TEAM PHOTO: 2025 SVAC champions
The Vassalboro Community School girls basketball team rolled through an undefeated season to claim the Sheepscot Valley Athletic Conference championship for 2025. (contributed photo)
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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
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
Dwayne and Renée West saw this pileated woodpecker while walking along Sheepscot Lake on February 18.
PHOTO: Champions
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
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
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
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!
Sarah Sanchez, of Washington, photographed this red fox well camouflaged in the woods.
Malcolm Glidden American Legion Post members place wreaths on veterans’ graves
Pictured, left to right, Duane Alexander, Post Commander Paul Hunter, and Joe LaMacchia, lay a wreath at a veteran’s grave. (Contributed photo)
Malcolm Glidden Post #163 and Auxiliary, of Palermo, spent Saturday, December 14, putting wreaths at veterans’ headstones at local cemeteries. The wreaths came from Wreaths Across America. They were honored to do this service for the veterans at Christmas. They placed wreaths for veterans from the War of 1812, Civil War, WWI, WWII, and all the way to veterans who stood guard during times of peace.
Malcolm Glidden American Legion Post #163 Auxiliary President Chelsea Hunter, left, and Commander Paul Hunter, place a wreath. (Contributed photo)