First team Eastern All-American right wing Jean-Yves Roy will be wearing a University of Maine uniform again this year. Roy, who has been Maine’s leading goal scorer the last two seasons with 39 and 37 goals, respectively, was cut from the Canadian Olympic Team even… Read More
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DEXTER – Josh Kiernan of Dexter recorded a hole-in-one on the fifth hole at Dexter Municipal Golf Course Friday. Kiernan, a sophomore, was practicing with the Dexter High golf team. He used a 5-iron on the 180-yard hole. The ace was witnessed by Matt Haskell and Heather Swan,… Read More
Kim McPheters’ second-half goal lifted Brewer to a 1-0 schoolgirl field hockey win over the Bangor Rams at the Witches field Friday in the opener for both teams. McPheters converted off a pass from Meghan McGrath in the second half. Tammy McLaughlin saved 1 of… Read More
Motor Sports HERMON – Once again, $1,000 will be up for grabs to the winner of Speedway 95’s Late Model Sportsman Twin 25s to highlight racing action around the region. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
HAMPDEN – Speed and timing. Mike Hardy of Foxcroft Academy needed both of those qualities while winning Class C state titles in the long jump and triple jump last spring. Friday night, he and his teammates put those skills to use on the football field. Read More
Limestone Eagles fly past Tigers LIMESTONE – Tony Tobin, Chad Ballance and Jonathan Gardner each scored unassisted goals to lift the Limestone Eagles to a 3-0 schoolboy soccer win over the Fort Fairfield Tigers Friday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
LTC The Mattanawcook Academy Lynx, Old Town Indians, and the Orono Red Riots each opened the LTC high school football season with victories Friday night. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
Three of the key components for the University of Maine’s soccer program will be missing along with two other potential starters when the Black Bears open their season against Division II Bentley College of Waltham, Mass., on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Alumni Field in Orono. Read More
Spotlighting Saturday’s local high school football action: Three LTC contests are among a handful of games that dot the schedule for the second day of the 1991 Maine high school football season Saturday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
PTC Gardiner knocked off Skowhegan in a battle of preseason favorites, while Cony of Augusta, Mt. Blue of Farmington and Waterville posted season-opening wins in Pine Tree Conference football action Friday night. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
Feathers ‘n Fins When you pull into the yard at Pat Labree’s Wilderland Kennels in Bradley, you’ll be welcomed by a chorus of bird dogs. When you step into Pat’s office, you’ll realize the well-known trainer and handler of hunting dogs is one of those… Read More
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Walker, Mathers lift Warriors past Bears DYER BROOK – The Southern Aroostook Warriors recorded their first win of the schoolgirl soccer season Friday with a 2-1 verdict over the Easton Bears here Friday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
There’s a line in the film adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s book “The Natural” where Max Mercy, the sportswriter, says to Roy Hobbs, the ballplayer, just before the big game, “You know Hobbs, you’re either going to be a hero or a goat out there. Either way, you’re going… Read More
There is no official coaches’ preseason poll for the first year of women’s soccer in the North Atlantic Conference, but it’s not difficult to figure out which of the five teams is the odds-on favorite. That honor would undoubtedly go the University of Hartford, seeking… Read More
ORONO – The University of Maine football team kicks off its centennial season Saturday against Villanova with the Black Bears feeling they’ve got to prove to the Wildcats they know how to do more than count to 100. Avenging last year’s 31-7 loss at ‘Nova… Read More
It was as gutsy as high school football gets in this state. One week after going for a first down on a fourth-and-short from their own 12-yard line against arch-rival Bangor, the Brewer Witches outdid themselves against the Belfast Lions on Friday night in their… Read More
MADAWASKA — The Madawaska Board of Assessors has accepted a town property revaluation by Scott Appraisal Services and tax bills have been mailed to taxpayers. But a controversy continues. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
CARIBOU — School officials said this week that the Maine Education Assessment scores for grade 11 were lower than anticipated. The scores were below the state average but within the comparison band. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
ROCKLAND — A Knox County grand jury released 31 indictments against 28 people Thursday, plus two secret indictments. Those indicted were: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i… Read More
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND — The Seawall picnic area in Southwest Harbor will be closed for the month of September to allow necessary repairs, Robert Reynolds, Acadia National Park superintendent, has announced. Reynolds encourages visitors to use one of the many other picnic areas in the… Read More
