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    AUGUSTA – Ten athletes from central Aroostook County who have been playing basketball together since they were in junior high school accomplished something Saturday that hadn’t been done since the Nixon administration. “These guys are amazing. We’re just one big family. We’ve all grown up… Read More
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    BREWER – The Brewer Witches boys basketball team overcame a seven-point deficit at the end of the third quarter and outscored the Mt. Blue Cougars 17-1 in the fourth period en route to a 51-42 high school victory Tuesday night. Chris Wilson sparked the Witches… Read More
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    ORONO – Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo took the stage at the Maine Center for the Arts for a Sunday afternoon show that can best be described as Trocktacular. Yes, the troupe exhibited all the grace, all the beauty, all the discipline one would… Read More
    ORONO – Kristin Lee, a superb 19-year-old violinist with a notably sophisticated technique for her years, made her local debut Sunday at a Maine Center for the Arts concert in Minsky Recital Hall. It’s a debut worth noting because it’s entirely likely that Lee, who is still only… Read More
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    EXPLORING THE SPIRIT OF MAINE, A SEEKER’S GUIDE, by Karen Wentworth Batignani, 2005, Down East Books, Camden, 234 pages, $14.95. Ever feel tempted to consult a shaman? Or learn how to be a shaman? Interested in finding out about solstice celebrations conducted by local pagans?… Read More
    HARRINGTON – Joseph Libby scored seven of his 17 points in the third quarter as the Jonesport-Beals boys basketball team rallied for a 75-62 victory over Narraguagus Saturday in a mutual season-opening game. Ross Griffin led Jonesport-Beals with 18 points and seven rebounds. Ben Ellis… Read More
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    BLACK BANGOR, AFRICAN AMERICANS IN A MAINE COMMUNITY, 1880-1950, by Maureen Elgersman Lee, University Press of New England, 2005, 177 pages, paperback, $22. Maureen Elgersman Lee’s new book on the black community in Bangor between 1880 and 1950 is an important addition to our understanding… Read More
    Eight months after the death of Pope John Paul II, the man remains a mystery. Two competing TV movies airing this week shed some light on the events that shaped the Polish boy Karol Wojtyla and drove him to become the pontiff he was. Neither… Read More
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    WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Arizona Reid had 24 points, including two late free throws, to help High Point University claim third place by beating Maine 70-67 in the William & Mary Tip-Off Classic Saturday night. Reid also grabbed 12 rebounds. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
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    ORONO – Every year on Thanksgiving, while driving from Maine to my grandparents’ house in Massachusetts, my family would listen to “Alice’s Restaurant” on the radio. We would usually be in Boston by the time the song finished – over the (Charles) river, but not yet through the… Read More
    NO PLACE FOR A WOMAN “Nine Mile Bridge: Three Years in the Maine Woods” (Islandport Press, $15.99), by Helen Hamlin is a reissue of Helen Hamlin’s bestselling memoir first published in 1945. A Fort Kent native from a family of Maine game wardens, Hamlin took… Read More
    EAST SULLIVAN – Dan Clifford, for the last nine years a teacher and boys varsity basketball coach at Ellsworth High School, has been named athletic director at Sumner Memorial High School and the three middle schools in School Union 96. Clifford’s appointment was approved by… Read More
    Tuesday night, while watching “Chi: A New Era in Acrobatics” at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono, I realized two things. One, it was very similar to last year’s show by the National Acrobats of Taiwan – although I liked the chair-stacking act better without a… Read More
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    BANGOR – It was Jenna Sevigney’s destiny to become the first female manager of a Husson College football team. That destiny was determined at an early age through the Sevigney family rituals that included the setting aside of every Sunday afternoon in the fall to… Read More
    “Beauty and the Beast,” the locally produced musical running through Nov. 6 at The Grand Auditorium in Ellsworth, has such a high once-upon-a-time factor that, even if you grow weary of the score and the cartoonish characters, you have to stay until the end because of the magic… Read More
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    BURLINGTON, Vt. – Heather Hathorn scored off a pass from Erin Corey 26:18 into the match as the University of Maine women’s soccer team shut out the University of Vermont 2-0 Thursday. Corey later scored on a Laura Harper assist at 57:35 for the 10-5-1… Read More
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