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RANGELEY, ME -- The 3rd Annual Saddleback Mountain Bluegrass Festival will be held at Saddleback Ski Area in Rangeley Maine on August 10 and 11. It is an outside event for the whole family to enjoy. The stage is set up on the front deck of the lodge and the audience seating is in a natural amphitheater on the lawn and slope above, with views of the lakes and mountains. In each of the first two years a crowd of nearly 2000 came to listen, dance, camp and en...

Weekend also kicks off start of three new summer-long mountain activities: a bungee trampoline, 9-hole disc golf course and mountain bike skills park Newry, Maine (July 10, 2012)—Sum...

Four-season resort will celebrate opening for summer with table-top yard sale Newry, ME (May 23, 2012)-As part of its summer opening weekend, Sunday River Resort will be hosting Western Maine's Largest Yard Sale in the South Ridge Base Area on Saturday, June 30, 2012, the day after the resort officially opens its doors for summer activities. "All skiers love a good yard sale," Caroline Ochtera, Marketing & Events Manager at Sunday River, says, referr...

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine - The Sugarloaf Golf Club, Maine's premier golf course, will kick off its 27th season on Friday, May 25. Sugarloaf is the number one golf course in Maine, according to Golf Digest's most recent course rankings. The course will host its annual "Memorial Day Scramble" on Saturday and Sunday, May 26-27. In April Sugarloaf announced that 7-time Maine Amateur Champion and Maine Golf Hall of Fame member Abby Spector will join the clu...

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (April 30, 2012) - The Sugarloaf Golf Club announced today that Maine golf legend Abby Spector, a seven-time Maine Women's Amateur Golf Champion and a member of the Maine Golf Hall of Fame, will join the Club as Head Golf Professional. Spector will beco...

Outdoor Retailer Returns to Maine Mall Area, Grand Opening Celebration May 11-13, 2012 SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Eastern Mountain Sports, one of the nation's largest outdoor retailers, will host a grand opening of a new store in South Portland, ME on May 11-13. Located next to Toys R Us across from the Maine Mall, the 20,442 square foot space triples the company's presence in the Portland market where the Marginal Way store has be...

RANGELEY, ME -- Governor Paul LePage presented Saddleback Ski Resort with a 2012 Governor's Award for Business Excellence during a reception held today at the Statehouse Hall of Flags in Augusta. The 22nd annual awards, administered by the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) and sponsored by Fairpoint Communications, recognize companies that demonstrate a high level of commitment to their community, employees and to manufacturing...

Resort to purchase 300 high-efficiency snow guns from Snow Economics / HKD Snowmakers CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (May 22, 2012) - Following a winter with one of the lowest snow totals in recent memory, Sugarloaf announced today that it will invest $1 million in new low-energy snowguns this summer. The new technology is expected to improve the resort's ability to make snow in key areas and at warmer temperatures, while simultaneously reducing its electrici...

Judson Cake and Cote Marie-Caro take 15k titles CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (May 20, 2012) - Blowing away a record-breaking field of 746 runners, 30 year-old Evan Graves from Caribou, Maine won the 30th Annual Sugarloaf Marathon today in 2 hours, 33 minutes, and six seconds. Thirty-three year-old Meredith Freimer from Portland, Maine took home the women's title with a time of 3:07:59. Graves finished nearly ten minutes ahead of his closest compet...