The top-ranked Rangers advance to the regional final with a 4-2 victory.
Glenn Jordan
Glenn Jordan joined the Portland Press Herald in 1994 to cover the fledgling Portland Sea Dogs. A native of Vermont, he studied philosophy in college and worked at two newspapers in New Hampshire and one in Connecticut before moving to Maine. He spent his first two years of marriage living in the keepers quarters of the Portland Head Light and has three grown children. In addition to baseball, he has covered nearly every sport played in Maine, from biathlon and curling to running and sailing. Currently he works part-time and can be found near cross country trails in fall, swimming pools and ski slopes in winter and tennis courts in spring. All other times, he’s probably on a pickleball court. He is a two-time USA Pickleball national medalist (silver and gold) and played for both the Austin Ignite and Indianapolis Drivers in 2023, helping Indy win the inaugural National Pickleball League championship over Austin in a league for senior pros aged 50 and over.
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Western Class A hockey: Yachtsmen cruise … just a bit too easily
Falmouth shuts out Noble and scores 11 goals, but the effort isn’t quite what the coach had in mind.
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Lovers of local foodfind reason to dream
Jessie Grearson of Falmouth, along with her husband and their two daughters, spent a sizable chunk of Sunday morning shoveling snow.
But for a few hours Sunday afternoon, Grearson forgot all about ice and snow and winter worries. Walking around inside the Woodfords Congregational Church, Grearson and her family met with two dozen local farmers. They spoke of tomatoes and planting seeds and about sharing in a bountiful local harvest.
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Skiing notebook: Freeport boys charge to Class C title
The Freeport boys and the Fort Kent girls both came from behind on the final day of competition to win Class C ski titles Thursday at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center. More than 200 miles away at the Nordic Heritage Center in Presque Isle, Mt. Blue claimed its seventh straight girls’ and fifth straight boys’ […]
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Class B skiing: Falmouth primed to defend
The Falmouth boys join the Yarmouth girls as state Alpine champs and near an overall title.
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Skiing notebook: No real surprises loom with titles on the line
After three of four events in the Class A and C ski state championships, the familiar names of Mt. Blue, Fort Kent and Freeport lead the way into today’s culminating Nordic classic race – in Presque Isle for Class A and in Rangeley for Class C. The Mt. Blue boys hold a commanding lead of […]
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Class B: Maranacook, Falmouth skiers triumph
Tyler DeAngelis of Maranacook and Sarah Abramson of Falmouth impress on the first day of the state meet.
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Class B boys: Rangers, swimmingly
Greely sweeps the relays to roll past depleted rival Belfast on the way to a second straight state championship.
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The stuff of dream homes
Innovations inspire the crowd at the popular Maine Home, Remodeling and Garden Show. The two-day show drew hundreds of folks interested in feathering their nests, or cutting down on energy costs, sprucing up gardens, or even installing a solar-powered greenhouse with its own automatic watering bench.
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Skiing: Coach says Class A meet worth the trip
High school skiers will likely go to great lengths — and in some cases, distances — as the state championship meets begin.