Glenn Jordan

Press Herald

Glenn Jordan joined the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram in 1994 to cover the fledgling Portland Sea Dogs. A native of Vermont, he was a philosophy major in college who worked at two newspapers in New Hampshire and one in Connecticut before moving to Maine and settling down. He spent his first two years of marriage living in the keepers quarters of the Portland Head Light and has three children, all of them excellent spellers. In addition to baseball, he has covered nearly every sport played in Maine, from biathlon and curling to running and sailing. You can find him near cross country trails in fall, pools and ski slopes in winter and tennis courts in spring. He also covers the Red Claws, Maine’s D-League basketball affiliate. When not holding a notepad, he finds time for checkers and pickleball.

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Published
June 17, 2012

Dora Anne Mills pays tribute to Benoit

Dora Anne Mills remembers the buzz on the Bowdoin College campus on a spring day in 1979, when fellow student Joan Benoit won the Boston Marathon.
Published
June 9, 2012

Falmouth boys, girls win Class B state tennis titles — again

The Falmouth boys and girls tennis teams repeated as Class B tennis state champions Saturday, each capping another undefeated season with a 5-0 shutout victory.
Published
June 6, 2012

Falmouth boys, girls advance to state tennis finals

Falmouth boys will face Ellsworth in the Class B final and the Falmouth girls will face Waterville. Both are rematches of last year’s state championships.
Published
June 5, 2012

MPA makes changes to tennis tournament schedule

West moves indoors to Portland, East expands into Thursday.
Published
May 17, 2012

Soft-shell lobsters emerging early in season

CAPE ELIZABETH — Lincoln Jordan pulled a rectangular wire basket from a display tank inside the family vegetable stand at Alewive’s Brook Farm Wednesday morning.
Published
May 17, 2012

An unexpected surge in ‘shedders’

Soft-shell lobsters are showing up much earlier than usual in a season that some say is affected by the mild winter and warmer ocean temperatures.
Published
May 2, 2012

Cape Elizabeth 8th grader wins Google design contest

Isabel Robertson’s drawing of a sun-drenched forest earns her a trip to New York City and a shot at a $30,000 college scholarship. Her school could win a $50,000 technology grant.
Published
April 29, 2012

14-year-old youth reigns as state chess champ

CAPE ELIZABETH — The King of Maine is a kid.

For the first time in the 54-year history of the Maine State Chess Championship, the championship plaque went home with someone who has yet to enter high school.
Published
April 17, 2012

BOSTON MARATHON: Falmouth’s Piers 1st American female

BOSTON — Inside a church off the Hopkinton town green Monday morning, Joan Benoit Samuelson encountered Falmouth’s Sheri Piers, who was preparing to run her first Boston Marathon as a masters competitor in what promised to be record-breaking heat.
Published
April 15, 2012

Marube becomes first African to win Maine’s Patriot Day 5-miler

Moninda Marube, of Kenya, won the 83rd annual Patriots Day 5-miler by more than a minute, finishing in 25 minutes, 14 seconds.