AUGUSTA – It isn’t easy for 10 players from nine different teams to blend together into a cohesive basketball team, especially with only two or three practices under their belts. Having five standout players on one team at one time can lead to individualistic performances. Read More
BALTIMORE (AP) — A performer at a monster truck exhibition died after fireworks strapped to his chest blew up, officials said Sunday. Robert Murphy, 36, was wearing a device at the show Saturday designed to shoot sparks during an intermission anti-drug skit. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
AUGUSTA – Simply put, girls high school basketball in this state hasn’t seen anything like Saturday night’s McDonald’s East-West Senior All-Star game between the top Class A and B players of each region. It was a game of continuous, neck-turning, back-and-forth action. It was basketball’s… Read More
AUGUSTA – South Portland’s John Wassenbergh, a transfer from New York, garnered many of the headlines in southern Maine during the 1991-92 high school basketball season. Matt Greenleaf of Portland’s Deering High School took his turn in the spotlight Saturday while playing among a star-studded… Read More
Although the Husson College women’s softball team got rained out a couple of times and didn’t get to play as many games as Coach Shannon Whiting expected during the spring trip to Florida, the coach came home satisfied, and with a slightly changed lineup. The… Read More
AUGUSTA – Perhaps somebody forgot to mention it to the schoolgirl players from Classes C and D, but Saturday’s 12th annual McDonald’s East-West Senior All-Star games were supposed to be for fun. Instead, a sparse Augusta Civic Center crowd witnessed a sometimes-intense, oftentimes-physical matchup between… Read More
Out and About: With only nine days left in the frozen-water fishing season, ice fishermen are reminded that, under state law, their shacks must be removed from inland waters within three days after the close of ice fishing. Also, if you plan another outing or two on the… Read More
NEWARK, Del. – The University of Delaware baseball team took three games out of four here Saturday and Sunday from the University of Maine in the first North Atlantic Conference matchup of the season for both schools. Delaware swept Maine Sunday, 7-3 and 9-4. Delaware… Read More
Harry Dalton was surprised to be named the seventh recipient of the James R. DiFrederico Award, presented by the basketball officials of Eastern Maine Board 111 during their annual banquet Saturday night at the Ramada Inn in Bangor. Nobody else who knows the history of… Read More
If the University of Maine’s 31-3-2 Black Bears are going to make their fourth appearance in five years in the NCAA Hockey Tournament semifinals, they will have to beat either Boston University’s 22-8-4 Terriers or Michigan State’s 23-10-8 Spartans in the 8 p.m. NCAA East Regional quarterfinal at… Read More
State and local governments that scrounge for money by cutting contributions to their pension funds may be setting a costly time bomb for Americans early in the next century. Government work traditionally has promised the public servant job security and a dandy pension at the… Read More
Eastern Transportation will hold a public hearing on development of a Penobscot and Piscataquis county operations plan at 2 p.m. Monday, March 30, at the Regency Room of the Holiday Inn, 500 Main St., Bangor. Topics will be demand for service, identification of transportation needs,… Read More
The University of Maine System board of trustees on Monday is expected to approve increases in room and board rates on half of the system’s campuses. The increases range between nearly 3 percent and 5.6 percent and would average 1.8 percent the next year. Meeting… Read More
SEARSMONT — “If you moved here to grow drugs, you moved to the wrong town,” said Barbara Jean LaRoche at a surprisingly calm town meeting on Saturday. Although the town discussed, then rejected, three marijuana-related articles on Saturday, the discussion was far tamer than at… Read More
The old Bangor Waterworks building has been a symbol of dormant development opportunity in the area, but today it also stands as an example of the latent potential for state regulators to make routine, no-cost decisions that will encourage local investment. A group of businessmen… Read More
In medieval churches and monasteries, young boys lifted their voices in sacred song. It was a pure sound, sweet yet masterly, with a lilting quality that could stun infidels with faith. On Saturday night, the Vienna Choir Boys brought that same powerful combination of innocence and sophistication to… Read More
When Starks, a small western Maine town, has made headlines recently, it has often been because of an arrest there by the state drug-enforcement agency. The otherwise peaceful town last week apparently had had enough of the busts and passed a non-binding referendum to calling for the legalization… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — A decade ago, Maine Public Service Co. was a prime candidate for bankruptcy and was almost forced by state regulators to merge with a southern Maine electric utility. The company’s participation in the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire was costing… Read More
AUGUSTA — Maps showing forest areas defoliated by the hemlock looper in 1991 and estimates of 1992 population levels have been mailed to 152 towns by the Maine Forest Service. Dick Bradbury, forest service entomologist, said the caterpillars defoliated 225,000 acres last year and would… Read More
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AUGUSTA — Legislative panelists are gearing up for another try at building a working majority to back a major public works bond package. To date, Republican opposition in the Senate has blocked passage of a $90 million proposal that, if approved by voters, could finance… Read More
