The University of Maine men’s golf team has reached a milestone. For the first time in the program’s history the Black Bears will tee it up in the NCAA East Regional Golf Championships, which will be held May 24-26 at the Sheraton Savannah Resort and Country Club in… Read More
We would like to take this way to say thank you to the young man from Monroe who works at the Bangor Fire Department for stopping to change our tire when we had a flat on the Kennebec Road in Newburgh on May 3. His help was greatly… Read More
Down the Line The University of Maine’s Black Bears placed five players on the All-Eastern College Athletic Conference team but just two of them, designated hitter Andy Hartung and pitcher Mike D’Andrea, were chosen to the first team. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
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EMMITSBURG, Md. – Ellsworth’s Rob Pendergist, currently a freshman decathlete at Mount St. Mary’s University here, placed second in the decathlon at the 23rd Eastern Decathlon Championship. He qualified for a place at the NCAA Track and Field Championships. Pendergist set eight personal records in… Read More
Tuesday’s Class A baseball game between Bangor and Brewer will be played at Heddericg Field in Brewer instead of in Orono because of the upcoming ECAC tournament scheduled for the University of Maine. Game time is 4:15 p.m. Read More
Baseball America Top 25 DURHAM, N.C. – The top 25 college baseball teams as determined by the staff of Baseball America magazine, with records through May 13 and last week’s ranking: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
MOUNT DESERT – Sarah McFarland singled twice and drove in two runs to help lead the Mount Desert Island Trojans to a 14-2 schoolgirl softball victory over the Ellsworth Eagles here Monday. For the 10-1 Trojans, Jessica Phelps singled twice and Tabatha Watson had a… Read More
A very successful fund-raiser was held at the Madawaska K.C. Hall Sunday, April 29, to benefit clients attending the Dr. McQuarrie Memorial Workshop and Activity Center. The center is administered by the St. John Valley Associates, and offers habilitation programs for adults with mental retardation. Read More
OLD TOWN – Pitcher Jamie Pete aided his own cause with a three-run homer to lead the Old Town Indians to a 7-0 schoolboy baseball victory over the Nokomis Warriors here Monday. Pete, who struck out nine in five innings, helped the Indians improve to… Read More
HOULTON – Betsy Lorom struck out 10 hitters to improve her pitching record to 10-2, walked 3 and allowed 5 hits to lead Houlton to a 6-0 win over Woodland in softball action here Monday. For the 10-2 Shiretowners, Kate Anderson singled three times. Beth… Read More
It was a record-setting year for the Husson College softball team which met recently for a season-ending cookout. Husson finished at 15-8 and made it to the first round of the NAIA District 5 East tournament. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
ORONO – The University of Maine’s attemped four-game sweep of the University of Miami’s frustrated Hurricanes was curtailed by one of the few Hurricanes who has had a good offensive series. With a runner on third and two outs in the sixth inning of a… Read More
As part of the never-ending list of laws enacted because they’re good for us comes this from Maryland: The Howard County Council last week passed legislation that would require all bicyclists to wear helmets. The council, naturally, had statistics to prove that bicyclists would be safer and that… Read More
Over the last 10 years, the rise of women’s basketball prominence at the University of Maine seemingly correlates with the ability of the woman in the middle. It began in the early 1980s with former Maine center Emily Ellis, who led the Black Bears to… Read More
In the simplest terms, it was a U-Turn, a complete turnaround from the previous year. Just call the Husson College Braves the Baltimore Orioles of the NAIA District 5 ranks. One year after missing the Dist. 5 playoffs, second-year head coach John Kolasinski took a… Read More
Tuesday with… Nothing brings the past to life like an old newspaper. The stories may seem quaint, by today’s standards, but they have immediacy of news. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
Now that the pro-life rally held in Washington, D.C. this past weekend is “old news,” I wanted to write and let the many in our local area read a first-hand report. Awsome! googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
When a patient hanged himself a little more than a week ago at Augusta Mental Health Institute, the public reacted with sympathy and concern, but there were few expressions of surprise or outrage. AMHI has earned a reputation as a facility where one expects the worst to occur,… Read More
HOULTON – Corey Suitter’s line-drive single to left in the bottom of the seventh inning scored Andy Blood from second base, carrying Houlton to a 3-2 win over Woodland in a schoolboy baseball game played Monday. Blood’s hook slide at the plate enabled him to… Read More
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EAST SULLIVAN – The members of the Sumner High pitching staff know if they throw strikes, the Tigers’ defense will take care of the rest. Judging from Sumner’s offensive production against John Bapst of Bangor here Monday, the pitchers aren’t hurting for offensive support, either. Read More
