BRUNSWICK — Bessey. Bandouveres. Brunswick. Beast of B-East. If that all has a nice ring to it, five touchdowns in their first five possessions of the Pine Tree Conference football championship Friday night sounded even better to the Dragons. Junior Will Bessey scored two of those and had his second monster game of the playoffs […]
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13-year-old girl killed by train in Massachusetts
LAWRENCE, Mass. — A 13-year-old girl who was crossing a set of train tracks with a friend was hit and killed by a commuter train in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Carrie Kimball Monahan, of the Essex District Attorney’s office, says in a statement that the accident happened Friday afternoon. The girls were cutting between two cars of […]
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Sue Conroy, key player in Moxie Festival, dies
LISBON — When you start talking to folks about Susan Conroy, a few themes begin to emerge: She was a people person. She worked tirelessly and she never wanted to claim credit for her achievements. You might even say Susan Conroy had moxie. A key figure behind the annual Moxie Festival, Conroy died unexpectedly Wednesday […]
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H.S. softball: Kane completes Cougar comeback
FARMINGTON — Being down early didn’t seem to affect the Mt. Blue softball team Tuesday. The Cougars just shrugged off the early deficit and gradually worked their way back into the game. “We knew we could come back,” sophomore outfielder Caitlin Kane said. “We’d been in that situation before.” After rallying from behind once against […]
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Class A East Girls’ Quarterfinals: Eagles shock Bulldogs in OT
AUGUSTA — No. 7 Messalonskee rallied from a seven-point deficit in the final 1:50 of regulation, then hit six free throws in overtime to stun No. 2 Lawrence, 46-42, in the Class A East girls’ basketball quarterfinals at Augusta Civic Center. The Eagles (12-7) will face No. 3 Oxford Hills — a four-overtime survivor of […]
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H.S girls’ basketball: EL wins battle of unbeaten
AUBURN — Through all the nail-biting and frayed nerves, Craig Jipson hoped there were some lessons learned in some of his team’s edge-of-the-seat victories earlier this season. His Edward Little girls’ basketball team is 5-0 but has won four of those games by an average of less than five points. Those numbers are even exaggerated […]
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Eleanor Marie Coupe
1922 – 2013 WEYMOUTH, Mass. — Eleanor “Ellie” Marie Coupe of Hanover, Mass., formerly of Lewiston, died Friday, Oct. 18, at Colonial Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Weymouth, Mass., after a brief illness. She was born in Lawrence, Mass., on Aug. 2, 1922, the daughter of the late William and Margaret Marion (Hagan) Callahan. Ellie […]
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Class B Football: Mt. Blue makes statement, mauls Lawrence
FARMINGTON — Hard to imagine facing a football team that had lost one regular-season game in eight seasons with a sense of self-efficacy that is anything more than bravado. To hear the Mt. Blue seniors tell it, however, Maine and the rest of Eastern Class B got exactly what they expected to deliver Saturday night […]
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H.S. Field Hockey: Bulldogs blank Blue Devils
The visitors proved why, dominating in time of possession, shots and field position from start to finish in a 4-0 Bulldogs victory over the Blue Devils. “It’s emotionally so disappointing,” Lewiston coach Randy Richardson said. “There’s not a single Lewiston girl who doesn’t want to play well or represent the team well, and they do […]
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Lawrence High teacher accused of unlawful sexual contact, possession of child porn
AUGUSTA — A teacher at Lawrence High School of Fairfield was arrested on Tuesday and charged with five felonies related to child pornography and unlawful sexual contact with a child under the age of 12. David Morissette, 44, of Winslow was charged with two counts of Class B unlawful sexual contact, two Class C counts […]