BANGOR – If father truly does know best, the Orono girls basketball team has been using an ineligible player. After watching his daughter, Red Riot guard Susan Gardner, calmly drain four free throws in the final 13 seconds to clinch Wednesday’s 42-38 Eastern Maine Class… Read More
Wednesday’s answer: John Guiski helped the Dexter Tigers, coached by his dad, Ed Guiski, capture the Eastern Maine Class B title in 1985. Read More
BANGOR – If silence really is golden, the Mount Desert Island boys basketball team might want to make some room in the school’s trophy case. MDI senior Rob Gilbert, under a media gag order the team imposed upon itself following its loss to Stearns at… Read More
While stars faded in the dawn of Feb. 15th, two members of the Tunk Lake Breakfast Club drilled holes and rigged their ice-fishing traps. “When we got things squared away, Harvard Peabody and I went back to the shack and started rustling up some breakfast,” said Capt. John… Read More
SAN DIEGO – A day after winning with the closest margin of the 1995 America’s Cup trials, Stars & Stripes left no doubt Wednesday when it beat Young America by 1 minute, 33 seconds. The victory was worth four points, pulling Stars & Stripes into… Read More
It looks like a two-horse race among local stations to secure television rights to University of Maine women’s playoff games. WABI-TV (Channel 5) and WLBZ-TV (Channel 2) – in partnership with Portland’s WCSH (Channel 6) under the Maine Broadcasting System umbrella – appear to be… Read More
BANGOR – Sisters Wendy and Kerri Ivey scored 14 points apiece to lead a balanced Hodgdon team to a 54-51 Eastern Maine girls Class C quarterfinal victory over Penquis Wednesday at the Auditorium. The No. 4 Hawks next meet the No. 1 Schenck Wolverines at… Read More
BANGOR – There are the hopers and there are the believers. Chances are, during Wednesday night’s Eastern Maine Class B semifinal at the Bangor Auditorium, there were a couple of thousand people “hoping” that sixth-seeded Orono could pull out an upset victory over No. 2… Read More
Mel Jodrey Race AT SUNDAY RIVER, Newry Giant slalom Men: Jon Sawyer (Bates) 1:51.08, Sandy Perrins (Bates) 1:51.15, Bode Miller (Carrabasset Valley) 1:52.13, Jeffrey Ippolito (CVA) 1:52.57, Mark Peabody (Bates) 1:53.24, Kina Pickett (Bates) 1:53.70, Sean Clark (Bates) 1:53.74, Jamie Ippolito (Bates) 1:54.26, Jeremy Crane… Read More
BANGOR – Speed, grace and style are words one could use to describe Schenck High School junior guard Thomas Jamo from East Millinocket. However, his poise at the line was the difference as he hit four key free throws with less than 25 seconds to… Read More
AUGUSTA – The top-ranked Valley Cavaliers beat No. 4 Rangeley 63-58 in a Western Maine Class D boys semifinal Wednesday at the Augusta Civic Center. Hyde tripped up Richmond 73-47 in the other `D’ game. In a Class B boys semifinal, Cape Elizabeth had a… Read More
The University of New England Knights scored a 79-71 women’s playoff basketball victory over the University of Maine-Presque Isle in Biddeford on Wednesday night. The Knights will face top-seeded Husson College in a 6 p.m. Maine Athletic Conference showdown on Sunday at the Bangor Auditorium. Read More
Many Eastern Maine tournament basketball fans were not happy to learn that Wednesday evening’s Class B semifinal games were not aired by MPTV-TV Orono (Channel 12). Instead of game action, MPTV ran a two-hour special – Mystery of the Senses: A Nova Miniseries. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
The list of games for Saturday’s Eastern Maine high school basketball finals at the Bangor Auditorium which ran on the Scoreboard page Friday morning was in error. The Class B girls final is at 2:05 p.m. and the B boys play at approximately 4 p.m. The Class C… Read More
The defending champion Brewer Witches enter the playoffs as the top team in the Eastern Maine Class B hockey ranks while the Bangor Rams have qualified for the Class A playoffs and have avoided playing the top team in the first round. Bangor beat Old… Read More
BANGOR – Narraguagus High School proved it had a better basketball team than Washington Academy this season. Barely. 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
ROCKLAND — Mayor Thomas Molloy told Gov. Angus King Wednesday that the city is “doing our part” to control illegal drug traffic, while the state plans to halt helicopter flyovers. The flyovers would be “one more tool to help us,” Molloy said. After Rockland experienced… Read More
Mark Curry is a modern-day Renaissance man: stand-up comic, TV and movie actor, host, basketball player, philanthropist. Curry will be wearing his stand-up comic’s cap when he comes to the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono Friday for an 8 p.m. performance. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
Fast-food giant McDonald’s is deciding whether to pursue its bid for a restaurant along busy Route 1A in Hampden after the town’s Planning Board earlier this month rejected the restaurant’s application. “We’d like to do business in Hampden and we’re just reviewing our options,” said… Read More
WASHINGTON — White House aides confirmed Wednesday that President Clinton is dropping the administration’s proposal for a mandatory border-crossing fee, but insisted the move was not a political flip-flop. Sen. William S. Cohen expressed reservations about the change in policy, which would provide states the… Read More
Bidu Sayao, the Brazilian lyric soprano, may have retired from the stage in 1959 and she may be nudging 93 (an age she erases from documents), but she is certainly not forgotten in Rio de Janeiro. So it was with high excitement that she took… Read More
CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy may name a new president by April, a college spokesman said this week. More than 100 candidates have applied to fill the post vacated when Kenneth Curtis resigned to return to his Portland law practice last August. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
HOULTON — A $3.8 million medical office facility cleared its final hurdle Tuesday when the Houlton Zoning Board of Appeals approved a zone variance for the project by a vote of 4-1. The 15,000-square-foot, three-story building will be attached to Houlton Regional Hospital, but will… Read More
Washington County Superior Court: Robert P. DeAngelis, 38, Danforth, possession of a firearm by a felon, all but one year suspended from three-year jail sentence, two years probation. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
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AUGUSTA — National Guard units will continue to have an expanding role in the defense of American interests at home and abroad, a U.S. Department of Defense official said Wednesday. Speaking to a joint convention of the House of Representatives and the Senate, Deborah R. Read More
FORT KENT — The Valley SnoRiders of Fort Kent will hold their fourth annual Snowmobile Parade starting at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, at the Maine District Court parking lot. Chicken stew will be served at the Fort Kent Hotel after the parade. Read More
Whenever a person wins a large settlement in a lawsuit — such as the $2.9 million awarded last year to a woman who suffered burns from a cup of McDonald’s coffee — the urge to reform the litigation system washes across the country. House Republicans have proposed this… Read More
ROCKPORT — Like David Letterman, Gov. Angus King presented his “top 10 list” during a Wednesday morning Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Samoset Resort. King’s list dealt with observations of his first six weeks on the job. Management is what is needed. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
WINTERPORT — The license plates on Ed and Barbara Ford’s vehicles proclaim their noble occupation. “Fstr Mom” — short for “foster mom” — decorates a black Dodge van and “Fstr Dad” festoons a white Chevrolet sedan in the yard of their country home. The Fords… Read More
BOSTON — The Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday removed 655 sites around New England from its Superfund list of contaminated properties in potential need of cleanup. EPA officials said the move, which shrinks the number of parcels on the Superfund list in New England by one-third,… Read More
If you’ve started your spring cleaning a little early this year and you’re thinking of attacking the dust under your bed, you might want to know a little more about the wads of lint you casually suck up in the vacuum cleaner. To answer these… Read More
An item in Belfast District Court listings on Wednesday, Feb. 22, incorrectly stated that Andrew S. Jewell, 29, Unity, was given a 90-day jail sentence for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. It should have stated a $350 fine and a 90-day license… Read More
My concerns stem from a recent article in your publication regarding a new proposed meter-reading policy planned by the monopolistic utility giant, the Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. Their first cost-savings plan for them was to eliminate the monthly meter-reading procedure, saving them hundreds of thousands of… Read More
Chief Justice Daniel Wathen has not waited for the legislative debates over the state’s biennial budget. He has campaigned for months to increase the budget for Maine’s court system, and given the court’s chronic underfunding, it is difficult to fault him. Gov. Angus King’s budget… Read More
Through the years Mount Desert has seen the establishment of a number of memorials honoring veterans. On the wall of the elementary school gym is a tablet, “In honor of all those from the Town of Mount Desert who served,” nearby on a stone a plaque, “In memory… Read More
MATTAWAMKEAG — After nearly three years of service, Town Administrator Lynn Thibodeau will resign effective March 14. Because of earned vacation time, Thibodeau’s last day on the job will be March 6. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Hancock County would like to apologize to any members of the public who were inconvenienced at our recent productions of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Iolanthe.” Never before in the 19-year history of our organization have we sold out three consecutive performances. We were… Read More
How many of you spend your days thinking about the Maine Department of Agriculture? I see very few hands go up, but mine’s one of them. We have a new governor who has expressed willingness to look at government from a fresh perspective. At the same time, this… Read More
When I was a small boy, there were 40 or more working dairy farms in the small town where I live. Those farmers were put out of business by state and federal regulations, so some of them turned their farms into raising chickens. When the state and federal… Read More
BANGOR — Bangor city councilors were anything but unified during a workshop session Wednesday night to discuss the issue of residency requirements for city department heads. Councilor Chris Popper, who first proposed the idea, distributed lists of city employees. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
