Matt Arsenault of Old Town and Kristen Woodcock of Mt. Blue in Farmington were selected as the Most Valuable Players in the John Bapst/Bangor Auditorium Holiday Classic that finished up Tuesday in Bangor. Arsenault is joined on the boys All-Tourney squad by Old Town teammates… Read More
Jared Libby, who spearheaded Lawrence of Fairfield’s drive to the Pine Tree Conference football championship and a state runnerup finish, is among the three finalists for the 1993 James J. Fitzpatrick Trophy. Chris Whalen of Gardiner and South Portland’s Bert Rich are the two other… Read More
HOULTON – Liz Nelson scored 24 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to help the Houlton Shiretowners roll past the Caribou Vikings 61-35 in schoolgirl basketball action Tuesday night. The Shiretowners outscored the Vikings 14-4 in the second quarter after leading 13-12 after the first. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
Women’s College Basketball PISCATAWAY, N.J. – It has been a record-setting year for the University of Maine women’s basketball team. Unfortunately for first year coach Joanne Palombo, the records being set are on the negative side. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
LIMESTONE – Tony Tobin erupted for 33 points and Limestone withstood a late Madawaska rally as the Eagles earned a 52-50 schoolboy basketball victory here Tuesday night. Trevor Patten added 10 points for Limestone, which improved to 5-2. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
Women’s College Basketball SALEM, Mass. – Toopie Baccum scored 18 points and Salem State College held Bowdoin College of Brunswick to 19 second-half points en route to a 69-45 basketball victory in the first round of the Salem State Christmas Tournament here Tuesday. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
If you live in America, your daughter has significantly less chance of growing up to become a college and professional athlete than does your son. There are a lot of rationales for this state of affairs, but most of them boil down to the fact… Read More
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The first week of the Eastern Maine Indoor Track League’s regular season has already seen two triple winners and a record-setting performance. J.J. Reith from Mattanawcook Academy in Lincoln and Bryan Graham from George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill pulled off identical triple wins in… Read More
At the moment Dan Hillman banked home the game-winning shot at the buzzer in last week’s 56-54 win over Bradley University, the senior backup center for the University of Maine men’s basketball team experienced the kind of lightning bolt of joy such plays engender. Having… Read More
This comes to you from the “what-a-nice-thing-to-do” department. I recently received a copy of the scrapbook Ashland High School girls soccer coach Bill Nemer presents to his players at the end of the season. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
NewsChannel 13 Boys Basketball Poll PORTLAND – Results of the weekly NewsChannel 13 Maine Schoolboy Basketball Poll, with team’s record, and last week’s position in parentheses: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
GAVLE, Sweden – Twin brothers Chris and Peter Ferraro of the Univesity of Mainecombined for seven points as the United States routed Japan 12-2 Tuesday for its first victory in the World Junior Hockey Championships. The U.S. team (1-2) led 5-0 after the first period… Read More
RICHFIELD, Ohio – University of Maine junior defenseman and alternate captain Chris Imes picked a perfect time to snap a nine-game goal-scoring drought. Imes scored 27 seconds into the second period to trigger a string of four unanswered goals as the Black Bears ran their… Read More
Old Town High School, with three Eastern Maine Class B hockey championships in the last four years, is again favored to win the regional crown. Perennial power Winslow will also be in the hunt. But three of the six “B” teams located in eastern and… Read More
As a student of Old Town High School I feel cheated. I can walk down any given hall, into any given classroom, into any locker room or into the cafetorium and be astounded by the things I hear. “There’s no AIDS in Old Town, we… Read More
In the Dec. 15 account of the economic summit held in Little Rock by President-elect Clinton, you included the comment from Ford Motor Co. Chairman Harold Poling to the effect that his company spent more on health care than on steel. This says two things… Read More
Readers Write, Dec. 18, “Go get ’em, IRS,” struck me as being one-sided. All through (Janet Spencer’s) letter it talked about men not assuming responsibilities. I don’t recall any mention of a woman, and I would like to point out that there are also “deadbeat moms” out there… Read More
We are writing in response to a letter to the editor (Readers Write, Dec. 16). We are students of Central Aroostook Alternative School which is part of the SAD 42 school system. The program is housed at the Mars Hill Community Center. Students are not… Read More
I would like to thank the members of the Veazie Senior Citizens Club for the generosity that made our Christmas project such a success. … Not only did we get our food baskets filled to overflowing, but we had four cartons of canned goods left… Read More
