Mike Ditzel from Foxcroft Academy has a good chance of winning three events at the Class B State Championship meet Saturday at Thornton Academy in Saco. But if not for a hunch by his coach at the beginning of the indoor track season, the junior… Read More
    Bucksport High School senior Jen Wardwell was notified Thursday she has been named the recipient of the Maine Association of Intercollegiate Athletics For Women Student-Athlete Scholarship. In receiving the award, Wardwell has been recognized by the MAIAW as the state’s top scholar-athlete, based on a… Read More
    Playoff games are often shrouded in mystery. They frequently bring together teams that have not met during the regular season. Many of the teams involved in Saturday’s Eastern Maine schoolboy baseball quarterfinals will have the luxury of knowing what, or who, they’re up against. Saturday’s… Read More
    If Michael Jordan was being unfaithful to his wife on a nightly basis, the only place you’d be reading about it is in the super market checkout line (unless, like Margo Adams & Wade Boggs, there was a lawsuit). If Jordan was seen every night… Read More
    Baseball teams from George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill and Southern Aroostook of Dyer Brook and the Limestone softball team moved on to the semifinal round of the Eastern Maine playoffs with first-round victories Friday. In baseball action, No. 3 George Stevens Eagles slipped past… Read More
    The Camden-Rockport boys and the Cape Elizabeth girls will be banking on the tradition of their respective programs when they compete in the Team Tennis Tournament State Championships Saturday at the University of Maine in Orono. The Windjammers are making their fifth straight trip to… Read More
    Former NFL assistant Carroll Huntress started out coaching six-man high school football at Mechanic Falls 44 years ago. Sunday night at the Spare Time Recreation Center in Lewiston (5 p.m.), Huntress will have come full circle, returning to his native state to be enshrined with… Read More
    AT CASTINE C.C. and Bucksport G.C. Northern Maine Seniors Golf Association Gross: Red MacDonald, John Koulavatos, Charles Pendleton, Dale Higgins 64 (6-under par); Dan Stuckey, Mike Shaffer, Tom Bartlett and Fritz Foote 65 (5-under); Bill Silsby, Dan French, Marty Estes and Frank Coombs 69 (3-under)… Read More
    Two University of Maine juniors will receive the opportunity to fulfill a dream when they sign professional baseball contracts within the next week. Lefthanded pitcher Jason Rajotte was drafted in the 11th round by the Oakland Athletics and first baseman Gabe Duross was selected in… Read More
    University of Maine senior center fielder Chad White, who was the North Atlantic Conference Player of the Year and an All-New England choice, was named a second-team All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association on Friday. “Every award has been a surprise to me… Read More
    The headline, “Faculty group favors downsizing,” is not entirely representative of what is going on at the University of Maine. I served as an alternate at the Faculty Senate meeting that was reported in the Saturday (May 29-30) BDN. True, the approximately 28 faculty present, including two voting… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — The final informational meeting in a series of three on the proposed SAD 53 budget is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 7, in the gymnasium of the Warsaw Middle School. The $6.3 million budget proposal for 1993-94 raised few questions in its… Read More
    RUMFORD — Fifteen suspects were arrested Friday on drug-related charges arising from an undercover investigation over a wide area of Oxford County, authorities said. The charges involved trafficking and possession of cocaine and marijuana, said Tony Milligan, special agent with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency. Read More
    BRUNSWICK — A $600,000 donation from a Class of 1957 alumnus has put Bowdoin College over the top in its one-year effort to raise nearly $5 million from private sources for a new campus center. Charles M. Leighton of Still River, Mass., made the donation… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — The regular meeting of the SAD 53 board of directors has been scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 9. The change to Wednesday this month is created by the previously scheduled (Monday, June 7) informational meeting on the 1993-94 proposed budget. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE — The first Northern Maine Stampede will be held Friday to Sunday, June 11-13, at the Northern Maine Fairgrounds. Events will begin with a live newscast at 6 p.m. Friday by WAGM television from the rodeo arena. “Wild West rodeo action” will start… Read More
    HODGDON — The Hodgdon High School boys varsity basketball team will sponsor a benefit softball tournament beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 19, and Sunday, June 20, at the Hodgdon recreation field. Proceeds from the event will be used to help send the team to summer basketball camp… Read More
