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Youth Nordic Ski Day to introduce kids to skiing
NORWAY — The Western Foothills Land Trust and local Nordic ski enthusiasts will host a Bill Koch League introduction and ski meet at 10 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 28, at Roberts Farm. Youth Nordic Ski Day will have coaching, games and fun activities followed by races. The program is for skiers ages 5 to 14. A parent […]
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Lost Valley ski area opens
Amanda Sasseville of Auburn and her son, Anson Beaulieu, 6, get on the ski lift at Lost Valley in Auburn on Friday. The ski area opened some intermediate and advanced terrain Friday, the first day of the ski season. Lifts will be running 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)
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Another snowstorm headed for Maine
[media-credit name=”WGME” align=”aligncenter” width=”1024″][/media-credit] People throughout the state spent Sunday digging out from the season’s first significant snowstorm, but Mainers shouldn’t get too comfortable because another storm packing plenty of snow is heading this way Tuesday. And that storm will be followed by another challenge: A bitter Arctic cold front will envelop all of the […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Ski Spree April 15
Show your memorabilia and share your memories: Those are the twin themes of an upcoming event at Sunday River that benefits the Ski Museum of Maine. Slated for April 15 at Barker Mountain Lodge, Skee Spree is an important fund-raiser that supports the Ski Museum’s mission to preserve and present our state’s 147-year heritage of […]
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Escalator fall ended US ski racer's career, launched another
In this April 3, 2007, photo, Cody Marshall competes in the men’s giant slalom ski race of the U.S. Alpine Championships at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska. Marshall, who suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling off an escalator in July 2009, has turned to coaching as well as helping launch a program to prepare […]
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Welcome back to the 'Loaf: Weather or not, U.S. Alpine Championships begin Saturday
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — The U.S. Alpine Championships bursts out the gates Saturday morning with the men’s and women’s super-G national championships up for grabs at Sugarloaf. After intermittent snow throughout Friday’s training day, race organizers expressed confidence that the weather — specifically the wind — would not be a detriment as some of the country’s […]
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Skiing: World Pro Ski Tour, and Auburn's Heldman, making comeback at Sunday River
Auburn’s Bump Heldman rounds a gate during a race at the Bates College Carnival event at Sunday River in 2012. AUBURN — Most of Bump Heldman’s focus when he’s been on a hill of late is on the talented Gould Academy alpine skiers he helps coach. Five years removed from Bates College and active ski […]
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Auburn students learn to ski in memory of middle school ski racer
Angie Merrill, second from left, and Melinda Chadbourne, second from right, help Fairview Elementary students get their ski gear on during the Merrick Learn to Ski & Ride program at Lost Valley in Auburn on Wednesday. Fifty-five Auburn students come to ski and snowboard on Wednesdays when they are in school for only half a […]
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Nordic skiing, Class C: Maine Coast Waldorf rules
WATERVILLE — Waynflete School’s Wilson Moore not only won the boys’ individual Nordic Class C freestyle state title, but he also topped Tucker Barber’s Class A-winning time at Quarry Roads on Friday. Moore turned in a winning time of 14:39.4. Barber’s time in Class A was 15:08.4 for Mt. Blue. The second- and third-place finishers […]