The state’s premier high school tennis players will gather at five sites around the state Saturday for the preliminary round of the State Singles Tennis Tournament. Friday’s rain and the threat of more precipitation on Saturday has forced postponement of the Aroostook Section. Play in… Read More
    ORONO – Ben Burlingame had no idea he was going to pitch against New York Tech in the ECAC Baseball Tournament’s matchup of unbeaten teams Friday night. But when original starter Larry Thomas came up with tendinitis, Burlingame was pressed into service and he came… Read More
    DURHAM, N.H. – Hockey East has been given approval by the NCAA to change its game format next season from three 20-minute periods to two 25-minute halves. “Hockey East was granted a one-year experimentation period,” said Ted Breidenthal, the staff liaison for the NCAA’s men’s… Read More
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    DEER ISLE – Matt Mattson hit a two-run homer in the first inning to help lead the George Stevens Academy Eagles to a 16-3 schoolboy baseball win over the Deer Isle-Stonington Mariners here Friday. For the 4-8 Eagles of Blue Hill, Frank Peasley had a… Read More
    September 14-15 will be the dates for the fourth annual Maine Senior Games, slated in Bangor/Brewer and Portland. The Maine Senior Games are open to men and women over the age of 55, and the competition provides a chance for comraderie, companionship and recreation for… Read More
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    If Saturday’s Penobscot Valley Conference track and field championship meet seems familiar, there is good reason behind it. The Bangor and Orono boys, along with the Old Town, Hampden, and Bangor girls, once again are the favorites for the PVC crown. One year ago, those… Read More
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    Butch Phillips of Dover-Foxcroft recently became a member of the “50-50 Club.” The club probably does not have many members, but Phillips joined on May 7 when he turned 50 years old and celebrated by running 50 miles from his camp at Mattamiscontis Mountain to… Read More
    ORONO – New York Tech sophomore lefthander Al Watson more than matched an April victory over Le Moyne College Friday afternoon, scattering four hits as he shut out the Dolphins 7-0 in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament at Mahaney Diamond. The hard-throwing 6-foot-3, 180-pounder… Read More
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    SHERMAN STATION — Residents of SAD 25 will go to the polls next Tuesday to decide whether they want to change the district’s financing formula. The outcome of that vote could change the membership of the district, if not the formula itself. Last fall, residents… Read More
    MACHIAS — Linda Pagels was appointed acting director of the Washington County Regional Planning Commission Wednesday by the WCRPC’s Executive Committee. Pagels, a veteran planner with the commission, was named temporarily to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Lanier Greer. Greer, who was… Read More
    MACWAHOC — The Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department seized 18 marijuana plants Friday morning in the Macwahoc area. Lt. Keith Wheeler said that he and Chief Deputy Shirley Clearly seized the plants after the department received an anonymous telephone tip on their location. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
    MILLINOCKET — The Town Council unanimously authorized borrowing of up to $200,000 Thursday to equip the high school kitchen for a school-operated lunch program. A few weeks ago, school officials approached the Town Council regarding the financing of equipment for the kitchen at Stearns High… Read More
    HARRINGTON — A summary of the bond indebtedness for the construction and renovation of schools in SAD 37 is available upon request at the office of Superintendent Joseph White. On June 27, during the school district’s annual budget meeting, voters of the six towns of… Read More
    FARMINGTON — John Giguere of Wilton, a University of Maine at Farmington senior majoring in rehabilitation services, recently was granted the John Harrigan Scholarship Award. The award was for meritorious academic achievement and commitment in the rehabilitation field. The award was established in 1985 to… Read More
    DEXTER — An 8-year-old bicyclist was injured Thursday when she was struck by a motor vehicle on Pleasant Street. Simone Bendixen of Dexter suffered a broken leg when she was struck by a pickup truck driven by Jarice Sinclair, 45, of Dexter. The accident occurred… Read More
