FREEPORT — The last time Freeport High School won a regional boys soccer title, gas was 63 cents a gallon, Space Invaders launched a craze for computer video games and Saturday Night Fever was in the theaters. The year was 1978, and the Falcons had just concluded a three-year run of winning state championships in Class B, […]
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Over 3,000 CMP customers, mostly in Freeport, lose electricity
The outage comes one year to the day after a powerful windstorm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands in Maine.
Boys Soccer Semifinal: Freeport keeps rolling, knocks off Greely, 3-1
FREEPORT — In a close soccer match, where two teams battle tooth and nail, a game could be decided with a bad bounce or an unfortunate call. In Friday’s Class B South semifinal game, there was no concern for that. Freeport proved to be the better team as the Falcons beat Greely, 3-1, in boys high […]
Class B Cross Country: York boys end 70-year drought
Belfast — A while back, Ted Hutch came across some microfilm of this newspaper that included a story about York High winning a state championship in cross country. Alfie Walker of Fryeburg Academy was eighth in the Class B South regional and hadn’t beaten any of the top contenders for the cross country state title. That […]
Class A Cross Country: Mt. Ararat’s Berry-Gaviria wins again
Belfast — Lisandro Berry-Gaviria’s plan worked to perfection. As for Sofie Matson’s face-plant, that worked out as well as could be expected. In the end, both runners successfully defended their Class A cross country state championships on a raw Saturday morning, with times faster than any others who followed in the other meets at Troy Howard […]
Class C Cross Country: Maine Coast Waldorf boys, Orono girls reign supreme
BELFAST — When organizers decided, in light of an ominous forecast, to hold the cross country state championship earlier Saturday than originally scheduled rather than gamble on better weather by postponing until next weekend, they did so knowing that Class C might be affected by the leading edge of the storm. Sure enough, cold rain began […]
To document climate change, Kate Olson went to Maine’s expert witnesses
She interviewed fishermen, farmers and foresters about how they are affected.
State Championship: Berry-Gaviria of Mt. Ararat successfully defends cross country state title
BELFAST — Falmouth sophomore Sofie Matson and Mt. Ararat junior Lisandro Berry-Gaviria won top individual honors Saturday at the Class A cross country state championships. In defending their state titles, Matson and Berry-Gaviria ran the fastest times of the day over the 5K course at Troy Howard Middle School in a meet moved up and condensed […]
Postseason HS FootbalL: Area teams set for football playoffs
BATH — The high school football season has reached the postseason, and all five area teams are hoping for success. Here is a look at the exciting regular season and the upcoming playoffs, with the goal to raise a championship trophy in mid-November: Brunswick The Dragons enter Class B North postseason play with a 5-3 record, […]
Field Hockey Regional Final: York Wildcats ends Freeport run
BIDDEFORD — A magical season won’t have its fairy tale ending. Freeport’s high school field hockey team traveled to Biddeford’s storied Waterhouse Field Wednesday afternoon for the Class B South Final, hoping to make history, but it was the York Wildcats, yet again, who took home the most coveted piece of hardware with a hard-fought 1-0 […]
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