ISLESBORO — Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, one of the country’s top oceanographic institutions, has initiated an innovative science program to stimulate high school students’ interests in the biological and marine sciences. Each of Maine’s 16 counties were represented by an exceptional high school student… Read More
ROCKLAND — The Eastern Mid-Coast Regional Planning Commission will sponsor shoreland zoning “office-hour” clinics with the Department of Environmental Protection’s shoreland zoning staff on May 24 in Belfast, and June 19 in Union. The purpose of the office-hour clinics is to provide individual technical assistance… Read More
NORTHPORT — An auction for the benefit of the Belfast-Waldo County Humane Society will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 20, at the Grand View Grange at Birch-Crest on Route 1 across from the Northport House. The hall will be open Saturday afternoon and… Read More
Your editorial on May 7 regarding Bangor’s pedestrians prompts me to write this letter. Drivers in Bangor, and in all Maine communities, should adopt the driving habits that everyone seems to have in Lincoln. In Lincoln, and I notice it happening more frequently in Millinocket,… Read More
UNITY — The Waldo County Homeschool Association celebrated Maine Homeschool Week by holding its first Achievement Night Saturday, May 5. Approximately 85 people attended the performance and exhibition of works by students ranging in age from 5 to 12 years old. The performers’ portion of… Read More
The otherwise excellent article, “Choosing the right contractor” (Real Estate supplement to the NEWS, May 4) fails to mention certain requiremnets of Maine law, effective as of September 1989. Any residential construction for more than $1,400 in materials or labor must be arranged by written… Read More
I think I have a way to stop the problem between skateboarders and the city of Bangor. Why couldn’t the Bangor Recreation Department let us build a ramp or two in one of the parks, like Newberry Street Park, it’s almost empty. If money was a problem, the… Read More
LIMESTONE — A sewer extension project along South Main Street will begin Wednesday, May 16, with an anticipated completion date of mid-August. The work will begin at Bog Road and continue south toward the water tower, 1,800 linear feet from the road. The work will… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — People in Aroostook County interested in becoming involved in an exchange between urban and suburban families may participate in “St. James Friendly Adventures,” a program involving the sharing of homes with children from Roxbury and Dorchester, Mass. The program schedule will run… Read More
MARS HILL — The Central Aroostook Junior-Senior High School held its eighth annual academic banquet May 3. The banquet honored 56 students who had been on the honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 1988-1989 school year and the first three quarters of the present school year. Read More
HOULTON — Aroostook County Sheriff Edgar Wheeler has announced that he will seek a fifth term as sheriff of the state’s largest county. Wheeler was appointed a deputy sheriff in 1968, and later was promoted to the rank of sergeant of patrols. He was appointed… Read More
WASHBURN — The SAD 45 board of directors has announced the appointment of John I. Leggett as principal of the new Washburn District Elementary School. Leggett received his bachelor of science degree in elementary education from State University of New York at Brockport in 1968. His master of… Read More
VAN BUREN — Van Buren District Secondary School Principal Shirley Jurczyk has announced the honors parts for the 1990 graduating class. Valedictorian is Gail April Morin, the daughter of Alcime and Claudette Morin of Lille; and salutatorian is Joel C. Dufour, the son of Mr. Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Aroostook County residents will be able to participate in a discussion on the war against drugs with the nation’s “drug czar,” when William Bennett addresses the state through the Community College of Maine television system at noon Friday, May 25. Originating in… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Aroostook County young people may participate as pages and in other functions at the Maine Democratic State convention in Presque Isle, June 1, 2, and 3. High school and college students are eligible to serve as pages, staff assistants, and “shadows” for… Read More
MACHIAS — Gardner Faulkingham of Teco Lodge will be the speaker at the Machias Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Eggs & Issues breakfast to be held from 8 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 16, at Kilburn Commons, UMM. Faulkingham will relate the history of Teco… Read More
CALAIS — The Calais City Council at its regular meeting Thursday agreed to examine the future use of the former railroad buildings near the railroad overpass and the problem of trucks on Main Street; requested information about the movement of hazardous materials through the city; and opened bids… Read More
MILBRIDGE — An application by two New York City residents to build a $50,000 log cabin on an improved lot in or near the Resource Protection District on the west bank of the Mill River was denied Thursday by the Planning Board. With evident reluctance… Read More
JONESPORT — At a special town meeting Monday, June 4, townspeople will be asked to support a plan to authorize selectmen to spend $40,624 to prime the state and federal funding pumps for a planning-study reimbursement grant that could lead to a solution of the town’s sewage-disposal problems. Read More