    CARIBOU — The Loring Readjustment Committee and the Independent Party of Maine will hold a conference on reuse of Loring Air Force Base at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 5, at the VFW Post, Caribou. Representatives of the Maine congressional delegation were invited to the meeting,… Read More
    VAN BUREN — The Maine Department of Transportation plans to improve parts of U.S. Route 1 between Caribou and Van Buren, in Connor Township and Cyr Plantation. DOT officials will open bids Wednesday, June 9, at Augusta. The project begins south of Little Black Brook,… Read More
    CARIBOU — The Caribou Parks and Recreation Department will hold a boys and girls peewee soccer camp Monday to Thursday, June 14-17. Children ages 6 to 11 from Caribou, New Sweden, Woodland, Stockholm and Conner may participate. The cost for the camp is $12 a… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE — The Aroostook Medical Center recently honored its employees and volunteers for service to the center’s hospitals in Presque Isle, Fort Fairfield and Mars Hill. Employees recognized at Gould Memorial Hospital were: Priscilla Clark, 35 years; Joyce Davis, 30 years; Gloria Howe, Mary… Read More
    LIMESTONE — The Limestone Board of Selectmen voted Wednesday against negotiating a settlement with a Limestone man who claims his son’s rights were violated by several municipal agencies. According to officials with Monticello Insurance Co. of Wilmington, Del., the town’s liability insurance company, Jessie F. Read More
    MADAWASKA — The Madawaska Board of Selectmen discussed the Acadian Festival and Atlantic salmon at its meeting Wednesday. The annual celebration of the area’s Acadian heritage will run from Wednesday, June 30, to Sunday, July 4. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
    LUBEC — A decision by Lubec selectmen last month to shut down the town’s public works department until October, in order to meet a voter-mandated cut of $25,000 from the department’s budget, has been reversed. Richard Huntley and John Fuller, who together comprise the Lubec… Read More
    MARSHFIELD — The Machias Valley La Leche League will begin its summer series at 9:30 a.m. Monday, June 7, and will discuss “Advantages of Breastfeeding to Mom and Baby” at the home of Ruth Beal. Three additional topics in the series will be: “The Family… Read More
    A story on Friday’s County page erroneously stated that Rudy Levesque, who was hired as a dispatcher by the county, had been a state trooper. Levesque worked for the state police as a dispatcher. Read More
    BUCKS HARBOR — The 140-bed Downeast Correctional Facility in Bucks Harbor has been granted a reprieve from state budget executioners. “They’re off the hook,” Corrections Commissioner Donald L. Allen said Friday. He quickly cautioned, however, that budgeting issues “change daily around here.” googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
    MACHIAS — The Nature Conservancy’s field trips, scheduled for July at Beals and August at Lubec, are already booked to capacity. All of the Conservancy’s field trips require advanced registration. Elaine Loranz, coordinator for the field trips, said Thursday that the scheduled tours of preserves,… Read More
    CALAIS — A program titled “Calais Main Street — A Historic District” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 9, in the recreation center at Methodist Homes. Slides and histories of many houses — from Calais Avenue to the top of Hinckley Hill —… Read More
    CHERRYFIELD — The Milbridge-Cherryfield Rotary Club will give $10,000 to the golfer who makes a hole-in-one 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, July 3, at Harriman Field, River Road, during Cherryfield’s 4th of July Celebration. Other prizes will be awarded. Tickets are available from Rotarians or at… Read More
    Richard Larson, who was elected by a write-in vote Tuesday to serve a three-year term on the Machias Budget Committee, previously served a full three-year term on the same board until two years ago, when he chose to seek re-election. He did not serve only two years on… Read More
    MILLINOCKET — The school board this week approved budget cuts of more than $193,000. Proposals for more than $503,000 in additional budget cuts will be considered by the board in a special meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 15, at Stearns High School. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    WOODVILLE — The proposed school budget Woodville residents will consider on June 24 will reflect the worst-case scenario in state funding levels. The School Board this week approved a proposed gross budget of $314,752, which represents a decrease of $20,703 compared with the 1992-93 budget. Read More
    GUILFORD — The Friends of Guilford Memorial Library, in conjunction with the SAD 4 Music Boosters, will sponsor an open-air concert by the Piscataquis Community High School Band at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 8, at the King Cummings Memorial Park Gazebo. In case of rain,… Read More
    ROCKLAND — The Penobscot Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross will offer a standard first aid progression course from 5 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, June 15, at the new office on 312 Broadway. The five-hour course is for participants who have a CPR card. Read More
