It’s unofficially official. This will be Gary Parlin’s final season as head football coach at Mt. Blue High School.
Travis Lazarczyk
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Travis Lazarczyk has covered sports for the Portland Press Herald since 2021. A Vermont native, he graduated from the University of Maine in 1995 with a BA in English. After a few years working as a sports information director and in the ski industry, he began his journalism career at the Berlin (N.H.) Reporter in 1999. Prior to joining the Press Herald, Lazarczyk spent 20 years covering sports in central Maine at the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. He's been twice honored as the Maine Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association.
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Last week’s 41-0 loss at Wesleyan was a setback for Colby, but one that can be corrected with more attention to detail, head coach Jonathan Michaeles said.
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For a game between two football teams that have never played each other, there’s a lot at stake in tonight’s Class B game between Westbook and Lawrence at Keyes Field.
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Lawrence’s Grenier fights through injury
He flexed the fingers on his left hand, as if doing so would make the cast that covered the hand and forearm crack and fall off. The hand under the cast felt a little itchy, Beau Grenier said.
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