In the past few months I have been reading a lot of articles on the debate over Workers’ Compensation. I am a small business owner in a local town and feel strongly that if an employee should get injured on the job, even though some… Read More
Because of the actions of employees and owners of Speedway 95, I feel it is necessary to make public my opinion. When rules and regulations in stock car racing are overlooked because of loss in business, participants, and spectators, I believe the safety and quality… Read More
As a result of an Aug. 30 meeting at Leonard’s Mills in Bradley, officials of the Board of Environmental Protection ruled that the water level of Chemo Pond shall be lowered 2 feet from the level of the last 60 years. This demand shall be met by blasting… Read More
Parents, if you want your kid (child, son, daughter, or any kid you’re in charge of) to get a good start in school this year, here are a few tips: Try to make sure they’re in a good mood when they come to school in… Read More
I would like to thank Stewart Muncey for writing to your paper concerning sexually abused children (Readers Write, Aug. 31-Sept. 1). Also, thank you for taking an interest in this vital issue. I also would like to ask others to speak out against child molesters. Read More
My daughter Stacey has taken swimming lessons at the YWCA for the past three years, and the last session ended on Aug. 29. Because we are moving out of state the end of this month, that was also Stacey’s final swim class. I would like… Read More
PALMYRA — Fund-raising efforts this summer in Palmyra, which included a walk-a-thon, bottle drives, a public supper and the sale of hot dogs at the Central Maine Egg Festival, enabled the Palmyra Recreation Committee to outlay $1,000 for an ice skating rink. The project is… Read More
NEWPORT — Tips from a citizen led to the arrest this week of two juveniles that slashed 28 tires, severed brake lines and damaged vehicles in a senior citizen complex in Corinna. On Wednesday, a citizen’s cooperation resulted in the apprehension of two young burglars… Read More
ALBANY, N.Y. — A state judge on Friday upheld New York state’s right to adopt tougher auto emission standards. State Supreme Court Justice George Cobb said that Environmental Conservation Commissioner Thomas Jorling had the authority to adopt the so-called California emissions standards. The standards were… Read More
CORINNA — One might say that the Levi Stewart Library Building in Corinna has played an important part in the life of John Bird. For 31 years, Bird was town manager of Corinna, and just about every working day for those 31 years was spent… Read More
BOSTON — The development of new liquids to moisten people’s eyes will make contact lenses easier to wear, a researcher predicts. “There will be products on the market in a few years that will be a quantum leap from what’s available now,” said Dr. Donald… Read More
BOSTON — Scientists appear to have prevented the stranding of an estimated 45 pilot whales that were seen disoriented and confused off First Encounter Beach on Cape Cod. Volunteers in motorboats and kayaks herded the animals to deeper water, but were keeping a lookout through… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Coping with the changes that the new independence movement will bring to students in the Soviet Union will be an enormous undertaking for the psychologists in that country. This month about 18 school counselors from the United States, selected by the American School… Read More
NEWPORT — Revisions in the town’s recycling ordinance will be placed before Newport voters at a special town meeting on Wednesday, September 18. If approved by voters, the revised ordinance would include a list of current recyclables and would give selectmen the authority to amend… Read More
NEWPORT — Tax bills were mailed out in Newport this week. Taxpayers are faced with an 8.6 percent increase in their bills over the previous year. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The administration at Foxcroft Academy on Friday was inundated with calls from Dover-Foxcroft residents who questioned the legitimacy of a business that was representing itself as school-sanctioned. Showcase Promotions East, a new business in Farmington, is using “tremendously high pressure sales tactics at… Read More
Police were kept busy Friday investigating accidents in Aroostook County. Two men from Fort Kent and one from Eagle Lake were taken to The Aroostook Medical Center after a 12:35 p.m. accident on the Pinkham Lumbering Road in T11 R7, near Ashland. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
HERMON — A large swath of land in Hermon is one of a handful of sites in central and eastern Maine still under consideration for a regional landfill to handle special waste. “We have major concerns about it,” Town Manager Kathryn Ruth said. “There’s a… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Russell Greene, 31, of Pittsfield was arrested Thursday evening and charged with aggravated furnishing of a Schedule Z drug after Pittsfield Police executed a search warrant at his 24 Bates St. apartment. During a search of Greene’s apartment, Police Chief Bill Lawrence and… Read More
LIMESTONE — Project Graduation in Limestone is selling tickets to the Northern 100 Limited Late Model Shoot-Out on Sunday, Sept. 15, at Spud Speedway, as a fund-raising activity. The 100-lap race will begin at 1 p.m. with participants expected from throughout Maine and Canada. Committee… Read More
