Four months ago, Peter Murray did not know if he would have a job, and a group of sullen Dexter High School youngsters sat in the gym wondering if they would have a basketball team. The position of assistant principal at the Dexter Primary Middle… Read More
A quick, rich Fox has snatched the New York Giants and the rest of the National Football Conference away from more than half of the television audience in Eastern and Northern Maine. Last week Fox outbid traditional National Football League broadcaster CBS for the right… Read More
Chances are your Christmas-shopping list includes a sportsman or sportswoman who has more outdoors equipment than L.L. Bean. With that in mind, before you run out and buy him or her another fly box or a pair of wool socks, let me make a gift suggestion that will… Read More
U.S. Swim Meet Results of the Hurricane Swim Club during a U.S. Swim meet at Exeter, N.H.: 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++) {… Read More
MOUNT DESERT – Marc Corliss scored a game-high 19 points and Lucas Dunbar scored six of his 11 points in the first quarter as Mount Desert Island topped John Bapst 59-53 in schoolboy basketball action. Dunbar hit a game-opening 3-pointer and added another later in… Read More
Two items in our Monday paper caught my attention and made me think about The Sunday River Express. An Associated Press item on page 6 reported that Dr. Victor Parisien of Auburn “hopes a Paris man’s guilty plea later this month to manslaughter and drunken… Read More
MILLINOCKET – Drew O’Connor tipped in an alley-oop pass off a designed play with one second remaining here Monday night to lift Stearns High School to a hotly contested 56-54 Class B basketball victory over Houlton. Ryan Reeves paced the Minutemen with a game-high 18… Read More
SACO – A team from the Oxford Hills Bowling Center captured the Maine Open Candlepin Bowling Association’s mixed team championship in action over the weekend at the Vacationland Lanes. The team of Sharon Fogg, Al Joy, Val Joy, and Russ Nealey rolled up a five-string… Read More
ORONO – Liza Doughty scored eight of her 13 points in the fourth quarter as the Hermon Hawks edged the Orono Red Riots 39-33 to improve their perfect record to 6-0. Orono led by one with two minutes left, but the Hawks surged to the… Read More
EAST MACHIAS – Cindy Morse sank two free throws with 27 seconds left to secure a 36-32 win for the Machias Bulldogs over the Washington Academy Raiders in schoolgirl basketball action Monday night. The Bulldogs turned back a fierce Washington Academy rally. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
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Jamie Vasoll had the hat trick and Mike Kimball added a goal and an assist as Gardiner upended John Bapst 5-1 in a high school hockey game at Bangor’s Sawyer Arena on Monday evening. Jim Howe had the other goal for 4-2 Gardiner while Alex… Read More
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MOSCOW – Peter Ferraro scored three goals and his twin brother Chris scored once, leading Team USA to a 9-4 victory over Team Czech in the Izvestia Cup hockey tournament Monday. Mark Beaufait had two goals for the Americans, and John Liley, Brian Rolston and… Read More
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Andrew Brunette, a rookie left winger for the Portland Pirates, was named the Classic-AHL Rookie of the Week by the league on Monday. Brunette pciked up three goals and two assists to help the Pirates come back and salvage ties in… Read More
Rural Mainers have long valued husbandry, stewardship, and community. Taking care of the land, keeping an eye to the needs of the next generation, and supporting one’s neighbor are the very foundations of our state’s agricultural communities and resource-using industries. Today, these same principles are… Read More
The shortest distance between Soviet-style communism and democracy runs right into Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Now that the Clinton administration has had a chance to assess the damage done in the recent Russian elections, it should create and support a new timetable of aid and advice for its old foe. Read More
A former lieutenant governor of the Passmaquoddy Tribe was sentenced to six months in jail and three years of supervised release Monday for embezzling $10,000 in Indian land-claims funds and spending some of the money on hunting trips. Kenneth J. Newell Sr., 56, of Perry… Read More
