AUGUSTA — Buker Community Center, Augusta Recreation Department, has announced its recent cribbage winners.
NFL: Patriots cruise in preseason opener
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Blaine Gabbert had an inconsistent NFL debut and his Jacksonville Jaguars teammates didn’t do any better in a 47-12 loss to the New England Patriots in the exhibition opener for both teams Thursday night.
Amateur champ wins match play
MANCHESTER — It happened on every hole. While their caddies jumped into golf carts and motored down the fairway after each tee shot, Ryan Gay and Matt Greenleaf walked together, talking about golf, life and everything in between.
PGA CHAMPIONSHIP: Stricker ties record with 63
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Steve Stricker stood a mere 10 feet away from the lowest round ever in a major, a captivating moment at any other championship.
Solon voters to ask resident to move stone wall
SOLON — Residents requested Thursday night that owners of a rock wall that is too close to Brighton Road remove it.
Winslow credit union robbed
WINSLOW — State and local police scoured central Maine Thursday for the man who robbed the Winslow Community Federal Credit Union at 12 Monument St.
STEVE SOLLOWAY: Dudek’s story once-in-a-lifetime
PORTLAND — He got his copy of the new coffee table book, Sports Illustrated: The Covers and turned the pages quickly, searching for the magazine cover from December of 1985. He found it.
Groups say video ‘exposes’ agency
AUGUSTA — Two conservative Maine groups released a secretly recorded video Thursday that they say exposes “vulnerabilities” in Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.
BILL NEMITZ: Not just a ‘good old boy’
It was Oct. 16, 1978, and the entire world was abuzz with the news that Cardinal Karol Josef Wojtyla had just become the Roman Catholic Church’s first-ever Polish pope.
Skowhegan State Fair opens with tribute to troops
SKOWHEGAN — Everybody was there Thursday evening for the Tribute to the Troops ceremony opening the Skowhegan State Fair, one service family member said.