Friends of Basin Mills continues to work at its mission of winning support for a hydro-electric project on the Penobscot River. Friday they manned a large diorama and display at the Bangor boat show. The scale model of the project that would span the river… Read More
A Bangor woman whose pickup truck struck a parked car late Tuesday and sent it several yards down Main Street faces charges. Theresa Jensen, 29, of 8 State Street Ave. was injured in the crash. She was treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center and released. Read More
HAMPDEN — The advent of technology soon will spare hired hands the traditional and repetitious task of tallying votes into the early hours of the morning after an election. The Town Council approved this week the purchase of a machine that electronically counts votes on… Read More
BAR HARBOR — Almost 70 high school and junior high school jazz bands, combos and individual musicians competed in the Maine Jazz Festival at Mount Desert Island High School Saturday. High school bands placed as follows: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
Nationally known evangelist Tiff Shuttlesworth will visit Glad Tidings Church, 1033 Broadway, Bangor. Crusade services will continue nightly through Sunday, March 29, at 6:30 p.m. nightly and 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Sundays. Shuttlesworth is the third of four sons born to the Rev. Read More
WINTERPORT — Residents ushered in a litany of new spending Saturday during a town meeting that, while mostly quiet, still had its share of politics and nay-sayers. The most expensive of the 50 articles passed was an appropriation of $116,046 for administration. Of that amount,… Read More
I would like to acknowledge Bill and Marlene Whitcomb, owners of New Hermon Mountain Ski Area, for their continuing support of the Hermon school system and its students, interested in the sport of skiing. Special programs which they made available to our students this year allowed more than… Read More
We would like to publicly thank the members of the Theatre of the Enchanted Forest’s Board of Directors for the fine work they did in producing the Second Annual Stone Soup Supper and Auction on March 1. The auction is the theater’s largest fund-raising event, and requires a… Read More
In Michel Tremblay’s play “Bonjour, la, Bonjour,” now playing through April 18 at the Penobscot Theatre, 25-year-old Serge returns to his Montreal-based family after spending three months in Paris. He visits his hard-of-hearing father, who lives with Serge’s two persnickety aunts and shouts about the jealousies of lazy… Read More
AUGUSTA — Unionized state workers are planning to battle this week against an Appropriations Committee plan to cut back their work week from 40 hours to 37 hours, starting July 1, to save $20 million. “We’ve been spending the weekend putting together a battle plan,”… Read More
If plain or mashed potatoes are becoming ho-hum in the meal, try adding diced potatoes with broccoli and other vegetables to a soup or put some in a tomato bisque. Pieces of cheddar cheese left over from a party tray can also be thrown in for a really… Read More
The condition of a Stetson firefighter injured last week while fighting a fire in Etna was upgraded to serious on Sunday, according to a hospital spokesman. Irving Gray, 24, was injured on Monday, March 16, when a chimney fell on him while he was fighting… Read More
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Maine’s finest chefs and foods will be featured during the annual Maine Culinary Fest beginning at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Sugarloaf/USA. The festival of food will benefit the Maine Restaurant Association scholarship fund for aspiring Maine culinary students. In its… Read More
AUGUSTA — Several major issues remain to be resolved in the few days left in the 1992 session, but leaders are confident the Legislature can wrap up business by its self-imposed Friday deadline. Still pending are proposed reforms in state government and Workers’ Compensation, the… Read More
Saturday’s lottery numbers: 888 — 0198 Tri-State Megabucks: 8 9 10 11 24 34 (no winner) Lotto America: 18 27 33 34 44 48 (no winner)… Read More
Maine has gained ground in meeting the overall needs of children in the past year, yet the state has registered a sharp increase in the number of children living in single-parent homes and a rise in the number of Maine children living in poverty, according to a national… Read More
WASHINGTON — Two Maine lawmakers praised the Norwegian government Wednesday for agreeing not to sell nearly 40,000 metric tons of subsidized frozen salmon in the United States. U.S. Sen. William Cohen and Rep. Olympia Snowe said the decision is good news for salmon farmers in… Read More
From the 1892 NEWS Sangerville, Me. The town is billed for the comedy drama Reclaimed to be presented Friday and Saturday evenings, March 11 and 12. The popular comedian, Mr. Wallace Hopper, will appear. Tickets are for sale at the usual place, and at the… Read More
When Pornchai Moontri and his family emigrated to Maine from Thailand several years ago, he was a shy teen-ager who tried to emulate his friends. By Saturday night, he was in a Bangor jail for the second time this year, this time facing a murder charge. Read More
An 18-year-old Bradley man charged with Saturday night’s stabbing death of a Shop ‘n Save employee remained in jail Sunday while the friends and family of 27-year-old Michael Scott McDowell tried to cope with the sudden tragedy. Counselors were at the Shop ‘n Save stores… Read More
LUBEC — Behind the neglected buildings and boarded-up businesses that line Lubec’s Water Street lies the promise of a revitalized, rejuvenated community. That message was delivered Thursday during a meeting aimed at pumping new life into a town that has been viewed for decades as… Read More