Milestones marks some of the outstanding accomplishments of the people of eastern and northern Maine. Submissions may be sent to Milestones, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402-1329. Eric L. Annis of Dover-Foxcroft and Anthony V. Bowers of Sherman Mills recently were designated certified… Read More
The attorney for a Massachusetts man convicted of manslaughter in a fatal boating accident says he has appealed the conviction to the Maine supreme court. “I believe this was an accident … the facts in this case would make every car accident in Maine a… Read More
AUGUSTA — Wealthy Republican businessman Robert A.G. Monks announced Monday that he will not run for governor, clearing the way for half a dozen or more less-well-heeled candidates to campaign in earnest. According to party insiders, Monks had flirted with a Blaine House candidacy on… Read More
BELFAST — Highway Department driver Burt Hamilton was uninjured when his plow truck rolled over Sunday night. Police Chief Robert Keating said Hamilton, 29, of Belfast was plowing and sanding the Head of Tide Road at 9:45 p.m. when the accident occurred. Keating said the… Read More
David Cutler has worked a lot of Saturdays during the 41 years he has been associated with the family clothing and sporting goods store on Main Street in Old Town. But all of that will change when Cutler’s goes out of business early in the… Read More
AUGUSTA — Members of the Maine Restaurant Association will take part in a designated-driver program sponsored by the American Automobile Association during the holiday season from Christmas to New Year’s Day. In another safe-driving program, Bangor and Brewer residents can get themselves and their cars… Read More
The two men convicted in October of killing a 27-year-old Shop ‘n Save employee are appealing the verdict to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Pornchai Moontri and Daniel Williams were convicted in a joint trial of killing Michael Scott McDowell in March 1992 in the… Read More
In the Maine Sunday Telegram issue of Dec. 12, staff writer Lloyd Ferriss describes a nightmare in which he finds out that stores are selling irradiated foods in Maine. My nightmare is different. In my nightmare, I wake up to find that one of my grandchildren has died… Read More
Don’t let anybody fool you into thinking we have gridlock in Augusta. In 1993 alone, the Maine Legislature passed 482 bills that were enacted into law. I will bet that most people in this state could not even make a list of 482 problems that… Read More
WINTERPORT — Selectmen Tuesday night instructed the town manager and the code enforcement officer to look into developing a Building Notification Ordinance. Under the ordinance, said Town Manager Scott Tilton, if someone plans to build, they must first pick up a permit at the town… Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a three-part series on hospice workers in the midcoast area. ROCKLAND — Working with death and dying every day, even around the holidays, is far more “enriching” than depressing, according to workers involved in the hospice program in… Read More
AUGUSTA — Central Maine Power Co. won an interim court ruling Monday that clears the way for the utility to raise rates that were boosted by $26 million just weeks ago by $4 million more. Chief Justice Daniel E. Wathen of the Maine Supreme Judicial… Read More
WEST BATH — A gas station owner had to hire a police officer to control traffic when he lowered the price of gasoline to 79 cents per gallon to show appreciation to his loyal customers. More than 2,000 cars dropped by for gas during the… Read More
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland — Canadian officials on Monday announced a ban on most cod fishing and sharp restrictions on fishing for other groundfish in an effort to restore depleted stocks. “Sometimes bitter medicine is needed to restore health,” said Federal Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin. “This… Read More
A Belfast man pleaded guilty Monday to the interstate transportation of stolen property in a scheme to defraud insurance companies, prosecutors said. Maurice Pooler, 46, entered the plea in U.S. District Court after an investigation by the FBI and state motor vehicle investigators, said U.S. Read More
HOULTON — Despite the rush and crush of the holiday season, David Little of Linneus still finds time to make Christmas a bit brighter for members of the Houlton Wesleyan Church. For the last two years, Little has transformed an ordinary artificial Christmas tree at… Read More
Your editorial, “The French Connection” (Dec. 15), was very positive. It is true that we in Maine have a great opportunity to easily become bilingual, an opportunity that we have wasted. I have often wondered why our state educational system used the 40 percent French… Read More
