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    Football may be the furthest thing from the minds of most Mainers during the last week of July. However, 80 of the state’s premier schoolboy grid graduates will put on the pads and helmet once more July 28 for the inaugural Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl… Read More
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    Long Island University baseball coach Frank Giannone knew it was time to get tough. His 1989 team had posted a disappointing 12-19 mark, saddling Giannone with his first losing season in 13 years as head of the LIU program. With four seniors returning for this,… Read More
    Recently my daughter’s dorm room at the University of Maine at Farmington was attempted to be broken into. At 3 a.m. someone was turning her doorknob and trying to get into her room. Luckily she and her roommate were awakened by the noise. There are no phones in… Read More
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    EAST SULLIVAN – Sumner High was within one strike of a berth in the 1989 Eastern Maine Class C baseball final, before George Stevens Academy’s Jeb Billings hit a three-run home run in the eighth inning to end the Tigers’ title hopes. The members of… Read More
    Down the Line The ECAC Baseball Tournament’s Games Committee has decided to alter the tourney so that the University of Maine, host of the event, will play the 7 p.m. game on the second night of the tourney. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
    In a story published in Monday’s editions, it was incorrectly reported that Bangor High football player Thomas Messervey was seeking entrance to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Actually, Messervey was accepted to the academy on Dec. 14, 1989. Read More
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    Attention all those attending this week’s ECAC baseball tournament at Mahaney Diamond hoping to catch a souvenir ball, preferably one hit out of the park in fair territory: You might want to position yourselves beyond the outfield fence whenever you see No. 33 for New… Read More
    America’s democratic process, a marvelous, durable institution that has endured corruption and survived war and legislative tinkering has been swallowed, in its entirety, by the Black Hole of Common Sense, Bangor’s own Bass Park. The founding fathers’ process disappeared early this week, after angry citizens,… Read More
    In the last 10 years or so, we’ve been able to cut our death rate from heart disease and strokes significantly, a lot more than we expected. We’ve done this by stopping smoking, by getting our blood pressures under control, by losing weight, by healthier diets and by… Read More
    Will the third time be a charm for the University of Maine’s Black Bears? For the third consecutive year, Maine will enter the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament as the top seed. Maine went 1-2 in the 1988 tourney and 2-2 a year ago. Both… Read More
    We, the second-grade class at Tremont School, have been studying Earth Day. We are concerned about saving the trees and our environment. We wrote to paper companies to ask what they were doing to help save the trees. Mr. William Trask from the James River Corp. in Old… Read More
    Old Town JVs down Nokomis NEWPORT – Corey Thibodeau had two doubles and three RBIs to lead the Old Town JVs to a 17-3 baseball victory over the host Nokomis JVs here Tuesday afternoon. Chad Thompson added a single and a double for the 7-4… Read More
    Bucksport High School softball has a proud tradition going back to the 1950s when Leila Burgess and Evora Bunker pitched for the Golden Bucks and Mrs. Genevieve Mercer, mother of current head coach Bob Mercer, coached there. Her son proudly carries on a tradition that… Read More
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    George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill got only four hits but used walks and errors to defeat John Bapst Memorial of Bangor 17-15 in softball action at the Husson College field in Bangor. For GSA, which won its seventh game in 10 outings, Katye Mattson… Read More
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    ROCKLAND – Rick Mazurek pitched and batted the undefeated Rockland Tigers to a 5-0 victory over the Camden-Rockport Windjammers in schoolboy baseball here Tuesday. Mazurek, 5-0, threw a 3-hitter to get the victory and had an RBI single to help pace Tigers to their ninth… Read More
    SHERMAN STATION – Adam Bouchard’s single scored Chris Nightingale from second base in the bottom the fifth inning to lead host Katahdin to a 2-1 schoolboy baseball victory over Hodgdon in a pitcher’s duel here Tuesday afternoon. For Katahdin, 6-4, Robbie Porter surrendered just three… Read More
    MADAWASKA – Cindy Sirois’ suicide squeeze bunt with nobody out in the bottom of the sixth inning brought in the tying run and she scored the winning run one out later on a ground ball to lift the Madawaska Owls to a 4-3, come-from-behind win softball victory over… Read More
