Northern Maine Fair in Presque Isle and Topsham Fair, both racing fairs, end their annual agricultural exhibitions on Saturday. The end of the head-to-head fair racing should relieve the tight horse supply somewhat as racing action moves to Skowhegan Fair on Sunday. Scarborough Downs will… Read More
PORTLAND – Mark Fogg, the head pro at Gorham Country Club, tries not to let his playing interfere too much with his club job. Even after taking the lead in the $30,000 Maine Open Golf Championship. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
Caroline Tjepkema of Orono will compete on the New England Regional Team in the Hershey’s National Track and Field Youth Program Finals at Hershey, Pa., Aug. 14. Tjepkema was selected for the team after placing first in the girls ages 11-12 standing long jump at… Read More
We have arrived. Eastern Maine in general and Bangor in particular are officially a two-major league baseball team market. Move over Chicago. Make room New York, LA, and the San Francisco Bay area. T2-R9 is comin’ through. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The efforts of Educational Cooperative 2000 in Aroostook County and a new learning initiative based on “outcome-based” decision-making were praised by Education Commissioner Leo Martin on Thursday. “Outcome-based learning allows students to demonstrate that they have learned something, similar to a guild… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Open contract talks ended on a low note Thursday morning when the teachers’ negotiating team left unhappy on a number of major and minor points. “I see a rift developing on salaries,” said Phil Sawyer, the teachers’ chief negotiator. He pronounced the process… Read More
AUGUSTA — A Department of Environmental Protection program designed to help small businesses is being lauded as a philosophical shift for an agency that has a reputation for being a hindrance. The DEP’s establishment of the Small Business Technical Assistance program is required under federal… Read More
PORTLAND — The family of a Yarmouth woman who died after a boating accident last fall is suing her boyfriend, alleging that he was speeding and drunk as he piloted the boat. Rachel A. Foley drowned after a boat driven by Roger P. Bowdoin of… Read More
President Clinton’s budget, passed by the narrowest of margins, has been signed into law. That the measure passed without Republican support raised charges of partisanship and gridlock, but it is to be remembered that the President was negotiating only with the members of his own party and the… Read More
A 34-year-old woman accused of selling marijuana to Hampden Academy students who referred to her as “mom” will spend 45 days in jail. Cynthia Soucie, formerly of Winterport and now from Hampden, pleaded guilty to aggravated trafficking in marijuana Thursday morning in Penobscot County Superior… Read More
ROCHESTER, N.H. — Foreign buyers have driven up the price of timber and are taking all the best wood, leaving New Hampshire sawmills to fight over second-class logs, industry officials say. The demand now is for top-grade white pine and hemlock, and the price has… Read More
LINCOLNVILLE BEACH — It comes as no surprise that Cliff Shattuck’s hobby is lighthouses; after all, he’s been attracting attention to himself for a decade. Shattuck is the owner of the Lighthouse Motel, the Route 1 lodging house with the billboard sign that pokes fun… Read More
MONSON — A 69-year-old Howland man received head and shoulder injuries when he fell about 23 feet from a cliff while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Monson on Wednesday. Bill Fleming was transported to Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft Thursday after spending the night in… Read More
WASHINGTON — Researchers have linked the most common form of Alzheimer’s to a gene that helps process cholesterol, enabling them to identify some patients virtually certain to develop the mind-destroying disease in their elderly years. In research on 42 families where late-onset Alzheimer’s is common,… Read More
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AUGUSTA — Two Ukrainian seamen seeking political asylum in Maine are out on bail, but they had no complaints about the accommodations in the Cumberland County Jail. “There are apartments in the Ukraine that aren’t as nice as the cells in Portland,” Victor Mantikovski said… Read More
Thursday’s lottery numbers: 848 — 8860 Tri-State Megabucks: 18 21 25 38 39 40 (no winner)… Read More
PORTLAND — Supporters of gay rights laws in Portland and Lewiston said Thursday that backers of a state referendum to repeal such measures are deliberately trying to mislead the public. Patricia Peard, an attorney from the Maine Civil Liberties Union, said a poll commissioned by… Read More
Dan Wellington, a code enforcement officer for the city of Bangor, recalls standing in a run-down apartment on carpet that was so grimy, so matted, he thought it was linoleum. If you cringe at the thought of substandard apartments filled with scattered trash, animal feces… Read More
Although it would seem hardly credible to the flood-ravaged residents of the Midwest, many areas of the world currently suffer from a shortage of water. Joyce Starr of the Washington-based Global Policy Group writes that 25 nations are now experiencing chronic water shortages and that… Read More
