One rural Maine hockey program is in early stages of a comeback

At a time when athletic programs are being dropped for one reason or another, primarily due to a lack of participants, there is a program that is in the early stages of a revival. Foxcroft Academy had an ice hockey team for several years until dropping the program following the 2006-07 season due to a lack of numbers. But now, the Piscataquis County school is in the process of restoring it. Foxcroft Academy put its first team on the ice in the mid-1980s. The game-changer in Dover-Foxcroft that has led to the revival was the building of the $5.5 million Piscataquis County Ice Arena, which opened in the fall of 2019. For the last few years, Foxcroft Academy has had a coed/cooperative ice...