LEWISTON – The past, present, and future of sports in Maine were celebrated Sunday night during the 18th annual Maine Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. More than 300 people were on hand at the Spare Time Recreation Center here to enshrine seven past athletic… Read More
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High School Softball Amy Wolverton of Machias and Amanda Pomerleau of Skowhegan each pitched no-hitters during their respective playoffs games on Saturday, highlighting a busy day of Eastern Maine quarterfinal softball action. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
Defending Eastern Maine champions Old Town and Ellsworth were among the victorious teams during a busy day of Eastern Maine quarterfinal baseball action Saturday around the region. In Class A, top-seeded Skowhegan beat No. 8 Mt. Blue of Farmington 9-3 and No. 4 Old Town… Read More
University of Maine junior third baseman Justin Tomberlin will fly to Fort Wayne, Ind., on Monday to begin his professional baseball career after being drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 46th round. Tomberlin is one of several Bears who will sign pro contracts as… Read More
ORONO – Winthrop’s exceptional athletes had an exceptional day and dethroned the three-time defending champions from Maranacook in the boys meet to highlight the Class C state championship track and field meet here at the University of Maine Saturday. Winthrop averaged 7.3 points per member… Read More
AT PEMBROKE Cobscook Bay 10K Top finishers Men: Stephen Carl, 34:15 (COURSE RECORD); Alfred Hanscom, 37:04 (HIGH SCHOOL RECORD); Newell Lewy, 37:05; Tony Sprague, 37:09; Mike Worcester, 38:23 (MASTERS RECORD); Larry Tonzi, 38:40; Michael Carter, 39:10; John Bell, 40:51; Chuck Murphy, 41:10; Bill Pinkham, 41:27;… Read More
High School Track BRUNSWICK – The Old Town boys 4×400-meter relay team iced Old Town’s first Class A state championship title in track and field in the final event of the day with a first-place finish here at Bowdoin College Saturday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
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Jana Bishop wants to go back home to Snohomish, Wash., as an Eastern Maine champion and it showed Saturday when she helped lead Brewer High past Waterville 7-3 in an Eastern Maine softball quarterfinal in Brewer. Bishop, a junior righthander who is now 14-1, stopped… Read More
HERMON – Forget Cliffhanger. The Hermon High baseball team knows what living on the edge is really like. Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the seventh inning of their Eastern Maine Class B quarterfinal with Orono Saturday, the Hawks executed a safety squeeze bunt to… Read More
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Righthander Matt Cassidy fired a five-hitter to lift Buck Saver A’s to a 3-2 win over the Downeast Yankees in their Eastern Maine Amateur Baseball League contest at Mansfield Complex in Bangor Sunday. It was the season opener for both teams. It ended after six… Read More
ORONO – The report card on Eastern Maine’s performances in Saturday’s State Team Tennis championships rates a “C.” That’s “C” as in Caribou and “C” as in Cony, Eastern Maine’s only two state champions in the state finals held at the University of Maine tennis… Read More
Bangor had spent all afternoon struggling to come from behind. Even though Presque Isle led by four or five runs most of the way, Tony Fernandez had the feeling that Bangor just couldn’t lose. He made sure the Rams didn’t. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
Maine State Golf Association Kebo Valley, June 4-5 Gross A: Dave Brown 72; Jeff Seavey, Bangor, 75; Dana Worcester, Bangor, 75; Mickey Davis, J.W. Parks, 76 googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
Dr. Miriam Devlin still doesn’t know how her name got on the list of physicians invited to the International Conference on Women’s Health, held this spring in four cities in the People’s Republic of China. She doesn’t belong to any of the associations that might compile such lists,… Read More
The United States spends $15 billion a year trying to win friends and influence people. Its success has been spotty: Some countries dislike the United States no matter how many foreign-aid dollars or tons of military hardware they receive; others resent the charity, but are outraged that U.S… Read More
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The consultant for Charleston Naval Shipyard supporters said reports that the Navy recalculated Portsmouth Naval Shipyard’s value are not cause for alarm. Portsmouth gained three points to total 43, while the Charleston Naval Shipyard lost four, falling to 39.1, The (Charleston) Post… Read More
CUMBERLAND — A man who was speeding away from police in a stolen car is facing manslaughter charges after the death of his passenger when the vehicle crashed. Craig Moody, 28, of Harrison was being held at the Cumberland County Jail in Portland following the… Read More