MACHIAS The following cases were processed in 4th District Court in Machias during the period ending May 11: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length; i++)… Read More
CALAIS — The City Council Thursday overwhelming supported City Manager Nancy Orr’s suggestion that the council send a letter to the Washington County Commissioners urging them to use caution in considering taking over the Marion landfill from owner Alva Achorn of Down East Environmental Associates. Read More
BARING — A fire late Friday night extensively damaged a Coachman travel trailer on Route 1 near the Baring air strip. The occupants of the trailer were not in the trailer when the fire occurred. Baring Fire Chief Ferguson Calder said that Don Williams and… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission will hold the first of a series of educational seminars for property owners and leaseholders in Maine’s unorganized townships and plantations from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, at the Heritage Motor Inn in Millinocket. According… Read More
GREENVILLE — The Moosehead Marine Museum is planning a volunteer weekend Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, to kick off the restored steamer Katahdin’s 76th summer cruising on Moosehead Lake. Work projects have been planned to ready the Katahdin and the museum for the… Read More
LINCOLN — A crowd of more than 80 people, made up of off-duty firefighters, call firefighters, friends, family and other union supporters, picketed the town office Monday during the Town Council’s regular meeting. The crowd walked along the front and sides of the town office… Read More
SANGERVILLE — Mothers were welcomed and honored Thursday by Susie Carr Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. Two poems were read by Worthy Matron Jane Boutilier in honor of Mother’s Day. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Kathleen M. (Moffatt) Sullivan, formerly of East Millinocket, now a chemistry teacher at Woonsocket High School, was selected recently as the Outstanding Secondary Teacher of the Year by the Rhode Island chapter of the American Chemical Society, according to George B. Morin, WHS principal. Read More
DEXTER — Councilors here will begin work on a $2.8 million budget this week, with workshops scheduled during the next several weeks to discuss the accounts of the various town departments. Under revenues, $1,1045,787 is the projected amount of income for the town for 1990-1991,… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Andrea E. Phillips, 19, of Pittsfield was treated at the hospital and released after a car-bicycle accident about 5:30 p.m. Monday. According to Pittsfield Police Sgt. Tim Roussin, witnesses said Phillips was riding her bicycle east on West Street when she failed to… Read More
FAIRFIELD — The annual Fairfield town meeting was abruptly adjourned Monday before any business could be conducted, because of an apparent flaw in the warrant. Roland Dubay, former Fairfield town manager, said the warrant, as presented by the town administration and council, was illegal. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Battle lines appear to be drawn in SAD 53 as the 1990-91 school budget goes to the voters at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The annual district budget meeting is scheduled at the Warsaw School gymnasium with a $5.9 million budget up for voter approval. Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The annual meeting of the Little Red Schoolhouse Association will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 20, at the Gellerson-Mountford Workshop, 103 South St. A business meeting will include year-end reports and an election of officers. After the meeting the members will… Read More
DEXTER — Dexter police are investigating a theft of money from Toot’s Deli in Dexter. According to James Emerson of the Dexter Police Department, between $500 and $700 was stolen from the store around noon Saturday. The money was behind a locked door, Emerson said,… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — The following money judgment cases were heard in 12th District Court, Skowhegan, Friday, May 11. Lonnie Moore, Skowhegan, ordered to pay $100 a week to Skowhegan Savings Bank, Skowhegan, on a debt of $9,591 and $38 costs. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
ISLESBORO — In an effort to rid the town of unsightly junk automobiles selectmen have been provided a model ordinance by the Maine Municipal Association for study. Copies of the ordinance were distributed to selectmen last week by Town Manager Scott Seabury for review with the issue to… Read More
SEARSPORT — Adamant that a deal was a deal, voters at Monday’s special town meeting rejected Penobscot Energy Recover Corp.’s attempt to add $19 a ton to the price of burning the town’s trash at its Orrington incinerator. The terms of town’s existing contract with… Read More
OWLS HEAD — A meeting was held Monday to discuss why United Video Cablevision hasn’t begun installing new extensions in town. The discussion preceded the regular selectmen’s meeting and was held at the fire station. UVC President Rickard Korzenowski was present and about 40 residents… Read More
ROCKLAND — Two Pemaquid River canoe trips, sponsored by Mid-Coast Audubon Society and the Pemaquid Watershed Association, will be run simultaneously on Saturday, May 19, for beginners and experienced canoists. Beginners will canoe up the Pemaquid River into Biscay Pond and back, exploring a beautiful… Read More
