The executive editor of the Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel started her career as a freelancer in the Norway bureau, understanding the importance of community news, before rising through the company over the next 25 years.
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Posted inSports, Varsity Maine
Benson hired as MPA’s first Commissioner of Officials
Jeff Benson, the retired athletic director and veteran referee, will oversee game officials in all sports with an emphasis on recruiting and retention.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Sun Journal’s Maine Press Association’s 2018 awards
The Sun Journal won 42 awards Saturday night at the Maine Press Association’s annual conference. Online Features/Lifestyle Video 2nd Place: Russ Dillingham, Great Falls Comic Expo News Video 3rd Place: Russ Dillingham, Little Androscoggin River Sports Video 2nd Place: Russ Dillingham, Flying over the bar Photography – Design Feature Photo 1st Place: Daryn Slover, Auburn […]
Posted inBethel, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley, sj-web
Sun Journal wins 16 first-place awards
NEWRY — The Maine Sunday Telegram was named Maine’s Sunday newspaper of the year and the Bangor Daily News was named the state’s daily newspaper of the year at the Maine Press Association annual conference held at Sunday River Saturday. J.W. Oliver, editor of the Lincoln County News, was named Journalist of the Year. The […]
Posted inFootball, sj-web, Varsity Maine
H.S. football: MPA panel discusses eight-man football
Despite having his helmet ripped off, Dirigo’s Alex Gorham continues drive forward against Gray-New Gloucester as whistles blow to stop play earlier this season in Dixfield. Dirigo, currently in Class E, is a candidate for eight-man football, should Maine make it available, and Gray-New Gloucester has reportedly inquired about playing it. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) Neah […]
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New report focuses attention on out-of-state cash spent on Maine ballot questions
AUGUSTA — A new report adds fuel to a growing worry that out-of-state cash has an outsize influence on what happens when voters head to the polls to decide ballot questions. The conservative Maine Heritage Policy Center weighed in on the initiative and referendum process Wednesday with a study of the spending deployed during the […]
Posted inConnections, Lewiston-Auburn
Leavitt Area High School's Chloe Veilleux receives MPA Principal's Award
TURNER — Chloe Veilleux of Turner, a senior at Leavitt Area High School, has been selected to receive the 2018 Principal’s Award. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship. “Chloe has consistently demonstrated her ability to face and overcome challenges both […]
Posted inLocal Sports, sj-web, Varsity Maine
Dropping Dimes: Eight-man football is awesome. Maine should try it
Let me tell you a bit about the Neah Bay Red Devils. Neah Bay and its school (enrollment: 82) are located on the Makah Reservation on the Pacific Coast in Washington. Within the boundary is Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point of the United States. Everyone else will say Neah Bay is located at the end […]
Posted insj-web, SJVarsity
WATCH OR LISTEN: Preview of MPA boys' basketball tournament
Watch as Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel reporters analyze the upcoming MPA boys’ basketball tournament. Or listen to it below. Winthrop High School’s Cam Wood is surrounded by Spruce Mountain High School defenders during a basketball game in Winthrop this season. (Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal Photo)
Posted inLocal Sports, sj-web, SJVarsity
The Hot Corner: Sports administered differently — no better or worse — in Maine, Kentucky
Eighteen months since leaving the place where my love for high school sports was born and blossomed, then jumping into that scene in a different part of the country, I continue to be amazed at how differently student-athletics are managed outside my native Maine. I’m not saying that one way is always right or that […]