ATLANTA — Ronald Bates needed to wear glasses only occasionally, for reading. Yet when he heard that an operation could cure his farsightedness, he had it the next day. The surgery almost blinded him. A corneal transplant saved his vision, but he’s still night-blind and… Read More
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BERLIN — Leading researchers clashed Sunday over the best use of the anti-AIDS drug AZT, as activists, scientists and people with AIDS prepared to open an international conference on the epidemic. Dr. Maxime Seligmann of the Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris studied 1,749 patients who used… Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a series of articles following the 1993 Penobscot Riverkeepers Expedition from Quebec to the sea. CASTINE — They talked, a month ago, about following the path of a raindrop from its highest point of impact, down the length… Read More
AUGUSTA — Time seemed to be running out Sunday for the McKernan administration’s attempt to gain additional revenue by eliminating 6,000 nursing home beds for low-income elderly Maine residents. H. Sawin Millet, the governor’s chief finance officer, told members of the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee Sunday… Read More
BELGRADE LAKES — The Waterville police chief is defending an off-duty officer who shot his next-door neighbor’s dog. A police investigation showed that the dog, a long-haired German Shepherd named Max, had attacked officer Michael Benecke before the shooting on Sunday, said Chief Bruce Goodman. Read More
BATH — The state property tax review board is taking a road trip for the first time ever to try to settle a dispute between the city and Bath Iron Works, the state’s largest private employer. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
JAY — The son of a man whose car was rigged with a bombing device that failed to go off was being held Sunday on an attempted murder charge. Jonathan M. Johnson, 22, of Jay was arrested Saturday night and was being held Sunday in… Read More
BRUNSWICK — Maine law enforcement agencies will soon have to find an alternative to handling explosive devices. The four-member detachment is scheduled to be disbanded in September, a victim of tight Navy budgets and a reorganization of forces. For about 20 years, Maine law enforcers… Read More
SACO — The cleanup of hazardous waste at the old Saco Tannery Pits is getting more expensive. Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that workers have found additional contaminated waste at the site, where tannery waste was dumped from the 1950s to… Read More
STONINGTON — A recent University of Maine graduate plans to leave Saturday on an 800-mile solo rowing trip to Nova Scotia that will allow him to document the transition from traditional fishing to modern aquaculture. Jonathan Cowles, who graduated last month from the aquaculture program… Read More
HERMON — Residents will be asked on Tuesday to vote on a $6.3 million budget for next year, representing a 7 percent increase from this year’s budget. The annual town budget meeting will be held at 8 p.m. at Hermon Elementary School. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
A new Maine law increases the size of municipal housing authority boards from six to seven members, and increases the number of tenant commissioners from one to two. “Local housing authorities will now have greater representation from the people they are designed to serve,” said… Read More
EAST CORINTH — High school graduation is always a bittersweet affair, filled with the joy and the pain of the students’ passage into adulthood. The ceremony was more poignant than usual Sunday at Central High School in East Corinth. Seniors paused to remember a Bradford… Read More
Handicap parking is the worst-abused law the state of Maine has on the books. Isn’t it time the state took another look at the word “handicap” and saw what this word really means? Do people who walk and use handicap parking spaces ever wonder why… Read More
Never take your eyes off a child when he or she is in or near any body of water even for a second. Don’t rely solely on barriers, such as fences or walls. Keep toys, tricycles, and other children’s playthings out of the water and away from the… Read More
TOWNSHIP 43 — A family outing ended in tragedy Saturday when a 9-year-old boy was killed when the family vehicle went off a remote logging road and overturned in a pond. Trooper Chuck Matthews of the Maine State Police said Sunday that Joyce Landry, 29,… Read More
A Portland teen-ager was killed and an Arkansas couple was critically injured in separate weekend accidents that Maine State Police say were caused when the drivers fell asleep. Samantha Merrill, 18, was killed on Saturday after she fell asleep and the car she was driving… Read More
RAYMOND — Supported Living in Maine: The Way Life Ought to Be, Will Be, is a conference scheduled for Monday through Wednesday, June 14-16, at Northern Pines Conference Center, Crescent Lake, Raymond. The conference will examine supported living through presentations of families and those who… Read More
