Dewey DeWitt has interviewed the likes of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon during a broadcasting career in Aroostook County that has spanned nearly seven decades and continues beyond his 97th birthday, which he observed Saturday.
When William L. Findlen died in Fort Fairfield on Jan. 8 at age 89, the loss was felt not only among his immediate family but throughout a larger Aroostook County community that included the Caribou High School boys basketball team.
The Caribou boys basketball team ended a 50-year state championship drought in grand style Saturday, outlasting Cape Elizabeth 49-47 in double overtime to win the Class B crown at the Cross Insurance Arena.
Three players who led their teams to regional championships head up the 2019 Bangor Daily News North regional all-tournament boys basketball teams for Classes B, C and D.
Keegan Gentle scored 18 points and senior guard Nolan Porter added 14 as No. 4 Houlton knocked off three-time defending state champion George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill 54-34 in Saturday night’s Class C North boys basketball final at the Cross Insurance Center.
Mike Thurston’s game-ending shot from beyond halfcourt against Westbrook in the 1969 Class LL state final not only earned the Caribou boys basketball team its first gold ball but has endured as one of the most memorable moments in Maine sports history. Fifty years later, the modern-day Vikings will have the opportunity to capture gold ball No. 2.
When Cliff Urquhart and Ben Maloney needed advice before last year’s Class D basketball state finals, help was only a speed dial away.
The Central Aroostook of Mars Hill cheering squad not only maintained its status as the the state’s best Class D cheering squad Saturday, but did so in record-setting fashion at the Augusta Civic Center.
John Donato’s relationship with Maine high school basketball dates back to his own interscholastic upbringing in Middleborough, Massachusetts, back in the 1960s.
A team with a first-year coach, a relatively young lineup and a new offensive system may seem an unlikely candidate to sit atop the Class B North boys basketball standings with a week left in the regular season.
