HALLOWELL — The Maine Moose junior hockey team brought in several players whose hometowns span a good chunk of the globe, from Canada, to Russia and Ireland.
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COLLEGE ROUNDUP: Bullen helps UMF earn 1st win of season
FARMINGTON — Kaitlyn Bullen scored a goal and added an assist as the University of Maine at Farmington beat Endicott 3-1 in a non-conference field hockey game Saturday.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Mt. Blue gets big win
FARMINGTON — Connor Farrington, a senior offensive lineman and linebacker for the Mt. Blue High School football team, smiled the smile of a young man supremely happy.
TRAVIS LAZARCZYK — 50 years and counting
SKOWHEGAN — Roger Jarvais had just turned 13 when he started playing football in the Skowhegan Sports Boosters Club football league. It was 1963, and it was the first year of the league.
MLB: Lester dominates in Sox win over Yankees
BOSTON (AP) — Jon Lester is proving he’s Boston’s ace again.
SNAPSHOT: Little bridge, big project
Construction workers under and on the Calumet Bridge at Old Fort Western work on natural gas pipe line on a rainy Friday over the Kennebec River in Augusta.
Sequester could slow shipbuilding
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus warns that tough budget times could hurt Maine’s shipbuilding interests; former U.S. Senator and Defense Secretary Bill Cohen criticizes the Obama administration on Syria; and western Maine is on the short list of possible locations for a missile defense facility.
SNAPSHOT: Whitefield Community Day
Whitefield Community Day was held today, and had among its events a miniature pie-eating contest, antiques appraisals and live music.
STILL LIFE: Inland Hospital’s Family Fun Day
Charlie Frost, 9, of Canaan, blows bubbles through a form made from a giant pipe cleaner at Inland Hospital’s Family Fun Day in Waterville today.
Maine looks at proposal to arm forest rangers
A special group in Maine is examining whether forest rangers should be allowed to carry firearms, something rangers say is critical to protecting them from the growing dangers they face in the field.