Economists often say that the future of Maine’s economy depends on the growth of its small businesses. If that’s the case, Terry and Debbi Leavitt may have found the formula for the future. Terry Leavitt was and still is a heavy equipment operator on construction… Read More
The Maine Legislature, which sensibly extended its estimated time of arrival for the budget to June 16, is having trouble jump-starting the budget process. That’s a blessing, because it doesn’t know where it’s going, or how to get there. There is no map, no plan,… Read More
AUGUSTA — A bill that would take out some of the sting and a lot of the savings from the governor’s long-term care eligibility demonstration project should be presented for final enactment in the House this week. LD 418, an act to promote independence for… Read More
WATERVILLE — John W. Towne, M.D., has been elected as chief of staff of Mid-Maine Medical Center for a two-year term. A Waterville native, Towne was educated in the Waterville school system and is a graduate of Bowdoin College. He received his medical degree from… Read More
As I watched “Beauty and the Beast,” performed Saturday by the American Family Theater at the Maine Center for the Arts, I was reminded of the 1970s children’s show “The New Zoo Revu,” and the current popular program “Barney and Friends.” I didn’t like the former, nor do… Read More
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A concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 3 at the University of Maine will feature four decades of groups. Bands playing outdoors at the athletic fields will be the Byrds, Foghat, Molly Hatchet and local group Fatal Charm. The gates will open at 5 p.m. Tickets go on… Read More
If Mr. Pargh had bothered to take a look at one of the many magazines geared toward bicycling on the newsstand today, his article on page 20 of your May 26 paper would be profoundly different. He would have seen that a quality mountain bike, reviewed in a… Read More
I listened with considerable interest to Ross Perot’s recent chat and I feel someone should make a comment to your paper. From what Perot said, the North American Free Trade Agreement is nothing less than a license to export U.S. jobs to Canada and Mexico,… Read More
Strawberries will be asking for attention soon. As youngsters, we took this time for picking wild strawberries for pies, shortcakes and canning. And don’t forget the strawberry and rhubarb pies. Strawberry and rhubarb pie Pastry for a 9-inch, 2-crust pie 2 1/2 cups of thickly… Read More
MACHIAS — Love and laughter will fill Downriver TheatreCQ Company’s summer season bill for 1993. The nonprofit theatrical company will stage four productions this summer, beginning with “The Music Man” on June 29. All season performances will begin at 8 p.m. on the dates indicated,… Read More
MILO — Eighty-seven graduates of Penquis Valley High School were led from graduation exercises Sunday by school secretary Shirlene Ladd who will retire June 30 after 25 years of service. In honor of that service, Ladd was selected by the class to serve as marshal. Read More
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PITTSFIELD — Somerset County, the state’s third largest county, has an area of 3,633 square miles and more than 50,000 people live within its borders. Only Waldo County has a lower per capita personal income. Four towns have municipal police departments: Pittsfield, Skowhegan, Fairfield and… Read More
MACHIAS — Registrations are being accepted for the 16th annual Clipper Cage Camp, to be held July 25-30 at the University of Maine at Machias. Registrations are limited to the first 100 applicants, with the summer basketball camp open to boys and girls ages 10-17. Read More
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CALAIS — The condition of the state’s economy and the proposed cuts in education were among the concerns raised during graduation ceremonies Sunday at Calais High School. Scholarships worth more than $300,000 were awarded to the graduating seniors during the ceremony. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
JONESPORT — People said he was crazy, a year ago, when lobster boat racing champion Ben Beal, 60, of Jonesport began salvaging broken pieces of a rotting, 28-foot, wooden lobster boat he built and raced to victory in Moosabec Reach when he was about 20 years old. Read More
HARRINGTON — A new family physician, a dentist and a full-time hygienist will be added to staff at the newly expanded Harrington Family Health Center on Aug. 1. Also to be welcomed into the new facilities will be the Women and Infant Care program. The… Read More
HOULTON — The board of directors of the Southern Aroostook Solid Waste Disposal District has voted to allow the town of Merrill to leave the district under the condition that the town pay four months dues to the district. Last month the board approved the… Read More
