1917 – 2014 GREEN VALLEY, Ariz. —Charles “Slim” H. Broomhall, 97, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Oct. 25, in Green Valley, Ariz., with his sister, Ethelyne, by his side. Charles was born in Mexico on June 22, 1917, to Ethel and Arthur Broomhall. He was one of the 15 children Ethel and Arthur had. Slim […]
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Special Olympics swim meet on tap
Don’t miss the Special Olympics Maine annual state swim meet Thursday, April 10. Close to 400 Special Olympics Maine athletes, representing 45 Maine teams from across the state, will compete at the Tarbell pool at Bates College in Lewiston from 9:15 a.m to 4 p.m. Awards will be presented throughout the entire day. Athletes will […]
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Olympian luger to students: Find something you love, work hard
LEWISTON — Not qualifying for the 2014 Olympics by a hair was really tough, Maine Olympic luger Julia Clukey told Lewiston Middle School seventh-graders Tuesday. Clukey, 29, a Maine native, competed during the 2010 Olympics. She also is a national champion and has won two silver medals and one bronze in World Cup competition. But […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Oxford Hills native proud to have helped Olympic skiers
American ski racers Ted Ligety, Mikaela Shiffrin and Andrew Weibrecht have more in common than winning Olympic medals at Sochi: They were all coached, during their formative teen years, by Oxford Hills native and veteran Alpine coach Adam Chadbourne. Reached on his cellphone during a break from his busy schedule as director of Athletic Performance […]
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Oxford Elementary School’s Olympic closing ceremonies to be held Feb. 28
OXFORD — The 2014 Sochi Olympic games may have concluded Sunday, but Olympic fever is still running high at the Oxford Elementary School. Closing ceremonies and events, including relay races and an obstacle course, at the Oxford Elementary School Olympic Games were delayed on Feb. 14, when a winter snowstorm canceled the last day of […]
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Davis and White win ice dancing gold for the U.S.
SOCHI, Russia — Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the gold medal in ice dance Monday, the first Olympic title in the event for the United States. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, the 2010 champions, took silver. Russia’s Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov captured bronze. Davis and White won silver in Vancouver, but […]
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Bethel woman to guide Benton skier in Paralympics in Sochi
BETHEL — Leading a vision-impaired skier down an Alpine race course at top speed is not for everyone. But Diane Barras of Bethel has mastered it, and thanks to good teamwork with skier Lindsay Ball, the two are headed to Sochi, Russia, later this month to compete in the Paralympics. “I know when to push […]
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USA stuns Russia on Oshie’s shootout heroics
Yet Oshie was chosen for the U.S. men’s hockey team with just such a situation in mind, and the shootout specialist concocted one last clever goal to silence an arena filled with screaming Russian fans. Oshie scored four times in the shootout and put the winner between Bobrovsky’s legs in the eighth round, leading the […]
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Sochi Olympics formally kick off with opening ceremony
SOCHI, Russia — Music, dance and plenty of Russian bravado unleashed the ultimate achievement of Vladimir Putin’s Russia on Thursday — a Winter Olympics to showcase the best athletes on ice and snow that the world has to offer. The opening ceremony on the edge of the Black Sea and subsequent games are Russia’s chance […]
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Olympic complaints on Twitter more popular than official account
The @sochiproblems page has more than 200,000 followers detailing makeshift shower curtains, broken sidewalks and a lack of hot water in Sochi as competition begins. By comparison, @sochi2014 has about 140,000 followers seeing pictures of pristine ski slopes and gleaming venues for the competition starting today. President Vladimir Putin spent more than $45 billion staging […]