Ben Pinette

Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel sports writers nominate high school athletes from the prior week’s games.
Readers vote for their top choice and the winner will be announced in the newspapers the following Saturday all season long!

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Central Maine Athlete of the Week: Week 12

March 2, 1979: Ironworkers on strike at Augusta steel plant, Maine senate votes for ban of smoking at public meetings in the state, and the oil squeeze last month is real here in central Maine

March 1, 1988: Central Maine boasts 4 leap-year babies, Jesse Jackson ‘throw-away’ votes look pretty good here, and a state official blows whistle on satanists

Feb. 28, 1996: ‘Blacks remain biggest target of bias crimes’, Vassalboro school property sale to be discussed tonight, and the Manchester post office goes mobile… literally.

Feb. 27, 1981: Ice fishing season ends on very unseasonable note, 1 local burglary solved as another is probed, and Waterville high school parents sent immunization program packets

Feb. 26, 1982: Bill would allow trappers to shoot dogs; at the same time, Gardiner toughens its policy on unleashed dogs, and are women working for less?

Feb. 25, 1991: Crash injures 2 Oakland police officers, Colby College goes yellow in a big way, and town of Belgrade to vote on mining rules

Feb. 24, 1972: State police capture three young men from Readfield after break-in, state to issue ‘retro’ checks, and a potential 20 percent social security benefit increase in talks in Washington D.C.

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