Foxcroft Academy is pleased to announce the 2018 inductees into the Foxcroft Academy Athletic Hall of Fame. Started in 2011, the Athletic Hall of Fame has grown to 50 former Foxcroft Academy student athletes, coaches and contributors.

For the last 22 years Foxcroft Academy graduates, community members and visitors to the region have been able to kick off the Saturday of Foxcroft Academy Alumni Weekend/Dover-Foxcroft Shiretown Homecoming by running in the Pony Pride 5K.

Members of the Foxcroft Youth Track program took part in the Group D Maine USATF 15 & Under Regional Qualifier on Aug. 2 at the Brewer Community Track.

University of Maine redshirt sophomore receiver and 2016 Foxcroft Academy graduate Hunter Smith tries to get around teammate Ernest Simon for the football during the Black Bears’ first practice of the season in Orono on Wednesday, Aug. 1.

Friends of Community Fitness held its 13th annual Fitness 5K, as part of the Piscataquis River Festival, on the morning of July 28 with the following results (again this year entrants ran the course in Guilford and Sangerville against traffic).

The Foxcroft Youth Track program took part in a USATF Maine Group D meet on July 27 at the Brewer Community School.

Contributed photoSLATE MAN TRIATHLETES — As part of the Monson Summer Festival, the annual Monson Slate Man Mini-Tri (run, kayak and bike) was held on July 21.

In conjunction with Foxcroft Academy’s Alumni Weekend and the Dover-Foxcroft Shiretown Homecoming, the 22nd annual Pony Pride will be open to all and run at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 4. For the third year in a row, the event is starting and ending on the campus of Foxcroft Academy.

For many Mainers, “going fishing” means heading to camp, hopping on a boat and heading out on a busy lake or pond.

The underdog East squad used big plays to break open a first-half defensive struggle and go on to a 40-14 victory over the West in the 29th annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic football all-star game at Hill Stadium on Saturday.

A new season is fast approaching with the start of preseason practices less than a month away, but first comes a final punctuation point on the 2017 campaign when the top seniors from last fall clash Saturday in the 29th annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic, which benefits the Shriners Hospitals for Children of North America, at Hill Stadium on the campus of Thornton Academy in Saco.

The Foxcroft Youth Track program took part in a USATF Maine Group D meet on July 19 at the Brewer Community School.

I’ve seen a few Allagash Wilderness Waterway canoe trips get cut short because people were ill prepared for black flies. A couple years ago, we had two young women that started their trip at Chamberlain Bridge who were desperate to get out of the waterway by the time they got to Churchill Dam.

The motivation for nearly 90 recent high school graduates to sacrifice a midsummer week to participate in the Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic takes on several forms.

The lineup for the Sept. 8 New England Fights “Wicked Season” mixed martial arts card at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor is beginning to take shape with several local fighters already set to compete.

The Foxcroft Youth Track program took part in a USATF Maine Group D meet on July 12 at Old Town High School.

Applications for 2018 any-deer (antlerless) permit lottery are now available online from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. To apply visit www.mefishwildlife.com. Online applications are due by 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 15.

If any of you frequent the East Outlet Dam on the East Outlet of the Kennebec River, you’ve probably seen IFW Fisheries biologists sending coworkers and assistants down into a fishway and netting up fish to collect data. This is known as the East Outlet Fishway trap.