BREWER – It was a good day for Parkplace/O’Loughlin’s of Massachusetts at the World Team Candlepin Championship at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes here Wednesday. Led by Paul Berger’s division-high series of 465 and the team’s division-high series of 2,033, Parkplace took over the top spot… Read More
World Team Championship AT BREWER Team Standings Left Division 1. Parkplace/O’Laughlin 44-4; 2. Maine Heat 41-7; 3. Hanwell Bowling Center 40-8; 4. Custom Machine & Tool 40-8; 5. New Hampshire All-Stars 32-16; 6. Canal Lanes/Club 57 24-24; 7. Schwartz Furniture 18-30; 8. Rookies Moncton 15-33;… Read More
After the epidemic of political earaches, a touch of outdoors humor is in order: During late October, Galen Ruhlin of Gouldsboro and I were combing through bird covers behind my English pointer “Pete.” As we hunted, the Gouldsboro guide recounted some of his bear-hunting experiences earlier in the… Read More
Josh Nash signed on the dotted line. Andy Bedard decided to hold off. University of Maine men’s basketball coach Rudy Keeling has landed one key Maine schoolboy recruit, but he’ll have to wait and see if he can reel in another as Wednesday marked the… Read More
MACHIAS – P.J. Bristol scored 26 points and Josh Fannon added 24 more as the University of Maine-Machias downed Unity College 119-70 in men’s basketball action Wednesday. Jagos Medenica and Barry Shrambam added 16 points each for the Clippers, while Antoine Morin netted 11. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
University of Maine men’s basketball coach Rudy Keeling adheres to the philosophy expressed at Tuesday’s North Atlantic Conference media day: parity will be prevalent this season. “I think you can throw all the names into a hat and pull them out one at a time,”… Read More
It is known as the postgame interview. I can’t remember when I was so moved by such a television segment as last Saturday following Waterville’s victory over Oxford Hills of South Paris for the Eastern Maine Class A football title. After the game, the sportscaster… Read More
MACHIAS — A Joan Kennedy benefit concert has raised more than $10,000 to be split between the University of Maine at Machias and Down East Community Hospital, said hospital and UMM spokesmen in a release. The country music concert had help from local student volunteers… Read More
BANGOR — Grace United Methodist Church will hold its Festival of Trees Christmas Fair from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, at the church, 193 Union St. Among the events will be a pancake and sausage breakfast and a soup and sandwich lunch. Read More
BATH — A $4 million contract to provide technical know-how to the Malaysian navy offers Bath Iron Works an opportunity for future work in a nation with one of the fastest-growing economies, a company spokesman said Wednes- day. Kevin Gildart, assistant to the president at… Read More
BELFAST — It appears that the city and the Belfast Center will be going to court over a disputed $1 million tax assessment. Joseph Biaungo, attorney for Brian Cooper, the building’s owner, said his client was left with no other option after the City Council… Read More
ROCKLAND — Kno-Wal-Lin Coastal Family Hospice will hold an ecumenical memorial service at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, at Our Lady of Good Hope Church, to mark National Hospice Month. Hospice cares for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill people and provides… Read More
DEXTER — Parent-teacher conferences at Dexter Regional High School have been rescheduled to 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21. There will be no conferences at the high school Thursday, Nov. 17. Read More
I read Jessica Mathews’ alarming commentary (BDN, Nov. 9) about the perilous frontier of the human genome project. I strongly object to her use of incendiary terms such as hideous lottery, curse, and Pyrrhich victory. The genome project, like most scientific endeavors, offers new hope for improvement of… Read More
ELLSWORTH — A 12-year-old boy escaped serious injury Tuesday after being struck by a car as he tried to cross the road on Union River Bridge. Benedict Starbuck, 12, of Ellsworth ran out between moving vehicles on the bridge, according to police. The boy ran… Read More
ROCKLAND — A holiday party to benefit the Rockland Share the Pride scholarship fund will be Tuesday, Dec. 13, in the banquet room of the Navigator Motor Inn. All members and friends of the RSTP are invited to attend the party to celebrate the holiday season and assist… Read More
BELFAST — Attracting Birds In Winter, a slide-lecture program, will be presented at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, at the Belfast Free Library. Mid-Coast Audubon Society naturalist Joe Gray will show how homeowners can create or improve their winter bird feeding program and at the… Read More
ROCKLAND — Kno-Wal-Lin Coastal Family Hospice is among hospice organizations around the country celebrating National Hospice Month. This year marks the 20th year that hospice care has been offered in the United States. KWL Coastal Family Hospice has been serving the terminally ill and their families in Knox,… Read More
OAKFIELD — The driver of a McCain’s Corp. truck full of frozen french fries escaped injury Tuesday when his tractor-trailer truck went off Interstate 95 and rolled over. Frank Rose, 60, of Palm Bay, Fla., told state police Trooper Mark Sawyer that he was reaching… Read More