A couple of birds and an alleged drunken driver had Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. crews scrambling Thursday morning to restore power to residents in several towns in the Greater Bangor area. The two outages were unrelated but occurred at about the same time, causing a widespread… Read More
Bangor’s finest will meet Bangor’s best in a charity baseball game at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 13, at the Mansfield Complex on Union Street in Bangor. The game will pit the Bangor police “guns” against the Bangor fire “hoses.” Admission is $2 for children 7-14, $4 for adults,… Read More
ROCKPORT — Pianist Wu Han is the winner of the $10,000, 1993 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award. Established in memory of pianist Andrew Wolf, the prize is presented every two years to a pianist under the age of 40 who has made a significant contribution… Read More
TV watchers in Maine are finding themselves caught in the middle of a struggle between local network affiliates and cable companies. This battle of wills is part of the fallout from the Cable Act of 1992. Intended to protect the interest of cable subscribers, the… Read More
Bangor artist Aundrea Wilkes will premiere an original ballet piece “Wild Orchid,” at the Maine Choreography Showcase, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 21 at the Portland Performing Arts Center. The goal of the showcase is to encourage local dancers to create new pieces and to assure presentation of the… Read More
Back in the old days, no firefighter in Bangor would have turned up his nose at a steaming plate of strombi down at the station. He might have been tired of it, even had the occasional nightmare after eating it, but he would not have refused strombi when… Read More
When the United States Olympic ice hockey team was announced Wednesday, the roster included six personal accomplishments of special significance to followers of UMaine hockey, and another impressive triumph for the University of Maine program. Chris Imes, Matt Martin, Garth Snow, Mike Dunham and Peter… Read More
The Maine Chapter of the American String Teacher Association offers its 23rd year of concerts this week when students and faculty attending its annual conference will present two free, public concerts Aug. 13. Student ensembles will perform chamber music 10:45 a.m. at Lord Recital Hall, and three student… Read More
Less than 10 years ago, before the Maine Center for the Arts was built, the performing arts were an occasional event in central Maine. We might go to community theater, or hear a symphony in an inadequate setting, but we could not generally expect that the arts would… Read More
Belated but powerful, public opinion is turning off to the steady diet of television violence, and the networks and producers are getting the picture: get your medium under control, de-escalate the level of armed conflict passed off as entertainment, or face formal regulation. TV mirrors… Read More
Machias’ Downriver Theatre Company can never be accused of failing to venture into unchartered waters. “Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” a three-act, Neil Simon comedy, which opened Tuesday, is a case in point. While it might be safer to stick with previously successful, tried… Read More
BAILEYVILLE — Market conditions will force Georgia-Pacific Corp.’s Woodland pulp and paper mill to curtail production of market pulp for about 30 days, from mid-September to mid-October, to reduce the company’s inventories. Although as many 100 employees could be affected by the shutdown, G-P officials… Read More
LUBEC — Perched on a child’s chair in her upstairs gallery, surrounded by a sampling of her oil paintings, artist Sharon Yates tensed her body as she leaned forward to describe the evolutionary process her art had taken during the past few decades. Yates, a… Read More
Maine Department of Marine Resources officials have closed the waters east of Schoodic Point to the U.S.-Canada boundary and seaward to the 200-mile limit of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone to the taking of herring containing roe and milt beginning at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 15. The closure… Read More
The 53rd Annual State of Maine Writers Conference will be held Aug. 17-20 at the Porter Memorial Hall on Temple Avenue in Ocean Park. The conference includes readings, workshops, music and lectures. For more information, call 934-5034. Read More
BAR HARBOR — The Jackson Laboratory has received a $100,000 grant from the Arthur K. Watson Charitable Trust to be used to help establish “gene targeting” as a new research tool in the development of disease-specific research mice. In announcing the news, Jackson Laboratory Director… Read More
ROCKPORT — One winter afternoon in 1990, Suanne Giorgetti, principal of the Benton Elementary School, watched a 7-year-old girl hide behind a piece of playground equipment. The child, from an upper-middle class family, was trying to ward off efforts to send her home. She was… Read More
Two new deaths attributed to the mysterious “Four Corners disease” have been identified in Oregon and Louisiana, the latter ominously caused by a new strain of virus carried by a different rodent, the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The new cases… Read More
