Drew Meredith, 6-4 Jr. Philadelphia All-District 5, the premier low post player in the region. He averaged 19.5 points in the regular season and scored 24 in District title game to earn tournament MVP. “Our main man,” said UMM Coach Sean Casey. Business administration major. Read More
“We’re wedding a premier business degree with a love of sports to create the only sports management program in northern New England.” That’s the word from Husson College President William Beardsley in announcing that the Bangor-based school will officially offer, beginning in the fall of… Read More
One game. That’s all that separates the University of Maine men’s basketball team from appearing in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in history. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
JACKSON, Tenn. – NAIA first-team All-American Dina Kangas tossed in 30 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead Minnesota-Duluth to an 82-66 victory over St. Joseph’s College of Standish in the first round of the women’s NAIA National Tournament at the Oman Arena here. The… Read More
ORONO – For 60 minutes of basketball dating back to last Saturday’s loss to the University of Vermont, the Maine Black Bears have lacked a spark. Heather Briggs came off the bench to provide that spark and fuel the Black Bears to a tougher-than-expected 79-59… Read More
ORONO – Sharon Bay spearheaded a 29-9 run to open the second half as the University of Vermont cruised past Northeastern University 83-56 in a North Atlantic Conference semifinal game at the Memorial Gym here Friday. Bay’s 21 points lifted the 21-6 Catamounts into Saturday’s… Read More
High school basketball teams seldom execute their game plans to perfection, but the Old Town Indians did Friday night and the result was an 84-50 Class A semifinal victory over the Bangor Rams at the Bangor Auditorium. The Indians pounded the ball inside early to… Read More
When you turn on your TV set this morning and are treated to the novel sight of the University of Maine men’s basketball team playing on ESPN for the right to go to the NCAA Tournament, remember the major reason the Black Bears have made it to this… Read More
North Atlantic Conference Championship MAINE vs. NORTHEASTERN Time, site: Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Matthews Arena, Boston 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())… Read More
BOSTON – When is a shot that goes wide of the net an effective shot? When it hits the back boards and bounces in front of the net. That’s exactly what happened on Tony Amonte’s goal with 31 seconds left in the second period and… Read More
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A freezing drizzle fogged the ice-glazed woods as wildlife biologists Craig McLaughlin, Mark Caron, Steve Arthur, and an interested observer paused at the edge of a woods road. In a slow sweeping motion, Caron moved a hand-held directional antenna from left to right. When the receiver emitted steady… Read More
BOSTON – Four University of Maine players received All-Hockey East honors at the Hockey East-ECAC luncheon which kicked off HockeyFest ’91 at Boston Garden here Friday afternoon. Black Bear junior defenseman Keith Carney and sophomore right winger Jean-Yves Roy were All-Hockey East first team selections,… Read More
BOSTON – University of Maine junior Steve Tepper called it the “biggest goal of my career.” He also said he was glad that he didn’t have time to think about what to do with the puck when it was laying in the slot in overtime… Read More
BOCA RATON, Fla. – Center fielder Mark Sweeney rapped out 3 hits, including a triple, knocked in 3 runs, and stole a base as the University of Maine Black Bears defeated Purdue University of West Lafayette, Ind., 8-1 at the Florida Atlantic University field Friday. Read More
Scott Beverage knows all about Lawrence High School’s basketball tradition. Friday night, the senior guard displayed the kind of relentless, purposeful play that has helped carry the Bulldogs to back-to-back Eastern Maine Class A titles. Beverage hit two momentum-generating 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and… Read More
LAKE WALES, Fla. – The Husson College Braves baseball team split two games in the Warner Southern College Baseball Tournament, defeating Clearwater Christian College of Clearwater, Fla., 12-3 before losing to Grand Valley State University of Allendale, Mich., 6-3 Friday. In the first game, the… Read More
Player G FG FGA Pct FT FTA .Pct TR A S PTS PPG Hodge 27 140 315 .444 50 68 .735 120 64 34 377 14.0 Bouchard 26 139 267 .521 74 97 .763 154 23 21 352 13.5 Higgins 27 67 149 .450 69 91 .758 57… Read More
If you’re going to go to a national tournament, you might as well play the No. 1 team in the country while you’re at it. That’s the reaction of the University of Maine-Machias men’s basketball team to news this week they’ve been seeded 32nd in… Read More
WILLIMANTIC, Conn. – Allison Gagnon scored 24 points and made 10 assists to key the University of Southern Maine women to an 83-74 victory over Susquehanna University of Selinsgrove, Pa., here Friday at the NCAA Division III Northeast Tournament semifinals. Southern Maine will play Eastern… Read More