ROCKLAND — Complaints and concerns raised by business owners and the Planning Commission prompted the City Council Monday night to again table a waterfront zoning ordinance that has been more than a year in the discussion stage. The Planning Commission had requested a meeting with the council to… Read More
CAMDEN — Cable television service has suddenly become a “sexy issue,” according to Peter K. Orne, chairman of the Cable Television Advisory Committee. The committeee reported to selectmen Monday night and recommended that the town hire a consultant to examine renewal of the contract with… Read More
CAMDEN — A fire of undetermined origin swept through a barn and guest house on the Barnstown Road property of Tony Bok on Monday morning. Although both structures sustained serious damage, the Bok home was not affected by the fire. No estimate of damage or… Read More
EAST SULLIVAN — The Flanders Bay School Committee on Thursday voted unanimously to accept a cooperative agreement that will allow vocational students to continue being tuitioned to the Boggy Brook Vocational School in Ellsworth. Under state requirements, Ellsworth cannot charge tuition to sending school systems… Read More
ORLAND — The Orland Historical Society kicked off their 1990 season with a potluck supper May 9, at the home of President Eugene Churchill. Plans made for the coming season include the annual book and food sale to be held in conjunction with the Orland… Read More
STOCKTON SPRINGS — Kristin Charlotte Finkbeiner, a junior at Bucksport High School, is one of 52 of the nation’s most talented high school musicians. She recently was awarded an eight-week scholarship to study at one of the world’s most prestigious fine arts camps. Finkbeiner’s instrument… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The Homestead Project will construct a new classroom/dormitory building and a new physical education building at the group’s site on Graham Lake. The architect for the project, funded by the Farmers Home Administration’s Community Facilities program, is Ralph Buckminster of Ellsworth. The construction… Read More
SURRY — Down East dancers will follow the same path other area arts groups have taken recently when they head to the Soviet Union next month for a two-week tour. Like the Surry Opera Company, the Wednesday Spinners, the New Surry Theatre, and other arts… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Latch-key kids may be the legacy of the ’80s, but in Hancock County, a cooperative effort between Action Opportunities and School Union 92 has come up with an answer for the ’90s that will keep some area youngsters from going home to an empty house every… Read More
BUCKSPORT — The Bucksport Area Child Care Center has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Department of Human Services for a school-age child care program, which will focus on needs of children 5 to 13 years old. Care will be provided before and after… Read More
Identically worded questions about the future of Bass Park will be on the ballots for the elections in June and November. Legal minds differ on what it all means, but Bangor voters have the chance to cast an up or down vote in the primary… Read More
The Penobscot Valley Council of Governments will hold a land subdivision review course starting May 31 and continuing the next three Thursdays. The course, approved by the Maine Real Estate Commission, may provide a better understanding of subdivision law requirements and the role of developers,… Read More
The following cases were processed between May 4 and May 10, 1990, in the central division of the 5th District Court at Ellsworth and the court’s southern division in Bar Harbor: Ellsworth googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
Bangor will join more than 200 cities in 32 countries at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 20, when its holds the seventh annual International AIDS Candlelight Memorial. It will be held in the David Beach Chapel of the Bangor Theological Seminary. The event, sponsored locally by… Read More
Calling it a conservative increase, the Brewer School Committee approved a 4.6 percent raise from last year for the 1990-91 school district budget Monday night. The $8.5 million budget will be presented to the Brewer City Council May 22 and amounts to a $191,133 increase… Read More
A man on a weekend furlough from Charleston Correctional Facility was arrested Friday night in Bangor and charged with gross sexual assault. Bangor police reported that Jay Jewett, 23, 53 Bragg St., Bangor, sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman who was unconscious. Jewett is serving time… Read More
Word choice is on my mind. “Word choice.” There’s a concept dear to high school English teachers. The rest of us are mostly indifferent about it until one day we stumble onto the shoals of missed communication and wish we’d used a word other than that one we… Read More
NEW YORK — Adolescents with personality disturbances serious enough to be considered disorders usually are just going through “a phase” and outgrow them in a couple of years, a study presented to psychiatrists suggests. Another researcher called the findings a “hopeful statement” for exasperated parents… Read More
WASHINGTON — During the early 1970s, environmentalists sought to block an expansion of Maine’s Sugarloaf Mountain ski resort because it threatened the habitat of the yellow-nosed vole, a small rodent on the national list of endangered species. Sugarloaf U.S.A. reached an accommodation with the yellow-nosed… Read More