CARIBOU — Barbara M. Scott of Caribou has been named manager of the Mr. Paperback bookstore which opened in mid-August at the Skyway Plaza ion Caribou. Scott has worked for various businesses, and was a freelance writer and photographer for the Aroostook Republican and News… Read More
VAN BUREN — The Van Buren Economic Development Committee discussed filming a Van buren promotional video using Van Buren District Secondary School students Thursday night. The 45-minute video would be part of the towns’ strategy to entice business and industry. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
EASTPORT — Trucks loaded with wood lumbering through Eastport and the resulting damage they seem to do to the streets and buildings prompted the City Council to take a get-tough route on overweight vehicles. Complaints to the city have increased recently, specifically about overladen trucks… Read More
A burglary was reported Friday morning at the Country Bargains store on Route 190 in Perry. Washington County Sheriff’s Deputy Lester Seeley said the burglars apparently entered the building during the night by breaking the lock on the door. The thieves stole several cartons of cigarettes, various snack… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Most people are uncomfortable, to say the least, when discussing dying and death. But a group of volunteers in Somerset County, part of a statewide network of support staff, work on a daily basis with people facing their own imminent death. Hospice of… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — While high school students are prepared for college, the military and other vocations, few are prepared to perform some of the basic life skills such as balancing a checkbook, registering to vote or applying for a loan. This will change for Foxcroft Academy… Read More
GREENVILLE — Greenville contractors will be allowed to use the town’s sand and salt pile this winter. The Greenville Board of Selectmen voted Wednesday to allow town contractors the use of the sand and salt provided the amount needed was paid for in advance. The… Read More
MILO — Milo Town Manager Jane Jones reported to selectmen at a meeting Tuesday that 50.2 percent of the taxes of the 1991 tax commitment had been collected, an amount of $466,000. Residents who paid taxes during a 15-day discount period were allowed discounts of $13,964. Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Four divorces were granted on the grounds of irreconcilable marital differences recently in 13th District Court. They were as follows: Lincoln Badger of Sangerville and Mary Sadie Badger of Brewer. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
ROCKLAND — The Rockland District High School Interactive Theater (L.O.V.E. IT) Learning Our Values Emotionally, Interactive Theater, returns for its second year. This theater group presents original material covering a broad range of topics and encourages the audience to become involved in the presentation by asking questions of… Read More
BURNHAM — David Kurz, assistant director of the Bureau of Intergovernmental Drug Enforcement, said that three recent harvests of marijuana in Burnham have netted 153 plants and one arrest. Kurz said the harvests took place on Aug. 22 and 23 and Sept. 3 in six… Read More
ROCKLAND — The city will seek legal certification to allow Rockland Transfer Station employees to issue court summonses to violators of the recycling laws. City Manager Cathy Sleeper said Friday that the penalty portion of the recycling ordinance will go into effect Friday, Sept. 13. Read More
ROCKLAND — A statewide program to bring free legal services to Maine’s older citizens is being offered by Legal Services for the Elderly for those over 60, every 3rd Tuesday of the month. Locally this is being sponsored by Mid-Coast Retired Senior Volunteer Program and Senior Spectrum. Paralegal… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Parents, teachers, school administrators and other professionals concerned with special needs children will gather, Oct. 26, at the Ellsworth Holiday Inn to examine their unusual partnership in a daylong conference sponsored by Hancock County Parent Awareness. The conference is open to Hancock, Washington… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Downeast Transportation is operating a regularly scheduled commuter bus service between Bar Harbor and the University of Maine in Orono. The new commuter service made its inaugural run Sept. 3, the first day of the university’s fall semester. The commuter service arrives at… Read More
BAR HARBOR — Both a personal and professional look at living with chronic disability was given at an all-day seminar Friday in Bar Harbor. Sponsored by the Bar Harbor Division of Community Health Services, the seminar attracted health care providers and chronically disabled persons and… Read More
BELFAST The following cases were heard recently by Judge Bernard C. Staples in 5th District Court at Belfast: 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
Fellow city workers on Friday came to the aid of Robert Wilson. The security guard and caretaker at Bass Park lost his belongings Thursday night when a fire destroyed the trailer he lived in behind the barns at the park. Wilson was not home when… Read More
