BUCKFIELD — After an early Islesboro goal, Buckfield scored five unanswered to defeat the Eagles 5-3 on Thursday in the teams’ Class D South boys’ quarterfinal. Noah Wiley and Victor Verrill led the Bucks in scoring with two goals apiece, with Zach Grover also adding a goal. Buckfield put up 25 shots and Islesboro goalkeeper Xan […]
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Tourney roundup: Boothbay suffocates Carrabec; Vinalhaven girls, Islesboro boys win
AUGUSTA — The girls’ basketball team from Boothbay used its defensive game to stymie Carrabec 32-17 in Monday’s Class C South quarterfinal. The Seahawks averaged just 25 points per game against this season. After an early exit last year, Boothbay made sure history didn’t repeat. The Seahawks jumped out to an early 9-2 lead in […]
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Nancy H. Hooke
1925 – 2015 AUBURN — Nancy Helen Archibald Hooke, 90, died on Thursday, Oct. 22, at the Hospice House in Auburn. She was a beloved wife, daughter, grandmother and great-grandmother who went home to be with her Lord Jesus Christ following a long illness. Born on May 1, 1925, in Auburn, she was the daughter […]
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Island games: Challenging to be an outlier
VINALHAVEN — Tim Kane has been around athletics all his life, but nothing compares with the sporting life on an island school. “There’s things you deal with that you don’t normally deal with at mainland schools,” said Kane, who is in his first year as Vinalhaven’s principal. “But it’s enlightening and it’s fun. It’s a […]
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Island games: Not all away games are created equal for East-West Conference teams
First up for the Buckfield Junior/Senior High School baseball team, a three-plus-hour rollick across the winding, pothole-dotted back roads of Maine. Then, a ferry. After loading the vessel, the team makes the final leg — a 75-minute ride — over western Penobscot Bay’s following seas and rolling waves to one of Maine’s largest and most […]
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Outdoors in Maine: The Islesboro experiment
A number of years ago, I attended what can best be described as an upscale wedding in a fashionable, affluent Connecticut suburb. At the reception dinner, I was seated between two well-coiffured ladies who had no idea that I was a hard-core Maine deer hunter. Somehow the discussion got around to their state’s problem with […]
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Islesboro man is Greenpeace captain held by Russians
ISLESBORO, Maine — An Islesboro man is among 30 Greenpeace activists and freelance journalists being held in a Russian jail after what Greenpeace says was a “peaceful Arctic oil protest.” Russian officials labeled the incident an act of piracy. Peter Willcox, captain of the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise, is among those being held, according to […]