Week of January 10, 2019
Erskine tops school spirit challenge, again
The WGME13/Fox23’s School Spirit Challenge Tournament of Champions is designed to promote the school community and good stewardship with students of high schools in central and southern Maine through an eight-week food drive to benefit the Good Shepherd Food Bank and local food pantries. Erskine raised a record-breaking 196,969.25 pounds of food, which is over twice the amount that any of the 60-plus competing schools has raised in the five years and ten seasons of this competition…
Your Local News
Manager meets with four committee chairmen
CHINA — Town Manager Heath said his goal was to find out whether any committee chairman anticipated unusual or special expenditures during the next fiscal year. None did…
China planning board reschedules meeting
CHINA — The China Planning Board’s Jan. 8 meeting was canceled due to weather conditions. The board is scheduled to meet Tuesday evening, Jan. 15, to finish proposed ordinance amendments to be submitted to voters at the April 6 town business meeting…
Where are they now? Oakland’s Nick Mayo integral part of Eastern Kentucky basketball
OAKLAND — Eastern Kentucky University men’s basketball has high hopes of making it back to the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament this year, in no small part thanks to the skills of Senior forward Nick Mayo…
Dinner and a movie returns to community center
PALERMO — The feedback we’ve gotten has ranged from “It’s depressing” to “We know all that.” Can you imagine how hard it is to find intentionally funny documentaries? Well, we found some…
WGN no longer available on Spectrum cable
CENTRAL ME — On Wednesday, January 2, 2019, WGN America and all associated Video On Demand content was no longer be available to Spectrum customers…
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School News
Erskine Academy parent/teacher conferences
CHINA — Erskine Academy has scheduled Parent/Teacher Conferences on Wednesday, January 16, from 3 to 7 p.m., (snow date will be Thursday, January 17)…
Area residents graduate from UNH
The University of Hampshire, in Durham, New Hampshire, has announced the following area students who graduated in May 2018. Rebecca Grenier, of South China, BS in BiomedSci:Med & VetSci, Cum Laude, and Bayleigh Logan, of Windsor, BS in Health Management & Policy…
CMYHA Tier III Peewee travel hockey team
CENTRAL ME — Members of the Central Maine Youth Hockey Association PeeWee Tier III travel team (photo)…
CMYHA Tier III Squirt travel team
CENTRAL ME — Members of the Central Maine Youth Hockey Association Squirt Tier III travel team (photo)…
CMYHA Tier IV Squirt travel team
CENTRAL ME — Members of the Central Maine Youth Hockey Association Squirt Tier IV travel team (photo)…
Winslow grades 1-3 cheerleading squad
WINSLOW — Members of the Winslow Youth cheerleaders for grade 1-3 (open)…
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
VASSALBORO — The Sew for a Cause group made 21 baby quilts, six dozen pillowcases, 10 full size quilts, seven lap quilts, a dozen pajama bottoms, 32 hairnets that were donated to Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter, in Waterville, Newborns in Need, and Cabin in the Woods…
Obituaries
ALBION – Virginia Lorraine (Whynott) Dow, 96, longtime Albion resident, died on Sunday, December 30, 2018, at Maine General Medical Center, in Augusta, following a brief hospitalization. Virginia was born on October 1, 1922, in Portland… and remembering 8 others…
Town Line Original Columnists
SCORES & OUTDOORS
by Roland D. Hallee | A week ago, Jayne Winters, of South China, sent along some excellent photos of a red fox that has been visiting her property recently…
REVIEW POTPOURRI
by Peter Cates | Bach’s St. Matthew Passion is roughly three hours long but contains incomparable stretches of beauty in its arias, choruses and instrumental writing…
VETERAN’S CORNER
by Gary Kennedy | I have received many replies to recent articles regarding VA and VA benefits. Some inquires relate to the specific disabilities and their compensability. The most common inquiries are related to such problems as hearing loss and what is referred to as ringing in the ears (Tinnitus)…
I’M JUST CURIOUS
by Debbie Walker | Tonight I am going to share a poem that I wrote and one that I found years ago. I find it and I lose it, I find it and I lose it. While it is in the ‘found’ mode I would like to share it with you…
SOLON & BEYOND
by Marilyn Rogers-Bull & Percy | Solon Elementary School held a Secret Santa activity again this Christmas. Students and staff members drew names and each one designed a tree ornament for the person whose name he/she selected….
FOR YOUR HEALTH
(NAPSI) — The Stanford Center on Longevity’s 2018 “Sightlines Report” found that baby boomers have accumulated less household wealth and carry more debt in comparison to previous generations of American retirees…