Machias youth, 13, donates basketball hoop to town park
by Sarah Craighead Dedmon
Sam Allen enjoyed bouncing a basketball in his driveway but recently told his mom he would like to have a basketball hoop, too. Soon, a family friend found a second-hand hoop and gifted it to Sam.
That’s when Sam had another idea.
“He said, ‘Let’s put it somewhere that everyone can use it,’” recalls Sam’s mother, Katie Sell.