Sports Notes

Eight Sanford Mainers earned All-NECBL honors this season. Photo: Madison Giltner Photography By Sam Bonsey Several Sanford Mainers selected to All-NECBL teams Eight Sanford Mainers received All-NECBL honors for the 2024 season. Connor Ball, Colin Barczi, and C.J. Willis earned All-NECBL First Team honors, while Bijan Anvar, Devan Bade, and Tommy Ellison made the second team. Caleb Shpur and Jared Davis were named Honorable Mentions. Ball was also recently named the Robin Roberts Top Starting Pitcher. He had a 1.89…
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Passages

Compiled by Rev. Susan Murphy Nancy L. Junkins, 75, of Sanford, died peacefully at her home on Aug. 16, 2024. Nancy was born in Biddeford on April 26, 1949, the daughter of Walter and Maxine Lozowski. She was raised in Alfred and after graduating from high school, she married her high school sweetheart, Edward MacLellan. Together they welcomed Amy into their family. Nancy would lose Edward to cancer in 1979. She then married Garry Junkins in 1982, and they shared…
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Guerrero Maya

Brother and sister Antonio and Lusmy Zavaleta operate Guerrero Maya in Sanford. Photo: Gail Burnett Spicing up the Sanford Restaurant Scene By Gail Burnett Before he opened Guerrero Maya on School Street in early July, Antonio Zavaleta was a little concerned about how quiet downtown Sanford seemed to be. Would there be enough traffic to keep his new Mexican restaurant busy? It turned out he didn’t have to worry. Diners found their way to the former Back Street Sanford (originally…
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Out in the Woods

"Interruptions” along a fern’s blades can hold the fern’s spore-producing reproductive parts, or sori. The Complex Reproductive Lives of Ferns A colony of hay scented fern. The inset shows the fern’s sori, holding its reproductive spores. Photo Credits: K. McKeon By Kevin McKeon, Maine Master Naturalist Various kinds of ferns grow along our wonderful trails. Some reveal their reproductive parts on their leaves. With others, you have to look a little closer. Let's start by describing the various parts of…
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Public Safety Update: Shooting, Fire/EMS Stats

By Zendelle Bouchard Sanford Police Department Shooting Incident: The SPD is investigating multiple reports of gunshots in the area of Bodwell Street late at night on Tuesday, Aug. 20. Officers immediately responded to the area. The initial investigation did not reveal any victims or injuries, but a pane of glass in the School Street bus shelter was shattered, and shell casings were found nearby. Detectives from the SPD’s Criminal Investigation Division were still on scene Wednesday morning and are following…
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