Walter Griffin’s front page article in the Dec. 19-20 Maine Weekend Midcoast edition, about the decision of the State Board of Property Tax Review in the case of Catfield vs. the Town of Rockport, does not give the whole story. The most significant outcome of the case, having… Read More
In reference to the recent ballot-tampering episodes, I think it’s disgraceful that anything like that could happen here in Maine. You might expect it in big cities like Chicago or Boston while machine politics run rampant, but not in small Maine towns where honesty in the democratic process… Read More
The Great Race In the darkness of a September morning in Bangor five balloons lifted off the infield of Bass Park and soared into history. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
FREDERICTON, New Brunswick — Residents of the Kingsclear Indian Reserve, 15 miles east of Fredericton, are adamant about their plans to open a gambling casino. The move would bring them head-to-head with the province’s Department of Justice because such gambling operations are illegal under provincial… Read More
CONCORD, N.H. — Newport’s misery will be on national display again next week when another television crime show investigates the disappearance of John Fairbanks, the judge who fled one day after being indicted on charges he stole more than $1.8 million from clients. The theft… Read More
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Shellfisherman Philip Holmes didn’t have a very good holiday this year. Usually his business is booming at this time, but this year he had to sit idly back while watching his profits float away with the tides. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
It is a Midweek tradition to pause on the last Wednesday of the year and look back over the past 12 months before forging ahead into the new year. The Bangor Daily News’ staff reporters who cover the people and events in the Bangor area have compiled their… Read More
VAN BUREN — Although they are separated by 86 years and several generations, two pen pals from Van Buren have plenty to talk about. Adam Levesque, 10, and 96-year-old Ozithe Pelletier began corresponding shortly after school opened this year as part of an annual joint… Read More
WINTHROP — An ice boater credited with rescuing a teen-ager who fell through the ice on Maranacook Lake scoffs at the idea that he did anything heroic. “I guess I was the nearest person,” said Robert Ifill, 69, who heard Chris Johnston’s cries for help… Read More
PORTLAND — A 7-year-old girl with AIDS who moved to Florida for its warmer climate will be returning to Portland. Autum Aquino’s mother says she and her daughter got a frosty reception in their new hometown of Lakeland, Fla. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
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FORT KENT — The Fort Kent Columbiettes have donated $100 to the Hospice of Aroostook memorial fund. Hospice volunteer Alma Laferriere accepted the gift on behalf of the fund from Columbiettes President Ruth Thibeault. St. John Valley hospice coordinator Anne Paradis will present an educational… Read More
Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve. This being a time for reflection, let’s take a look at what I consider to be the top 10 sports stories of the year in Maine. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
CARIBOU — The Save Loring Committee began a new round of fund raising Monday by asking the city of Caribou for a $12,000 donation. Committee Members Bill Johnston and Jeffrey Frost told the City Council that the requests to communities would be the same as… Read More
OAKFIELD — Residents of Oakfield voted 64 to 4 Monday to withdraw from the Southern Aroostook Solid Waste Disposal District. The vote was scheduled prior to Dec. 31 so that the town would not be assessed for any share of the district’s 1993 budget which… Read More
CAMDEN — Winners of the holiday greeting card contest sponsored by Bay Chamber Concerts and Maine Coast Artists Gallery for third- and fourth-graders were announced last weekend at a Bay Chamber Christmas Concert. One hundred thirty-three entries were received from six schools; MacDougal School in… Read More
HOULTON — The Houlton Town Council voted 4 to 2 Monday night to purchase 70 acres of land in Monticello from which the town will get cover material for its landfill. The land is owned by David Dysart of Monticello and will be purchased for… Read More
HOULTON — The following cases were among those heard by Judge David B. Griffiths on Monday, Dec. 21, in 2nd District Court in Houlton. Only those cases with fines totaling $100 or more are listed. Craig A. Lewis, 31, Bangor, possession of marijuana, $100; illegal… Read More
MACHIAS — Wayne Mallar, a Machias resident and owner of Howard’s Men’s Shop in Machias, has been named the new county bookkeeper. Mallar said Tuesday that he was notified of the Washington County Commissioners’ decision Sunday by Chairman Preston Smith. “I wanted to get back… Read More