ATLANTA — Healthy men who drank three to six cups of coffee a day experienced a significant drop in blood pressure when they kicked the habit, researchers said Thursday. The researchers think the drop might be larger in people with high blood pressure, who should… Read More
Pregnant women have long been warned to avoid anything — alcohol, X-rays, toxic chemicals or drugs — that can harm their unborn babies. Now prospective fathers may have to think twice, too. Evidence is accumulating that men’s exposure to a variety of substances — before… Read More
LONDON — A British obstetrician thinks pregnant women shouldn’t be given an exact delivery date because it causes too much anxiety. Dr. Nigel Saunders of St. Mary’s Hospital in London, writing in the British medical journal Lancet, said less than five percent of women deliver… Read More
BOSTON — Diane was worried about a long and painful death from leukemia when her doctor agreed to help her commit suicide. She had refused chemotherapy because the chance of a cure seemed slim. When the time for dying finally came, she wanted to go… Read More
Your photo on page 4 of the weekend edition of March 2-3 certainly brought home the pain of war. However, I was appalled, then angered, that your caption focused on the body bag. How insensitive. Isn’t it enough just to see the heartache on the… Read More
MILO — Winners were chosen Thursday evening at the annual SAD 41 district spelling bee held at the Penquis Valley Middle School Library. The contest was under the direction of Blaine Rideout, a faculty member. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
PALMYRA — Residents who feared that the Palmyra Head Start Program would be closing were reassured Friday by Kennebec Valley Community Action Program spokesman Raymond Richard that the center would remain intact. “We have invested a lot of money in the Palmyra center,” said Raymond,… Read More
PITTSFIELD — “Open a book” was the motto of the evening Wednesday when two teachers in SAD 53 presented a program for parents designed to encourage reading at home. Richard Woodbury, a third-grade teacher who is also director of adult education in SAD 53, and… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — The polls open at 8 a.m. Saturday in Skowhegan for townspeople to select town officials for another year. In addition to balloting for selectmen, voters also will be asked to vote on a referendum question limiting the number of consecutive terms a board… Read More
RIPLEY — Ripley voters will convene for their annual town meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 9, at the Grange Hall. They will be asked to elect the following town officials: a town clerk, three selectmen, an administrative assistant, a treasurer, a tax collector, an… Read More
This is the fourth in the Mid-Maine Bureau’s series of Mid-Maine profiles to appear Saturdays on this page. PITTSFIELD — Growing up in the Aroostook County shiretown of Houlton, Sandra Porter was touched and molded by afternoons spent at the local recreation center. It is… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — As part of the state budget-cutting process, some county budgets have been cut drastically, spurring rumors that local Cooperative Extension offices may be threatened with closings. Although the Somerset County service in Skowhegan is not closing, the bureau is providing the same services… Read More
CORINNA — Corinna voters will meet for their annual town meeting at 8 p.m. Monday, March 11, at the Eastland School. During the day, the polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for voters to chose one selectman for a three-year term. Gary Dorman is… Read More
FARMINGTON — “On the Edge of Murder” will feature Elisabeth Kalau, associate professor of rehabilitation, discussing her book in progress titled “Poison in My Roots: Nazi Germany Remembered and Confronted,” as the UMF Spring 1991 Forum Series continues March 14. All series presentations are held… Read More
AUGUSTA — Col. Andrew E. Demers, chief of the Maine State Police, has announced the retirement in February of two top administrators, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Cote of Yarmouth, deputy chief in charge of operations, and Capt. Edward P. Wilson of Augusta, in charge of the division of… Read More
MADAWASKA — Wednesday night the Madawaska Board of Selectmen agreed to try a plan for additional summer police coverage from the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department; were briefed on the status of Country Lane Road; and reviewed 47 articles for the annual town meeting warrant. Town… Read More
CARIBOU — The Caribou City Council will meet in executive sessions throughout next week to interview six finalists for the position of Caribou city manager, replacing Terrence St. Peter, who resigned, Jan. 18. According to David Ricker, interim city manager, the City Council and Maine… Read More
LIMESTONE — Personnel at Maine’s largest and northernmost military post will tie a giant yellow bow on the base control tower Sunday to welcome home more than 500 Loring Air Force Base members who participated in the Persian Gulf war. Spouses and children and Loring… Read More
FORT KENT — Author and University of Maine at Fort Kent alumnus Cathie Pelletier will present a reading of one of her short stories, “Looking at Venice,” in UMFK’s Cyr Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 12. She wrote the story while teaching at UMFK… Read More
