Hampden Academy, which averages better than 5-foot-11 on the front line, is one of the few teams in the Big East Conference that can match up with Bangor’s frontcourt size. Yet, Coach Tom Tennett’s Rams set out to utilize another of their team strengths, quickness,… Read More
WATERVILLE – The Colby College Mules received goals from six different players and Alex Moody made 16 saves as the Mules beat the University of Southern Maine 6-2 here Wednesday in the first-ever meeting between the two schools. Mike Maloney, Keith Gleason, Dave Descoteaux, Bill… Read More
In the midst of Wednesday night’s nippy weather and snowstorm, it’s not much of a surprise that the University of Maine women’s basketball team needed a jump start. The Lady Black Bear backcourt trio of Julie Bradstreet, Carrie Goodhue, and Chris Strong supplied that extra… Read More
ORONO – Dennis Himes scored with 19 seconds to play, giving Stearns High of Millinocket a 3-2 schoolboy hockey win over Foxcroft Academy at the Alfond Arena here Wednesday night. Himes’ goal, on an assist by Chris Labbe, came only 12 seconds after Foxcroft’s Dave… Read More
NEWTON, Mass. – Freshmen Howard Eisley and Malcolm Huckaby combined for 36 points, 21 on three-point baskets, to give Boston College a 96-59 non-league victory over Maine Wedne Eisley scored 22 points and Huckaby totaled 14 in the Eagles’ ninth straight win over the Black Bears, who haven’t… Read More
SEARSPORT – David Brown’s clutch basket with less than a minute left in the fourth quarter tied the game and propelled the Deer Isle-Stonington Mariners into overtime. DI-S went on to edge Searsport 73-71 in two OTs here Wednesday night. Both teams scored six in… Read More
NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE Women’s Standings 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++) { if (isMobileDevice()) { if (slot_sizes[i][0] googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
Brewer beats Bangor by 10 Andy Dore’s 24 points led the Brewer High freshman boys team to a 71-61 win over Bangor High at Brewer on Wednesday. Dan Needham scored 18 points for the 9-1 winners while Jeff Millett posted 11 points. For Bangor, 6-2,… Read More
A new gymnastics team will be making its premier appearance Sunday afternoon at SeDoMoCha Junior High School Gymnasium in Dover-Foxcroft. The Decal Gymnastics/YMCA team will host its first meet with the Old Town-Orono YMCA team beginning at 2:30 p.m. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
WATERVILLE – John Daileanes scored a team-high 24 points and triggered a decisive 9-0 spurt late in the second half by tipping in his own rebound as the Colby College basketball team beat the University of Southern Maine 75-66 in a seesaw battle here Wednesday night. Read More
This column is dedicated to the late John Nygren, one of the University of Maine’s premier hockey fans. The NEWS’ display advertising manager died last week of cancer and will be deeply missed by all who knew him. The personable Nygren, the possessor of a… Read More
LEWISTON – Bates College jumped to a 46-26 halftime lead and coasted to an 80-61 women’s basketball win over Thomas College of Waterville here Wednesday night. Julie Roche had 18 points and 11 rebounds to lead the 5-3 Bobcats and is now 37 points from… Read More
ORONO – Lori Young scored 14 points to pace a balanced scoring attack as the Orono Red Riots downed Mount View of Thorndike 54-40 in schoolgirl basketball here Wednesday night. Kaila Wischow and Marcia Therrien added 8 points each for 6-4 Orono. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
AT LINCOLN Mattanawcook 51, John Bapst 18 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++) { if (isMobileDevice()) { if (slot_sizes[i][0] googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
Question: When is a hockey team that is 1-7-1 in league play and 4-14-1 overall dangerous against a team that is 4-3 and 17-5-1, respectively? Answer: When that team is coming off its first two-game winning streak of the season; when it has a couple… Read More
AT ORONO Brewer boys 132, Ellsworth 74, Nokomis 72, Hampden 67, Mattanawcook 34, George Stevens 19 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++) { if… Read More
WATERVILLE – Laura Pate pumped in 28 points and Lisa Cote contributed 11 points and 17 rebounds to guide the University of Southern Maine’s women’s basketball team to a 77-66 win over host Colby here Wednesday. USM improved its record to 7-3 while Colby slipped… Read More
Maine’s home-based care programs are being threatened by the state funding crisis. Our personal care hours and money stand to be cut. As consumers of these programs we are writing letters to our legislators to make them aware of the seriousness of this situation. The… Read More
