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Standoff in Buxton ends peacefully, Route 22 reopened An incident in Buxton led to a police standoff on Long Plains Road Thursday. Michael Landry was arrested. Author: Zach Blanchard (NEWS CENTER Maine), Sean Stackhouse (NEWS CENTER Maine), Chelsea Bard (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 8:55 AM EST March 4, 2021 Updated: 10:54 AM EST March 5, 2021 BUXTON, Maine — A nearly seven-hour standoff on Long Plains Road in Buxton ended with an arrest Thursd...

Standoff in Buxton ends after road closure, school lockdown Michael Landry surrendered peacefully to authorities and is facing a charge of domestic violence aggravated assault. Share An emergency vehicle blocks off Long Plains Road on Thursday, March 4. Buxton police have closed a section of Long Plains Road as they deal with a public safety incident Thursday morning. Staff photo by Brianna Soukup A standoff in Buxton that forced police to close Long Plains Road for more than six hours was pe...

Maine Lives Lost: Barry Leighton, longtime dam operator with passion for hot rods Mr. Leighton, who owned three vintage Chevrolets and rebuilt one himself, died of COVID-19 last month. One in a series of occasional portraits of people COVID-19 has taken from us. Barry Leighton, longtime operator of Central Maine Power’s Bonny Eagle hydro dam on the Saco River, died Feb. 3 from complications of COVID-19. He was 74. Leighton, of Hollis, was remembered Friday for his passion for Chevrolet hot r...

Indoor track: Maine athletes heading to Adidas Indoor Nationals More than a dozen high schoolers from Maine are going to Virginia during a season with few competitive opportunities. Share Scarborough High’s Jayden Flaker, right, won the 55-meter hurdles during the 2020 Class A indoor track championships at the University of Southern Maine. Flaker will compete in the 60-meter hurdles at the Adidas Indoor Nationals this weekend in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Carl D. Walsh/Staff Photographer Mor...

TA girls stay unbeaten at Scarborough’s expense Red Storm fall to 0-4 after a 48-35 loss. 8 of 8 Addisen Sulikowski of Thornton Academy celebrates with teammate Jessica Dow after they connected for a basket during the Trojans 48-35 win Friday in Scarborough. Derek Davis/Staff Photographer TA- 7 15 16 10- 48 S- 8 7 6 14- 35 TA- Dow 5-3-14, Cook 4-4-13, Melendez 3-1-8, Sulikowski 3-1-7, Coleman 1-0-2, Littlefield 1-0-2, Ney 1-0-2 S- Conley 4-2-10, Foley 3-1-9, Harris 2-0-4, Hartley 2-0-4, U. D...

High school wrestlers in Maine bitter about lost opportunities The vast majority of states are offering interscholastic wrestling this winter, but Maine wrestlers cannot even scrimmage against teammates during practices because of pandemic safety precautions. Share Since his freshman year, Noble High’s Josh Cote had set a goal of becoming the first four-time state champion in the school’s historic program. Now a senior, he won’t get the chance because of the coronavirus pandemic. Shawn ...

Read Article Members of the Portland/Deering girls’ hockey team run drills at Troubh Ice Arena in Portland on Dec. 10. By late December, Cumberland County had been designated “yellow,” forcing high school teams halt all in-person activities. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer The Maine Principals’ Association on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to schools located in “yellow” counties to begin practicing immediately with games to follow, making the decision a local matter and p...

Read Article Registered nurse Debbie Brenton injects Bonny Eagle Middle School nurse Donna Jordan with the Modern COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday at the Northern Light Homecare and Hospice vaccine clinic in South Portland. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer For school nurse Donna Jordan, the moment she had been preparing for all summer and fall finally arrived on a Friday afternoon in early November. It was a remote learning day and Jordan, like other staff at Bonny Eagle Middle School in Buxton, ...

COVID-19 outbreaks on the rise at area schools The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention has designated two more schools as open outbreak sites, in addition to two open investigations at other schools in the Lakes Region. Share LAKES REGION — Two more schools are under investigation by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention for open outbreaks and one district has gone fully remote until January as the number of COVID-19 cases in schools and towns across the region cont...

First COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Maine ELLSWORTH — One thousand nine hundred and fifty Pfizer vaccines against COVID-19 arrived in Maine this morning in “the first of a number of significant steps,” Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Nirav Shah announced Monday. The 1,950 doses were delivered to Mercy Hospital in Portland and Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and should be administered beginning Wednesday. “Collectively, this vaccine ...