Newry
Newry ski resort debuts Winterfest Weekend
NEWRY — Santa, Eddy the Yeti, fire dancers, free night skiing, and a hip foray into the ’70s and ’80s will showcase Sunday River Ski Resort’s debut Winterfest Weekend on Dec. 17 through 19. Festivities kick off for guests arriving at the resort late Friday night with a Chondola ride to Peak Lodge for the […]
Artists focus on beauty of Maine
NEWRY — The Phoenix House and Well will hold an opening reception for its exhibit, “Over the River and through the Woods: Maine Views at The Phoenix House and Well,” on Saturday, Dec. 18. Featured will be paintings, prints and photographs done by Barbara Traficonte, Suzanne Hardy, Ron Hamilton, Irina Kahn and Veronica Cross, who […]
Toy-drive Santas to ski, ride Sunday River slopes on Sunday
NEWRY — Sunday River Ski Resort slopes at South Ridge will be bristling with season spirit Sunday when 250 preregistered skiing and snowboarding Santas participate in the 11th annual Santa Sunday. The wacky event benefits the Bethel Rotary Club‘s annual Toy Drive to provide gifts for the area’s children in need. “Popularity for this traditional […]
Taggers: Deer bigger, more plentiful this year
NEWRY — Deer hunters Mike Piveronas of Rumford Point and Barry Sweatt of Errol, N.H., shared an interesting similarity when they stopped at Doug Webster’s Bear River Trading Post within minutes of each other Saturday afternoon. That morning, Piveronas was hunting with a Howard Hill longbow with a 48-pound draw and Sitka spruce arrows with […]
Ski resort offers geo-location game on Facebook, virtual patch prizes
NEWRY — Hoping to build on the nostalgia of embroidered patches often seen sewn or ironed onto jackets and backpacks, Sunday River Ski Resort has launched its new mobile game of exploration on Facebook. The “Sunday River Patches” application can be added to anyone’s Facebook profile following a visit to the Patches tab on Sunday […]
Ski slope to offer discounts during food drive
NEWRY — Sunday River Ski Resort’s annual food drive, the Tin Mountain Round Up, will be held this Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 20 and 21. The Newry resort, which opened on Oct. 22 and temporarily closed on Monday due to warm weather, will reopen for the season this Friday. To participate in the round up, […]
Bethel-Farmington couple win wife-carrying contest
NEWRY — A Bethel man who had a ligament replaced in his knee last year and the Farmington woman he carried upside down on his back won Saturday’s 11th annual North American Wife Carrying Championship at Sunday River Ski Resort. They beat last year’s winners, Dave and Lacey Castro of Lewiston, by less than a […]
Lewiston couple to defend Wife Carrying Championship title
NEWRY — The Lewiston couple who won last fall’s North American Wife Carrying Championship will defend their title next month when Sunday River Ski Resort hosts the 11th annual event. Held on Saturday, Oct. 9, the event marks the couple’s last chance to qualify for the World Wife Carrying Championship in Finland held in July […]
The ultimate sacrifice; wreck sites a reminder of military plane disasters
LEWISTON — Norman Houle’s father didn’t know what to think when a plane flew over his store in the fall of 1943 and left a component behind in his bedroom. Houle, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Maine Aviation Historical Society, said in an article written for the society’s newsletter that his […]