PRINCETON — The Princeton annual town meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, March 30, in the gymnasium. The polls will open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. Seats open this year are: one one-year term for town clerk; one one-year term… Read More
PERRY — The deadline for the Washington County Retired Teachers’ Association $500 Scholarship is Wednesday, April 1. The scholarship is open to all Washington County high school graduates who have completed at least one full year of college work and plan to teach school. For… Read More
WINTERVILLE PLANTATION — Voters at Winterville Plantation will pick a second selectman from a field of two candidates at their annual elections Friday, March 27. They also will fill one-year plantation clerk, treasurer and tax collector seats in uncontested elections. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
WHITING — Residents in Whiting will gather at 7 p.m. Monday, March 23, at the Whiting Community Building, to act on a 64-article annual town meeting warrant. Among the items to be decided are the fate of the George L. Bucknam School and more than $3,000 in third-part… Read More
CARIBOU — Plans are underway for a special program and refreshments to honor 8th-graders at Caribou Middle School for scores achieved in the fall testing in the Maine Education Assessment. The students scored above the state average in all six subject areas and and well… Read More
LUBEC — Lubec High School will sponsor a second self-esteem workshop on Wednesday, April 1, at the school. As in the successful “Self-Esteem Workshop I,” held in January, Lubec school system graduates who have been successful within the community will address the students and serve as role models. Read More
VAN BUREN — For almost 40 years, Dr. Onil Labbe provided medical care for the people of Van Buren. Although he has been retired for more than 15 years, he still is affectionately referred to as “Doc Labbe.” Over the span of his medical career,… Read More
AUGUSTA — It feels like anything but the end of a legislative session. Only days remain until lawmakers’ self-imposed deadline for winding up this year’s business, yet the pace through last week was remarkably slow. Floor activity was completed every day by early evening, if… Read More
VAN BUREN — One-hundred-ten Van Buren Secondary School seventh- and ninth-graders participated in a weeklong pilot program on chemical use, abuse and dependency last week. The event was organized by the SAD 24 HOPE (Hope, Optimism, Prevention and Education) Team in the hopes that students,… Read More
NEWINGTON, N.H. — The Pease Development Authority is looking into leasing the former Air Force base property from the government as a way to prevent possible years of delay for business and industrial development. The authority voted last week to enter a long-term lease with… Read More
ADDISON — Matthew Reynolds, the 1992 Washington County spelling champion, will represent the county’s elementary schools at the Maine Spelling Bee during the first week of April at Bates College in Lewiston. Reynolds, the 13-year-old son of Edgar and Linda Reynolds of Basin Road, Addison,… Read More
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Bangor High School will sponsor its second showcase at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in Peakes Auditorium. The focus of the showcase, which will include a performance by the school’s Show Chorus, is to demonstrate opportunities afforded by a comprehensive high school and to highlight… Read More
LUBEC — Although a final “plan of attack” is still being drafted, residents in Lubec and their Canadian neighbors on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, can expect to see work crews begin repairs on the 102-year-old Lubec Channel Lighthouse this summer. According to Lt. Keith Bills,… Read More
The purpose of the homosexual group ACT-UP is to provoke a response from the larger community to issues that the group believes to be important. Like other groups, ACT-UP runs the risk that its behavior may provoke the wrong response as well as the right one. But the… Read More
Those of us who have spent many hundreds of hours trying to understand all of the ramifications of Applied Energy Services building a coal-fired cogeneration plant in Bucksport are very appreciative of coverage of AES and its opponents in the March 7-8 issue of the Bangor Daily News. Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — A school immunization clinic for SAD 1 elementary pupils will be held from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Thursday, March 26, at Zippel Elementary School. The clinic is open to pupils in kindergarten to grade five. A clinic for junior high school pupils,… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The Farmers Homes Administration has set aside funds for farm ownership loans to eligible members of socially disadvantaged groups who will operate family-size farms. A socially disadvantaged group is one whose members have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — A free community lecture titled “Untying the Knots: Alternatives for Superwomen” will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, April 13, at Gould Memorial Hospital. Dr. Lisa Obstfeld, a psychologist in private practice in Fort Fairfield, will lead the program. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The University of Maine at Presque Isle will offer a boys soccer camp during the week of July 20, designed for boys in grades eight through 12. Registration is required by Wednesday, April 1. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — SAD 1 Superintendent Gehrig Johnson presented an impressive list of student performances to the board of directors Wednesday. Johnson reported that a 12-page article in the current edition of Redbook magazine included Presque Isle High School in its list of the nation’s… Read More