EASTON — A new computer system and “Silhouette” program purchased through a $2,500 Carl D. Perkins Vocational Grant went on-line Friday at Easton High School. The grant was awarded to the high school’s home economic department by the Maine Department of Educational and Cultural Services’… Read More
HOULTON The following people were sentenced the week of March 4, in Aroostook County Superior Court in Houlton by Justice Paul T. Pierson: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i =… Read More
HOULTON — During February, U.S. Border Patrol Agents assigned to the Houlton Sector apprehended 59 people. Of those, 17 had criminal records. Violators who were turned over to U.S. Customs officials paid $500 in penalties. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
MACHIAS — Although the memories of the Washington County Fair and Pembroke’s raceway have grown dim for some Down Easters, the indelible interest in raising, riding and racing horses remains strong in the state’s easternmost county. The rhythmic side-to-side swaying of Scenic Loot’s legs and… Read More
LINCOLN — A recall provision proposed by five residents this week is as follows: The provision is nearly identical to one adopted by Millinocket in 1985. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
LINCOLN — By Monday, a petition seeking an amendment to the town’s charter to include a provision for recalling (removing) elected officials will be available. Lincoln’s charter has no recall provision. For the second time this week, five registered voters presented a written request for… Read More
LINCOLN — Pending ratification by the town council and local police, a contract agreement could be getting closer. The contract for police, who are represented by Teamsters Local No. 48, expired June 30, 1990. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
MACHIAS — Members of the board and staff of Community Health and Counseling Services will dedicate the Machias office building on Wednesday, March 27, in honor of Dr. Karl V. Larson of East Machias. The ceremony, which will be held from 11 a.m. to 1… Read More
WALDOBORO — Pete Brown of Warren has been appointed a council representative on the Time and Tide Resource Conservation and Development Council. He will represent the Knox-Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District on the RC&D Council. Brown was elected vice chairman of the Time and… Read More
ROCKLAND — Bowing to public opinion and to “keep peace in the city,” Robert Liberty, owner of the Trade Winds Motor Inn, announced late Friday that he was canceling a male dance revue scheduled for Friday night. Liberty said that he valued his public image… Read More
MONROE — Some of our towns are “being held hostage” by a waste disposal monopoly, according to Sen. Robert R. Gould. As state environmental regulations get tighter and tighter, towns are being strangled as they find they have fewer and fewer options for ridding themselves… Read More
CAMDEN — Libraries have been too quiet for too long, said Sen. Linda C. Brawn, R-Camden, in describing the general consensus of the second Blaine House Conference on Library and Informational Services held March 6, at the Civic Center in Augusta. “Being quiet may be… Read More
ROCKLAND — The resignation of Public Works Director James Plummer was announced Friday by Mayor Michael McNeil. Plummer, who had served as the head of the Public Works Department for four years, has accepted a position at Gorham, McNeil said. Plummer received praise from McNeil… Read More
ROCKLAND — In each of the past two years the Rockland and Golden K Kiwanis Clubs and the Belroc Telephone Pioneers have cooperated in fund-raising efforts to send students from Georges Valley High School to the Special Olympics. This year the three clubs are co-sponsoring a public supper… Read More
ROCKPORT — A newly forming group, the Midcoast Foreign Policy Council, will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at Rockport Elementary School. The meeting will be held in the teachers’ room. This group is forming to ensure that an articulate community voice for a… Read More
WALDOBORO — Medomak Valley High School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter. Seniors, all A’s: Jeremy Baker, Lisa Burns, Kari Crosman, Lisa Moody and Robin Simmons; all A’s and B’s: Susan Allen, Mark Altmann, Michelle Athearn, Billee Jo Belcher, Carol Bramhall, Sandilynn… Read More
It’s town meeting season. An important part of any town meeting is the annual town report distributed to residents. The reports include accounting for the past year, and a town warrant presented for voter consideration to operating the town for the next 12 months. During… Read More
ROCKLAND — The Class of 1991 at Rockland District High School and Domino’s Pizza have teamed up to raise money for the class’s Project Graduation activities. The class will have their Senior Ball on June 7 and this will kick off a series of chemical-free activities that will… Read More
From the time it was settled until nearly the middle of this century, the town of Penobscot was a bustling seaport town. Sailing ships visited ports along the Penobscot and Bagaduce rivers unloading and loading cargoes of lumber, bricks and farm produce. The town has… Read More