    The Golf Scene National Hockey League Hall of Famer and former Boston Bruins captain John Bucyk and several members of the Boston Bruins Alumni head a contingent of celebrities who will return for the second annual Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament at Samoset Resort Golf Club… Read More
    Ralph Leonard, developer and limited partner in the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co., told the Brewer City Council Tuesday night that Brewer had been a key element in owners’ hopes to obtain an interim $19-per-ton tipping fee increase. Without Brewer, Leonard said, other towns would be… Read More
    HOULTON — A Waterville forensic pediatrician testified here Tuesday that 8-year-old Heather White of West Enfield had been sexually molested prior to her death by strangulation and drowning on Oct. 1, 1988. Dr. Lawrence Ricci of Waterville, forensic pediatrician and medical director of the child… Read More
    ORONO — University of Maine researchers are trying to determine whether processed fish waste, rather than dead fish, can be effective as lobster bait. UMO zoologists Robert Bayer and Ken Allen are attempting to perfect an artificial bait that uses amino acids derived from fish… Read More
    PORTLAND — Democratic congressional candidate Elizabeth Mitchell said Tuesday a poll she authorized shows that she is a serious contender in a race that many people had given her little chance of winning. “We’re on our way up. People are no longer saying `good luck.’… Read More
    MILLINOCKET — Millinocket police are continuing to investigate a reported death that occurred many years ago under “possible” suspicious circumstances, according to Chief Wayne Scarano. Scarano said bones taken to the state Medical Examiner’s Office and reviewed by an anthropologist were determined not to be… Read More
    AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously recommended the appointments of Morton A. Brody of Waterville as a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and Andrew M. Mead of Bangor as a judge of the Maine District Court. The state Senate will… Read More
    PORTLAND — Portland’s police chief has sounded a call for volunteers to help him collect the roughly 50,000 voter signatures needed to force a referendum next year on a proposal intended to keep guns out of the hands of children. Chief Michael Chitwood says he… Read More
    SANFORD — An excavation accident snapped the valve off an underground propane tank Tuesday, causing a gas leak that forced the evacuation of scores of people from the downtown area, authorities said. The evacuees included about 90 residents of Sunset Tower, a housing complex for… Read More
    PORTLAND — A 19-year-old convicted of shipping $640,000 worth of hallucinogenic drugs through the Portland International Jetport was sentenced Tuesday to 15 1/2 years in prison. Levon Dumont, of Santa Cruz, Calif., was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, Wis. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
    NORTH HAVEN — An airstrip that was a vital link between this island town and the mainland for nearly three decades before its owner closed off access has been reopened. Located on a 300-acre estate owned by summer resident Thomas Watson Jr., the airstrip is… Read More
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    A Bangor man was charged with gross sexual assault, a Class A crime, after he allegedly sexually assaulted a female acquaintance. Police reported that Lawrence Noyes, 48, of Odlin Road was arrested Monday night. He also was charged with domestic assault. He was taken to… Read More
    Upper-level Penobscot County employees criticized a pay proposal Tuesday that they believed would have them earning less than subordinates. For the first time, the County Commissioners are treating the seven non-elected management workers as salaried, rather than hourly, employees. Under the scale the commissioners set… Read More
    The Brewer City Council voted Tuesday night to seek a court order allowing inspection of a Brimmer Street home where some neighbors have complained of code violations. The unusual action taken by the council was supported by Councilor Larry Doughty, but he said that he… Read More
    Sen. Jerome A. Emerson, R-Corinna, has announced that he is seeking re-election to the state Senate for District 9. Emerson, a member of the Legislature’s Agriculture Committee and its Taxation Committee, is completing his sixth term in the state Senate. He previously served two terms… Read More
    Motel row on Odlin Road could have an addition soon — a 120-room Fairfield Inn. A local company, Fairfield Inn of Bangor Inc., owned by the family of Thomas Walsh, a national hotel developer with roots in Bangor, plans to construct the motel. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    The Women’s Center of the Eastern Maine Medical Center will sponsor a panel discussion on in-vitro fertilization at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 24, in Mason Auditorium. The panel will include a team from the IVF Australia-Boston Program, Dr. Mary Warner, radiologist, and a Bangor area… Read More
