Consecutive Championships School No. Year Old Town (Boys) 14 1985-1998 Old Town (Girls) 6 1992-1997 Mt Desert (Boys) 6 2004-2009 Bangor (Boys) 6 2007-2012 Cheverus (Boys) 7 2013-2019 BOYS GIRLS YR Class A Class B Class A Class B 1961 Brunswick 1962 Portland 1963 Portland 1969 Portland 1970 Portland 1971 Bangor 1972 Bangor 1973 Bangor…
Cross Country is the sport of long-distance running over paths or open country. High school courses are usually several miles in length. Runners are sometimes call “harriers,” after a hound that was used to chase hares in Britain. Class D made a brief appearance in 1982 and 1983; then again from 1993 through 2004, after…
Cross Country is the sport of long-distance running over paths or open country. High school courses are usually several miles in length. Runners are sometimes call “harriers,” after a hound that was used to chase hares in Britain. Class D made a brief appearance in 1982 and 1983; then again from 1993 through 2004, after…
Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby (1854-1946) was born in Phillips on November 10, 1854. As a recent account of her life is subtitled, she was “The Woman Who Marketed Maine.” After her father died and then her brother, she lived with her mother until attending St. Catherine’s School, an Episcopal girls’ school in Augusta. After graduating,…
Consecutive Championships School No. Years Monmouth 5 1998-2002 C. Aroostook 5 2008-2012 Year Class A Class B Class C Class D 1987 Bonny Eagle Bucksport Central Aroostook Deer-Isle 1988 Bonny Eagle Bucksport Central Aroostook Deer-Isle 1989 Windham Bucksport Central Aroostook Shead 1990 Brunswick Marshwood Washington Academy Central Aroostook 1991 Lewiston Bucksport Traip Academy Shead 1992…
Since the demise of textile and shoe manufacturing, Brunswick has become a service center for the region and a residential community for commuters to the greater Portland area. With Bowdoin College, Maine State Music Theater, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Pejepscot Historical Society, and many historic buildings, it is a powerful cultural magnet. AMTRAK service to Boston resumed in 2012. The town has a 66 mile ocean shoreline and 12 miles along the Androscoggin River.
Girls Consecutive Wins ending in the year noted: School No. Year Camden 87 1954 Eliot 78 1962 Gorham 77 1981 Westbrook 76 1982 New Gloucester 76 1950 Sherman 75 1967 Girls Consecutive Championships School No. Years Westbrook 4 1978-1981 Gorham 4 1978-1981 Lawrence 4 1991-1994 McAuley 4 2011-2015 According…
Year Class L & A Class B Class M & C Class D 1922 South Portland 1923 Bangor 1924 Biddeford & Northeast Harbor* 1925 Westbrook 1926 South Portland & Bangor* 1927 Westbrook 1928 South Portland Boys Consecutive Wins Final Year 1929 South Portland School Wins Year 1930 Cheverus Valley…
Players Born in Maine Cuke Barrows, Gray 1909-1912 Del Bissonette, Winthrop 1928-1933 Clarence Blethen, Dover-Foxcroft [P] 1923-1929 Ralph Botting, Houlton [P] 1979-1980 Don Brennan, Augusta [P] 1933-1937 Rip Cannell, South Bridgton 1904-1905 Bill Carrigan, Lewiston 1906-1916 Wally Clement, Auburn 1908-1909 Bobby Coombs, Goodwins Mills* [P] 1933-1943 Danny Coombs, Lincoln [P] 1963-1971 John Cumberland, Westbrook [P]…
November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1804 Birth date in New Hampshire of President Franklin Pierce, Bowdoin College graduate and close friend of Nathaniel Hawthorn, a fellow Bowdoin graduate. 2000…
November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1892 First publication of the newspaper Saturday Sun in Portland, published by Libby & Smith. 1897 First publication of the newspaper Daily News in…
November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1755 Earthquake hits Maine at 4:15 AM, possibly the strongest quake ever. 1805 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee’s home in Wiscasset, organizes…
November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Veterans Day, once called Armistice Day commemorating the end of World War I, in which 35,061 Maine soldiers served and 1,026 died. 1811 Birth…
November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty settling the boundary dispute with England was proclaimed as official, having been ratified by the U. S. and Great Britain. 1854…
October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1832 First publication of the newspaper the National Republican in Saco published by Dow & Marble. 1871 Birth date on Indian Island of…
October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1768 Birth date of Joshua Hall of Frankfort, legislator and Governor of Maine in 1830, elected by the Legislature after 49 ballots. 1883…
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1860 The plantation of Stacyville is legally organized 1970 U.S. Congress member John Lynch, who was born in Portland and served in the…
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1779 Forty vessels leave Boston for Penobscot Bay on the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition to remove the British from that region. 1889 Cornelia Crosby,…
March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1835 Incorporation of the town of Otis 1836 Incorporation of the towns of Amity and Linneus 1839 Incorporation of the town of Argyle…
March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1788 Birth date in New Hampshire of Governor (1831-1834) and judge Samuel E. Smith of Wiscasset, a Democrat. 1806 …