PITTSFIELD — One hundred and twenty employees at the Edwards Co. in Pittsfield will still have their jobs at the end of the year because of a Community Development Block Grant. By 1995, 99 more jobs will be added. The award of the federal grant… Read More
PORTLAND — A civil lawsuit in which a Lewiston man claims police used excessive force during a 1991 shooting has been transferred to federal court, lawyers say. Attorneys representing the city of Lewiston notified the clerk of Androscoggin County Superior Court on Wednesday that the… Read More
NEWPORT — A $20 ticket on Sept. 11 will earn the buyer a chance at one of three new cars, if that person is good enough, or lucky enough, to score a golfer’s dream — a hole in one. The occasion is the SAD 48… Read More
DANFORTH — A 45-year-old Danforth man is facing multiple drug charges following the discovery and removal of 123 marijuana plants from his residence here Tuesday. Glenn H. Hansen, chief deputy with the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, said Thursday that the seizure of marijuana and unspecified… Read More
SANGERVILLE — The purchase of a new pumper for the Sangerville Fire Department was discussed by the Board of Selectmen this week. Selectmen have a cost estimate of $114,000 for a pumper, which would replace the late 1970 pumper that has been used by the… Read More
PRINCETON — There will be a special town meeting Monday, Aug. 23, to decide between two solid waste-disposal options: to transport the waste to Baileyville or to place it in waste containers at the town dump. Some believe the move is too little and too late. Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Membership, budget and classes were discussed by members of the SAD 68 adult education advisory board at a recent meeting. Shirley Wright, adult education director, explained the need to increase membership on the advisory board so that all of the outlying towns will… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The administration building of Maine Potato Growers Inc. was severely damaged by fire early Thursday evening. According to persons at the scene, there was extensive damage to the roof of the building but the adjoining farm store appeared to be undamaged. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
MACHIAS — Rebecca H. Perry, a native of Machias, made a bequest of $5,000 to the University of Maine at Machias to establish a scholarship fund, according to an announcement by UMM President Paul Nordstrom. Perry died Feb. 1, 1993, in Needham, Mass., where she… Read More
LUBEC — There was something fishy going on in Lubec last weekend. But as organizers for the Great Lubec Mackerel Derby explained, it was all for a good cause — the Ronald McDonald House in Bangor. Even the weather cooperated, with mostly clear skies prevailing… Read More
ST. ALBANS — Selectmen heard two presentations from the public at their Monday night meeting in St. Albans, Town Manager Larry Post said Tuesday. Marian Spalding, representing about 120 registered voters, presented a petition calling for a change in the method of voting for local… Read More
CARIBOU — The Caribou Board of Education tabled a revised policy for community use of school facilities on Wednesday and established a subcommittee to review a draft of a new policy. Irvin Belanger said the action followed a resident’s comments on whether the facilities should… Read More
VAN BUREN — The acreage of land placed in trust for Van Buren area Boy Scouts by a California benefactor more than tripled this week. Scoutmaster Donald Marcotte, whose Troop 196 comprises Van Buren and nearby Hamlin and Cyr Plantation, said negotiations on a parcel… Read More
VAN BUREN — The SAD 24 board of directors learned more about Outcome Based Education from a nationally known consultant in town this week for a round of workshops with area educators. In a presentation to school directors, OBE authority Linda Edwards of Kansas said… Read More
Many of us who were caught up one way or another with the filming of Mel Gibson’s “The Man Without a Face” last summer have looked forward to the release of the movie this August, and it seems a singularly happy choice of the producers to hold the… Read More
I received a very pleasant surprise this morning while checking the stock quotes in the weekend edition of the BDN. For the first time, I noticed an over-the-counter section which included all three of the stocks I had submitted a while ago for possible inclusion in the OTC… Read More
I am writing to respond to some misconceptions in recent Bangor Daily News letters to the editor. Funding for Meals for Me is intended to provide a meal planned to meet one-third of the Adult Recommended Dietary Allowance, in addition to informational and social opportunities for older persons. Read More
In the letter column of the Aug. 6 BDN, Mr. Robert Strout Jr. wrote to complain about Gov. McKernan’s nomination of Ray “Bucky” Owen to the post of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Commissioner. One of Mr. Strout’s main arguments was that Dr. Owen was not known to him,… Read More