    The Bangor Parks and Recreation Department’s Children’s Theater program will present the following performances: At 7 p.m. Thursday, May 17 at Vine Street School; 7 p.m. Thursday, May 24, Abraham Lincoln School; 2 p.m. Friday, May 25, Abraham Lincoln School; and 2 p.m. Tuesday, May… Read More
    A Florida man sentenced on cocaine charges is expected to be released on bail this week pending a new trial ordered by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Ronald “Roast Beef” Burns, convicted in February 1988 in connection with one of Maine’s major… Read More
    OTTAWA — The final report of a special panel studying Canadian objections to a United States ruling on lobster imports will not be released until May 22, Trade Minister John Crosbie said Monday. The report had been expected Monday, but the five-member panel asked for… Read More
    A Greenville forester who spent last January with his wife and daughters in Haiti made a plea at Bangor Monday night to the Maine forest industry and individual foresters to help that poverty-stricken country. Mark Armstrong, a forester with the S.D. Warren Co., was the… Read More
    Good news, osteoporosis victims: An experimental drug can reverse the loss of vertebral bone and prevent fractures in older women. That finding — from a three-year study of the drug etidronate by Danish researchers, supported by the drug’s manufacturer, Procter & Gamble’s Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals — was reported… Read More
    No two plates are alike. No two tables are alike. None of the wait people wear the same outfit and all of the staff members are performers. No wonder Gina Kaufmann and Christopher Mitchell decided to call their new Bar Harbor dinner theater the Unusual Cabaret. It sounds… Read More
    Parents, take note: A nationwide recall of beanbag-style infant pillows, which federal officials say caused the deaths of at least 19 babies, has been expanded. The latest recalls: Comfort Tote, Comfy Tote and Cushie Comfort by Comfort Products; Sof-Sak by MFP; Comfort Cushion by Tailored Baby Inc., and… Read More
    An untitled piece by Cheri Walton took top honors in the Bangor Art Society Bangor Open Juried Art Show 1990 held May 8 at the Bangor Public Library. Walton’s work earned her first place in the acrylic division as well as the Grumbacher Award and 1990 Best of… Read More
    The Air Force Band of New England’s Symphonic Winds and Ambassadors in Blue will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, at the Bangor Auditorium. The concert will feature symphonic, military and popular music. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
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    AUGUSTA — The Department of Environmental Protection has launched a five-year monitoring program as part of an effort to trace dioxin reductions in Maine rivers. Plans are to sample sediment as well as fish at selected sites throughout the state. In recent year’s Maine’s bleached… Read More
    WASHINGTON — The Environmental and Energy Study Institute, a bipartisan public policy organization, Tuesday honored Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell for his work protecting the environment. The award was presented to Mitchell by former Maine Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, who serves on the EESI’s… Read More
    The medical assistants program of Beal College has been granted the maximum period of accreditation of seven years after a review by the American Medical Association. This award makes Beal College an official testing center for the National Certification Examination for Medical Assistants and qualifies… Read More
    CARIBOU — The trial of MaryAnne T. Fitzherbert, a Mars Hill woman charged with the beating death of her 5-year-old stepson, is tentatively scheduled to begin Monday, May 21, in Aroostook County Superior Court in Caribou. Justice Paul T. Pierson will preside over the jury… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Gov. John R. McKernan will address a memorial service to honor Maine law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The ceremony will be held at noon Thursday, May 17, at the future site of the Maine Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, adjacent to the State… Read More
    CONCORD, N.H. — Gov. Judd Gregg and other New England governors will meet Monday with federal banking regulators in Washington to enlist their help in loosening tight lending by the region’s banks. On Tuesday, Gregg announced he and Govs. John McKernan of Maine and Michael… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE — The nation’s potato farmers, who held the line on increased acreage after a profitable 1988-89 shipping season, apparently will be unable to resist the lure of an even better 1989-90 marketing year and will increase acreage by an estimated 5 to 6 percent, pricing officials… Read More
