MONMOUTH — This wasn’t one of those major league, three-up, three-down, never-in-danger saves. Tyler Reeve didn’t trot in from right field to the strains of a heavy metal anthem. He didn’t inherit a clean slate. Winthrop tiptoed the precipice before and after his grand entrance. Reeve allowed two of his three inherited runners to score […]
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Free Movie Night continues at Cumston
MONMOUTH — The Free Movie Night series will continue at Cumston Hall with the comic classic “Blithe Spirit” at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 27. The series, a collaboration of The Theater at Monmouth and Cumston Public Library, offers free entertainment for the whole family. All movies will be shown in the library lower level […]
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Military note – Michael Brassard
MONMOUTH — Coast Guard Seaman Apprentice Michael C. Brassard, son of Lisa Gauthier of Monmouth and James M. Brassard of Winthrop, recently graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, N.J. During the eight-week training program, Brassard completed a vigorous training curriculum consisting of academics and practical instruction on water safety […]
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Friends Of Cumston announces art competition winner
MONMOUTH — Friends Of Cumston Library has announced the winner of the art competition. The competition, with a money prize, was for students to design a graphic image that depicts Cumston Public Library as it is in Cumston Hall. Jasmine Cook was the winner. Other participants were Jeremy Auger, Meghan Bates, Angela Bechard, Melissa Bressard, […]
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H.S. Track: Purple Panthers slay Red Eddies
AUBURN — The Waterville track and field team gathered its belongings from the infield of the Edward Little track. They hugged, high-fived and then began walking toward the parking lot. To a standing ovation. By the Edward Little track and field squad. The Red Eddies applauded as the only team to defeat them in the […]
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H.S. softball: Monmouth’s Kahl no-hits Winthrop
WINTHROP — Weather has slammed an already small window on the fingers of every MVC softball team. Monmouth is one of many clubs that will play a majority of its season over the next nine days. When you’re tackling that kind of schedule, you’d better have a pitcher performing at the zenith of her game. […]
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Track and Field Notebook: Greyhounds eye MVC six-cess
Lisbon left behind its drive for five and is now steering for six. The Greyhounds’ track and field teams have swept the boys’ and girls’ titles at the Mountain Valley Conference championship every year since 2006. Six meets into the season, it looks like MVC rivals again will have a tough time competing with the […]
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Baseball: Johnson, Saints shut down Mustangs
MONMOUTH — St. Dom’s plays thinking man’s baseball, to begin with. Facing a fellow MVC unbeaten in a Monmouth club loaded with potential but lacking experience in big games, the Saints ratcheted up the pressure to a level even they will admit was a tad ridiculous. Swinging early in counts, attempting double steals in odd […]
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Mustangs riding high with as numbers swell
This day and age schools are losing junior varsity programs rather than adding them, but that’s not the case at Monmouth Academy. The Mustangs have been a program that barely had enough varsity players the last couple seasons but now the numbers have swelled significantly. “We knew this class was coming,” said Monmouth softball coach […]
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Softball: Ready For The Kahl
MONMOUTH — It hurt, and Kristine Kahl knew it wasn’t good. The Monmouth pitcher is used to being dominant on the mound. She winds up and fires with all the strength she can muster. After a pitch in just her second game last year, that combination of poise and power was reduced to wounded vulnerability. […]