BOSTON — The FBI has identified about a dozen suspects in the theft of the century at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 18 in which an estimated $200 million worth of artworks were taken, according to a report published Monday. The suspects are… Read More
WASHINGTON — A congressional study group, using the conversion of Bangor’s Dow Air Force Base 26 years ago as an example, recommended that military installations and defense contractors prepare to deal with defense spending cuts by expanding into private-sector markets. The Arms Control and Foreign… Read More
The University of Maine System has announced a special early retirement plan ending Sunday, July 1, that promises to save money and to avoid some layoffs that otherwise would be necessary because of the state’s financial problems. “We long have had an early retirement option,”… Read More
WASHINGTON — Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court reveal a less sympathetic attitude toward Native Americans, and Indians will have to rely on Congress rather than the high court to uphold their rights, according to a New Mexico lawyer. Recent rulings by the high… Read More
HOULTON — A jury of nine women and three men in Aroostook County Superior Court in Houlton heard opening statements Monday from the state in the murder trial of Trey Allen Emery, 17, of West Enfield. Emery is charged with the October 1988 death of 8-year-old Heather White,… Read More
Earth Days come and Earth Days go, but caring for the planet is a job that lasts all year round. So as homeowners turn their thoughts to spring cleaning, they might want to consider making their own simple cleaning solutions that reduce the risk to… Read More
ROCKLAND — A stack scrubber with the potential to eliminate acid rain-producing emissions from the stacks of coal-burning plants also could render the ash from the state’s solid-waste incinerators relatively safe for landfills, according to the inventor. Speaking to the Rockland Kiwanis Club on Monday,… Read More
Beth Lambert has visited most of the state of Maine by now, but she had to draw herself a map first. Lambert, an artist and graphic designer living in Mariaville, spent 14 months researching the state and creating an illustrated map packed with location names,… Read More
Paul Pollard denied Monday in U.S. District Court in Bangor that he set the cabin fire in Lucerne that killed a Bangor man in February 1981. The defendant in a federal civil lawsuit, Pollard admitted he was in the cabin at the time of the… Read More
The Bangor pathologist who brought you “The Pig-Out Diet” more than 10 years ago has now come up with “The Throne” — a prefabricated version of the classic outhouse. The wood-paneled structure, offered in a one-hole model that features a decorative crescent on the door,… Read More
YORK — A highway crash early Monday claimed the life of a New Hampshire motorist who police say appeared to be drunk when he drove past a roadblock and apparently turned off the lights of his vehicle in an attempt to get away from a pursuing officer. Read More
A story Saturday reported that a quarterly dividend of $2.04 had been declared on Maine Public Service Co.’s common stock. In fact, during a meeting on May 8, MPS directors declared a dividend of 42 cents. Read More
WELLS — A man’s decomposed body was found Monday by a turkey hunter in the southern Maine woods and homicide investigators termed the death suspicious. Dr. Henry Ryan, the state’s chief medical examiner, conducted an autopsy Monday night and found that the man had died… Read More
They’re doing it again! The gray squirrels have resumed the same puzzling behavior exhibited last summer and early fall. Until the ground froze, they dislodged and carried rocks from the bank of gravel behind our house. We had no idea why gray squirrels would be… Read More
Maliseet Gardens was doomed by intense competition among the owners of commercial and residential space in downtown Bangor, according to several people involved in the project. The $4.05 million complex included offices, retail space and apartments on a 1.5-acre site bounded by Exchange, York and… Read More
CUT YOUR UTILITY BILLS Q. I would like to install some type of solar heating system for my swimming pool, but I don’t like the appearance of the collectors on my roof. Is there anything new and what options do I have? — J.S. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
CARIBOU — The Caribou Parks and Recreation Department is soliciting volunteers to assist with community park cleanup day slated for Saturday, May 19. The activity is sponsored in conjunction with the national celebration of the outdoors, the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, and Maine Street ’90’s statewide cleanup… Read More
WASHINGTON — The drivers’ union striking Greyhound Lines Inc. scored a victory Monday when a federal investigator said the company engaged in unfair labor practices in the walkout. That finding, if upheld by the National Labor Relations Board, could result in the company being forced… Read More
LIMESTONE — Kelly St. Peter of the Caribou chapter of the Future Farmers of America, and Rob Schloss and Mark Madore of the Limestone chapter will represent the Northern District in competition for state public speaking honors at the FFA State Convention at the University of Maine in… Read More
VAN BUREN — The Gateway-Kindle PTA of SAD 24 recognized its teachers with activities during the week of May 6-12, National Teacher Appreciation Week. On May 7 the teachers were greeted with a large banner strung in the main lobby at Gateway School. Each teacher’s… Read More