The front-page article (BDN, Jan. 2) about Dan Quayle’s visit to our gulf forces was nice until I read the part where he said to the pilots and sailors, “We’re ready, willing and able to fight.” Sounds great if you’ve never had to fight and see your friends… Read More
Thanks to Andrew Neff for his coverage of high-school basketball games broadcast on local stations. But he left one out. On AM 1370 WDEA, we’re carrying live coverage of the Ellsworth and MDI high-school basketball games — both girls’ and boys’ teams. Terry Coulter Program Director, WDEA Radio… Read More
The group of Bangor medical professionals who expressed concern about a brewery’s sponsorship of a March of Dimes event deserve praise for their ethical stand on the issue. Their letter (Readers Write, Dec. 28) aptly criticizes the willingness of the March of Dimes to accept funds from any… Read More
In a time when the economy is supposed to have caused individuals to be less giving to charity, we have seen just the opposite. Each yer, Kiss 94.5 radio asks its listeners to purchase gifts for specific needy children in its “Christmas is for Kids”… Read More
As a concerned environmentalist and former municipal official of the Town of Winterport, I must state both my opinion and those of many citizens of our town. The possibility of any storage of low-level radioactive waste or any toxic materials not generated in our town… Read More
Why is it that the death of a comatose woman can grip the attention of the nation and yet at the thought of sending thousands of 18- and 20-year-olds to die in bloody battle that nation is mute? How can it be that a society so deeply divided… Read More
Three cheers for Steve Kloehn’s interview with Sam Hawkins and the “other side of the picture” in El Salvador. We have lived for many years in Central and South America and, like Sam, read the media reports and the self-styled one-week-visit experts, and see a very one-sided, albeit… Read More
ORONO — Route 2 at the Orono-Veazie line was closed for almost two hours Wednesday morning as firefighters extinguished a fire in the building of Consolidated Auto Recyclists Inc., the old Penobscot Auto. The call came in at 6:05 a.m. for a fire at Silver’s… Read More
MILO — Vicki Lee Hughes of Milo is looking forward to the future. Two years ago, things looked bleak for the mother of three children. Hughes, a 20-year employee of Emple Knitting Mills in Brewer, was out of a job when the factory closed its doors. Read More
SHIRLEY — The town of Shirley could be required to dig up its landfill and transport the waste to a licensed facility, unless an alternative can be arranged. The Shirley Board of Selectmen was notified recently that the closure application for the landfill was “considerably… Read More
WATERVILLE — The Kennebec Water District Board of Trustees and staff met with U.S. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell recently, when Mitchell announced he would request a Senate hearing and oversight hearings to seek views of Maine residents on drinking water treatment. “The outcome… Read More
DEXTER — Representatives of the Mid-Maine Solid Waste Association received word this week that their application for state assistance in financing a regional recycling center has been approved. Steve Whitesel, Dexter town manager and treasurer for the MMSWA, said Wednesday that his office received word… Read More
BROWNVILLE JUNCTION — An open house was held Sunday afternoon at the United Methodist Church parsonage in Brownville Junction. The Rev. Ronald Chaffee said he and his family held the open house because the parsonage belongs to the people of the church. Thus, the pastor,… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Two men who were arrested previously and charged with break-ins at six businesses in Dover-Foxcroft in November were indicted by a Piscataquis County grand jury Wednesday for burglary and attempted theft. The indictments were handed up against John Bernard, 20, of Providence, R.I.,… Read More
Drunken-driving cases could be one casualty of tough economic times if state budget cuts reach into the pockets of county prosecutors. That was part of the bleak message R. Christopher Almy brought back this week from a district attorneys’ meeting in Augusta, where the state’s… Read More
PITTSFIELD — “The kids who do drugs only want to bring you down to their level — and they’re losers,” was the message two postgraduate athletes from Maine Central Institute brought to fifth-graders at the Warsaw Middle School on Tuesday. The Pittsfield school conducted a… Read More
