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.

Foxcroft Academy has been chosen to be one of the sites to host the 2018 Maine-Nebraska Wrestling Exchange. The school will be hosting this wrestling event at 5 p.m. on Friday, July 13.

Nearly 70 runners took part in the annual 5K road race to start the 2018 Fourth of July festivities in Sebec Village.

The Foxcroft Youth Track program took part in a USATF Maine Group D meet on July 6 at Old Town High School with the following team members placing in the top 20 in their respective event

A record-high number 27 boats took to the water across about two dozen different classes during the annual Sebec Fourth of July canoe race held mid-morning on Sebec Lake as part of the holiday festivities in the village.

Cancer patients and their families in central Maine will be the winners when the eighth annual Central Maine Field Hockey Battle for Breast Cancer Tournament takes place July 21 at Thomas College in Waterville.

A former Foxcroft Academy soccer star is again helping dozens of young players in kindergarten through grade 8 improve their skills on the pitch through his annual Ayala Soccer Academy. The third annual camp run by 2016 Foxcroft Academy graduate Tino Ayala was held in Dover-Foxcroft from June 25-29.