BAR HARBOR — The town of Bar Harbor has been awarded a $120,000 federal grant for reconstruction of 4,150 feet of bikeway and sidewalk. The bikeway improvements will help the resort community better to cope with the growing influx of bicyclists during the tourist season,… Read More
CASTINE — Dr. Verge Forbes, director of the Ocean Institute at Maine Maritime Academy, attended a recent United Nations-sponsored conference on maritime safety and environmental protection at the Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. “The U.N. development program is encouraging maritime academies to develop partnerships which… Read More
NEWPORT — The potatoes went first. The peas, the tomato soup and the Jello were close behind. Bringing up the rear were the spaghetti products, graham crackers and mustard. It was a parade of monumental significance. More than 500 children, from kindergarten to junior high,… Read More
ROCKPORT — By Maine standards, the special town meeting in Lincolnville the other night was a real snoozer — two dozen residents, not a crank in the bunch, taking about a half hour discussing five articles, mildly grilling town officials, then calmly voting to spend $36,500 of the… Read More
BANGOR — After the smoke and dust settled, the Phish concert two weeks ago was worth the headaches, Bass Park Director Mike Dyer said Monday. Despite problems with the young crowd gathered outside the Bangor Auditorium, the concert had several benefits for the city, Dyer… Read More
ROCKLAND — The derailment of the $21.3 million bond issue by voters at the polls on Nov. 8 will have no effect on the plan by Dragon Cement Products Co. to ship its product out of Rockland harbor, Dragon officials said Wednesday. The first shipment from the Thomaston… Read More
BANGOR — A federal reorganization designed to save taxpayers $3.6 billion has resulted in elimination of 14 separate U.S. Department of Agriculture agencies and inclusion of the Farmers Home Administration and Rural Development Administration into the new Rural Economic and Community Development office. Seth H. Read More
CARIBOU — Larry Drost, 29, of Caribou, was admitted to the burn unit at the Maine Medical Center in Portland after a Wednesday morning fire that destroyed his house trailer at 4 West Gate Villa on the Sawyer Road. Drost’s wife, Colleen, was treated for… Read More
AUGUSTA — The security couldn’t be tighter if they were counting $100 bills. Beyond a locked, alarm-rigged door in the super-secure Maine State Police Crime Lab, election workers opened padlocks to shiny metal ballot boxes as recounts in contested legislative races got under way Wednesday. Read More
LINCOLN — The cost of repairing the high school roof, which was damaged last week after gusty winds caused the rubber membrane to lift, is far less than expected. Superintendent Jack Turcotte on Tuesday received an estimate of $47,000 to repair the damage, nearly 10… Read More
He’s bald, round in the belly, big voiced and flamboyant. No, John Thomas does not at all come to mind when one thinks of Henry Higgins, the persnickety Englishman of George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” and Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady,” which will be performed… Read More
AUGUSTA — Once on the brink of extinction, the herd of Maine elephants that returned to the capitol Wednesday had to tax their political memories as they tried to recall the last time 74 Republicans were seated in the House of Representatives. There were not… Read More
It’s been a dizzying ride to fame this year for Melissa Etheridge. Etheridge, who will perform at concerts tonight in Portland and at 8 p.m. Friday in Bangor, has seen her fourth album, “Yes I Am,” sell more than 1 million copies. Her songs are… Read More
WASHINGTON — Asthma sufferers have been dying since a new drug hit the market in April, some apparently because they mistakenly believed the long-lasting drug would immediately relieve their breathing problems. There have been 20 deaths reported to the Food and Drug Administration among users… Read More
The Pentagon must take the latest development in the plight of many Gulf War veterans with extreme seriousness and offer whatever resources it has to finding a cause for the wide range of diseases afflicting the vets’ children. A significant percentage of Gulf War veterans… Read More
A story in Monday’s MaineDay stated incorrectly that Jen Wilson, recipient of St. Joseph Hospital’s Mother Angela Service Award, had contributed 1,300 hours of volunteer service. The correct number is 13,000 hours. Also, even with the expansion, conversion of some of the existing space to single rooms will… Read More
Consultants to federal regulators found something this week that unfortunately has eluded factions in the Basin Mills Dam controversy: balance. The staff report to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which must issue a license before the 44-megawatt project can be built, weighed the arguments… Read More
HALLOWELL — George Foreman isn’t the only one making a comeback these days. Downtowns, once thought past their prime, are showing signs of new life. And speakers at a statewide conference Wednesday said such a resurgence in these downtown areas will have widespread economic, social… Read More