Like just about any father, Andy Titus is quick to show off his young son, pulling out a pack of photographs as he beams with pride. What those photographs don’t show, however, is the desperately bleak future young Joshua likely would have faced in his native Romania, battling… Read More
OLD TOWN — Mother Nature has caused minor flooding in Old Town and Milford along the Penobscot River over the past two days, and local officials claim Mother Nature will have to correct it. On Wednesday, area firefighters, police, a representative of the Bangor Hydro-Electric… Read More
In a meeting characterized by procedural melee, three Brewer City Councilors on Tuesday evening blasted City Manager Harold Parks for what Councilor Larry Doughty called one of the “worst cases of judgment” ever made by the administration. In the days leading up to the meeting,… Read More
SHERMAN STATION — Katahdin High School Adult Education and Eastern Maine Technical College will hold an oil-burner technician training course beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15. The 160-hour course, with six months of on-the-job training, prepares a technician to take the Maine Journeyman Oil… Read More
ST. AGATHA — The SAD 33 board of directors is trying to anticipate the impact on local education that the state’s financial ills will have during the coming year, and handled routine business at a Monday night meeting at Wisdom High School. Superintendent Jerry White… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Starting and maintaining a parent support group will be discussed by the Special-needs Parent Information Network from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Conference Room 4 at The Aroostook Medical Center. A snow date of Tuesday, Jan. 29, also has… Read More
FORT KENT — A variety of graduate, undergraduate and vocational-technical courses will be offered during the spring semester through Interactive Television from the Community College of Maine Television System. In the St. John Valley the sites are located at the University of Maine at Fort… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The Presque Isle Indoor Pool is taking prepaid registration for the January-to-March session. A variety of classes are offered. Classes include a session for parents with their toddlers and infants, a class for 3- to 5-year-olds, beginner and intermediate classes for youths… Read More
MACHIAS — Washington County Clerk Ilze Balodis, who has held that position since August 1986, has resigned effective Feb. 13. County commissioners meeting here Tuesday accepted the resignation, said Balodis would be missed, and voted to combine the vacant position of county bookkeeper with that… Read More
STEUBEN — The town’s Comprehensive Planning Committee will hold a public hearing at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, in the school gymnasium. Chairman Ted Denniston said the commmittee was formed a year ago to produce a comprehensive plan for the town. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
EASTPORT — In the belief that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is, the City Council will wait and see on an offer that could knock $30,000 off the cost of an airport expansion project, get an industrial park started and give the city… Read More
CALAIS — While the governor and the Democratic legislative leadership battle over Maine’s budget crisis, the rank-and-file legislators wait on the sidelines until a compromise is reached and presented to the full Legislature for action. This week, the Appropriations Committee held public hearings on Gov. Read More
Frederic Reynolds, president of the University of Maine at Machias, will be the guest speaker at an Eggs and Issues breakfast meeting sponsored by the Machias Bay Area Chamber of Commerce at 8 a.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at Kilburn Commons, UMM, instead of on Jan. 15, as reported… Read More
MACHIAS — The following real estate transfers were recorded in the Washington County Registry of Deeds from Nov. 1 to 9. Ramona L. Winters to George H. Thornton et al., property at Topsfield. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
BELFAST — The Waldo County grand jury rose this week and handed up the following indictments. Francis R. Manner III, 31, Frankfort, aggravated assault. Manner was charged with the Oct. 9 shooting of his 26-year-old brother Michael in front of his home in Frankfort. Michael… Read More
MONTVILLE — James Davidson developed a reputation as an aggressive attorney when, while practicing law in Waldoboro, he filed several class-action suits against the Maine State Prison because of the conditions in which inmates were forced to live. Davidson now has turned his back on… Read More
