Local stores like Will’s Shop ‘n Save have always been part grocery store and part social setting. Now their role has taken on more significance during the coronavirus pandemic. Read More
Rick Gerrish said he had been considering closing the facility for the last two or three years, and agreed that the potential negative impact of the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic on this year’s prospects for the course may have been the last straw. Read More
“I could have gone back, but my parents prefer me to stay here." Read More
While Dove Tail Bats was busy filling this year’s early MLB orders totaling approximately 2,000 bats, the coronavirus pandemic gripped America. Read More
According to the sports medicine committee of the National Federation of State High School Associations, 27 percent of the nation’s 60 million young athletes who participate in organized athletics specialize in one sport. It leads to a higher number of injuries. Read More
Chris Hudson of Bentley University previously earned a similar honor from the Division II Conference Commissioners Association. He was also selected to the All-Northeast-10 Conference First Team and was the NE10 Defensive Player of the Year. Read More
This year, when sports fans around the country suddenly need a distraction like March Madness, more than ever it has been replaced by a March Sadness of sorts. People are forced to turn inward to protect themselves against a coronavirus for which there is no developed vaccine yet. Read More
Two professional bouts and seven amateur contests were set to be contested during the show, promoted by West Forks super lightweight Brandon “The Cannon” Berry. Read More
Coach Richard Barron’s rebuilding effort remains a work in progress, but in these challenging times the instinct is to instead focus on the positive when considering the Black Bears’ future. Of UMaine’s 11 regular-season conference losses, nine came by an average of 6.6 points. Read More
I.J. Pinkham spent the last 43 seasons coaching at Boothbay Region High School and owns a 659-316 record (.676) that is just shy of the state record for varsity basketball coaching victories, regardless of gender. Read More
New England Fights has re-scheduled its scheduled April mixed martial arts show at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine in Orono for Saturday, June 13, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.local Read More
Scott Hunter, a local attorney and a former multisport athlete at Caribou and Colby College, cited family and health reasons for his decision to leave a job he started in 2011. Read More
After a year of prep school basketball behind them, Matthew Fleming of Bangor and Wol Maiwen of Auburn have made verbal commitments to join the Black Bears next season. Read More
But this year the wait for opening day figures to run at least another month after the worldwide coronavirus pandemic prompted the Maine Principals’ Association to delay preseason spring sports practices until April 27. Read More
The Maine Principals' Association football committee proposes that beginning in 2021 schools be required to complete an application to poll prospective participants on issues beyond enrollment, which traditionally has been the lone determinant in classification for all sports. Read More
Sixteen more schools are expected to shift from the traditional 11-player version of the sport to the eight-player version that made its varsity debut in Maine last season. Read More
History is not on the side of the University of Maine men’s basketball team as it prepares for Saturday night’s America East quarterfinal at the University of Vermont. Read More
Unified basketball matches students with developmental disabilities, unified student-athletes, with non-varsity basketball players without developmental disabilities, unified student partners. The athletes and partners train together, compete and represent their schools in competition against other programs. Read More
Julia Colby of Oxford Hills, a 5-6 point guard who was named Class AA North Player of the Year after averaging 17.4 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 3.6 steals for the state champion Vikings, earned the Miss Maine Basketball honor. Read More
Fleming, has averaged 14.4 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists this season. The 6-foot-7 forward from Norway shot 49.1 percent from the field for the Black Bears. Read More