    WASHINGTON — A northern Virginia-based company said Tuesday that a power-generating plant it plans to build in Bucksport will burn coal “in an environmentally sound manner.” The AES Corp., a 9-year-old company based in Arlington, Va., has five electricity and steam-producing plants throughout the country. Read More
    NEW YORK — Ames Department Stores Inc., the struggling discount retailer, won court approval Tuesday for $250 million in financing it needs to keep merchandise on the shelves of its 680 stores. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Howard C. Buschman III authorized the financing late Tuesday… Read More
    WELLSBURG, W.Va. — Cholesterol readings are bandied about like baseball scores and residents brag about whittled waistlines two years after this town became part of a program aimed at reducing cardiovascular disease. “When we started this, everyone called us `Fat City,”‘ program director Bill Reger… Read More
    NEW YORK — Vincent van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” sold for $82.5 million Tuesday, a world auction record for any art work and double the price estimated by Christie’s, a spokeswoman for the auction house said. “This is by far the world’s most expensive… Read More
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    PRESQUE ISLE — The Community College of Maine Television network will begin its summer series of courses throughout Maine on May 14. The University of Maine at Presque Isle participates in the statewide instructional television system at its centers at Loring Air Force Base and Houlton. Read More
    10 years ago — May 16, 1980 As reported in the Bangor Daily News The Bangor State Fair board offered Linda Myshrall, a longtime assistant to Thaxter Trafton, the job of executive director of the fair and racing for this season. The board’s offer comes… Read More
    Drawings for the Tri-State Megabucks lottery now are being held twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Do you think that increasing the number of drawings from once to twice a week is a good idea? Why or why not? Why not, if the state… Read More
    EASTON — Honor parts at Easton High School have been announced by Principal Brett Moores. They went to Nicole Flewelling, valedictorian; Jennifer Richardson, salutatorian; Robyn Libby, first honor essayist; and Herbert DeMerchant, second honor essayist. Flewelling is the daughter of Gaylen and Joan Flewelling of… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE — The SAD 1 board of directors will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, at the high school for a final vote on the total proposed 1990-1991 school budget of $12,082,045, compared with $10,987,811 in 1989-1990. The 8 percent increase is not… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Board of Selectmen took no action Monday on the formation of a Charter Commission that would have reviewed and recommended changes in the town’s charter. Instead, the board will deal piecemeal with the issues facing the town. Issues that have surfaced… Read More
    PITTSTIELD — Marianne Ferrato, fitness specialist and owner of The Right Moves in Pittsfield, attended the three-day Aqua Exercise Association 1990 Regional Conference held May 4-6, at the Colonial Inn and Spa in Brattleboro, Vt. Ferrato attended seminars, workshops, aquatic exercise training and lectures, and… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — The Lee-Doncet Veterans of Foreign Wars Post and its Auxiliary recently held a joint installation of officers at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Pittsfield. Post officers installed by Past District Commander Douglas Gleason of Skowhegan were: commander, Roger Beaulieu; senior vice commander,… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — A five-vote margin defeated a proposal to fund local leeway in the 1990-91 SAD 53 budget at a meeting here Tuesday. More than 540 voters packed the Warsaw School Gymnasium to act on a $5.9 million budget. Voters quickly approved $1,090,973.82 to match… Read More
    NEWPORT — SAD 48 board members took a giant step toward dissolving increasing tensions between members of the SAD 48 Teachers Association and the board at their Tuesday night meeting. The directors voted to follow the advice of their attorney and set a meeting with the full complement… Read More
    DEXTER — The Penquis District Boy Scout Committee met May 9 at the home of Merle and Phyllis Dubay in Dexter. Chairman Merle Dubay conducted the business meeting. Howard Kesseli reported on membership stating that there were 76 Tiger Cubs; 613 Cub Scouts; 232 Boy… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — Maine Central Institute science teacher Donna Young has been recognized by the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation for her “extraordinary efforts” to promote the field of science through the Maine Science Olympiad Program. The award was presented to Young in April… Read More