MATTAWAMKEAG — This small, rural northern Maine town is the first community to receive the Community Development Project of the Year Award from the Economic Development Council of Maine. Despite losing a major employer more than a year ago, townspeople rallied together to find a… Read More
BANGOR — The Bangor City Council’s Community and Economic Development Committee voted Wednesday to recommend the purchase of land next to Bangor International Airport from Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. The land under consideration is a 36-acre parcel on the western side of the airport’s runway toward… Read More
ROCKPORT — A newly formed support group of parents and the SAD 28 board of directors are joining forces to make Camden-Rockport High School a safer and more wholesome place, with drug and alcohol abuse their first target. Representatives from the group of 40 to… Read More
BREWER — A Brewer School Winter Carnival will be held on Wednesday, March 1, at Brewer Auditorium. The public is invited to the winter games from 5 to 8 p.m. Poster contest winners will be announced by the Drug Awareness Prevention Team at the carnival. Read More
BANGOR — Penquis Community Action Program has received a $350,000 grant from the Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families to work with inmates and their families. The Family Self-Sufficiency Project is a three-year program under the direction of Shannon Bonsey, head of… Read More
ORONO — The deadline for student journalists and advisers to register for a statewide journalism conference, The Second Word, at the University of Maine has been extended to Thursday, March 2. The conference will be held at 9 a.m. Friday, March 17, at the Donald… Read More
ORRINGTON — A parent information meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 13, at the North Orrington School. Information on changes for next year will be made available. Read More
NEWPORT — Newport officials held two brief special meetings Wednesday night. The Board of Selectmen met for barely 30 minutes, while the budget committee, pared from 25 to five participating members, conducted their business in 16 minutes. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
BELFAST — For five years a special committee tinkered with the comprehensive plan. When Mayor Page Worth cast the tie-breaking vote Tuesday night, the City Council made it a reality. The mayor was needed to break a 2-2 tie because Ward 2 Councilor James Lovejoy… Read More
CAMDEN — The Camden selectmen have signed on to a citizen advisory board to work with Consumers Maine Water Co., provided the new group operates with fair representation and in the light of day. Water company president Judy Hayes addressed the selectmen Tuesday, describing her… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — “Marketing Handmade Maine Products” is the topic of two workshops to be held in March sponsored by the Piscataquis County Extension. The first workshop, “Advertising Handmade Products,” will be offered from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, March 9, followed by “Pricing Handmade… Read More
GUILFORD — The adult chapter of the Piscataquis American Field Service needs families to serve as hosts for foreign students for the 1995-96 school year. AFS is motivated by the philosophy that world peace can be promoted through intercultural understanding at the family level. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Somerset County Hospice and Redington-Fairview General Hospital are offering a workshop concerning the nature of grief for teen-agers and how teens grieve. “Hello/Goodbye: Teens, Grief And Loss” will be held noon-4 p.m. Saturday, March 31, at the Skowhegan Community Center. It will concentrate… Read More
BRADFORD — A 14-year-old East Corinth girl was killed Wednesday afternoon when the snowmobile on which she was riding failed to negotiate a turn and struck some large cedar trees. Officials were not sure whether Tiffany Goldsmith was driving or a passenger on the snowmobile… Read More
ROCKLAND — A Union man was sentenced in Knox County Superior Court to three years in prison for assaulting an officer and other charges. Phillip H. Chase, 45, of Union was sentenced to a three-year term with all but one year suspended for assaulting Marine… Read More
FRANKLIN — A fixture of local politics and journalism died of a heart attack Wednesday, shortly after leaving the scene of a fire he helped to extinguish. Known for his mountain-man appearance, outgoing personality and community involvement, 45-year-old Shawn O’Brien also had been a photojournalist… Read More
CAMDEN — The largest wintertime project ever at Camden’s venerable Wayfarer Marine came to a successful end Wednesday with the launching of the refurbished and refitted 80-foot motor yacht Westerly M. Begun last September, the job — from hauling the vessel and preparing rusted surfaces,… Read More
FRANKLIN — A vacant cottage off Route 182 was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived Wednesday morning. The 28-by-28-foot single-story home belonging to Phil Damion of the Bangor area was demolished, said Franklin Fire Chief Greg Bunker. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
On the evening of Feb. 14, the historic Kinsley House in Hampden “told” the story of one who was born there, and what a difference her presence has made to the community. The event was a fund-raiser for the Hampden Historical Society, and an opportunity… Read More