In U.S. News & World Report (July 26), in the article titled, “Japan, the Giant in Chains,” the writer, Susan Dentzer, says in the third paragraph, “Indeed, although President Clinton wants Japan to cut its income taxes to spur economic growth. …” I am puzzled as to why… Read More
Your Aug. 3 editorial, “Responding to pressure,” presented sound advice to all of us who want to decrease the cost of health care. Your approval of an insurance company that has taken the lead in covering programs that prevent disease rather than waiting until hospitalization and costly drug… Read More
AUGUSTA — Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell wants to have $2 million on hand for his re-election campaign next year, even though no Republican challenger has yet appeared on the horizon. “I do not take anything for granted,” Mitchell said Thursday. “I am going… Read More
Two Brewer people were charged early Thursday morning with a rash of car burglaries that have occurred recently in Brewer. Clifford Wetmore, 18, and an unidentified 15-year-old were arrested at about 12:30 a.m. by Officer Robert Angelo and Cpl. Rick Canarr. Both were charged with… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The following is a partial list of the cases processed July 29 through Aug. 4 in the central division of the 5th District Court in Ellsworth. Not included in the listing are cases resulting in fines of less than $100. Michael A. Call,… Read More
SULLIVAN — Stacy and Zachery Spaulding’s family grew this week by more than 20. The mother and her 10-year-old son were out Thursday morning hammering nails and hauling lumber, enjoying the company of the traveling crew who had come from up and down the East… Read More
ROCKLAND — The following cases were disposed of Thursday in 6th District Court: Wilbur E. Roman Jr., 22, Union, assault, four months in jail; criminal mischief, four months in jail to run concurrent with previous sentence, $150 restitution. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
ELLSWORTH — A total of 21 divorces became final in June and July in the central division of 5th District Court in Ellsworth. George Gray, Gouldsboro, and Lorie Gray, no address available. Married Sept. 2, 1989, at Blue Hill. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
BAR HARBOR — The Abbe Museum has been awarded a $15,000 grant from The Rockefeller Foundation of New York to mount an exhibit of the work of Passamaquoddy artist Tomah Joseph. The exhibit, titled “History on Birchbark: The Art of Tomah Joseph, Passamaquoddy,” is the… Read More
CAMDEN — “Visions of the Land,” an art auction to benefit the Coastal Mountain Land Trust, will be held Saturday, Aug. 21, at the Center for Creative Imaging, 51 Mechanic St., Camden. Forty-six local and well-known artists have contributed their work for this event. Many… Read More
LIBERTY — The owners of Lake St. George Village plan to have the complex ready in time for the residents to enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner in their new homes. The $1 million project on Route 3 is designed for mixed-use living. The handicapped, elderly and families… Read More
In response to “Brewer Police” (Aug. 4). It is a fact B.P.D. has had two accidents. That’s exactly what they were, accidents. Instead of condemning the police and worrying about the citizens buying another cruiser, why not take the time to thank God no one… Read More
ROCKLAND — Knox County First Call, the first information and referral service for residents of Knox County, is scheduled to be in service on Wednesday, Sept. 1. The hours will be 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Volunteers are being recruited and more… Read More
HOPE — The combined school boards of Hope, Appleton, Lincolnville, Camden and Rockport have chosen an architect to design a new five-town high school and a law firm to draft the legislation creating a Community School District to run it. Pending the outcome of negotiations… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Tax bills were printed this week in Pittsfield. With the completion of the SAD 53 budget Monday night, after two unsuccessful referendums, a tax rate could be set. Bills should be in the mail next week, according to Town Manager Dwight Dogherty. The… Read More
DEXTER — A straw poll will be held in November to give community leaders guidance in deciding the extent of any regulations concerning ice fishing on Lake Wassookeag, the town’s public drinking water source. Steve Whitesel, Dexter town manager, told councilors Thursday night that a… Read More
DEXTER — Through the cooperative effort of several local and state groups, pupils at the Dexter Primary/Middle School will have a place this fall where the entire student body can attend performances and concerts. According to Carol Shoreborn, SAD 46 migrant teacher, the idea to… Read More
CORNVILLE — Gaylen Hayden, 33, was arrested early Thursday morning at his Ames Road residence in Cornville, and was charged with aggravated trafficking in a schedule Z drug. Sheriff Spencer R. Havey said Hayden was arrested after a search by Somerset Detective Sgt. Carl Gottardi… Read More
DEXTER — The SAD 46 administration this week has calculated how much each SAD 46 town will be responsible for if voters at the annual district budget meeting next week approve $256,623 in local option money needed to fund a $6.2 million budget for next year. Read More