    PITTSFIELD – The judging of the annual poster contest afetr the Smiley presentations at local schools took place Thursday at Sebasticook Valley Hospital. Judges were Sharon Corriveau, Ginny Anderson and Bob Sedgwick. The winners were Ellie Martin, Hartland Consolidated School; Russell Mack, Manson Park School;… Read More
    SKOWHEGAN — Thirty-five warranty deeds were transferred in Somerset County Register of Deeds May 11-16. Henry H. and Hope V. Graff, St. Albans, conveyed May 10, land on southerly sideline of Ballard Road, St. Albans, to Christopher H. Sanborn and Terri H. Stanley, Benton. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    ROCKLAND — The city has closed the eastern end of West Meadow Road because of the disrepair of Tolman Bridge, City Manager Cathy Smith Sleeper reported Friday. She said that the Maine Department of Transportation had inspected the bridge and recommended that it be replaced with a large… Read More
    CAMDEN — The SAD 28 board of directors gave unanimous approval Friday to a plan to purchase 60 acres on Route 90 on which to build a new middle school. After the affirmative vote on a motion by board member Andrew Shapiro, Superintendent Thomas Marx… Read More
    FISH AND CHIPS Speculation has run rampant this week on the likely replacement for Judge of Probate Barry Faber, who surprised everyone with his resignation last week. Gov. John R. McKernan will appoint a replacement, and the local legal fraternity has been scrambling to find… Read More
    TREMONT — Tremont’s Planning Board turned down Thursday evening a scaled-down plan by Mount Desert Realty Trust to convert the former Underwood Packing Co.’s sardine canning factory into a large marina and 27-room boatel. Even though Planning Board members had proposed the scaled-down marina two… Read More
    A story on the Hancock Page Tuesday about the Bucksport Planning Board contained an error. The story referred to the board’s “vote to approve the application,” but it should have referred to the board’s vote to approve the application as complete. Read More
    NEWPORT — Main Street property owners on the block affected by a recent fire are researching the possibility of creating a corporation that, with a common pool of resources and with the assistance of low-interest financing grants, will rebuild Main Street with a unified theme. Read More
    ORONO — Eugene A. Mawhinney, University of Maine pre-law adviser and professor of political science, is retiring after more than 30 years on the faculty. Mawhinney, a Jonesboro native and a UMaine alumnus, has advised hundreds of students considering law school and given them a… Read More
    AUGUSTA — One of the nation’s largest volunteer tree-planting projects will reach its final stages in Maine Sunday, May 20, the beginning of Arbor Week. Schools, churches, Scout troops and hundreds of individuals will receive hundreds of thousands of free seeds and seedlings in a project started in… Read More
    AUGUSTA — A lease and operating agreement between the Department of Transportation and the Maine Coast Railroad Co. was signed Friday, which will return freight rail service to the Bath-Rockland line, abandoned since 1985. DOT officials have been negotiating for months with the Massachusetts Central… Read More
    Sherry F. Huber of Falmouth, director of Maine’s Waste Management Agency and chairman of the Maine Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, has been named one of five national recipients of a 1990 Feinstone Environmental Award. The awards program, established in 1975 through an endowment to… Read More
    The head of Madison Paper Industries told a Bangor audience Friday that the business climate in Maine was so poor that no one in his right mind would locate a new business in the state. Jack Chinn, chairman, president and chief executive officer at Madison… Read More
    JACKSON — The fourth annual Maine State Fiddlehead Festival sponsored by the Monroe Sportsmen’s Club will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 20, at the Jackson Community Center. The festival will feature an amateur talent show, a puppet show, jam sessions,… Read More
    CASTINE — The blues. Nobody in Castine ever had the blues like Margaret Parker. In fact, when she recalls her first reaction to the dining room of her Castine Inn, blue was all she saw. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
    The United Injured Workers of Maine won’t meet Monday, May 21, as scheduled, because of the statewide Workers’ Compensation Conference being held at the same time in Rockland. Members are urged to attend the conference. The next regular meeting will be at 7 p.m. Monday, June 25, at… Read More
    WASHINGTON — With Congress and the White House apparently poised to increase taxes, a new study released Friday indicated that Maine’s per-capita burden of federal, state and local taxes has substantially increased in relation to other states since 1989. According to the Tax Foundation, a… Read More
    WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, the son of immigrants, often reminds people in speeches of his humble origins. The Horatio Alger Association, a non-profit organization that took its name from the author of the same name who wrote about those who rose… Read More
    PORTLAND — All of the 1st Congressional District candidates have accepted an invitation to discuss their positions on abortion, reproductive rights and family planning issues at a forum Tuesday, May 29, co-sponsored by the Maine National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and the Maine Choice Coalition. Read More
    A Canadian man charged in U.S. District Court in Bangor with shooting a bald eagle was sentenced Friday by a U.S. magistrate. Brian J. Frost, 20, of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, was sentenced to two years of probation and 150 hours of community service. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
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    BOOTHBAY HARBOR — Maine fisherman have formed an association to urge Gov. John R. McKernan to grant permission for a Soviet processing ship to buy herring from Maine fishing boats this summer. Representing 12 independent herring fishing vessels and 43 crewmen, the Independent Fishermen’s Association… Read More
    WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell said Friday that President George Bush’s policy toward China nearly one year after the massacre of pro-democracy students is “a clear and complete failure” that has produced only “disdain” for America and increased oppression of China’s people. Read More
    Tickets go on sale today for three Frank J. Russo productions at the Seashore Performing Arts Center in Old Orchard Beach. Arlo Guthrie will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 15. Tracy Chapman, with special guests Johnny Clegg and Savuka, will perform at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 4. Read More
    CARIBOU — The Caribou City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, May 21, in the council chambers. A 7:05 p.m. public hearing will be held regarding applications for junkyard permits from Beaulieu’s Garage, Caribou Scrap Iron, Anderson’s Salvage, John Gilbert, Beaulieu’s Auto Salvage and… Read More
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    HARRINGTON — Municipal officials and residents will have two more opportunities to review the proposed 1990-91 budget for SAD 37 before the school directors make a final budget recommendation, Superintendent Joseph White said Thursday. Approved by the directors Wednesday during the first workshop of the… Read More
    MILO — Rep. Robert E. Hussey Jr., D-Milo, has announced that he is a candidate for re-election to a third term in the Maine House of Representatives. Hussey served House District 105 which is made up of Bowerbank, Bradford, Brownville, Charleston, Hudson, Medford, Milo, Willimantic,… Read More
    The Bangor Public Works Department will resurface the intersection of Broadway and Center Street beginning at 4 a.m. Monday, May 21, according to Jim Ring, public works director. The project is expected to be finished by 8 a.m. In case of rain, the resurfacing project… Read More
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    Nomination papers for two Glenburn Town Council positions and two positions on the Glenburn School Committee are still available. The deadline to return the papers to the town office is Tuesday, May 22. Read More
    First, we’d like to thank those people who supported us in our struggle to take our land out of resource protection and put it in split district. This battle was lost by an overwhelming vote of 53 to 23. The vote devastated us. Other than… Read More
    I wish that space would permit me to list every business and individual who gave so willingly and generously in order to make our recent Maine Bridge Association Charity Tournament for Camp Susan Curtis such an overwhelming success. When the MBA board of directors voted… Read More
    In reading Michael Zuck’s May 5 column regarding perennial display gardens, I was disappointed that all the gardens (with the exception of Everlasting Farms) were quite a distance from Bangor. I would like to inform your readers about Pat’s Perennials in Bradley. Pat’s has been… Read More
    I was delighted to read Mary McGrory’s column Tuesday, April 24, which presented adoption as a very positive alternative for those with a crisis pregnancy. Too often those who counsel women with an unwanted pregnancy hear the appalling argument, “I have to get an abortion; I would never… Read More