BELFAST — Lane Construction Co. attorney Edward Bearor argued before the Planning Board Wednesday that while city law may prevent the processing of rock mined in Belfast, it does not prohibit processing rock trucked in from out of town. Bearor presented his arguement during the… Read More
ROCKLAND — Proposed revisions to a new Community/Business commercial zone for the Union Street area of Rockland were developed Tuesday night by the Planning Commission. The commission also elected Erik Laustsen as chairman for 1991, and Frederick Beal, vice chairman. Laustsen replaced Everett L. Spear… Read More
BELFAST Justice Jack O. Smith handed down the following sentence in Waldo County Superior Court this week. 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
ROCKLAND — Mandatory recycling for city residents may become a reality by mid-March. An extensive ordinance amendment that was a year in development will be before the City Council in first reading Monday, Jan. 14. If adopted, the new regulation would require residents to separate… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Since the repeal of Maine’s Sunday blue laws became effective after Christmas, buyers have had some shopping options in Ellsworth that were not available before. Those opportunities are limited, however, for while some businesses have chosen to test the fresh retail waters and… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth School System has received long-awaited good news about its most recent application to the state for construction of a new high school. School Superintendent Bruce Sawyer announced Tuesday evening at the school board meeting that the system’s application has been placed… Read More
ELLSWORTH — A school board-initiated discussion to eliminate the seven department chairman positions at Ellsworth High School ended in a tie vote on the proposal Tuesday evening. Proposed by school board member Tom McDonald, the movement to eliminate the positions could save the school system… Read More
BUCKSPORT — Corporate officials at Applied Energy Services once proclaimed they would not construct a coal-fired co-generation plant in Bucksport if they were not wanted. On Wednesday, AES officials were reviewing a largely bleak assessment of their plans by nearly 50 people who spoke at… Read More
A Bangor woman suffered minor injuries Sunday night in a traffic accident which demolished her car on Route 175 in Orland, according to Hancock County Sheriff’s deputies. Joan L. Pierce, 23, Bangor, was traveling north on Route 175 in a 1990 Chevrolet Z-24 Cavalier. After… Read More
A two-car accident reported in Monday’s Police Patrol column incorrectly identified the vehicle which carried a 12-year-old passenger. The girl, injured in the Franklin accident last week, was a passenger in a pickup truck being driven by Sonja R. Beal, 26, of Ellsworth. The Police Patrol item also… Read More
Penobscot County Jail officials and employees ignored warnings that an inmate who killed himself was suicidal, according to a lawsuit the man’s father filed in Bangor just one day before the second anniversary of his death. Allen Brice Gould hanged himself with a sheet on… Read More
The Maine Office of Tourism again has recommended that the Maine Publicity Bureau be awarded contracts to disseminate information about the state. But the publicity bureau, a non-profit trade association which has provided tourism services to the state for a decade, was not the low… Read More
AUGUSTA — The state ethics commission voted Wednesday to seek court action against two Cumberland County Republican leaders after they refused to answer questions about an anonymous anti-homosexual campaign flier targeting a legislative candidate. Paul A. Volle, the county GOP chairman, and Carolyn H. Cosby,… Read More
WESTBROOK — Employees from the S.D. Warren Paper Mill said the plant was put up for sale, and officials at the Westbrook mill planned a “major announcement” Thursday morning. WCSH-TV of Portland reported that employees of the mill were told of the buy-out at a… Read More
Employers rely on Maine high school students to fill substantial numbers of part-time jobs at restaurants, supermarkets, retail stores and other businesses. But scores on the Maine Educational Assessment test given yearly to all 11th-graders clearly show that students who work more than eight hours… Read More
AUGUSTA — The human dimension of budget-cutting proposals put before the Legislature by Gov. John R. McKernan was outlined sharply Wednesday, as tearful welfare mothers stepped in front of their more-polished advocates to tell lawmakers how reductions in state aid would affect their lives. “I’m… Read More
