FRYEBURG, Maine — “Green!!!!”
That was the single-word message Fryeburg Academy Athletic Director Sue Thurston posted on the school’s athletic Facebook page at 12:12 p.m. Friday, just minutes after Gov. Janet Mills’ office and the Maine CDC announced that Oxford County had returned to a “green’ designation, paving the way for high school sports to be played.
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