AUGUSTA — The contentious debate over redesigning the Maine Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Capitol Park has taken a new twist as the memorial’s original designer has agreed to sketch a new plan. Roger Richmond will work out a plan for etching into the Capitol Street… Read More
Q. Two panes are cracked and our old wood windows leak and don’t open easily. What is the correct method to replace a glass pane? What type of non-wood replacement windows are most maintenance-free? — S.V. A. Old leaky wood windows are not only unattractive… Read More
One of the many talents that you will find you have acquired as a teen-ager is the extra special and convenient power of blocking out unwanted noise. You will discover — usually while listening to parents, teachers or any other authority figure that you are… Read More
CALAIS — Members of Teamsters Local 340 on Monday called off the strike they had set for 3 p.m. Thursday Dec. 23, and ratified their first contract with the 100-bed Barnard Nursing Home. The respective bargaining units, which hadn’t seen eye to eye on several… Read More
A Frankfort family says it has found a thumbtack in its Fruity Pebbles cereal. Mitchell Cornelison said his 28-month-old son, Ray, was eating the cereal while seated on the floor on a sleeping bag. The youngster spilled his cereal and the thumbtack was found when… Read More
EASTPORT — Like a troop of honorary Santas, members of the Eastport-based Downeast Marine Detachment of the Marine Corps League this week distributed more than $3,500 in toys they recently collected or purchased, to nearly 200 children countywide. Michael Apt of Eastport, commandant of the… Read More
NO PAIN. NO GAIN. Printed on a large sign, this could serve as the motto of the state’s new Workers’ Compensation Board, which came to be under excruciating political circumstances. Its labor and management members repeatedly have reached and broken gridlock, and again are at impasse, this time… Read More
Fly the space shuttle, drive a fire engine and get your hands on a cow’s udder. Hands-on experience is rule number one at the Children’s Museum of Maine in Portland. The museum does not feature your typical hushed halls of silent glass encased dioramas. Everything… Read More
Children’s Museum of Maine, in the former Chamber of Commerce Building, 142 Free St., Portland, Maine 04101, 828-1234. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Tuesday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday; and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
WASHBURN — A concerted effort among school, town and local club officials may be the answer to construction of two multipurpose athletic fields to accommodate soccer, softball and Little League programs. A Land and Water Conservation Fund grant application for $13,642 was submitted to the… Read More
PITTSFIELD — The Maine Central Institute Football Boosters Club has scheduled its annual Super Supper for March 19, 1994. The $100-per-couple event is the club’s major fund-raiser and was the primary resource in their recent lighting of the MCI football field. This year, some of… Read More
MILO — Homeowners were cautioned this week about lead levels in the Milo water supply. “Some homes in Milo had a very high amount of lead in the first-draw water samples that were required by the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act,” Milo Water District Superintendent… Read More
CORINNA — The Corinna Town Office will be closed Friday, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 31, in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Nomination papers will be available Wednesday, Dec. 29, at the town office. The filing date is Monday, Feb. 7. Read More
PITTSFIELD — Mothers-to-be can now receive obstetrical care in Pittsfield through special services offered by Sebasticook Valley Hospital at the Pittsfield Professional Center on South Main Street. The new service is offered every Monday utilizing the services of Dr. Mariam Axelrod, Dr. Cathy Morrow and Dr. Russell DeJong. Read More
MACHIASPORT — A pair of emergency stream bank protection projects, having a combined value of about $250,000, will be completed for Milbridge and Machiasport this week by Bridge Construction Corp. According to Bob Betts, project superintendent for Bridge Construction Corp., the two emergency construction projects… Read More
MILLINOCKET — The Millinocket Town Council will consider a proposed six-month budget of $2.8 million in a public hearing at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 23, in the municipal building. The council is considering a six-month budget because voters in November approved changing the town’s fiscal… Read More