AUGUSTA — Maine’s two-month tax amnesty program that ended at year’s end was an unqualified success, raising nearly twice the delinquent taxes the state set as its initial target, a tax official said Wednesday. “As we begin to analyze results of the program, we are… Read More
In the wild confusion of our economic troubles the people of Maine are in danger of losing a sense of proportion. We are being told we can no longer afford the services of state government at the level to which we have become accustomed. Our leaders lament that… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — State officials charged with drafting regulations for commercial mining in Maine said Tuesday that the rules will not be ready for adoption by Feb. 1, the date set last year by the Legislature. “We’re doing our best to meet the statutory deadline… Read More
John Day’s story on the trucking industry’s latest drive for bigger trucks in the Jan. 3 edition of the Bangor Daily News presents a chilling prospect to anyone who drives, pays taxes or is a consumer. That includes just about all of us. The truck… Read More
AUGUSTA — After deliberating for about a half hour Wednesday, a jury found a Waterville man guilty of murder in the hospital bed shooting of his dying father, an act the defense described as a mercy killing. Leonide Michaud Jr., 48, was immediately sentenced by… Read More
The outcome of Wednesday’s meeting in Geneva between James Baker III and Tariq Aziz left Iraq and the United States where they began, at impasse. This disappointing conclusion to the first direct meeting between the two countries brings the world closer to conflict, but it did not exhaust… Read More
From his aisle seat in the fifth row of the Penobscot Theatre, Vasek Simek directs two actors playing a love scene in the forthcoming production of Jules Feiffer’s, “Little Murders.” The story, a New York City comedy about violence, passion and family tensions, takes place in the same… Read More
BOSTON — Canadian doctors are sued for malpractice one-fifth as often as U.S. physicians, in large part because the Canadian legal system discourages frivolous lawsuits, a study concludes. The researchers said that the U.S. system encourages the payment of small settlements in a large number… Read More
The Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport has been awarded $50,000 from the Gerena Macgowan Trust. The gift, which will be used to purchase marine paintings and artifacts for the collection, is in memory of Captain and Mrs. Richard Matthews and Captain Richard Macgowan. Gerena Matthews… Read More
Maine high school musicians will perform in a solo recital at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12 at Lord Hall, University of Maine. This event will mark the final step in the year’s competition, sponsored by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. The recital will be free and open to the… Read More
AUGUSTA — The roof may be figuratively caving in on Maine’s state budget, but the ceiling in the State House snack bar really did collapse Wednesday. No one was injured when an air-conditioning unit concealed behind a suspended ceiling came loose from its anchors, but… Read More
Should high-school students work? If they do work, at what point does work conflict with schooling? Whose responsibility is it to find a point of balance between work and school? These are some of the questions that local school districts, students and businesses can help… Read More
The Maine State Museum announced today that it has received the gift of an automobile built in Springvale, Maine between 1904 and 1905. Constructed by master mechanic and inventor Hollon Rawnsley, the 8 1/2-horsepower runabout is today one of the oldest surviving Maine-made automobiles. The… Read More
AUGUSTA — A plan for Maine’s first attempt to clean up a river by pumping in tons of liquid oxygen was approved Wednesday by state environmental regulators. With little discussion, the Board of Environmental Protection unanimously approved a plan to build a $2 million, privately… Read More
PORTLAND — Portland Police Chief Michael Chitwood has conceded defeat in his petition campaign to initiate legislation designed to keep guns out of the hands of children, but he hopes to find a sponsor for the bill in the Legislature. The Guns and Children Action… Read More
PORTLAND — Maine motorists who blot out the lobster and “Vacationland” slogan from their license plates may not think they’re doing anything wrong. But some state inspection stations are flunking their cars because of confusion over state law that deals with obliterating marks on license… Read More
CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire woman is the second winner to come forward to claim last week’s $8.4 million Tri-State Megabucks jackpot. The jackpot for last Saturday’s drawing was the fifth largest, and included about $2 million in unclaimed prize money for the past… Read More
ORONO — Maine junior high school students will participate in the first round of competition in the national Mathcounts program on Saturday, Feb. 2, as part of National Engineers Week observances. The program is sponsored by the Maine Society of Professional Engineers and three local… Read More
Wednesday’s lottery numbers: 314 — 8454 Megabucks: 3-4-6-28-36-40 Lotto America: 8-14-29-36-44-52… Read More
WASHINGTON — The cost of health care is rising faster than personal incomes, corporate profits and government revenues, according to data released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services. The cost burden has shifted over the last 25 years from households to government… Read More
BRUNSWICK — A deputy game warden who was laid off because of Maine’s budget crisis says he’d work for free, but the state won’t let him because it would violate federal labor law. Until he was laid off Dec. 14 because of a shortfall in… Read More
AUGUSTA — Unlike many of the 500 state employees who have received layoff notices, State House janitor Richard Roderick lacks the seniority to claim another government job. Next Wednesday, after 17 months of emptying trash cans, vacuuming and performing other custodial chores around the corner… Read More
A Bangor woman was charged with unsafe passing after an accident Wednesday afternoon on the Griffin Road in Bangor. Officer Gary Higgins said Phyllis McAvey, 56, of Route 3, Box 3, Bangor, attempted to pass a car and lost control on the snow-covered road. McAvey’s… Read More
When Sheila Gilluly talks about creative writing in her classes at Mount View High School, her students listen. After all, this teacher at the Thorndike school speaks from a position of authority. She already has four fantasy books published. Her latest, “The Boy in the… Read More
U.S. Attorney Richard Cohen confirmed Wednesday that a federal investigation is being conducted into “what appears to be a major embezzlement case” at Fleet Bank. “We do have an investigation ongoing in a significant embezzlement,” Cohen said from his Portland office. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
WISCASSET — A convicted child killer, already facing the electric chair in Nebraska, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the slaying of a Portland boy eight years ago. Lincoln County Superior Court Justice Carl O. Bradford sentenced John J. Joubert, 27, to life… Read More
WASHINGTON — Rep. Olympia J. Snowe was seated at a table with President George Bush at the White House on Wednesday afternoon when Secretary of State James A. Baker III telephoned from Geneva, Switzerland. “When he came back into the room, the president told us… Read More
The brother of three children who died in an Orono fire more than a year ago, and whose mother later became the focus of a legal skirmish over her true identity, has received $1.8 million in an out-of-court settlement. The agreement on behalf of David… Read More
If you buy a special commodity permit for your truck, the Internal Revenue Service might try to pick your pocket. Richard Jones, executive director of the Maine Motor Transport Association (MMTA), explained how a retroactive tax hike made by the IRS would affect many Maine… Read More
The Maine Motor Transport Association (MMTA) is helping its members comply with a new federal drug-testing law. Dale Hanington, assistant to the MMTA’s executive director, coordinates the organization’s support for its members. In December 1988, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) adopted rules that required motor… Read More
Cliff Halacy, president of the Merrill Transport Co., serves the Maine trucking industry as president of the Maine Motor Transport Association (MMTA). According to Halacy, Merrill Transport joined the MMTA “many years ago, probably when the organization was formed.” Paul E. Merrill, who founded his… Read More
From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, truck owners and operators, as well as people affiliated with highway transportation, stop at the Augusta headquarters of the Maine Motor Transport Association (MMTA). Working to solve the problems and hassles that face these visitors are… Read More
The Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the following crimes in the County: Deputy Norman Dube is investigating a burglary at a home on Gray Road in Easton. A videocassette recorder, two speakers and a 19-inch color television were stolen. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More