LUBEC — Lubec Town Clerk Marylyn Curtis earned a vote of public support at a special town meeting here Monday, as residents in an 85-31 decision rejected a bid to change the clerk’s office from an elected position to one appointed annually by selectmen. Curtis,… Read More
MACHIAS — The 1992 Christmas baby at Down East Community Hospital in Machias was Kirby Seeley McPhail, born at 8:54 p.m. Friday, Dec. 25, the daughter of Tammy and Peter McPhail of Edmunds. Dr. Stephen Graham of East Machias was the attending physician. The baby… Read More
A small group of Monson residents voted Monday to spend up to $10,400 from surplus for the construction and operation of a transfer station. About 14 people attended the special town meeting during which authorization was given to the Board of Selectmen to enter into… Read More
MACHIAS — The first auction in the history of the Washington County Soil and Water Conservation District will be held during the district’s annual meeting as a means of restoring an acceptable level of operating funds for the district. “It will be the first auction… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Womancare will hold its 1993 winter-spring training for volunteer advocates assisting victims of abuse beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday Jan. 28, in the Dover-Foxcroft office. Womancare, a domestic violence project serving Piscataquis and southwest Penobscot counties, provides a vast array of services. The… Read More
MILO — While many students are enjoying the holiday break from school, a Milo eighth-grader is packing for the second half of his school year. Nikolas E. Granger, 14, the son of Janet Granger of Milo and Steven Granger of Dammam, Saudi Arabia, will spend… Read More
MILO — The store used to advertise “Open 365 days a year.” It closed its doors last week. Jones Market, a convenience store on the corner of Park and First streets since 1967, has closed. Owner Arthur Jones, known affectionately as “Bob,” now is working… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Six men were fined $1,000 and sentenced in 13th District Court in Dover-Foxcroft to three days in jail for night hunting. They were as follows: Kenneth L. Burgess, 37, Winthrop; Donald R. Higgins, 40, North Monmouth; Stephen H. Grant, 38, Cherryfield; Kerry Burgess,… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Two sweatshirt-painting classes will be held in January at the Somerset County Senior Center in Skowhegan. The first class is scheduled at Jan. 5 and the second on Jan. 19. Cost for each class is $5. A padded photo album class will be… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — City councilors had their first look on Monday at a proposed 1993 budget that has no tax increase, keeps basic services available, but defers many capital improvement projects. “The (municipal) budget is within the parameters desired by the City Council, excluding schools… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Town councilors elected to take their pay in 1993 as they approved the new budget Tuesday night. A municipal budget of $1,943,859, including $240,000 in capital expenditures, was approved quickly and unanimously. In 1992, councilors opted to forego their $300 stipend as a… Read More
HARTLAND — Town Manager Peggy Morgan is confident the Hartland town dump will continue to operate in 1993 despite a state-imposed Dec. 31 deadline to close. In 1989, the Hartland dump was one of 260 landfill across the state ordered to close by Dec. 31,… Read More
MILO — To help him look British, his grandmother and great-aunt have purchased a trench coat and umbrella for him to use. Timothy Gallagher, a graduate of Penquis Valley High School in Milo and now a student at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., is going… Read More
FRANKFORT — A Searsport woman who had more than enough help getting her own car out of a ditch here late Monday has been charged with abandoning an injured victim of her accident. Twyla Thompson, 27, was summoned for leaving the scene of a personal-injury… Read More
THOMASTON — The Board of Selectmen has entered into contract negotiations with Police Chief Victor Kraft. The board decided to begin discussions with Kraft after meeting with the chief behind closed doors Monday night. Indications are that the contract will run two years. Four board… Read More
ROCKLAND — Everyone knows “Popeye.” If area residents haven’t seen Maurice Lindsey, 67, playing Popeye for 45 years at the Maine Lobster Festival, then they probably have seen him walking with a pronounced limp on the weekly 16-mile trip to Camden to see his mother… Read More
ROCKLAND — Police are investigating a house break-in at 40 Admontem St. that occurred Monday night. Lt. Michael Collins said the break-in was reported by David Hall who returned home at 9:02 p.m. to find that his house had been entered. Investigators determined entrance was… Read More
UNION — Soon-to-be-discarded Christmas trees can be turned from rubbish into the gift of life in a fund-raising project under way by emergency-service volunteers in Appleton, Hope, Warren, Washington and Union. The five towns formed the lifesaving team Special Hazards 5 in October and have… Read More
