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Central Maine Athlete of the Week: Fall Week 10

November 8, 2024November 8, 2024

Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel sports writers nominate high school athletes from the prior week’s games.
Readers vote for their top choice and the winner will be announced in the newspapers the following Saturday all season long!

Arts & Entertainment, Maine

Maine native Amy Allen up for 4 Grammy awards

by Ray Routhier November 8, 2024February 2, 2025

Allen, who grew up in Windham and South Portland, was nominated for songwriter of the year, as well as in the song, album and song for visual media categories.

Community

Farmington hospital to offer ski, snowboard clinic Nov. 18

November 8, 2024November 8, 2024

FARMINGTON — The MaineHealth Franklin Hospital Physical Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Department is set to host a free ski and snowboard clinic at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in the Stanley Health Center on the Franklin Hospital campus, 111 Franklin Health Commons. Open to all ages, this clinic aims to provide assessments in flexibility, strength, […]

Maine

Breakdown: Turning anguish into action | Podcast Ep. 2: ‘I believe he is going to snap’

by Susan Sharon Maine Public Radio November 8, 2024December 31, 2024

Six weeks before the attacks, the shooter’s best friend warned that he might snap and commit a mass shooting. Episode 2 begins an examination into the numerous opportunities for intervention.

Election 2024, Maine, Politics

Democrats pick Brunswick Sen. Mattie Daughtry to lead Maine Senate

by Joe Lawlor November 8, 2024November 8, 2024

She was a co-sponsor and key proponent behind the paid family leave bill that became law and begins going into effect in 2025.

Things to Do

Tricky Britches plans Brownfield concert

November 8, 2024November 5, 2024

Tricky Britches will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at at Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Road in Brownfield. The band was formed in 2009, when four friends in Portland took their fiddle tunes and country songs on the road across the U.S. Since then they have released three albums of original material: “Comin’ […]

Kennebec Journal, Maine, Maine Crime

Augusta man arrested in Florida on check forgery charges says he was recruited in Maine

by Emily Duggan November 8, 2024November 8, 2024

Shawn Willette, 43, said people in Maine enticed him to cash forged checks under false identifies in Florida.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Commentary: The only thing bigger in this election than Trump’s comeback is the media’s self-own

by Cynthia M. Allen November 8, 2024November 8, 2024

Everyone loves a comeback story. Maybe that’s all there is to Donald Trump’s otherwise unbelievable victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and the most well-financed campaign in U.S. history. Or maybe it’s nothing more complicated than election fundamentals: Too many Americans think the nation is on the wrong-track. It’s the economy, stupid. In the coming […]

Business, News

Disabled Marine from Turner moving forward one sip of coffee at a time

by Steve Sherlock November 8, 2024November 11, 2024

A former member of the elite Marine Silent Drill Platoon and a veteran of Afghanistan, John Wayne Nelson has overcome a traumatic brain injury to start Deltacom Coffee, with profits going to help veteran groups.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Commentary: Foreign interference is now the norm, and it could fuel more violence under Trump

by Colin P. Clarke November 8, 2024November 8, 2024

While there have been no credible claims of fraud contributing to Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday, and the vote does not appear to have even been close, the election was marred by foreign interference, a commonplace occurrence in every U.S. election since 2016. There was a steady stream of disinformation and multiple attempts by Russia […]