    GREENVILLE — Greenville officials learned this week that the Department of Transportation included the town’s request for the construction of a scenic overlook on Blair Hill in the 1994-95 transportation budget. Town Manager David Cota said this was the result of work completed by the… Read More
    ROCKLAND — Members of the 1993 graduating class and all alumni of Rockland High School and Rockland District High School are invited and encouraged to represent their classes at the annual alumni meeting to be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 11, in the high school cafeteria. Read More
    BELFAST — The following divorces were granted in 5th District Court during May on grounds of irreconcilable marital differences: William Steven Langeluttig, Unity, and Deborah E. Langeluttig, Burnham. Marred at Mandarin, Fla., June 17, 1973. Shared custody of two children. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
    ROCKLAND — Robert Creeley will read from his recent works at the Live Poets Society meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, at the First Universalist Church. Creeley is distinguished professor, State University of New York at Buffalo. Ruth Fox, a friend and student of… Read More
    BELFAST Judge Bernard Staples heard the following cases in 5th District Court this week: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length; i++) { if (isMobileDevice()) {… Read More
    ROCKLAND — The following building permits were issued during May by the Codes Enforcement Office: Kevin Taylor, shed, $1,200. 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;… Read More
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    BAR HARBOR The following is a partial list of the cases processed April 28-May 25 in the southern division of 5th District Court in Bar Harbor. Not included in the listing are cases resulting in fines of less than $100. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
    ELLSWORTH — A photo documentary of Aroostook County migrant workers titled “The Broccoli Pickers of Northern Maine” will be on exhibit June 9-July 2 at Ellsworth Public Library. Amy Toensing, a senior at College of the Atlantic and photographer for the documentary, was named one… Read More
    SOMESVILLE — “The Oak Hill Road Poets” will be featured in a poetry reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10, at Port In A Storm Bookstore. Oak Hill Road in Somesville, on Mount Desert Island, is the home of the poets — Betsy Alexander, Anne… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — The founder and director of College of the Atlantic’s marine mammal research group has been selected as the college’s new president. Steven K. Katona was elected this week by a unanimous vote of COA’s board of trustees to assume the post held… Read More
    The board of directors for the United Technologies Center vocational school in Bangor has approved the replacement, at least temporarily, of the school’s day care program with a private day care facility currently operating out of Brewer. In a 6-1 vote Thursday, the board granted… Read More
    A Bangor lawyer who threatened his wife and others nine months ago pleaded guilty to half the charges Friday. When he is sentenced later, Richard Maraghy, 47, who lives in Orrington, faces up to 364 days in jail on each of four offenses, all pertaining… Read More
    Les Stevens, who has promoted Bangor for more than two years as director of Bangor 2000, will move across the river to become Brewer’s economic development director. He accepted the city’s offer earlier this week and will move into the job July 16. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    GLENBURN — Four candidates are vying for two 3-year terms on the School Committee during town meeting elections set for Tuesday, June 8. School board incumbents Sherry Applebee and Cynthia Esty-Kendall are being challenged by Marsha DeFilippo and Jeffrey Rice. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — A Massachusetts gerontologist gave a prescription for “seasoned” women at a Bar Harbor conference Thursday morning — age, pride and power. Ruth Harriet Jacobs spoke on the model of “an outrageous older woman” on the first day of a three-day conference, “Geriatrics:… Read More
    LINCOLN — Depending on how funds are solicited, some Drug Abuse Resistance Education fund-raising activities might violate laws banning police solicitation. Stephen L. Wessler of the Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday the Attorney General’s Office had made no blanket ruling on D.A.R.E. fund raising, because… Read More
    AUGUSTA — The Maine House rejected a proposal Friday to legalize video gaming. Touted by its backers as a way to regulate machines already operating and as a source of $24 million in new state revenue, the bill was rebuffed by a 78-60 vote. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    The Maine Waste Management Agency has terminated its contract with a New Hampshire company that was studying wetlands and wildlife on the site of a proposed special-waste landfill near Lincoln. State officials signed the contract with Normandeau Associates on May 7. The company was to… Read More
