The weather has been great for fishing over the past couple of weeks. The lakes are warming up, the sun is shining until almost 8 p.m. and the fish are biting. Mainers know that we have good bass fishing, and now the word is spreading.
The Lisbon Left-Hand Club Horseshoe League is off to a great start! We've had two great weeks of weather and the league is off and running. The team I am on, The Rats, went 4 and 2 the first week. What would week two bring?
It's the American Idol Final Four part two, after Ryan Seacrest announced that none of the four contestants would leave last week. Votes from last week will be combined from votes from this week and the person with the lowest amount of votes leaving the show. Let's recap last night.
The annual Special Olympics Summer Games will be held on Thursday, May 2nd at Spruce Mountain High School in Jay. More than 200 developmentally disabled children and adults from all throughout Western Maine are expected to participate.
As the baseball season wraps up its first month, our Boston Red Sox find themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball. I dare say most experts did not see this coming for the Sox. I want to know from Red Sox fans, what do you think of this year's team? Let's break it down and take a closer look.
The New York Jets cut quarterback Tim Tebow on Monday. The decision came just two days after the Jets drafted quarterback Geno Smith from West Virginia University. The Jets already had five quarterbacks on their roster, so the cut wasn't surprising.
They say money can't buy happiness, who exactly are they? I say it sure can't hurt! Starting tomorrow and every weekday in May, except for Memorial Day, you can win $1,000! We'll have two winners each weekday!
The trend of gas prices dropping continued this week. Maine gas prices are down another 3 cents a gallon this week for an average price of $3.50. That's according to the gas price-monitoring website, MaineGasPrices.com.
I write this with a very heavy heart. I learned this morning, that an old friend of mine, Robert Michael Paul Roy, 33, died after a hit-and-run crash on Interstate 10 in Florida this past Sunday morning.
Last year the Augusta City Council voted to close the Bicentennial Nature Park and save about $40,000. That sparked area residents to make sure that didn't happen this year. The Friends of Bicentennial Nature Park is a citizens' group that is working to help reopen the city-owned park.