ROCKLAND — Records at Knox County Superior Court showed that Maine State Prison inmate Kenneth Deicke Jr., 43, has been indicted for arson and conspiracy to commit arson. The indictment concerned the June 18, 1991, fire at the Remnant Rug Rack in Rockland. Deicke was… Read More
ROCKLAND — It looks like the Knox County Budget Committee could get its hands slapped for reaching into the county commissioners cookie jar. At Tuesday night’s budget hearing the budget committee voted 5-3 to dip into a jail reserve account for $61,800 to make the… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The Christian Coalition of Hancock County recently met and has organized into a working chapter. According to Tom Newman, chapter chairman, the group’s constituents will be mostly evangelical and Roman Catholic Christians but also anyone who shares the views and ideals of the… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Winter classes of the Young Writers Workshop will begin in January. A five-week course on creative writing for children 8 to 14 will be held Saturday mornings starting Jan. 9. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
The Orono Fire Department responded to Aubert Hall at the University of Maine Tuesday afternoon after a professor knocked over a 2-liter beaker of acid. The professor cleaned up and neutralized the acid and opened a window to air out the room, said Orono Fire… Read More
BLUE HILL — Voters at a special town meeting Monday evening decided against changing the town tax collector position from elective to appointed. Selectman Gordon Emerson said Tuesday that he and his colleagues had hoped to appoint and train a tax collector to replace Olive… Read More
BUCKSPORT — Members of the Bucksport Town Council authorized the town manager to retain legal and appraisal experts to assist the community Tuesday in the aftermath of the Champion International Corp.’s request for a $1.4 million tax abatement. Two weeks ago, the paper company filed… Read More
BAR HARBOR — Community leaders from local government, business, schools, health and social services and environmental groups from Mount Desert Island have been invited to a second problem-solving conference in January. The daylong conference “Island Network: Solving Our Problems Locally” will be held from 7:30… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The following is a partial list of the cases processed Dec. 17-23 in the central division of 5th District Court in Ellsworth. Not included in the listing are traffic offenses resulting in fines of less than $100. Valori A. Ames, 22, Hancock, operating… Read More
The Orono Fire Department responded to Aubert Hall at the University of Maine Tuesday afternoon after a professor knocked over a 2-liter beaker of acid. The professor cleaned up and neutralized the acid and opened a window to air out the room, said Orono Fire… Read More
A 20-year-old Enfield man who led police on a high-speed chase last fall that stretched from Orono to Burlington was sentenced Monday in Penobscot County Superior Court. Brad Gordon originally was indicted on five charges stemming from the Sept. 18 chase. Three of the charges… Read More
LEVANT — The town’s recycling committee has contracted with the town of Palmyra and will be instituting a curbside pickup of recyclables. According to Town Manager Mary Casciotti, the recycling effort will begin with newspapers, tin cans and No. 2 plastics. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
GREENBUSH — Seven sites have been identified within the town as potential locations for a new disposal area for demolition debris. “Now we have to contact the owners to see if we can do soil samples,” said Town Manager Robert Littlefield. He said the sites… Read More
PORTLAND — A man who allegedly set fire to the apartment he shared with other mentally disabled adults was arraigned in District Court on Tuesday after the city’s police chief blasted the state for his release. Brian W. Lunt, 37, moved to Portland last March… Read More
It’s not unusual for new recruits to follow in their fathers’ footsteps when they join the military. But a senior at Bangor High School is following in her mother’s footsteps at the Maine Air National Guard. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
WASHINGTON — Documents obtained by a Canadian newspaper suggest that the U.S. State Department spied on Acadian activists during the 1960s because of fears that the Quebec separatist movement might spill across the American border into Maine and other states with large Franco populations. One… Read More
Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger will not have to stand trial and be faced, again, with being asked to reveal what his bosses, then President Reagan and Vice President Bush, knew about Iran-Contra. But before the record of why he was pardoned by President Bush becomes permanent,… Read More
The Department of Environmental Protection, unable to complete a review of a dam-licensing request for Central Maine Power, wants the company to resubmit the request and pay an additional $50,000 in filing fees. The fee is a minuscule amount for the company, but it raises the large issue… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The Bates Mazda-Volkswagen dealership in Presque Isle will close its doors Thursday and lay off 16 employees. The employees were told Tuesday that they had lost their jobs. “Business has been so poor, I made a decision today that I didn’t want… Read More