EASTBROOK — The school year will begin on Monday, Sept. 16, for students at the Cave Hill School, after an unexpected extension of summer vacation. Herb Robinson, superintendent for SAD 26, confirmed Friday that the building had reached the point of “substantial completion” and would… Read More
In separate incidents Thursday morning, Bangor police arrested two people and charged them with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. John L. Gray, 37, of 69 Sunbury Ave. was arrested around 1 a.m. and Timothy McLaughlin, 33, of 127 Cedar… Read More
The election for three seats on the Bangor City Council is shaping up as the race of the retreads, while School Committee elections may be heating up this year. All five council candidates previously served on the council. Five is also the number of canidates… Read More
HOULTON — A Houlton man was in critical condition Friday afternoon at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor after he was injured Friday morning when his vehicle struck a tractor-trailer rig on Interstate 95. Ronald Crabbe, 29, of Houlton and Alaska, was injured at about… Read More
A story Friday about a new program at the Bangor YMCA incorrectly reported that a 50-percent discount was available on the membership fee. The discount is offered on the $50 joining fee. Also, the story reported that a puppet show would be presented on Sept. 11 at the… Read More
Bangor police continued their investigation Friday into the deaths of Dawn Hodgdon-White of Bangor and her friend, David Longfellow, who were shot and killed early Thursday morning at Longfellow’s Bangor Gardens residence. Investigators were continuing their examination of the scene of the slayings and were… Read More
Thomas Libby, 22, stretched out his thin frame on the lawn in front of his Brewer apartment, briefly lowering his head to the grass. “I could go to sleep right here,” said Libby. Exhausted by kidney disease and worried about his family’s financial future, the… Read More
Mark Rettick knows all about being on call. He flies Lear jets for an international organization called Lifeline. He works out of Bloomington, Ill., and transports patients from one hospital to another or organs to people who cannot live without them whenever his beeper beckons. Read More
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Boat Owners Association of the United States spokesman has said that many damage claims resulting from Hurricane Bob have been paid and all claims are expected to be settled by Sept. 30. More than 6,000 boats were damaged in eight states,… Read More
The woman who runs the nation’s Medicare and Medicaid programs told 500 people at a health care conference in South Portland on Friday that she was just as upset as they were with skyrocketing costs, and that there were no quick answers. “It is frustrating… Read More
OWLS HEAD — Three young men walked away from a spectacular crash when their vehicle went out of control on a curve at a speed 90 mph. The accident occurred Friday morning at a school bus stop just minutes before a dozen children were scheduled… Read More
One thing I am absolutely, unequivocally, without-a-doubt sure of in this world of otherwise unsure things: Politicians are definite beauts who will stop at nothing to get their names in print and their faces on television. It has been so since the beginning of time and will be… Read More
ORONO — Timothy J. Maciel has been named director of the Intensive English Institute at the University of Maine. Maciel has taught and administered programs in English as a second language in Brazil, China, Colombia, Korea, the Philippines and Switzerland. He holds a master’s degree in international educational… Read More
PORTLAND — A 29-year-old bank teller from Auburn pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges she embezzled more than $72,325 from Casco Northern Bank over nearly six years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Nancy Guptill, a former employee of Casco Northern, pleaded in U.S. District Court. Read More
New research made public last week bolsters scientists’ claims that performing a woman’s breast-cancer surgery during the second half of her menstrual cycle can significantly improve her chances for survival. Coming on the heels of a widely publicized London study that reached the same conclusion,… Read More
CHICAGO — More men who were treated to control their risk of heart disease died after the program stopped than did men who never were treated, according to a Finnish study that surprised researchers and heart experts. The study’s authors and other doctors can’t explain… Read More
LUBBOCK, Texas — A clerical error in the Legal Immigration Act of 1990 has created a loophole that rural hospitals are fighting to keep open so they can attract much-needed doctors. The law, to take effect Oct. 1, would allow hospitals to hire foreign medical… Read More
LIMESTONE — The reality of life in Aroostook County without Loring Air Force Base became clearer Friday when Pentagon officials outlined the government base-closure process to more than 100 state and local officials. At Loring AFB, John Rittenhouse, the director of installation management for the… Read More
PORTLAND — A citizens group, angry about what it contends were unfair property revaluations, launched a drive Friday to recall six of Portland’s nine City Council members. Many city residents, particularly those living on Portland’s islands in Casco Bay, have been complaining for weeks about… Read More