AUGUSTA — News that the Clinton administration was scaling back its controversial border-crossing fee was greeted with enthusiasm Wednesday by Gov. Angus S. King. “I’m delighted that the administration has backed off,” he said during a morning press conference. “I thought it was a lousy… Read More
FORT KENT — The Northern Maine Medical Center Guild has given $5,000 to the Cardiac Fund at the hospital to help purchase $80,000 monitoring equipment for the special care unit. Joan Sylvain, president of the guild, made the presentation to Elizabeth Guy, chairperson for the… Read More
BANGOR — One of Bangor’s most staunch Republicans received a summons Tuesday charging her with violating the state’s absentee balloting procedures. Arvilla Verceles said that Lenny Wescott, an investigator with the Penobscot County District Attorney’s Office, delivered the summons to her home. She is scheduled… Read More
CARIBOU — A local man, already in Aroostook County Jail awaiting trial on drug charges, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in jail for two other offenses. Michael Hornick, 34, pleaded guilty in Aroostook County Superior Court to criminal mischief and assault. Justice Paul T. Read More
LILLE — Numerous Aroostook residents voiced their support Tuesday for Maine’s Youth Community Action Program to a consultant hired to assess the value of the federally funded program. Diane Porcari of Abt Associates Inc., a private firm from Cambridge, Mass., which specializes in social policy… Read More
MATTAWAMKEAG — For the town to manage and market one of its biggest assets, the 1,000-acre Mattawamkeag Wilderness Park, it needs a land and natural resource management plan. The town is seeking a $10,000 planning grant, which will provide the funding for a long-range plan… Read More
CARIBOU — Two of the state’s top business leaders on Wednesday offered their expertise to help develop economic prosperity in Aroostook County. Susan Collins, executive director of the new Center for Family Business at Husson College, and Richard Dyke of Dyke Associates of Windham, who… Read More
MACHIAS — Proponents and opponents of Gov. Angus S. King’s nomination of Edward J. McLaughlin to be the next commissioner of agriculture are expected to have their say at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, in the State Office Building in Augusta. The confirmation hearing in… Read More
WATERVILLE — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection will hold a public hearing at 9:30 a.m. today at the Holiday Inn on Main Street in Waterville. The subject is Waste Management Disposal Services of Maine’s request to expand its Norridgewock landfill. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
HOULTON — The town of Houlton will not be pulling out of the Southern Aroostook Solid Waste Disposal District as planned. At a special meeting Tuesday night, the Town Council voted unanimously to table an order to leave the district in light of the fact… Read More
WATERVILLE — A limited edition of the script of Academy Award nominee “Nobody’s Fool,” signed by the film’s star Paul Newman, director Robert Benton and the novel’s author, Richard Russo of Waterville, will highlight the list of items up for bid at a March 31 in Waterville. Read More
BANGOR — Tourney-goers from throughout Eastern Maine have flocked to the city this week and dropped their dollars at the Bangor Auditorium, area restaurants, gas stations, motels and … oh yeah, the Bangor Police Department. If you attended Wednesday’s games and parked along Buck Street,… Read More
WASHINGTON — Freshman Rep. James B. Longley Jr. blasted the Clinton administration’s proposal to increase the federal minimum wage Wednesday as little more than a “cruel hoax perpetrated on the working poor of this country.” Labor Secretary Robert Reich, testifying before the House Joint Economic… Read More
AUGUSTA — Wayne Mowatt, Gov. Angus S. King’s choice to head Maine’s Education Department, came before legislators Wednesday as a relatively unknown quantity. He left the State House a step closer to becoming the state’s next commissioner of education. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
CALAIS — The support Down East residents extend to Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Commissioner Ray B. “Bucky” Owen was evident Wednesday night. Braving a snowstorm and slippery streets, 40 hardy souls heard him speak at the monthly meeting of the Schoodic Chapter of the Maine Audubon Society. Read More
PALMYRA — Engineers for the Maine Department of Transportation will be at the Palmyra Town Hall at 7 tonight to solicit public opinion on a proposal to replace the “Iron Bridge” over the Sebasticook River on Route 2. DOT group manager Norm Baker said that… Read More
BREWER — Construction of the Ellen M. Leach Memorial Home is 98 percent to 99 percent complete, said Brewer Housing Authority Director Dorothy Igoe on Wednes- day. Situated on a spacious wooded site on Taylor Drive, off Colonial Circle, the facility contains 30 modern and… Read More
GRAND ISLE — Grand Isle selectmen Tuesday resumed their effort to lessen the burden on local taxpayers. The town’s three selectmen said their work on next year’s budget was far from finished and that they would meet for a budget workshop on Wednesday. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Police Chief Steven Emery appealed to the Town Council Tuesday night for help in enforcing town ordinances. Emery told council members that despite a laundry list of ordinances that various councils have created, Pittsfield police officers have no authority to prosecute them. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More