BAR HARBOR — A new era of Mount Desert Island football last season saw some early growing pains. The way the Trojans ended the year, though, is still energizing them more than 10 months later. One year removed from their second consecutive No. 1 playoff seed and Northern Maine title game, the Trojans had their …
ELLSWORTH — September is set to be a big month for local fitness efforts in Ellsworth with Girls on the Run Maine and the Down East Family YMCA starting a few annual programs. On Monday, Sept. 2, DEFY will begin its September fitness schedule. Among the Y’s offerings this year are the preschool “Wiggle your …
BUCKSPORT — Keeping up with the Bucksport offense has rarely been an easy task for opposing football teams over the years. Last season, the Golden Bucks made that task borderline unfair. Few teams in Maine high school football history have posted the sorts of numbers Bucksport did in 2018, a season in which the Golden …
ELLSWORTH — For two days, Carolyn Miller’s sons were baseball’s biggest stars. As Miller, an Ellsworth mother of two boys with rare medical conditions, awoke Sunday morning, she did so to the joyful yelling of Timothy, 6, and Oliver, 5. This was game day morning, and there was no containing her boys’ excitement. “They woke …
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth Challenger Little League is hosting this year’s Maine State Challenger Little League Jamboree this Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 24-25. The event will feature Challenger Little League teams from leagues around the state playing a series of games at Ellsworth’s Demeyer Field. Games will be held throughout the morning and early afternoon on …
ELLSWORTH — This year’s Ellsworth Elks Soccer Shoot has been scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 24. The event pits youth soccer players of all ages against one another in a shooting contest that provides a stern test of each player’s accuracy and power. More than 500,000 youth soccer players are expected to participate this year as …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Playing in an unusually late Claremont Croquet Classic, Dave Nelson’s mastery of the sport reached a new level. This year’s edition of the tournament, which typically takes place the first full week of August, was instead held the second full week of the month. Players came from Maine and all over the …
ELLSWORTH — Two months after the 2018-19 sports season came to an end, a new year is just around the corner. The 2019-20 sports season officially begins Monday, Aug. 19. Football, soccer, volleyball, cross-country and golf teams throughout the state are eligible to hold their first practices starting at midnight ahead of their first games …
VEAZIE — Local runners were among the 30 who competed Saturday in this year’s Veazie Day 5K. The first Hancock County finisher in the race was Dedham’s Andrew Goupee, who had won the event in 2018. Goupee finished with a time of 17 minutes, 55 seconds this time around to take home second place. Dedham’s …
MOUNT DESERT — For the second year in a row, Ellsworth High School swimmers led the way in one of eastern Maine’s biggest outdoor swims. Ellsworth swimmers swept the men’s and women’s 500-yard and 1.5-mile events Saturday at the Bill Reeve Echo Lake Swim at Camp Beech Cliff. Nick Partridge (500-yard) and Sean Hill (1.5-mile) …
CAPE ELIZABETH — Ellsworth High School alum Dan Curts had a strong performance in Saturday’s Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race, placing first among all Maine runners in the field. Curts, a 2014 Ellsworth graduate, finished the race in 29 minutes, 26 seconds, more than a full minute ahead of the next Maine finisher, Ryan …
ELLSWORTH — Nearly two months after their last home game, members of the 2019 Ellsworth baseball team are still buzzing with excitement. Many summer evenings have come and gone since June 8, the last time the Eagles played on their home field. The celebratory scenes that followed Ellsworth’s 6-0 win over Medomak Valley in the …
