Fresh Powder Comes Around What Goes around, $39,000 N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 7 1 7 From Top: courTesy sea bags sailiNg Team; courTesy phoTos; meaghaN maurice By popular demand, Portland’s new professional hockey team will be called the Maine Mariners, the same moni- ker used by the city’s AHL team from 1977 to 1992. Port- land Hockey LLC held the naming contest, in which over 18,000 cast their vote. Other entries: the Watchmen, the Wild Blueberries, the Lumberjacks, and the Puffins. Paul Holmgren, president of the new team, announced the winner before the Boys & Girls Club of Port- land. “We think it’s a cool and icon- ic name,” Holmgren told the crowd. The Mariners will begin their sea- son in October 2018. Maine recently sailed past the finish line to collect the Jaeger Women’s Trophy at the J/24 World Championship in Mississauga, Canada. The eleven-women team, sponsored by Sea Bags, taped a Wonder Woman figurine to the ship’s transom for luck–and it seemed to do the trick. “Our goal was to be the top,” says Skipper Erica Beck Spencer. “To reach that goal felt surreal.” The Maine Ski Museum in Kingfield has spruced up its gallery space for a grand reopening November 24. learn how skis in the 1930s were made in maine, or examine memorabilia from the Tenth mountain Division of the second World War. The maine ski hall of Fame 2017 inductees will include steve Deangelis, bruce miles, chip cochrane, Karen hunter Korn, ed rock, ralph ostlund, David chamberlain, and Dick Taylor. This blackboard jungle in Abbott could teach you a lesson on homemaking. The 972-square-foot former school- house is on the market for only $39,000. For that, you’ll get hard- wood floors and over 112 years of local history–though no heating, water, or sewage system. Schoolyard Crush V i cto r y o n t h e h i g h S e a S