    AUGUSTA — The Senate voted against a bill that would have encouraged Maine paper mills to manufacture chlorine-free paper as a way to reduce toxic emissions. Coupled with the House’s 75-67 rejection of the bill on Wednesday, the Senate action means the bill is killed… Read More
    AUGUSTA — The Senate signaled its approval Friday of a bill that would expand grandparents’ rights to obtain court orders allowing them to visit their grandchildren when their parents object. The bill was set aside to compete with other bills for funding at the end… Read More
    PORTLAND — The deer tick that carries Lyme disease has spread up the Maine coast and moved further inland, researchers say, but the incidence of the disease in the state has not increased. However, with more of the ticks in Maine, people should take extra… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Anti-smoking forces Friday salvaged the centerpiece of their 1993 legislation. A bill to ban smoking in most enclosed public places won final House approval by a margin of more than 20 votes, reversing a vote earlier this week against the legislation. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    Whatever is going on in the Southwest, where a mysterious flu-like disease has claimed 12 lives, it doesn’t seem to be happening in Maine. No cases of URDS — unknown respiratory distress syndrome — have been reported to the state Bureau of Health in Augusta. Read More
    It’s been 25 years since his death and Robert F. Kennedy still haunts the American imagination. Even today, the sound of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” brings tears to my eyes, and for a moment that pain in my heart materializes and once again, I’m devastated. My… Read More
    I would like to join in recognizing the Washburn Recycling Renegades for obtaining the high honor of national finalists in the contest, “A Pledge and a Promise.” This environmental contest is sponsored by the Anheuser-Busch Theme Park, Sea World, and Busch Gardens. The contest is one which encourages… Read More
    Ski areas operating in national forests don’t pay a fair share of their revenues to the federal government, according to a report by the General Accounting Office. And the congressional watchdog agency says a new fee system developed by the ski industry also fails to… Read More
    WASHINGTON — Joe Califano, a domestic policy assistant for Lyndon Johnson and secretary of health, education and welfare for Jimmy Carter, recently offered some interesting insights into the current national debate over health care reform in an op-ed column published in The Washington Post. Over… Read More
    ROCKPORT — The Maine Hospital Association will hold a summer forum titled “Reshaping Health Care Delivery” June 9-11 at the Samoset Resort in Rockport. Clark Bell, editor of Modern Healthcare magazine, will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 9, on “How the Clinton Health Care… Read More
    Just when you think you’ve heard more than enough of those military procurement stories about the $165 hammers and $750 toilet seat covers, along comes the United States Air Force with its latest taxpayer-funded boondoggle. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal —… Read More
    American Red Cross Blood Services has announced blood drives will be held in June at the following times and locations: 2-7 p.m. Monday, June 7, at the Jordan Small School, Raymond; googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
    JONESBORO — A 14-year-old Jonesboro girl died Thursday after being struck by a car as she was riding her bicycle on the Hanscom Pit Road. Investigating Trooper David Quigley said Friday that Jennifer Davis was pedaling a bicycle that also carried her friend, 14-year-old Melissa… Read More
    “It’s like a bearded lady at a carnival — everybody wants to see her, but nobody wants to take her to lunch.” Rep. Bill O’Gara’s “bearded lady” was a unicameral Legislature which he soundly and successfully opposed, but he might as well have been talking… Read More
    HARTFORD, Conn. — The state and Pratt & Whitney reached agreement Friday on a $32 million package of incentives designed to save 2,300 jobs at the jet-engine maker’s Connecticut plants. Most of the components of the package will also apply to other companies in the state and are… Read More
    BATH — The 41st annual meeting of the Maine State Society, Children of the American Revolution, was held May 22 at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. The meeting was conducted by Jonathan Bartow of Otisfield, vice president, with the assistance of Polly Bartow, senior state… Read More
    PORTLAND — A jury has awarded $837,500 to a Hollis man and his wife for injuries he suffered in an industrial accident at the S.D. Warren paper mill in Westbrook. After deliberating for three hours, the Cumberland County Superior Court jury found negligence on the part of the… Read More
    The Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center is soliciting grant proposals from individuals or organizations who are interested in developing new ways to grow oysters, mussels, clams or scallops. Grants will range from $250 to $2,000. Applicants must commit to matching the MAIC grant in cash. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More