Manch Wheeler lets out a hearty laugh and delves into a story he’s told countless times to countless people.
May 2013
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HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Pair of freshmen pace Gardiner to victory
GARDINER — Freshman Katie Canning struck out eight and walked two in her varsity debut as Gardiner defeated Waterville 10-2 in Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B softball action Friday.
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LOCAL ROUNDUP: McKenney leads Madison to win
MADISON — Emily McKenney had two singles and an RBI and earned the pitching win to lead Madison past Lisbon 4-1 in Mountain Valley Conference softball action Friday.
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LOCAL BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Bailey lifts Eagles in 8th inning
SOUTH CHINA — Josh Bailey singled home Zack Isbell in the bottom of the eighth inning to give Erskine a 3-2 win over Edward Little in Kennebec Valley Atheltic Conference Class A baseball action Friday.
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Bill could block food stamp use on foods identified as contributing to health problems
AUGUSTA — Proponents of a bill that could allow the state to prohibit food stamp recipients from buying soft drinks and junk food said Friday that the taxpayer-funded program shouldn’t be used to buy food that could lead to obesity and health problems.
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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Panthers take it to Tigers
GARDINER — The Waterville Senior High School baseball team is one of the best hitting clubs in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B division. Give the Purple Panthers a handful of extra outs, like Gardiner did on Friday afternoon, and Waterville is going to rack up the runs.
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KEN ALLEN: Mayfly time starts now in lower Maine
“Hatch Guide for New England Streams” by Tom Ames, Jr. hit bookstores 13 years ago, and yes, that figure generates a predictable comment from folks like me — “How time flies.”
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HERB WILSON: Graceful osprey remarkable raptor
For birders, one of the joys of April is the arrival of the ospreys. We’ll look at this remarkable raptor today and in the next column.
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Maine State Museum focuses on artist Franklin Simmons
AUGUSTA — Franklin Simmons’ final meeting with President Abraham Lincoln was to schedule an appointment for the Maine artist to do the president’s portrait. The next day Lincoln was dead. Simmons is the focus of next week’s installment of the “Maine Voices from the Civil War” lecture series at the Maine State Museum,