Maine Moose 12U Tier II team wins state championship (2025)

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Maine Moose 12U Tier II team wins state championship The Maine Moose 12U Tier II hockey team has been crowned the 2024-2025 Maine Amateur Hockey Association State Champions after an outstanding performance in the state tournament. The team showcased skill, determination, and teamwork, securing the title with a thrilling final victory. The Moose will now move on and represent Maine in the New England Regionals starting Friday, March 14.

State Championship Roster:

Goaltenders:

• #1 – Isak Harrington
• #48 – Gabe Loubier

Defensemen:

• #8 – Reagan Gendron
• #21 – Parker Boucher
• #27 – Lincoln Fogg
• #52 – Easton Gradie
• #87 – Austin Roderick
• #97 – Greyson Arnold

Forwards:

• #2 – Brendan Greer
• #4 – Eli Bilodeau
• #10 – Campbell McCarthy
• #22 – Bryson Johnson
• #24 – Bryson Nichols
• #63 – Isaac Turner
• #76 – Malcolm Campbell
• #82 – Landon Ward
• #88 – Wesley McPherson
• #89 – Ezra Orlandello

Coaching Staff:

• Head Coach: Brian Boucher
• Assistant Coach: Brian McCarthy

TEAM PHOTO: 2025 SVAC champions

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The Vassalboro Community School girls basketball team rolled through an undefeated season to claim the Sheepscot Valley Athletic Conference championship for 2025. (contributed photo)

Give Us Your Best Shot! for Thursday, March 6, 2025

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Joan Chaffee, of Clinton, photographed this red-winged blackbird.

Gary Mazoki, of Palermo, snapped his dog Poe, smelling the flowers.

PHOTO: Cup-a-Joe, and lunch to go

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The Cup Café, located at 103 Dr. Mann Rd., Skowhegan, in the Methodist Church, provides free coffee, snacks and lunch-to-go on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. – noon. All are welcome! Charleen Gordon, kitchen leader, serves a cup of coffee to guest, Bradley Chipman. (contributed photo)

PHOTO: A rare pileated sighting

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Dwayne and Renée West saw this pileated woodpecker while walking along Sheepscot Lake on February 18.

PHOTO: Champions

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Messalonskee boys grades 3/4 travel team won an absolute thriller on Sunday. Playing Corinna in the championship game, the Eagles went to sudden death overtime. After four consecutive jump balls to start the overtime Parker Taylor went to the foul line to shoot two! After sinking the first shot the Eagles claimed the CMBC 3/4 boys championship! Front row, from left to. right, Jamison Bouchard, Parker Marquis, and Colston Partridge. Second row, Tucker Reynolds, Liam Luther, Caleb Levesque, and Cole Chavarie. Third row, Colten Holmes, Kellum Corbett, Parker Taylor, Aulden Dorsey, and Jackson McLaughlin. Back, Coach Dorsey, Coach McLaughlin, and Coach Taylor. Absent from photo is Revan Gurney and Colton Curtis. (photo by Mark Huard)

PHOTO: Success on the ice

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James Owens, son of Anne Owens, of Vassalboro, caught this beautiful brown trout, in China Lake, on Saturday, January 18. The trout was 19 inches long and weighed 3 pounds.

PHOTOS: Remembering the past summer

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Brinley Bisson, 4, of Waterville, enjoyed some successful fishing herself this past summer. At top, fishing off a dock at Green Valley Campground, in Vassalboro,  the same place her mother, Kassandra Bisson, of Waterville, learned how to fish, and hauling in a bass, at her grandparents’ campsite, on Webber Pond.

PHOTOS: A day on the ice

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Frank Richards, of Vassalboro, recently took to the ice to do some fishing. It proved to be a succesful day. From top to bottom, showing some open water at the north end of Webber Pond, and the large island. The catch was good, a bass, and two sizeable black crappie

PHOTO: I see you!

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Sarah Sanchez, of Washington, photographed this red fox well camouflaged in the woods.