AUBURN — An Auburn man pleaded innocent Thursday to a murder charge in the slaying of his 29-year-old stepsister and was returned to the Androscoggin County Jail to await trial. Daniel Dwyer, 24, was indicted last month in the death of Corinne Vye, 24, who… Read More
Kevin A. Cooper told a judge Friday in Bangor that he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in jail for attempting to murder Francis McGrath last year. His sentence accommodated that — the longest he could have received was 60 years —… Read More
A Colombian man was arrested Friday in Miami, Fla., in connection with a federal indictment from Bangor that charged 12 people with plotting to free two Colombian cocaine pilots held in a Fredericton, New Brunswick, jail. The FBI’s capture of Huvar Valencia, 50, of Miami… Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE — As religious tolerance grows, more and more tribal treatment centers are turning to native rituals to combat the insidious problem of alcoholism among the Indians. One such center is the Three Fires Halfway House deep in the Michigan woods, which claims a success rate of… Read More
PORTLAND — Maine’s freedom of information law would be weakened if the Lewiston Police Department is allowed to keep secret the identity of an officer involved in a shooting, a newspaper’s attorney argued Friday before the supreme court. But an attorney for the city countered… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Internal Revenue Service has been erroneously charging businesses penalties for late tax payments because of a glitch in one of its computers, an IRS official in Maine acknowledged Friday. The problem appears to be national in scope, although IRS officials were still… Read More
Sarah Haroden of Rural Route 1, Box 166, Steuben 04680, wants directions for fisherman’s mittens. Florence Eldridge of Jackson will be 87 years old on Thursday, Sept. 19, and would like cards. She still lives in her home of 65 years at Brooks. Her address… Read More
Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. has asked the state for permission to close and dispose of a licensed hazardous waste storage facility located behind the utility’s garage at 664 Main St. in Bangor. The facility, a 16-by-24-foot cinder block building, has been licensed since 1983 for the… Read More
Beginning today and continuing through Sunday at the Bangor Auditorium, more than 100 gun dealers and exhibitors from across the United States and Canada will display modern firearms, military memorabilia and acessories for hunters, collectors and target shooters. The weekend event, sponsored by Bangor Daily… Read More
WARWICK, R.I. — The Northeast Law Enforcement Officers Association, the Community College of Rhode Island and the Warwick Police Department will hold a two-day seminar, Forensic and Clinical Aspects of Ritual Crime and Abuse, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, and continuing through Friday, Sept. 27, at… Read More
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A former commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection has been asked to direct the state’s controversial search for two special-waste landfill sites. Henry E. Warren, who was DEP commissioner under former Govs. James B. Longley and Joseph E. Brennan, will serve as director… Read More
When Gov. John McKernan blamed an uncooperative Democratic leadership for the fact that he will not call a special session to address lingering Workers’Compensation issues, his words were angry but he must have shared the state’s relief that this contentious, bitter debate would not be renewed immediately. Read More
AUGUSTA — September usually is the kindest month in Maine, partly because rhetoric in the State Capitol is at an ebb. This September could be different, however. Fallout from the shutdown of state government has yet to settle. Arguments continue over who was at fault… Read More
ST. JEAN DE-LA-LANDE, Quebec — Quebec Provincial Police were completing their investigation Friday into an Aug. 30 accident that took the life of a Fort Kent woman and injured another seriously. Conflicting information had come from different investigators throughout the week. On Friday, Agent Jean… Read More
Michael Rohde of Westfield, N.J., and Vladimir Akopian of Armenia are grandmasters and co-champions of the 1991 U.S. Open. Each scored 10 or 12 points at the Los Angeles event and Rohde won the champion’s Fidelity Cup on tiebreakers. Akopian is a full-time chess player… Read More
Hammond Street Congregational Church will hold SURFF Day — Summer Reflections-Fall Focus Day — on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the church on the corner of Hammond and High streets in Bangor. The event, sponsored by the Christian Education Committee, is designed to offer something for everyone. Read More
On the evening of Sunday, Sept. 8, the Jewish world ushers in the New Year 5752 with prayers and special ceremonies. The services are the longest of the year, and the trumpet-like sound of a ram’s horn is enthusiastically anticipated while the melodies of the New Year period… Read More
ORONO — Scott Mower of Orono has entered St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore under the sponsorship of the Roman Catholic of Diocese of Portland. Mower attended Orono schools and graduated from Orono High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in child development from the University… Read More