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BAILEYVILLE — Recycling moved a step closer to reality for 12 municipalities in eastern Washington County with the purchase of 5 acres in Baileyville from Georgia-Pacific Corp. A proposal calls for a recycling center to be located on the parcel, and a study will be… Read More
LINCOLN — Customers of the Lincoln Sanitary District will see no rate increase in 1995. Trustees of the Lincoln Sanitary District on Tuesday approved a 1995 budget of $503,662, which represents a decrease of $20,133, or 3.8 percent compared with last year’s budget. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Two lien claims were brought against Piscataquis County for money that is owed to subcontractors who closed the Orneville landfill. The county has not yet paid contractor James Martin Jr. who completed the work at the Orneville landfill because he has not submitted… Read More
NEWPORT — A special meeting, a special time, but still the busy members of the SAD 48 board of directors couldn’t make it. Anyone making the trip to the meeting originally scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, probably was surprised to learn the meeting… Read More
HAMPDEN — Since controversy erupted last spring over use of a time-out area at Smith School in Winterport, SAD 22 directors, administrators and staff have been looking at the issue, formulating guidelines and writing down procedures that have been used. On Wednesday, the board accepted… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — University of Maine President Frederick E. Hutchinson has recognized Fraser Paper Ltd., with operations in Madawaska, and Maine Public Service Co. of Presque Isle for their strong statement of support for the university through scholarships. Hutchinson presented plaques to representatives Suzanne Daigle,… Read More
EAST MILLINOCKET — When the 1994 tax bills are mailed out later this week, taxpayers will see an increase over previous years. Selectmen, who also are town assessors, on Tuesday set the 1994 tax rate at $12.82 per $1,000 of assessed value. It represents an… Read More
BANGOR — The Joshua Chamberlain Chapter 1865 of the Military Order of the Purple Heart will meet at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, at the Bangor Elks Lodge on the Odlin Road. Since its founding a year ago the order has grown to 136 members. Read More
AURORA — A 68-year-old Crawford man died after his car and a tractor-trailer truck collided Wednesday afternoon. The victim, Arnold Beaupre, had been driving east on Route 9 around 2:30 p.m., when his 1989 Pontiac station wagon crossed the center line, striking the westbound tractor-trailer… Read More
NEWPORT — When two bands were booked unintentionally for the same night last Friday at the Grouchy Marx pub in downtown Newport, the members thought it would be fun to jam together rather than to send one band home. Unfortunately, the sounds generated by the… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A second letter of opposition will be fired off to the state Department of Transportation by Dover-Foxcroft officials who oppose the possibility of a wetland being created on Mechanic Street. The DOT informed the town earlier that property on Mechanic Street was one… Read More
BANGOR — Despite neighborhood opposition, the Manna soup kitchen will remain at its new location on Center Street. The Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday denied an appeal by the Center Street Neighborhood Group to repeal a certificate of occupancy granted by the city’s code… Read More
ORONO — Jasmine’s Restaurant in Orono will celebrate the release of Georges Duboeuf 1994 Beaujolais Nouveau Nov. 17-19 with a special Menu from Provence featuring a traditional French country dish, Seafood Bouride. This is France’s first ’94 vintage release into Maine. For more information, call 1-800-379-4300. Read More
To the liberal (still smarting from the recent conservative victory) who wrote the pro-Democrat editorial, “Beyond Promises,” which was printed in the Nov. 11 BDN: “Don’t like foreigners? California has an answer — keep immigrants’ children uneducated — that unfortunately was accepted by voters.” googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
Fully aware that I will be called a kook by the more “enlightened” members of this society we live in, I would like to state that after all the sugar-coated metaphors are removed, the fact remains: abortion, euthanasia, and assisted suicide are all intentional killings and as such… Read More
SACO, Maine — The Maine novelty company that made a splash last season by selling jewelry crafted from moose droppings is proving again that one person’s trash can be another’s treasure. A Saco woman whose husband is a commercial fisherman has developed a home-based business… Read More
I want to thank all the voters of the communities in District 107 for getting out to vote for the candidates of their choice. I appreciate all the votes that I received in my bid to represent you as your representative in Augusta. Although I… Read More
Why would we want to go back to the 1980s when most of the special interest groups got started? We had a governor who ended his terms with a $60 million surplus. How did that happen? Was it that we were overtaxed? Or was it because he didn’t… Read More
I am Eric Bergstrom from East Holden. I think we should announce that it is National Book Week, Nov. 14-19. Books are very educational. If more kids are encouraged to read books, they will be smarter. If the next generation is smarter than this one… Read More
