Girls tennis RECORD: 9-3 COACH: Bill Shardlow HIGHLIGHT: The highlight was winning five 3-2 matches, including one over Scarborough in mid season. We had a great group of girls who were mentally tough and focused for the whole year. SENIORS: Heather Bernier, Megan Rich, Kaitlyn Quigley MVP: Heather Bernier and Nicole Willey MOST IMPROVED: Alyse […]

Baseball RECORD: 4-13 COACH: Shawn Holt HIGHLIGHTS: The play of the underclassmen Kevin McDonough at shortstop, Ben Goss pitching and Nate Jewell at second were high points for us. And the very strong pitching we got from senior Peter Carter, who was third in the league in strikeouts, was a key for us, said Coach […]

Local golfers have joined a field from 17 states and Canada competing in the 2005 TD Banknorth Portland Open, one the New England’s premier golf tournaments open to both professionals and amateurs. The Portland Open will have its final round Saturday at the Riverside Golf Course. Among the local golfers participating are amateur Shawn Warren […]

If you are anything like my wife and I, you love to watch and hear the birds around your home. Getting enjoyment from such little things as watching a robin toss one dead leaf after another looking for food; or to see the loving as a male woodpecker takes a bite of suet to a […]

No mistaking spring with the beautiful weather we’ve been having lately. My perennials are daily stretching closer to that warm spring sun. I can already see my daisies need dividing – they’re growing in a ring around an empty center. This means the middle is dying out but it’s simple to correct. If you have […]

The whole weeping willow tree just glows golden as spring tells nature to wake up. Native Americans knew for centuries that the bark of any willow could ease pain when chewed. In the Old World, it is recorded that in 400 B.C. Hippocrates, the” father of medicine,” advised the chewing of willow bark to ease […]

Rich Obrey, sports editor for Current Publishing, last week won the prestigious Media Award presented annually by the Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. Obrey, whose work appears in Current Publishing’s family of six newspapers including the Scarborough Current, American Journal and the Lakes Region Suburban Weekly, was honored for his achievements at a banquet held […]

As I sit in my easy chair, often my mind wanders back to memories of my youth. With the warming of spring the frost is leaving the ground and the combination makes me remember the early recesses of my one room school. This time of year recesses were devoted to playing marbles. My favorite marble […]

As I sit in my easy chair, often my mind wanders back to memories of my youth. With the warming of spring the frost is leaving the ground and the combination makes me remember the early recesses of my one room school. This time of year recesses were devoted to playing marbles. My favorite marble […]