Ogunquit organization creates scholarship to honor longtime track coach, teacher Share Updated: 6:30 PM EDT Apr 23, 2021 Share Updated: 6:30 PM EDT Apr 23, 2021
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Show Transcript SORTS FROM OGUNQUIT - AND HE S THIS WEEK S COMMUNITY CHAMPION... -NATS OF ANNOUNCEMENT AT TOWN MEETING - THE SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCED AT OGUNQUIT S APRIL TOWN MEETING. NATS- AND NOBODY WAS MORE SURPRISED OR MORE TAKEN ABACK THAN BOB WINN HIMSELF. (13-03-51) (BOB WINN/FORMER WELLS TRACK COACH) VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT, VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT BUT LITTLE BIT OF THAT EMOTIONAL EMBARRASMENT. WINN HAS SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE IN OGUNQUIT - RENOWNED THROUGHOUT TOWN ON SO MANY FRONTS. AN ELITE RUNNER,, HE S A MEMBER OF THE MAINE RUNNERS HALL OF FAME,, A TRACK COACH AND TEACHER AT WELLS HIGH HE SPENT NEARLY 40 YEARS THERE,, AND HIS VOLUNTEER SERVICE TO COMMUNITY IS UNPARALLED. (12-57-20)(WINN) AS FAR AS DESERVING, IT S HARD F
There’s an influx of new high school coaches this spring
With the 2020 season wiped out, many coaches in southern Maine have been waiting more than a year to get going.
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Yarmouth s new boys lacrosse coach, Jon Miller, gives instructions to Ollie Prinn during practice on Thursday. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer
Yarmouth High boys’ lacrosse coach Jon Miller admits he was getting anxious before the Clippers’ first practice on Monday.
After all, it had been more than a year since Miller had been hired as the new varsity coach, and he still hadn’t been with his team in person. He was supposed to take over for David Pearl and try to guide Yarmouth to a second consecutive Class B championship. Instead, the coronavirus pandemic wiped out the 2020 spring season. So Miller, a former standout player at Yarmouth (2004 graduate) and an assistant coach since 2015, was stuck in neutral.
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I.J. Pinkham,former BRHS boys varsity basketball coach, was recently inducted in the Maine Principals’ Association’s “Hall of Excellence.” File photo
As a Maine high school basketball coach, I.J. Pinkham had a long list of accomplishments in his 49 years patrolling the hardwood. Pinkham’s teams won 659 games, more than any other Maine high schoolboys’ basketball coach. His 2001, his Boothbay Seahawks won the Class C State championship. Another achievement arrived in 2016, when he was inducted to the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame. On Feb. 25, Pinkham added another achievement to his lengthy list. Pinkham and 10 others were inducted to the Maine Principals’ Association “Hall of Excellence” via an online ceremony.
Greg Stump online film streaming fundraiser to benefit Denmark Arts Center
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Denmark Arts Center is celebrating the end of the Weirdest Ski Season EVAH from March 4-7, by paying homage to the legendary ski filmmaker Greg Stump.
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Denmark Arts Center is celebrating the end of the Weirdest Ski Season EVAH from March 4-7, by paying homage to the legendary ski filmmaker Greg Stump with an online Ski-Stump filmFEST. Thirty years of ski film history roll out before your eyes with the US SKI & State of Maine Hall of Fame skier and extreme ski films creator in a Ski-Stump filmFEST.
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Center Court Rewind: In 1995 and ’96, the Cony girls spent two years on a mission
After being denied by Lawrence, the Rams got their shot and took the state by storm.
Paul Vachon had to laugh.
The topic was his Cony girls basketball teams from 1994-95 and 95-96, the question was whether he and his players could detect the animosity from the crowds in front of which they played, and Vachon chuckled as if he can still hear the noise.
“That’s an understatement,” he said. “Did I sense it? Oh my God, did I sense it. And what we would do is basically say ‘girls, let’s just play. They don’t know what we’ve gone through. They don’t know the hard practices we’ve had. They don’t know the pressure we’ve been under.