AUGUSTA — The University of Maine System’s top administrator has given a qualified endorsement to a call by Gov.-elect Angus King for higher tuition for nonresidents. Raising out-of-state tuition would give the university a greater income, “unless the price were so high that students wouldn’t… Read More
BANGOR — Bangor firefighters were busy dousing flames along Ohio Street on Wednesday after someone apparently went along the tree-lined road setting leaves on fire. Assistant Fire Chief Mike Anderson said firefighters arrived to find six separate fires in the ditch on Outer Ohio Street. Read More
BANGOR — A new support group for sufferers of epilepsy has been formed. The Eastern Maine Epilepsy Research-Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, and the first Tuesday of each month except for January, at Ross Manor, 758 Broadway. Speaker in December… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Richard Kane’s hot tub has landed him in hot water again. The renegade Ellsworth city councilor and his wife were sentenced on Wednesday morning to spend 48 hours in Hancock County Jail for contempt of court. The 48-hour sentence, which began about 10:30… Read More
MACHIAS — A 47-year-old Jonesport man arrested on drug charges last week in East Machias has been released from Washington County Jail on bail. Daryl L. Young of Sandy River Beach in Jonesport is accused of having about $8,000 in cash and more than 350… Read More
GREENVILLE — Maine’s highest court upheld an earlier Superior Court decision in a lawsuit filed more than 15 years ago by a developer against the Moosehead Sanitary District. Smile Inc., formerly Squaw Village Corp., which sought more than $2 million in damages for breach of… Read More
An environmental group has announced its intention to sue agencies of the federal government for failing to decide if the Atlantic salmon should be designated a threatened or endangered species. About a year ago, RESTORE: The North Woods, based in Concord, Mass., and the Biodiversity… Read More
LINCOLN — For Lynne Haynes, a 13-year teacher at Mattanawcook Academy, physical education is not just a class of children exercising. “It is educating the student about the whole person — not just the physical, but the mental, emotional and the social. To me, it… Read More
OLD TOWN — Town Clerk Pat Ramsey said Wednesday that she had been served with a letter from Roberta Fowler, a City Council candidate, requesting a recount of the Tuesday, Nov. 8, council race. The recount will begin at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22. Fowler… Read More
The grinch may steal a big part of the Salvation Army’s Christmas iron-kettle campaign this year, but efforts are under way to make up for an anticipated loss of as much as $8,000 in donations locally. Salvation Army workers will ring their bells and place… Read More
On Nov. 20, we will commemorate an anniversary. It will be one year since our son, Lawrence Jones Jr., was killed on a street in Baltimore, Md. He was shot in the head and left to die on the sidewalk just down the street from where he lived. Read More
CALAIS — A Gardiner man’s plans to open an adult video and book store were put on hold to give residents an opportunity to comment. A public hearing has been set for Dec. 13. Brian Eaton has asked the Calais Planning Board to allow a… Read More
BAILEYVILLE — Recycling moved a step closer to reality for 12 municipalities in eastern Washington County with the purchase of 5 acres of land in Baileyville from Georgia-Pacific Corp. A proposal calls for a recycling center to be located on the parcel, and a study… Read More
HOULTON — Houlton Town Manager Allan K. Bean has presented the Town Council with a preliminary 1995 budget of $5.98 million. The figure represents an increase of $129,062 over this year’s budget. “We have rigorously scrubbed our budget to virtually zero percent increase in expenses… Read More
ORONO — The student accused of starting a fire that heavily damaged a University of Maine dormitory last weekend will face criminal charges, the Penobscot County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the office of Campus Living said the student, who has not been identified,… Read More
Flu season is here, and health officials urge older Americans and people with medical problems to get vaccinated against the virus. Influenza is the fifth leading killer of people more than 65 years old. It can also be deadly for people who have a heart… Read More
A spokesman for Gov.-elect Angus King on Wednesday confirmed that the incoming chief executive could try to delay the opening of the magnet school in Limestone. Limestone Superintendent James Morse told school committee members Tuesday that King requested a delay in the schedule to open… Read More
ST. AGATHA — Old-fashioned peer pressure, along with a little help from nature in the form of a hard frost, may be the initial answers for the Maine potato industry in its fight against the latest strain of late blight. The disease has taken its… Read More
DYER BROOK — It won’t be enough for students in the Southern Aroostook Community School District to not light up a cigarette while at school. A policy approved this week by the school committee prohibits even the possession of tobacco on school property. Superintendent of… Read More