AUBURN — Mary Gionet, 85, of Hanover passed away Sunday, Aug. 5, at the Hospice House in Auburn, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Lewiston on Dec. 19, 1932, the only child of Stephen E. and Ellen (McGillicuddy) Owens. Mary was educated in Lewiston schools and was a graduate of Lewiston High School, […]
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Indoor track and field: Lewiston's Harris national runner-up in 800
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Lewiston’s Isaiah Harris is the 2018 NCAA Indoor national runner-up in the 800 meters. Harris, a junior at Penn State, finished the event in 1:46.08 to earn second place at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday. UTEP sophomore Michael Saruni won the race with a new meet record, […]
Raymond woman injured in snowmobile crash
RANGELEY — A Raymond woman injured her leg Friday morning when a snowmobile she was on rear-ended another on ITS 84 in Oquossoc village, Cpl. John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service said. Jennifer Hall, 42, was on the back of a snowmobile driven by her husband, David Hall, 61, of Raymond. A friend, Daniel […]
Keeping the drive, and Hersom coaching legacy alive, John Hersom heads to A-L Hall
Jim Hersom took note of his twin brother John’s intensity and work ethic as early as pee-wee football. Their father, Lawrence “Doc” Hersom, saw it, too. As proud as the legendary Edward Little football coach was of his boys’ competitiveness, he also wanted them to be kids. So one day, while driving home after one […]
Gloria Hall
1938 – 2016 FARMINGTON — Gloria Foster Hall, 78, of East Dixfield died Tuesday morning, Dec. 13, at Franklin Memorial Hospital. She was born July 6, 1938, in Jay, a daughter of Kenneth A. and Virlie (Ranger) Foster. She was a 1957 graduate of Wilton Academy and for many years was employed at Red-E-Mix Inc. […]
Boys’ Soccer: Monmouth, Hall-Dale settle for ‘flukey’ tie
MONMOUTH — An early one-goal deficit to a team such as Hall-Dale can seem as daunting as a two- or three-goal margin against most other teams. Monmouth Academy knew the uphill climb it faced after falling behind the Bulldogs on a fluke goal less than eight minutes into Tuesday’s MVC showdown at Chick Field. The […]
Mixed martial arts: Caleb Hall wins NEF amateur featherweight title
Ten fights later, Hall has a title belt to show for that grueling, circuitous journey. He forced Erik Nelson of Lewiston’s Central Maine Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to tap out midway through the second round Saturday night in their New England Fights amateur featherweight championship battle at Androscoggin Bank Colisee. “It feels good. It’s about time,” Hall […]
Auburn-Lewiston Sports Hall of Fame: Capone known for reversals of fortune
Lewiston High School, with a proud tradition of eight prior state championships and enrollment numbers that dwarfed most programs in Maine, looked like the perfect location. Then came consecutive two-win seasons, piggybacked by defeats in triplicate to begin the 1985 campaign. Young and driven, Capone, who originally assumed that LHS would be a brief blip […]
Auburn-Lewiston Sports Hall of Fame: 4 LHS greats to be inducted
AUBURN — Julie Johnson didn’t think of herself as a hall of famer. Those feelings were magnified for the former Lewiston High School and Clemson University soccer standout when she recalled a late mentor who preceded her in the Twin Cities’ shrine of athletic excellence: Mike Berticelli, who built the men’s program at Notre Dame. “That’s […]
Auto Racing: Hall posts first career PASS win
THOMPSON, Conn. — Garrett Hall of Scarborough nailed down his first-ever Pro All Stars Series Super Late Model victory in the 75-lap season opener for the PASS North Tour, also offering national championship points, Sunday afternoon at Connecticut’s Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park. Hall outgunned early race leader Trevor Sanborn of East Parsonsfield midway through the […]