AUGUSTA — Central Maine Power Co. said Tuesday it plans to seek a general rate increase of $95 million — about 10 percent — that could take effect as early as next winter. CMP also filed a request for a temporary, $30 million rate increase… Read More
WASHINGTON — The government on Tuesday issued patents for three laboratory mice. The patents, the first since 1988 to recognize ownership of a genetically-altered animal species are regarded by researchers as critical for biotechnology research. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office gave notice in its… Read More
GUILFORD — A new winter sport of racing snowmobiles over open water has raised alarm among wardens in the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. While the daredevil sport is gaining in popularity, those caught performing the stunt will not only face a fine, but… Read More
Far from being a miracle cure for Maine’s sick Workers’ Compensation system, the sweeping changes that take effect Friday may be little more than a Band-Aid. That was the fear of some business and labor leaders this week, as they awaited the start of a… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — A 13-year-old Skowhegan boy is on the road to recovery from heart transplant surgery in Boston and received Christmas gifts from New England Patriots star Irving Fryar. Travis Conway is walking, tossing a ball and eating like a teen-ager, says his mother, Gail. Read More
You’re never too old to learn. The Maine Educational Opportunity Center, which is featured in the University of Maine’s December offering of the “Snapshots” magazine show, reinforces that adage. The center, designed to provide postsecondary educational opportunities for low-income, first-generation youth and adults, is playing… Read More
A Bangor lawyer accused of threatening several people, then violating a bail restriction, was granted new bail Tuesday under modified conditions. Richard Maraghy, 46, of Orrington had been incarcerated on the bail-violation charge since his arrest earlier this month. He is accused of visiting his… Read More
An Orono man was acquitted Tuesday in Bangor of charges that he masterminded a scheme to blackmail his landlady. A Penobscot County Superior Court jury took less than 90 minutes to clear Michael West, 30, of two counts of attempted theft by extortion. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
ST-LOUIS-DU-HA! HA!, Quebec — A head-on collision near the Quebec-New Brunswick border Saturday night left dead six out of the seven people involved. An official with the Quebec Police Force unit at Notre-Dame-du-Lac said the accident occurred at 9:15 p.m. on Route 185, a section… Read More
Two films donated to Northeast Historic Film provide a fresh view of life in Aroostook County during the 1920s. Aside from a single title at the National Archives, surviving film of northern Maine’s rural economy before 1930 has been extremely rare, according to Karan Sheldon, vice president of… Read More
Getting ready for a June wedding? Then you’ll want to attend the Second Annual Channel 5 Bride’s World, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 9 at the Bangor Civic Center. More than 20 exhibitors with displays will be on hand, and couples can register to win a honeymoon trip to… Read More
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has acquired the original model and drawing of Edward Larrabee Barnes’ acclaimed Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Built in 1960 at Deer Isle, Haystack has been called “perfectly fitted to its site and purpose” by Boston Globe architecture critic… Read More
The Sugarloaf Ski Club, an organization formed by the first skiers at Sugarloaf Mountain in the early 1950s, will present its annual Founders Night, 6 p.m. Jan. 16 at the Sugarloaf Inn. Many of Sugarloaf’s original skiing families will be on hand to talk about… Read More
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved an injectable drug to relieve pain from migraine headaches, a condition that affects millions of people. In clinical trials the drug, sumatriptan, relieved pain in 80 percent of the patients within two hours of injection,… Read More
AUGUSTA — Thirty employees at Camp Keyes in Augusta are being dismissed as a result of federal defense cutbacks, bringing to 44 the number of jobs eliminated at Maine National Guard facilities statewide, officials said. Cuts at Camp Keyes, headquarters for the Army National Guard… Read More
PORTLAND — Maine’s highest court on Tuesday said a judge was too tough when he sentenced a woman convicted of selling cocaine to jail for 20 years. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court sent Darlene Corbett’s case back to Androscoggin County Superior Court for resentencing. All… Read More
Communities that renegotiated contracts with Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. more than a year ago are in the process of passing judgment on a settlement the company reached with eight municipalities that refused to go along. The 73 charter municipalities have long-term contracts with the company… Read More