Kyle Treadwell took advantage of a restart with three laps remaining Saturday night to score the first Super Late Model feature win of his career at Oxford Plains Speedway. Treadwell drove away from three past champions on his way to the checkered flag. He made his move after Scott Robbins dominated most of the event. […]
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High School Baseball: ’Hounds Ward off Wolverines, 8-7
LISBON – For nearly 90 minutes, the Lisbon and Wiscasset baseball teams anxiously waited in their dugouts, hoping the lightning that halted play in the top of the first inning might pass. Then in the top of the fourth, another even more ominous squall approached the field. But, this time Mother Nature parted the clouds, […]
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Failed Wiscasset land developers owe $846K in back taxes
PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine Supreme Court has ruled that the developers of a failed Wiscasset housing project owe the town nearly $846,000 in back property taxes. National RE/source, a company specializing in the redevelopment of old industrial sites, purchased the 33-acre Mason Station power plant and surrounding property in 2004. The Connecticut-based group intended […]
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Wilfred C. Haley
1930 – 2015 BOWDOINHAM — The Rev. Wilfred C. Haley, 85, died Sunday, May 10, at a local hospital. He was born in Phillips on Feb. 21, 1930, a son of Wilfred H. and Helen White Haley. He married Nelly E. Jones in Phillips in 1948. Mrs. Haley died Aug. 3, 2009. The Rev. Haley […]
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H.S. baseball: Falcons fend off Wolverines
WISCASSET — Over the first eight games of the Mountain Valley Conference high school baseball season, Wiscasset coach Mike Bowles has watched his team commit untimely errors and fail to take advantage of base runners in scoring position. For the defending Western Maine Class D champions, a 2-6 mark at the halfway point of the […]
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WISCASSET — What a difference a week makes. A little over a week ago, Lisbon and Wiscasset watched as a heavy round of showers washed out the baseball field on which they were playing. The Greyhounds led, 7-0, but the game was called off in the third inning, and the teams had to start all […]
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Maine man arrested at gunpoint after barefoot chase in California
WISCASSET — A 23-year-old Maine man wanted on a three-year-old warrant out of Lincoln County was arrested at gunpoint Friday in California after officers located the yellow school bus he was known to travel in. Drew James Bibber, formerly of Wiscasset, led police on a lengthy chase through a marsh, a creek and across busy […]
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Girls’ basketball: Faith Grady with another banner game as St. Dom’s solidifies playoff hopes
AUBURN — It came down to this for the St. Dom’s and Wiscasset girls’ basketball teams. Win Thursday’s Mountain Valley Conference game and a Western Class C preliminary game might be in the future. The Saints completed the job at hand, downing the Wolverines, 43-38, to improve to 5-10 and strengthen their hold on the […]
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Boys’ basketball: Wiscasset edges Lisbon
LISBON — There was no denying the good looks Lisbon earned in the first quarter of Tuesday’s boys’ basketball contest at Manchester Gymnasium against Wiscasset. One shot after another clanged the iron or rimmed out on the way to a 2-for-18 showing. The 12-point deficit the Greyhounds faced after a quarter was enough to help […]
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Girls’ basketball: Wiscasset comes back on Lisbon
LISBON — Little went right for the Wiscasset girls through most of three quarters Tuesday. The Greyhounds led from the start, taking an early eight-point lead, and Lisbon still led by three with three seconds left in the third quarter. That’s when Wiscasset coach Patrick Quinn took a chance. He reinserted forward Alecia Faulkingham with […]