Maine Center

Ski Maine Team express ready to roll sunjournal.com/story/247241-3/LocalSports/Ski_Maine_Team_express_ready_to_roll/
Next weekend, a team of eight skiers and riders will do a lot of driving for a little skiing over four days. The Maine Peak-to-Peak Challenge will start at Spruce Mountain in Jay at 2 p.m. next Friday.

UMBC misses shot at end, falls to Maine ; baltimoresun.com/sports/college/basketball/mens/bal-sp.umbc13jan13,0,7071313.story?track=rss
Phil Tchekane Bofia scored a career-high 21 points, Brian Andre added 14, and Maine ended a six-game losing streak with a 77-74 victory over host UMBC last night.

Maine shipyard seeks to build better patrol boat for special ops seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080113/NEWS/801130349
BOOTHBAY, Maine Navy SEALs are tough guys by nature but they take a beating from their patrol boats: bruises, bumps and sore backs, even sprained ankles and chipped teeth.

The Lewiston
BU 3, Maine 1 sunjournal.com/story/247244-3/LocalSports/BU_3_Maine_1/
ORONO - Bryan Ewing had a goal and an assist, and Pete MacArthur contributed three assists as Boston University posted a 3-1 win over Maine Saturday night at Alfond Arena.

Bar Harbor
Hospital buying Maine Street Motel mainecoastnow.com/articles/2008/01/13/bar_harbor_times/local_news/doc47850165b32a8747256193.txt
With the purchase on Wednesday of the Maine Street Motel in Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island Hospital has taken what it says is another step to alleviate its growing need for clinical and administrative space as well as space for parking.

Camden
Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport fined $4.5K mainecoastnow.com/articles/2008/01/13/camden_herald/local_news/doc476927dac81f6111504523.txt
ROCKPORT The state is imposing a $4,500 fine on the Maine Media Workshops organization for violations of chemical use and storage rules, infractions that were discovered during an inspection carried out in November 2006.

Camden Herald, Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:38 PM PST
State cites Rockport-based Down East magazine about low Maine crime rate mainecoastnow.com/articles/2008/01/13/camden_herald/local_news/doc47668b55caa11053088619.txt
ROCKPORT Ã¢â‚¬Â" The Maine Department of Public safety is quoting an article in the current edition of Down East magazine, which claims that Maine had the lowest crime rate in the country in 2006.

An American Odyssey: Travel writer visits the big 5-0 on the New Hampshire-Maine border miamiherald.com/living/travel/story/372721.html
Even from the air, I could see that Boston was different in ways I hadn't imagined. I was 17 and on my first trip outside California. As the plane descended, I was startled by how dirty the historic old buildings were. In my hometown of Los Angeles, the buildings were not old enough to have picked up grime.

PBS show investigates coin possibly shot by Annie Oakley contracostatimes.com/ci_7960657?source=rss
CODY, Wyo. -- A television crew was in Cody recently to investigate whether an 1853 French Napoleon coin may have been shot by Annie Oakley. The coin belongs to Meadow Merrill, a freelance writer from Bath, Maine, and belonged to one of her great uncles, who played in Buffalo Bill's Wild West

Maine skiing

13 January, 2008