WINTERPORT — Candace Hart and Brent Richardson, Leroy H. Smith School students, won $100 in the National Science Toy Tester Contest sponsored by Delta Education for their vehicle which went up a wire 30 feet high faster than its competition. Judging also included how well data was recorded… Read More
BAR HARBOR — Two jazz bands from area high schools created sounds Saturday that will linger with listeners long after the “JAZZ!” festival admission stamps have faded from their hands. Jazz fans came from throughout the state to hear 1,400 musicians in 68 junior high… Read More
SEARSPORT — Grange community service award recipients Emery Dakin and Clarence Littlefield will be honored at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, at the Masonic-Odd Fellows Hall, Main Street, Searsport. The 30th anniversary of Grange Week will be observed during the week beginning Sunday, April 19,… Read More
THOMASTON A call for officer assistance Friday night brought numerous units to the Cushing Road from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, State Police and the Rockland Police Department. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
ROCKLAND — Comedy classics and shorts subjects from the first half of this century will be featured in a movie program beginning at 10:15 a.m. Saturday, March 28, at the Farnsworth Museum. The collage of film shorts begins with “Cops,” an early silent film (1922)… Read More
MONROE — Town meeting voters discussed overdrafts of $84,000, established a radioactive waste ordinance and put road work up for bid on Saturday at the annual town meeting. The town passed an ordinance which prohibited the disposal of radioactive waste material within the boundaries of… Read More
UNITY — Kindergarten registration will be held at the following SAD 3 schools during April by appointment: Monroe Elementary School, Monday, April 6. Call 525-3504. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
CAMDEN — Samoset Resort golf pro Bob O’Brian will provide a series of eight golf lessons at the Camden Snow Bowl beginning Wednesday, April 1. The program will be presented through the Camden Parks and Recreation Department. Beginner classes will be held from 5 to… Read More
THOMASTON — Richard N. Simoneau, a certified public accountant, has announced his Republican candidacy for nomination for the District 80 seat in the House of Representatives. A political novice, Simoneau said he is running because he knows it is time for people to stand up… Read More
ELLSWORTH — A court battle seemed likely for Ellsworth Friday following the failure to negotiate a settlement with Tom Sawyer Inc. or the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. Following a Thursday meeting in Frankfort of nearly a dozen communities opposed to the Orrington trash-to-energy plant’s 1991… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Operations at the Pittsfield Communications Center were disrupted Friday when the department’s radio system failed. According to the police log, the system was out of service for a period of time Friday afternoon. Following temporary repairs, dispatchers and officers reported problems with communications… Read More
PITTSFIELD — The SAD 53 Music Boosters are asking homeowners to participate in a house tour on Saturday, May 30. The proceeds from the tour will be dedicated to the purchase of uniforms for the band at Maine Central Institute. Anyone in the three-town district… Read More
BANGOR — Rainbow or brook trout for pond stocking are being offered this spring by the office of the Penobscot County Soil & Water Conservation District. Delivery will be made at noon Wednesday, May 13, in the parking lot of the USDA building, 970 Illinois… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Preschool registration will be held on Thursday and Friday, April 16 and 17, at Manson Park School for children who will start school in September and who live in Burnham, Detroit and Pittsfield. All children will be involved in screening activities in general readiness, vision, hearing,… Read More
DETROIT — Septic-waste disposal and barking dogs were the subjects of contested articles at Saturday’s annual town meeting in Detroit. Voters scrutinized each proposed expenditure during the 3 1/2-hour meeting. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
PLYMOUTH — A packed house at Plymouth’s historic Grange Hall Saturday debated expenditures in a two-hour town meeting that resulted in few savings beyond those recommended by selectmen. The selectmen, however, were the first to feel the scrutiny of townspeople as voters approved a cut… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Divorces granted on the grounds of irreconcilable marital differences in 13th District Court in Dover-Foxcroft recently were as follows: Gail Ward of Lakeville, Mass., and Richard A. Ward Sr. of Dover-Foxcroft. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
MILO — Plans are being made to hold the annual Milo High School reunion, dance and banquet on Saturday, May 23, at Wingler Auditorium in the town hall. The banquet will begin at 6 p.m. Tickets are $7.50 each and reservations must be made through… Read More
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MILO — Two former Milo selectmen began new three-year terms at the organizational meeting of the board last week. Robert Ellison and Jerry Cole, both of whom had previously served for six years on the board, began their duties Wednesday. Under the town’s revised charter,… Read More
MILO — SAD 41 Superintendent Richard M. Sawyer will present a proposed budget of $4,967, 712 at a special school directors meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, at the Milo Elementary School gymnasium. Although Sawyer’s communication to board members last Friday stated that… Read More