FREDERICTON, News Brunswick — New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna is determined that the rail line linking Saint John, New Brunswick, with Montreal through north central Maine won’t be given up without a fight. The premier says he will propose to a federal hearing into the… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — After 35 years in Aroostook County television, Norm Johnson has decided to spend more time fishing, canoeing and being a grandpa. The former vice president and general manager of WAGM-TV retired last month after working his way up through the ranks at… Read More
WATERVILLE — Ben Hains of Waterville was named Volunteer of the Year at Waterville Osteopathic Hospital’s annual employee recognition dinner in May. Hains was elected by hospital employees and volunteers who work with him. Hains began volunteering at the hospital five years ago at Christmas… Read More
PORTLAND — The head of an auction company specializing in historic documents has expressed skepticism about a Georgia museum’s claim of ownership of a valuable Civil War letter written by Robert E. Lee. “If it belongs in the museum it should be returned, no question… Read More
FREDERICTON, News Brunswick — New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna is determined that the rail line linking Saint John, New Brunswick, with Montreal through north central Maine won’t be given up without a fight. The premier says he will propose to a federal hearing into the… Read More
PORTLAND — The head of an auction company specializing in historic documents has expressed skepticism about a Georgia museum’s claim of ownership of a valuable Civil War letter written by Robert E. Lee. “If it belongs in the museum it should be returned, no question… Read More
CASTINE — Another busy summer lies ahead for Maine Maritime Academy’s schooner Bowdoin, including two extended cruises for the general public. “Introduction to Ocean Science,” July 5-31, carries three college credits and includes study of marine mammals and birds, air-sea interactions and marine pollution. The… Read More
AUGUSTA — Plowing heavy snow is all in a winter day’s work for Maine’s highway crews, so some public works officials are befuddled by the federal money they’re getting for cleaning up after the March blizzard. “I’m not going to question a handout,” Waterville public… Read More
After almost 10 years of living on Social Security I finally realized the price paid for cable TV is way too high and only one channel can be watched at a time, so I had it shut off. One payment I made at Wal-Mart for an antenna I… Read More
My wife and I are residents of Pine Tree Road in Brewer. I am retired and living on a fixed income. The city of Brewer plans to stockpile and spread sludge from the city’s wastewater system on property adjacent to ours. Along with the other residents of Pine… Read More
Regarding the May 22 BDN article, “Loring given heave ho,” I take issue with Commissioner Stuart’s comments of fears opening a Pandora’s box. The commissioners know they were given erroneous information at the onset of the hearings; to us simple folk, that means they were… Read More
CALAIS — The Calais Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, in council chambers at the City Building. Among the items on the agenda are: A request from the Congregational Church for final site plan approval for a new church on Calais… Read More
LUBEC — The Down East Hearts of Gold provides low-cost cholesterol screening sessions, 2-4:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at the Regional Medical Center in Lubec. This month’s screenings will be conducted June 9 and 23. The complete screen includes… Read More
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AUGUSTA — With fewer than 30 days left to present a workable state budget to the 116th Legislature, the Appropriations Committee sustained another setback Sunday when Gov. John R. McKernan announced potential new revenue shortfalls of just under $55 million. “The waivers aren’t coming and… Read More
DEDHAM — Residents of Lucerne-in-Maine, a privately incorporated village within the town of Dedham, will decide later this summer on whether to remain an independent village or merge with Dedham. The overseers of the Lucerne-in-Maine Village Corp. received a report last week from the committee… Read More
CASTINE — Another busy summer lies ahead for Maine Maritime Academy’s schooner Bowdoin, including two extended cruises for the general public. “Introduction to Ocean Science,” July 5-31, carries three college credits and includes study of marine mammals and birds, air-sea interactions and marine pollution. The… Read More
Eastern Maine Medical Center will offer a seminar on “Breastfeeding in the ’90s” from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, June 9, in Conference Room 2B at the hospital in Bangor. The seminar is intended especially for nursing mothers and expectant mothers. Topics will include “Why Breast Milk… Read More
Seven of the departments of Affiliated Services of St. Joseph Healthcare have moved to new quarters in the office complex at 12 Stillwater Ave., Bangor. The move to new offices was observed with a ribbon-cutting and open house June 4. The seven departments provide primarily… Read More
