Joey Doiron of Berwick won the Ripley and Fletcher Ford 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday afternoon, but second place was enough for D.J. Shaw to secure his first Pro All Stars Series North championship. Doiron stalked leader David Oliver for most of the race before emerging from a tense side-by-side battle with the […]
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Oxford 250 Eve: Ashline wins, pockets $4K, returns free pass
OXFORD — It’s an Oxford 250 tradition old as the race itself. At the end of a non qualifier’s race — or in the case of Saturday night, a long-distance late model event — the driver is given a choice. Take a big chunk of money and run, or take a smaller chunk and run […]
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Oxford 250: Morgan warms up with Street Stock victory
If he has the chance to ring up $25,000 in the final five laps this time around, you can bet he’ll have no qualms about using a little muscle to win, the same way he admittedly did Friday night in a 30-lap Street Stock feature at Oxford Plains Speedway. After nearly a lap of on-and-off […]
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Local Racing Roundup: Doiron denies Theriault for Beech Ridge PASS win
In a battle of talented young drivers from opposite ends of the state, Berwick’s Joey Doiron held off Fort Kent’s Austin Theriault on Saturday night to win the Southern Maine Motors Firecracker 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough. It was the first Pro All Stars Series North victory of the season for Doiron, […]
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RSU 9 voters pass $31 million school budget by 456 votes
FARMINGTON — Voters in all but two of 10 RSU 9 towns passed a $31 million budget Tuesday by a tally of 1,369-913. The 2014-15 budget reflects a 4.3 percent, or $1.29 million, increase over this fiscal year’s $29.7 million. “I am very pleased with the total number of votes the budget passed by and […]
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Auto Racing: OPS ready to rev it up Saturday
OXFORD — Despite a delayed start forced by a lingering late-winter snow pack, local race teams and fans are anxiously gearing up as Oxford Plains Speedway waves the green flag over a new season Saturday afternoon. A 150-lap contest for the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North Super Late Models kicks things off, with the […]
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House passes $1.1 trillion bill to fund government
WASHINGTON (AP) — A $1.1 trillion spending bill for operating the government until just before next fall’s election steamed through the battle-weary House on Wednesday over tepid protests from tea party conservatives, driven by a bipartisan desire to restore painful cuts in domestic and defense programs and show disaffected voters that Congress can do its […]
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Police plan would shuffle parking lots
AUBURN — According to a plan presented to City Council Monday, the city would begin labeling downtown lots to better manage parking. Police Chief Phil Crowell said his department is now in charge of managing parking downtown, and he unveiled a plan that would shift some permit parking from one lot to another and increase […]
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TD Bank 250: It’s all about Benjamin
OXFORD — In his days as a basketball point guard at Belfast Area High School, Travis Benjamin showed the requisite knack for thinking two or three moves ahead of the competition and finding daylight. As he ran side-by-side with Joey Doiron late in the TD Bank 250 Sunday night, with lapped traffic jockeying in that […]
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TD Bank 250: Middle-aged and hitting its stride
It started out as a 200-lap battle back in 1974, expanded to 250 in 1975 and in the years since, has grown into one of the biggest short track stock car racing spectacles east of the Mississippi River. Sunday, the famed TD Bank 250 celebrates 40 years of competition at Oxford Plains Speedway. After being […]