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Friday, March 3, 2017
Volume 13 • Issue No. 9
Wells Wrestling Season and State Champ Class B Winners WELLS Wells Warriors Wrestling team has won the Class B State Championships! Under the coaching of Scott Lewia and Jim Worthing, the wrestling team claimed many titles this year, including their fourth consecutive win of the Hammerhead Duels in York and also winning the Mid-State Tournament hosted at Lisbon High School where Coach Lewia won Coach of the Year for the second year in a row. They won Class B Regionals at Wells High School and the Class B State Championship in Buckport. The Wells Wrestling team was welcomed back to town on
Class B State Champions Wells Wrestling Team and members of the school administration, Principal Eileen Sheehy and Vice Principal Joshua Gould).
Saturday, February 18 by the Wells Police, Fire and Rescue
Departments with a parade from the turnpike exit, to Ogunquit
and back to the High School. Highlights of the team's record follows: Team record was 27-3 (best ever at Wells HS): Team won – Sullivan Duels, Hammerhead Duels, Mid State League Championships, Class B South Regionals, Class B Maine State Championships, first time since 1996 winning Class B States, and first time since 1988 winning the League, Regionals, and States in the same year. Regional Place Winners (most ever for Wells HS): 106 Caden Gibson 3rd, 113 Ryan Norton 1st, 120 Devin Bickford 2nd, 126 Josh Burgess 4th, 132 Cullen Cummings 2nd, 138
Caleb Chase 2nd, 152 Drew Peters 3rd, 160 Nathan Curtis 4th, 170 Michael Wrigley 1st, 195 Nolan Potter 1st, 220 Sean McCormack-Kuhman 2nd, 285 Brendan Dean 3rd. State Place Winners: 113 Ryan Norton 3rd, 132 Cullen Cummings 3rd, 138 Caleb chase 4th, 152 Drew Peters 4th, 170 Michael Wrigley 2nd, 195 Nolan Potter Champion Undefeated 48-0, 220 Sean McCormack-Kuhman 3rd. All 12 wrestlers at the State Meet had a winning record with 20 or more wins. Michael Wrigley and Sean McCormack-KuhSee CHAMPS page 34...
Historian Tells of USS Squalus Submarine Rescue BERWICK Historian and tour guide David Ramsay will tell the story of the sinking, rescue and recovery of the USS Squalus submarine (SS-192), the most famous submarine rescue in US Naval history, at the Berwick Public Library on Wednesday, March
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8, at 6 p.m. On the morning of May 23, 1939, on a sea trial, the submarine USS Squalus sank to the ocean floor nine miles off the New Hampshire coast. During a maneuver, a valve failed causing the flooding of the aft torpedo room, both engine rooms, and the crew's quarters, drowning 26 men immediately. Quick action by the crew prevented the other compartments from flooding. For the 33 survivors who were trapped, it would mark a 39-hour ordeal they would live
The bow of the USS Squalus (SS-192) comes to the surface in the first effort to refloat the sunken submarine, off the New Hampshire coast during the summer of 1939. (Boston Public Library photo)
with for the rest of their lives. A hastily-assembled Navy rescue
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Stepdancers to Perform at OPA OGUNQUIT Irish Stepdancing continues to be a popular and enthusiastic art form for performers and audiences alike. Ogunquit Performing Arts (OPA) celebrates this unique style of dance at this most appropriate time of year, by presenting the renowned Stillson School of Irish Dance on Saturday, March 11, 6:30 p.m., at the Dunaway Center, 23 School Street in Ogunquit. The award-winning Stillson dancers, returning to Ogunquit by popular demand, will perform a brilliant array of jigs and reels, dressed in a variety of dazzling, hand-made costumes. The performance will consist of both the fluid soft shoe style as well as the rhyth-
mic hard shoe popularized by shows such as Riverdance and Lord of the Dance. At the end of the performance, the dancers will invite children and the young at heart to join them onstage to learn or try out some steps. A reception with refreshments will conclude the evening. The Stillson School of Irish Dance is under the direction of the celebrated dancer/ teacher Carlene Moran Stillson ADCRG/ TCRG. She is accredited by Ad Coimisium in Dublin, Ireland and a member of IDTANA (Irish Dancing Teacher’s Association of North America). Carlene has a long tradition of dancing having started at age 4. She has See DANCERS page 14...
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team rushed to New Hampshire. No submarine rescue had ever
succeeded beyond a depth of 20 feet - the Squalus was down 243 feet. Divers from the submarine rescue ship Falcon performed rescue operations under the direction of salvage and rescue expert Lieutenant Commander Charles B. "Swede" Momsen, using the new McCann Rescue Chamber to rescue the surviving crew. The submarine was raised and towed to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in September, 1939.
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