PLEASANT POINT — The Passamaquoddy Tribal Council and Tribal Gov. Cliv Dore have accepted a petition from 172 tribal members who want a public hearing to discuss the apparent shortfall in annual dividend payments recently distributed to each tribal member. The hearing, to be held… Read More
MONTICELLO — State police are investigating a burglary at a Monticello business in which more than $1,600 was taken. The burglary at Morrill’s General Store on U.S. Route 1 in the village of Monticello was discovered at about 6:15 a.m. Monday by store owner Robert… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Earl Dean of Pittsfield’s Community Christmas Project says giving is down this year. For 11 years, Dean has headed the annual giving program to benefit the needy of the greater Pittsfield area, including Detroit and Burnham, at Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year, he… Read More
CARIBOU — The proposed 1994 Aroostook County budget, $5,000 less than last year, will be presented at a public hearing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 28, in the Superior Courtroom in Caribou. The $4,070,646 budget is proposed by the Aroostook County Commissioners after recommendation by… Read More
I’ve just read with concern the BDN article (Dec. 10), “Welfare reform aimed at teen mothers.” President Clinton’s welfare reform seems to need some help and guidance. In the article a suggested solution to ending welfare, “as we know it,” reommends that teen-age mothers be required to live… Read More
Your editorial on Dec. 11-12 urged that we should have the “courage” to adopt a government-managed, single-payer health care system — and that we should not be daunted by any references to “socialism.” When the various distortions of our current health care system, including the employer-tied feature and… Read More
As I read the Bangor Daily News (recently) I reviewed the workers’ comp advertisement and reminded myself that I’m one of 4,000 claimants still waiting to have my petition processed. Although they need to appoint a commisioner to the process, 4,000 people are eagerly waiting… Read More
ROCKLAND — Last year’s decision to clean out the county’s surplus account has come back to haunt the Knox County Budget Committee. It was a perplexed budget committee that sat around the table Monday night wondering where all the money went. Whereas last year’s surplus… Read More
Monday’s lottery numbers: 862 — 4904… Read More
Every year more than 40,000 women die of breast cancer. The incidence of this disease has been rising for the past two decades. A woman now has a one chance in 10 of getting breast cancer during her lifetime. Of those who get it, one in four will… Read More
It’s fine for Tom Weber to write about “Driving the mean streets” of Bangor (BDN, Nov. 30), but how about him and-or the Bangor Daily News and-or its readers mounting a campaign to change the situation, instead of enduring the frustrations and complaining about it? The current traffic… Read More
LINCOLN — The Lincoln Police Department will no longer provide an officer for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. According to officials, Police Chief Larry Merrithew late last week issued a memo to D.A.R.E. Officer Mike Knights, advising him that as of Dec. 17, 1993,… Read More
More than 100 youngsters from 12 Girl Scout troops in Brewer gathered on Dec. 12 to go Christmas caroling. The Girl Scouts — from Daisies up through Seniors — began in the afternoon at Brewer Rehab and Living Center, where they sang for the residents. Read More
ELLSWORTH — The dedication and hard work members of the Hancock Unit of the American Cancer Society gave in 1992-93 has earned them a “goal buster” award for exceeding their goals in public education. The volunteer group reached 4,731 adults and 4,174 youths through a… Read More
FREEPORT — When Brenda Lendfesty arrived home from a weekend trip this fall, the mother of two teen-agers found out there had been a party at her house that Friday night. Word gets out fast about whose parents are away in this town, where teens… Read More
Some 1,100 Bangor residents got a pre-Christmas surprise in the past few days that they probably wish they hadn’t. Through a programming error at City Hall a batch of sewer and water bills sent out last Friday were triple what they should have been, said… Read More
