belanger (C/SS/P), Gordon Beckwith (UT), Evan Cox […]
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College Baseball: Eddie Emerson already a winner for Black Bears
Eddie Emerson’s journey to the University of Maine and Division I baseball was rated ‘PG,’ for postgraduate. Not that there was anything deficient about his run at Lewiston High School, where Emerson was the left-handed ace on the baseball diamond, not to mention an outstanding football quarterback and hockey defenseman. To get where he wanted […]
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H.S. Baseball: Lewiston lands Emerson as next coach
Emerson graduated from Saint Dominic Academy in 2008. On the heels of a post-graduate year at Tilton School in New Hampshire, he walked on at the University of Tampa, where he logged time with the junior varsity team in the NCAA Division II program. After seeing both ends of the East Coast, Emerson flew 3,000 […]
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Animal Tales: The art of animal acupuncture
TURNER — Scooby didn’t seem to mind the acupuncture needles. Three were inserted around his head, then four, then five. One on the side of his back leg. Another at the base of his neck. The 7-year-old yellow Labrador retriever panted serenely, then leaned against his owner, Michelle Emerson, for a scratch behind the ears. […]
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Jesus Party marks its 20th year
LEWISTON — There was no question Friday night where the biggest party was in Lewiston — The Jesus Party was, as the children say, going off. By 6 p.m., the party on Bates Street was going full blast. Two dozen children were jumping up and down, waving their hands and singing at the top of […]
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Historic Grange building interior to get a new look
NORWAY — It’s been so many years since the walls of the historic Norway Grange No. 45 have been painted that the colors could only be described by those who saw them as “hideous” and “horrible.” This year a decision was made that decades of grime and dirt, faded and nondescript wall colors would be […]
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Sabattus woman dies of injuries from crash
LEWISTON — The passenger in a vehicle involved in a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on Route 196 has died of her injuries. According to David St. Pierre of the Lewiston Police Department, 80-year-old Charlene McKeen of Sabattus succumbed to her injuries Sunday morning. St. Pierre said McKeen was the passenger in a 2004 Chrysler Concorde […]