    Question: How can you tell a veteran University of Maine Black Bear springtime baseball fan from your basic social climber, out amongst the riff-raff because the Black Bears are the talk of the town and The Game is the place to be seen? Answer: By… Read More
    On Friday night, the familiar chilly temperatures, but no rain like last year, greeted a huge crowd of race goers on the first night of racing at Bangor Raceway. The race track at historic Bass Park opened its 50-date 1990 extended meet — 10 days earlier than last… Read More
    Members of the Maine Waste Management Agency concluded work on a set of site-location criteria for landfills and incinerators Wednesday afternoon in Bangor, wrapping up several months of hearings and workshops that had produced numerous drafts of proposals. The Facility Siting Board approved criteria as… Read More
    Bangor police detectives are holding a cache of jewelry and coins, of unknown value, which were seized by Bangor and state police last week from the East Corinth home of an antiques dealer. Some of the articles may have been taken from Bangor homes on… Read More
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    WASHINGTON — Who is this guy John Dingell and what’s his beef with Bath Iron Works? Well, for starters, the Michigan congressman is 6 foot, 3 inches tall, meaner than a junkyard dog and has tremendous power in Washington. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
    FREDERICTON, New Brunswick — Of the three Canadian provinces withholding ratification of the Meech Lake Accord, New Brunswick lawmakers are the most likely to break the political logjam through compromise, observers believe. Observers say important parts of a companion resolution introduced by Premier Frank McKenna… Read More
    UNITY — Unity College trustees are expected to meet this weekend to discuss the sudden resignations of two board members. Allen Stehle, the president and owner of Beal College, and Roderick Hotham, a former Husson College vice president, joined Unity’s board just last week, but… Read More
    EUSTIS — A Topsham couple died Friday when their truck went off the road and landed upside down in a brook. Killed in the 11:10 a.m. crash on Route 27 were 69-year-old Felix Charron, who was driving the 1984 Ford Bronco, and his wife, 68-year-old… Read More
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    PORTLAND — A Bangor man who opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon, killing four people who were playing a loud stereo, lost his appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Friday. Earl Losier Jr. claimed his insanity defense was wrongly rejected by Superior Court… Read More
    PORTLAND — Justice Thomas E. Delahanty II, the son of a state supreme court judge, will be named to head the state Superior Court system, Chief Justice Vincent L. McKusick announced Friday. Delahanty, who lives in Lewiston, has served on the Superior Court bench since… Read More
    AUGUSTA — An internal review at the Division of Community Services regarding a stalled spring shipment of commodity foodstuffs has yielded no answers, according to the division’s director. Director Nicci Kobritz ordered the review earlier this year when officials discovered the annual shipment had either… Read More
    BRUNSWICK — A man armed with a semiautomatic assault pistol held police at bay for 30 minutes in a park Friday afternoon, firing at least 20 shots in the air before turning the weapon on himself. Steven Hedrick, 39, shot himself in the head and… Read More
    DEXTER — Ellsworth Perkins Jr. of Dexter isn’t getting much sleep since a bear made off with one of his beehives earlier this week. On Sunday night, the bear, which Perkins says is one of the biggest he has ever seen, destroyed one of his… Read More
    The Associated Press reported erroneously on May 4 that Graydon G. Stevens was the defense attorney in a case involving a New Sharon couple who were awarded damages for the deaths of their two children killed in a highway crash last year. Stevens was a co-counsel for the… Read More
    WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration removed an air traffic controller from his job at Dulles Airport near Washington for taking an anti-AIDS drug, the controller said Friday. FAA spokesman Bob Buckhorn said the agency could not comment on the case because of privacy laws. Read More
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    Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, will deliver the address for the 171st commencement exercises of Bangor Theological Seminary at 4 p.m. Monday, May 21, at the seminary. Wallis’ address will be “Without a Vision, the People Perish.” In case of rain, the commencement would be held at… Read More