The Phantom Punch at 50 Interactive guide to our stories, photos, audio and video | Audio: Listen to the radio broadcast from the fight | Video: Can you see the punch? | Interactive timeline of the fighters’ careers | Newspaper coverage & readers’ memories from 1965 DIXFIELD — Watch the grainy video of Muhammad Ali knocking out Sonny Liston a hundred times, and you may never see […]
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H.S. Boys’ Basketball: KVAC rich with individual talent
For the first time this decade, Class A East and KVAC boys’ basketball coaches don’t believe any team is an overwhelming favorite heading into the season. What the league does wield, perhaps in a greater quantity than it has in a long time, is individual star power. It’s spread just evenly enough, in particular throughout […]
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Track and field: Lewiston’s Isaiah Harris commits to Penn State
John Gondak and the Penn State Nittany Lions piqued his interest the most. “When I went there, I was comfortable there,” Harris said. “I liked the coach. I liked the team. I loved everything about it.” By signing his National Letter of Intent on Wednesday, the multi-talented Lewiston High School senior confirmed he will further […]
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Par for the Course: Golf humbles even the best players
At his best, Tiger Woods did not win every golf tournament in which he played. It just seemed like he always came up big in PGA majors. That is why it should come as no surprise that Emily Bouchard, who has dominated the Maine Women’s Amateur the past three years, finished seventh in this year’s […]
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More money, less money: the effects of not expanding MaineCare
The head of the Portland Community Health Center and her chief financial officer sat down last week to figure out which bills they could pay. They don’t have the money to pay all of them. More than half of their patients are uninsured, up from about 30 percent a few years ago. The health center […]
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Kingfield POPS, Arts Festival to feature original art, fireworks, nationally recognized musicians
KINGFIELD — The town will host a music and art celebration that has become a traditional Western Maine summer kick-off. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 28, the free Arts Festival will feature live music, bake sales, handmade quilts, jewelry, soaps, lotions and original artwork. Gates open for the Kingfield POPS concert at […]
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Track and Field: Harris wins New England 800, smashes Maine record
Isaiah Harris of Lewiston won the 800 meters at the New England Outdoor Track and Field Champsionships on Saturday in Bridgewater, Mass., running the fastest time ever by a Maine athlete at the distance. Harris, who also broke his Class A state record in the 800 a week ago, finished in a time of 1:51.47. […]
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H.S. Track and Field: Harris on the record
LEWISTON — The biggest challenge involved in Isaiah Harris’ junior track and field campaign at Lewiston High School has fallen on the shoulders of his coach, T.J. Niles. That’s figuring out in which races to turn him loose. Such is life when you own the school record in five different events. Harris has dominated middle […]
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Concern grows over Asian crab’s spread in Maine
PORTLAND (AP) — A species of invasive crab with a voracious appetite that first showed up in the United States 25 years ago has spread to far eastern Maine, and marine ecologists are worried about its potential impact on the environment. A group of four marine ecology students at the University of Maine at Machias […]