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Area Roundups: Brunswick Dragons earn pair of hoop wins

January 28, 2019November 20, 2019

BRUNSWICK — Marley Groat scored a career-high 23 points to power the Brunswick High School girls basketball team to a 66-37 Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference win over Messalonskee on Saturday. The Dragons swept a pair of weekend games, rolling to a 45-22 KVAC win over Medomak Valley on Friday, ending with a 14-1 record. Brunswick visits […]

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L.L. Bean exec, Portland entrepreneur tapped as advisers to Boston Fed

by Staff Report January 24, 2019January 24, 2019

L.L. Bean CFO Kierston Van Soest and O. & Co. CEO Oliver Smith have joined the bank’s New England Advisory Council.

Local & State

Crash caused delays on I-295 during morning commute

by Gillian Graham January 24, 2019January 24, 2019

The crash occurred in the southbound lanes in Freeport, according to turnpike officials.

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Girls Hockey: Yarmouth/Freeport loses high-scoring game to Portland/Deering

by BY CHRIS QUATTRUCCI / Times Record Staff January 24, 2019November 20, 2019

PORTLAND — Yarmouth/Freeport faced off against a Portland/Deering team hungry to stay in the girls high school playoff picture. The Clippers were looking to get back on track from a two-game skid, while Portland/Deering was on a five-game slide heading into Wednesday’s contest at William B. Troubh Ice Arena. The extra motivation resulted in a game […]

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Maine state parks nearing 3 million visitors a year

by hannah laclaire Times record January 23, 2019January 23, 2019

Visits to the state’s 48 parks grew by 11 percent in 2018, with Sebabo Lake, Lily Bay and Bradbury Mountain leading the way.

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Boys Basketball: Waynflete uses 35-3 run to beat Freeport, 71-43

by BY MICHAEL HOFFER / The Forecaster January 23, 2019November 20, 2019

PORTLAND — The Waynflete boys’ basketball team put together a run against visiting Freeport on Tuesday night that could be a defining point of the season. Trailing 26-19 in the second quarter, the Flyers scored 35 of the next 38 points and went on to a stunningly decisive 71-43 Western Maine Conference victory in an interclass […]

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Area Roundups: Smith lifts Freeport Falcons to girls basketball victory

by The Times Record January 23, 2019November 20, 2019

FREEPORT — Caroline Smith dropped in 18 first-half points as the Freeport High School girls basketball team rolled to a 46-23 Western Maine Conference win on Tuesday over Waynflete. Smith finished with 23 points for the 11-2 Falcons, who visit Fryeburg Academy on Friday at 6:30 p.m. Hannah Spaulding and Mason Baker-Schlendering each scored five points […]

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Freeport considers future of town-owned building that housed Abercrombie & Fitch

by jocelyn van saun The Forecaster January 21, 2019January 21, 2019

Once the town library, the building is in the heart of the town’s retail outlet section.

Local & State

Founder of Dead Poets Society gets published himself, posthumously

by David Sharp Associated Press January 20, 2019January 20, 2019

Walter Skold, formerly of Freeport, visited the grave sites of over 600 poets but never put his own works in print. Then a year after his death, his sons made it happen.

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Girls Basketball: Smith’s 35 leads Freeport to win over Yarmouth

by BY BOB CONN / THE TIMES RECORD January 19, 2019November 20, 2019

FREEPORT — Caroline Smith had just watched her Freeport High School girls basketball team play perhaps its worst four minutes of basketball this season in the third quarter of Friday’s Western Maine Conference game against rival Yarmouth. An 11-point halftime lead had been reduced to a single point, with the Falcons committing 10 turnovers. This is […]