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The Polar Plunge is a large statewide fundraiser for Special Olympics, with the Ottertail location added in 2020. Thus far, the fundraising goals have been blown out of the water with this year’s goal of $65,000 passed to $70,401 as of Monday. A total of $186,080 was raised over the previous two years. ....
Indie Film: SMCC’s student film fest returns bigger and better This year s Maine Mayhem also includes the best of last year s class, whose festival was canceled because of the pandemic. By Dennis Perkins Share A scene from “Late Nights,” about a mild-mannered family man who splits his time between daytime construction worker and nighttime enforcer for the mob. Photo courtesy of Corey Norman Everybody loves a good comeback story. And while Maine Mayhem might be the name of a Maine-based women’s football team (go Mayhem!), we’re talking about the 2021 return of the original Maine Mayhem here in Indie Film. ....
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 Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer Were it not for the coronavirus pandemic, Noble High senior Josh Cote would have had the chance to become the first four-time state champion in the school’s distinguished wrestling history. Instead, he’s annoyed and frustrated by the state’s unwillingness to try to put together a wrestling season – especially because a few miles from the North Berwick school, the wrestling season is already underway. ....
in the past couple of years. What sets the songs on the EP apart from the material you previously released? Sam: We really tried not to put any pressure on the creation process for ourselves for this EP. We wanted to have as little creative barriers as possible and really just let the ideas flow no matter how weird or out there they might have been. I think that really allowed us to explore another side of our creativity that we had never tapped into. Just going for whatever idea we felt rather than over analyzing and judging every bit of it (which is still a work in progress). That was a really pivotal moment for us in the making of this EP. ....