BETHEL — The Mahoosuc Arts Council will screen the film “The Maine Frontier: Through the Lens of Isaac Simpson” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, Executive Director Aranka Matolcsy said Monday morning. Matolcsy said that the Mahoosuc Arts Council was presenting the film, directed by Wiscasset composer and filmmaker Sumner McKane, as part of the […]
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H.S. girls’ basketball: Oak Hill overwhelms Wolverines
WALES — It had been so long since the Oak Hill girls’ basketball team had played a regular-season game that Charlie Castonguay couldn’t exactly remember it. “It’s was a long time ago,” Castonguay said. “Our game with Carrabec (last week) was postponed. It’s been eight or nine days since we played a regular-season game.” As […]
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Girls’ basketball: Wiscasset dismisses Lisbon
WISCASSET — Lisbon had erased all of a first-quarter deficit, using a 10-0 third-quarter run in claiming a one-point advantage through 24 minutes. Wiscasset had other ideas in the final frame. The Wolverines strung together their own 10-0 spurt en route to a 48-38 Mountain Valley Conference verdict in girls’ high school basketball play on […]
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Boys’ basketball: Lisbon runs away from Wiscasset
WISCASSET — Close, early-season losses didn’t seem to have Lisbon High School boys basketball coach Jake Gentle too worried. Yes, his Greyhounds sat at 1-4 prior to Thursday’s Mountain Valley Conference contest with Wiscasset, but Gentle’s team had shown an ability to hang tough. These experiences seemed to help the Greyhounds, who rolled to a […]
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Girls’ Soccer: Grady nets four more in St. Dom’s win
AUBURN — Wiscasset pushed the St. Dominic Academy defense back into its penalty area. Shot after shot was sent toward the Saints net, manned by goaltender Nicole Robitaille. Not one found its target in a 4-0 St. Dom’s MVC victory. Four goals by Saints forward Faith Grady were the difference. The senior scored them all […]
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Local Racing: T.J. Brackett repeats as Oxford champion
It was a grind, and ultimately a wash, in one of the closest battles for the track championship in Oxford Plains Speedway history. T.J. Brackett of Buckfield overcame an early spin to finish ninth in the 75-lap Budweiser Pro Late Model season finale, holding on for a four-point margin over Turner’s Shawn Martin and his […]
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Local Racing Roundup: Brackett, Bowie, Karkos keep hot streaks intact
The question in Oxford Plains Speedway’s Budweiser Pro Late Model division has changed. Through the first three months of the season, the mystery was when the class would see its first repeat winner. Now everyone wonders when, and if, T.J. Brackett will be stopped. Brackett, the defending division champion, won his second consecutive 50-lap feature […]
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Local Racing Roundup: No. 9 … No. 9 … Martin keeps beat going at Oxford
No-repeat Friday simply transitioned into new-winner Saturday at Oxford Plains Speedway. Shawn Martin highlighted the track’s return to its traditional night of racing, becoming the ninth different Budweiser Pro Late Model feature winner in nine events this season. He’s no new face in victory lane, of course. Martin, of Turner, is a past speedway champion […]
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Video: Wings Over Wiscasset — In Sunday’s Sun Journal
This upcoming two-day event in Wiscasset will give the public a chance to get up close to some of the classic aircraft that fought in and helped win World War II, and to honor the men and women who risked and sacrificed their lives for freedom. The dancing to big-band music is encouraged, but optional. […]
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Local Auto Racing: King fends off Farrington in Beech Ridge classic
Two of Maine’s rising super late model stars picked up Saturday night where they left off a week ago in Oxford 250 qualifying — and stepped up the drama considerably. Once again it was Tyler King of Livermore Falls and Dave Farrington Jr. of Jay proving that the age-old sports rivalry between their communities is […]