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.

Contributed photo HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2016 — The 2016 Dexter Regional High School Athletic Hall of Fame inductees were honored at a banquet on Nov.

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PITTSFIELD — Top-seeded Maine Central Institute continued to roll with a 41-0 victory over third seed Dexter Regional High School in the 2016 Class D North/Little Ten Conference (LTC) championship under the lights on Nov.

Three area field hockey players were have been named to the Maine Field Hockey Association All-State Team for their performances during the 2016 season.

On January 24, 1963, a fraternity house at the University of Maine was my home away from home.

PORTLAND — Three first-half goals, including the first two in a span of 27 seconds, helped propel the Bangor Christian School to a 4-1 victory over Greenville High School in the 2016 Class D boys soccer championship on Nov.

The fall offers fisheries biologists a unique opportunity to assess the status of coldwater gamefish populations.