DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — Tim Brewer is game planning for a lot of unfamiliar opponents this winter, his first as head coach of the Houlton High School boys basketball team.

It’s time to kick 2016 out the door and start a new year.

DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — After struggling to fend off Foxcroft Academy’s formidable front line for more than a half Thursday afternoon, the Houlton girls basketball team turned up the intensity and surged past the Ponies 60-47.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — After coming back from a 19-point deficit in the second quarter and trailing by 15 to start the third, the Foxcroft girls were able to tie the score at 39 points apiece early in the final eight minutes of a Dec.

Anglers looking for early season action in the Moosehead Lake region should target smaller, shallow waters that tend to freeze early.

DEXTER — The Dexter Regional High School football team, which reached the conference championship game for the first time in a quarter century, had a number of players named to the Little Ten Conference (LTC) All-Star Team.

FORT KENT — Temperatures hovered around zero while students from six northern Maine high schools competed in an afternoon of alpine ski racing at Lonesome Pine Trails in Fort Kent on Saturday, December 17.

The Piscataquis of Guilford boys basketball team figured to have one of the most demanding starts to the new season of any team in Class C North.

ORONO — The Foxcroft Academy indoor track and field team kicked off the 2016-17 season on Dec.

MILO — The Penquis Valley High School girls jumped out to an early lead, being ahead 12-6 after a quarter of play, and never looked back to defeat Greenville High School, 42-19, in a mutual 2016-17 opener on Dec.

The George Stevens Academy boys basketball team relied on a talented crop of young players to claim the Blue Hill school’s first state championship in more than a decade last winter.

MILLINOCKET — A number of runners from the area headed north on Saturday to run in the Millinocket Half-Marathon and Marathon — the races had no entry fees as participants were instead urged to spend their money in the Katahdin region.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Foxcroft Academy Key Club, with assistance from other Division 2 Key Clubs, hosted its fifth annual Reindeer Run 5K during the early afternoon of Dec.

Honestly now, do you ever remember a more magnificent Maine autumn?

MILO — The Milo Fire Department, host of the 55th annual Schoodic Lake Ice Fishing Derby scheduled for Feb.

The Foxcroft Foxcroft Key Club and other Division 2 Key Clubs will present the fifth annual Reindeer Run 5K on Sunday, Dec. 4.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Foxcroft Academy boys soccer team finished the season with a 6-8-2 record.

  Photo courtesy of Joanna Smith FIRST DEER — Joanna Smith got her first deer on Nov.