MILFORD — The town of Milford has completed the first phase of its manhole repair project. According to Town Manager Bruce Locke, 19 of the 50 worst manholes have been repaired or replaced to reduce the infiltration of storm water into the sewer system that… Read More
A Corinna family escaped serious injury Monday when their car slid off Route 2 in Carmel. Loretta Bowley, 23, was driving an older-model Subaru when a log truck went by and kicked up slush onto the windshield. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
EAST CORINTH — The SAD 64 board of directors and superintendent on Monday formally put to rest the issue of whether occult influences had infiltrated the district’s schools, although for some, questions and concerns still may linger. In a sometimes contentious meeting attended by more… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The following is a partial list of the cases processed Dec. 4-10 in the central division of 5th District Court in Ellsworth. Not included in the listing are cases resulting in fines of less than $100. Kelley R. Griffin, 29, Ellsworth, disorderly conduct,… Read More
AUGUSTA — A policy that restricts summer jobs in the town of Wiscasset to college students does not represent age discrimination, the Maine Human Rights Commission said Monday. The commission took the unusual step of overruling one of its investigators, who had concluded the policy… Read More
A fire was reported around midnight Tuesday on Whitmore’s Landing Road in Hudson. At press time, the Hudson Fire Department had requested mutual aid from Glenburn. One room was reported fully engulfed. Read More
BAR HARBOR — College of the Atlantic has accepted nearly one third of the freshman class for next fall after instituting an early decision admission plan. Under the new plan, high school seniors apply to the college by Dec. 1 and agree to enroll if… Read More
BAR HARBOR — A lawsuit against the town of Bar Harbor has yet to be assigned a court date. The lawsuit, filed last May by Jekyll and Hyde Inc., challenges sections of the town’s ordinance controlling the outdoor display and sale of food and merchandise. Read More
ROCKLAND — Justice Francis Marsano handed down the following sentences in Knox County Superior Court on Monday: James Littlefield, 30, Waldoboro, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a high-speed chase on Old County Road in Thomaston on… Read More
CASTINE — Officials from the town of Castine and Maine Maritime Academy met Monday to work toward solving the slippery question of the origin of grease clogging sewer pipes and getting into the pollution control facility. Town manager Richard Robinson said after the meeting that… Read More
BELFAST — The Belfast Area High School music department will present its annual holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 20, in the school gym. The concert will open with the stage band performing Christmas favorites in a jazz style with vocalist Lee Parent. The… Read More
ST. GEORGE — Aleisa Colson, 18, of Port Clyde received a broken leg when her vehicle slid off an icy road and struck a tree at St. George Sunday night. Two passengers riding in the vehicle were uninjured. A spokesman for the Knox County Sheriff’s… Read More
ROCKLAND — Code Enforcement Officer David Kalloch has halted construction of a fourth-floor function room at the Trade Winds Motor Inn. Kalloch said the project was stopped because it was in violation of the city’s building codes. He said wood-frame construction was unsuitable for upper… Read More
OWLS HEAD — Selectman Mike Campbell resigned last week, but fellow board members won’t let him go. Board members John Holman and Carolyn Philbrook decided to table the surprise resignation in order to give Campbell a few days to reconsider his decision. When reached Monday,… Read More
HARTLAND — Nomination papers are available at the Hartland town office for March elections. According to Town Clerk Joan E. Munn, papers are available for three selectmen’s posts and for town clerk, for one year each. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
CAMDEN — The Camden selectmen Monday picked Bruce G. Hensler of Waterville as the town’s new fire chief. Hensler currently is assistant fire chief and director of code enforcement for the city of Waterville. He will start his Camden job, at an annual salary of… Read More
WATERVILLE — Mid-Maine Medical Center’s Maternity Care Education will offer a three-part refresher Lamaze course from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 3 and 10, and Thursday, Jan. 13. The workshop will offer preparation for childbirth, Lamaze breathing and relaxation techniques, information on Cesarean birth,… Read More