BLUE HILL — Two people remained hospitalized Friday after being injured Thursday in a head-on collision in Blue Hill. Katrina Hodgkins, 85, of Blue Hill and Valerie Easton, 34, of Brooksville were listed in stable condition, officials at Blue Hill Memorial Hospital reported Friday. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
ELLSWORTH — More than 10 percent of the members of the work force in Hancock County were out of work in January, according to figures released recently by the Maine Department of Labor. The unemployment rate in the county climbed to 10.8 percent during the… Read More
EASTPORT — The Eastport Port Authority will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, in the Shead High School band room. The agenda includes an executive session to discuss the finalists for the job of port director. The field of 17… Read More
CHERRYFIELD — In the opening round of the annual town meeting Thursday, voters elected five townspeople to public office and defeated a proposal that would have allowed bottle clubs to be operated in the municipality. The remaining 46 articles on the warrant will be considered at 7 p.m. Read More
W. Tom Sawyer has been unable to speak as a city councilor on the subject that made him his fortune — trash. He has chafed at the bit from the forced silence. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
After more than two years of negotiations, the Brewer City Council is poised to sign a five-year contract with Cablevision, a Bangor cable television company. Before signing the contract, however, the council will hold a public hearing, which is expected to take place on March… Read More
The Fifth Street Middle School in Bangor will play host to an open house from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 10, to showcase its new facilities. The school has undergone extensive renovations and construction projects. Included in the new facilities are a cafeteria, kitchen,… Read More
Icy conditions Friday made driving hazardous on the interstate and on streets and roadways. Numerous accidents, mostly fender benders, were reported around the Greater Bangor area. In the Hermon and Levant area, driving was apparently especially precarious in the afternoon as people were heading home… Read More
Children’s International Summer Villages has openings for two 11-year-old boys for a CISV Village in Norway this summer and one 11-year-old boy and girl for a village in Thailand in December. Delegates spend one month with delegations from all over the world in a summer… Read More
PITTSTON — Ronald G. Webb’s 130 dairy cows have no use for telephones, but they go through phone directories at the rate of six tons a week. The outdated phone books, collected and delivered by NYNEX Corp., are ground up by Webb and used as… Read More
Family topped the “most missed list” for soldiers who arrived Friday at Bangor International Airport after serving several months in the Middle East. Certain food items were high on the list, however, with pizza the first dish that most returning troops wanted to consume. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
Work-at-home schemes have plagued consumer organizations for years. Many people are taken in by advertisements that promise a way to make a large amount of money with very little effort. When opportunities don’t pan out, Maine consumers turn to Northeast COMBAT for help. COMBAT offers… Read More
WASHINGTON — The 1980s was not an easy decade for politicians. Voters began measuring their leaders by such standards as the women they pursued, the amount of alcohol they consumed, and the sums of money they raised from political action committees. Indeed, one of the… Read More
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Fleet-Norstar Financial Group Inc. and buyout specialists Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. are negotiating a joint bid for the failed Bank of New England, a newspaper reported Friday. The Wall Street Journal report coincided with a decision by federal regulators to extend… Read More
A piece of legislation marked urgent before the Maine Legislature’s Agriculture Committee would allow cranberry growers to largely sidestep the state Department of Environmental Protection. The bill is a dangerous beginning to what could be an important and profitable business in Maine. Legislative Document 97… Read More
Twenty thousand years ago, the North American continent was covered with a thick sheet of ice down to what is now the Long Island peninsula. The great masses of ice lowered the oceans to the point where a land bridge existed across the Bering Strait between Siberia and… Read More
SOUTH PORTLAND — U.S. Sen. William Cohen said Friday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s expulsion of international journalists set the stage for wholesale executions of Saddam’s opponents. Cohen, speaking at a news conference, said Saddam may even use chemical weapons that were spared against allied… Read More
It is a spectacle to match their spectacular success. It is America’s welcome home to the 82nd Airborne, the Big Red 1, the Marines and medics and aircraft mechanics, the men and women of Operation Desert Storm. Economists refer to the pent-up demand of consumers… Read More