A tiny turn-of-the-century steam locomotive designed to haul freight from the backwoods of Maine has come home. A Portland businessman envisions the narrow-gauge artifact becoming the centerpiece of a world-class operating museum. Phineas Sprague Jr. said Thursday that bankers who approved a loan of $710,000… Read More
U.S. Rep. Olympia J. Snowe urged the 1993 graduates of John Bapst Memorial High School to take charge of their lives as they prepare to enter a world vastly changed from the one that existed when they first walked through the doors of the Bangor private school four… Read More
The American Cancer Society will sponsor “Sneak Up on Cancer Day,” on Friday, June 11. Companies, schools and organizations will ask their employees to make a contribution of $2 or more in order to wear sneakers to work. Proceeds will benefit ACS programs. At least… Read More
THOMASTON — District 80 Rep. Richard Simoneau, R-Thomaston, won a rare minority report victory on Friday when he prevailed in legislation regarding the Bureau of Taxation. The Simoneau amendment prevented the bureau from revoking occupational licenses for people who owe back taxes. “For years, the… Read More
EASTPORT — The Down East Hearts of Gold will conduct low-cost cholesterol screening sessions from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-3 p.m. Thursday, June 10, at the Rowland B. French Medical Center in Eastport. The screenings include cholesterol testing, blood, weight and height checks, risk factor… Read More
ROCKLAND — Kevin Dowling presents an imposing figure as he portrays Blackbeard the Pirate at the Maine Lobster Festival. To the many young students and parents with whom he comes in contact as chemical health coordinator for SAD 5, he is every bit as imposing in his approach… Read More
WARREN — The issue of nickel mining is not dead in the Warren-Union area, environmental activist Austin Jones said Sunday. Last week, a 200-acre parcel once owned by the Nature Conservancy was purchased at auction by the Black Hawk Mining Co. of Toronto. The sale… Read More
BELFAST — Voters from SAD 34’s six communities will go to the polls Monday to act on a proposed budget calling for expenditures of $10,439,411 during the coming school year. The budget proposal is approximately 3 percent greater than last year’s spending package of $10,137,393. Read More
THOMASTON — A settlement with the police department union has resulted in the appointment of James Hosford as temporary police chief. A 12-year department veteran, Hosford’s appointment by temporary Town Manager Valmore Blastow came less than two weeks after the resignation of former Chief Victor… Read More
WASHINGTON — Opening ceremonies to mark the return of Gibbs Library were held Sunday afternoon. The original Gibbs Library, built in 1915, was destroyed by fire in 1961. The new building is located on the same site and has arisen, like the phoenix, from the… Read More
NEWPORT — Robert Siegenthaler, recently retired president of broadcast operations and engineering for the ABC Television Network Group, was the commencement speaker at Nokomis Regional High School’s graduation Sunday, June 6. Norma Leighton, a 10-year veteran of the Nokomis All-Sports Boosters, was recognized by students… Read More
DEXTER — Thousands of dollars worth of scholarships were awarded at graduation ceremonies at Dexter Regional High School Sunday. Receiving scholarships and awards were: Steve Pratt and Lisa Landry, citizenship awards; Linwood Green and Jessica Moninski, Charles Curtis awards; Stacey Smith, DRHS Determination Award; Misty… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Three adults and one juvenile were charged with disorderly conduct and taken to Somerset County Jail late Sunday night after numerous complaints regarding loud behavior in the downtown area. Joseph Lovely, 20, of Casco, Charles Bowley, 20, of Pittsfield, and Jon McCarron, 18,… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Somerset County, the state’s third largest county, has an area of 3,633 square miles and more than 50,000 people live within its borders. Only Waldo County has a lower per capita personal income. Four towns have municipal police departments: Pittsfield, Skowhegan, Fairfield and… Read More
NEWPORT — A monthly meeting of the Newport-Plymouth Parent-Teacher Association will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 10, at the Newport Elementary School library. The group will discuss the direction the PTA wants to take, as well as planned projects and goals. All interested… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Twenty-two students recently graduated from the Somerset County Jobs Training Program in ceremonies held at the Goodwill Hinckley School. Director Judy Miller presented diplomas to the graduates, all SAD 49 students, who were classroom-trained and then allowed on-the-job training in their chosen fields… Read More