Meet the 2025 Central Maine All-Region football team
Cony, Gardiner, Winslow and Winthrop are well-represented after impressive seasons this fall.
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Meet the 2025 Central Maine All-Region field hockey team
Seniors take up nine of the 11 spots on this list that includes six midfielders, four forwards and a back.
Waterville’s Quarry Road Trail to open tow rope, get your tickets to Gardiner area shows
Community Ski Free day is set for Sunday, folks can venture to Portland for a Griffin William Sherry show, and get your tickets for Bailey’s Mistake in Gardiner.
Meet the 2025 Varsity Maine All-State golf team
The list features four individual state champions and the New England co-medalist.
Meet the 2025 Central Maine All-Region golf team
Class B champion Nokomis is among the three schools represented by two golfers each.
Fireworks, music and parties: 15 ways to ring in the new year in Maine
New Year’s Eve events include an indoor beach party and community celebrations.
How does a symbol of hope for recovery become a domestic violence abuser? | Letter
What is happening in our community is enraging. For years, Brandon Tobey, who operated a recovery house in Augusta, was lifted up as a local champion. He stood on corners in Augusta, Hallowell and Gardiner with donation buckets, presented as a symbol of hope, while the public was encouraged to trust and support him. People…
Gardiner unable to reach agreement with city manager finalist
Neither Mayor Pat Hart nor Chris McLaughlin would comment on why they could not reach an agreement.
Ice fishing in Monmouth, basketball in Augusta, snow in central Maine are focus of Week in photos
Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from Dec. 5-12, 2025. View more Week in Photos galleries Purchase photos from the Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel Sign up for Maine Lens our monthly photo newsletter.
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Meet the 2025 Varsity Maine All-State football team
State finalists well represented among the top offensive and defensive players in the state.
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Instead of using terms like ‘transient,’ try ‘neighbor.’ We’re all ‘transient,’ in the end.
How the Maine Turnpike Authority manages snowy days and slick conditions
From a little room in the back of the Maine Turnpike Authority’s central office, a handful of dispatchers and supervisors manage traffic along the road’s entire 109-mile stretch.
Second arson arrest made after Augusta fire
The fire on Lilac Lane was reported on the morning of Nov. 15.
Central Maine 2025 Photos of the Year
Acclaimed documentary photographer Dorothea Lange once said, “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” That speaks to the core of our job as photojournalists: within the blur of the constant motion of life, we search for moments, stopping time for an instant to reveal some character, beauty or deeper…
Waterville man arrested in Augusta after I-95 police chase
The chase started in Waterville when police attempted to stop a reported stolen vehicle on Kennedy Memorial Drive.
Meet the four finalists for 54th Fitzpatrick Trophy
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Hall-Dale boys basketball surges in 2nd half to beat Madison
Tayshaun Cleveland and Karter Eldridge dominate the third quarter as Hall-Dale improves to 5-0.
ACA enrollment for 2026 declines in Maine as thousands cancel plans
The drop comes after Congress failed to extend certain tax credits that expire at the end of the year, leading premiums to increase by an average of 77% in Maine.
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