It was a day like no other at Bangor International Airport Friday as hundreds of U.S. soldiers touched down on American soil after several months in the Middle East and were welcomed by hundreds of people amidst a flourish of pride, pomp and patriotism. The… Read More
“I walked through airports in 1968 and was greeted a lot differently. I wanted to be here today to see these soldiers welcomed home properly,” said Carl Andrews of East Corinth. Andrews was among the hundreds of people who gathered at the Bangor International Airport… Read More
ORONO — The University of Maine Image Analysis Laboratory’s Steve Sader is using a French space agency SPOT satellite 500 miles high to monitor timberlands in Maine and winter homes of Maine songbirds in Central America. The mechnical brains involved are an American Landsat satellite… Read More
ORONO — Soprano Nancy Ogle will present an evening of song at 8 p.m. Friday, March 22, in Hauck Auditorium at the University of Maine. Arnold Schoenberg’s “Das Buch der Hangenden Garten” will be the featured work, and the program also will feature Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Wagner. Read More
AUGUSTA — U.S. Sen. William Cohen has announced his Augusta office will move to 150 Capitol St. and will be open at the new location Monday, March 11. Jan Anderson, state office representative, and Jim Pochepan, caseworker, will be among the staff moving to the… Read More
AUBURN — After reporting to police that he had been robbed, an Auburn man landed in jail early Thursday after an officer discovered an outstanding warrant for his arrest. Todd Wayne Leclair, 22, told police he was walking along Court Street at 11:40 p.m. Wednesday… Read More
An impromptu homecoming at Bangor International Airport was witnessed by hundreds of people who gathered at the airport Friday to welcome the returning U.S. troops. Gary Eckmann, a drummer in the John Bapst Memorial High School band, was just about to start playing a patriotic… Read More
AUBURN — For the third year, the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Grand Domain of Maine, is making financial aid available to Maine seniors. Four $500 financial aid grants will be awarded in the following four groups of counties: York, Oxford and Cumberland; Sagadahoc, Kennebec, Somerset, Androscoggin and… Read More
BATH — A Pittston man accused of shooting another hunter in Richmond on the opening day of the 1989 deer season went on trial Thursday in Superior Court for a second time. In its opening statement, the prosecution said Peter Perrino, 41, could not have… Read More
A lawyer representing Penobscot County Jail administrators has filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Bangor for a summary judgment in the civil case of a former female inmate who objected to sharing a jail cell and being housed with a male transsexual. The… Read More
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WASHINGTON — On a day when a magazine named him one of the nation’s “Top 100 Irish-Americans,” Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell was denounced Friday by the Irish National Caucus for introducing a congressional resolution that praised former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. “I… Read More
Talk of pride and victory in war flowed easily as the bands played and the flags waved on Friday, but the tales of horror unfolded more slowly for soldiers returning from the Persian Gulf. In their desert camouflage, the troops looked pleasantly bewildered by the… Read More
The annual Jefferson Awards were conferred Monday on five Maine citizens who were honored for dedication to public service by WLBZ-TV Channel 2 and the American Institute for Public Service. The awards were presented at the Bangor-Brewer YWCA to Earl Dean of Pittsfield, Doris Des… Read More
AUGUSTA — A bill that would prohibit cars and trucks from driving or parking on ice-covered lakes and ponds will be up for public hearing before the Legislature’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Monday, March 11. The bill sponsored by Sen. Beverly M. Bustin,… Read More
Cigarettes and stuffed animals moved fast at Bangor International Airport shops Friday, as hundreds of Desert Storm soldiers sampled Americana for the first time in months. 2nd Lt. Tim Crater of the First Infantry Division stood in front of the magazine rack at Mr. Paperback’s… Read More
NORTH SULLIVAN — Police are investigating the suspicious death of a 58-year-old man whose body was discovered Friday morning in his rented home in North Sullivan. Sgt. Barry Shuman of the State Police Criminal Investigation Division said Friday that police found the body of Wilfred… Read More
WASHINGTON — An Indian star of the movie “Dances With Wolves” joined Colorado Rep. Ben Nighthorse Campbell Wednesday to push legislation that attempts to end the vicious circle of Indians and alcohol. Rodney A. Grant, who played Wind-In-His-Hair in the movie, said many Indian children… Read More
AUGUSTA — Col. Andrew E. Demers of New Gloucester has been nominated to a second term as chief of the Maine State Police. The nomination was made Friday by Maine Public Safety Commissioner John R. Atwood. Demers’ name was formally submitted to the Legislature’s State… Read More