HAMPDEN – Most high school athletes have to make some sacrifices in return for participating in a varsity sport: free time, study time, social events, sometimes even sleep. But missing their senior prom? googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
OXFORD – Dave Whitlock of Petrolia, Ontario claimed victory in the ACT Tour’s VIP Discount Auto/Gumout 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway on Sunday. Whitlock took the lead for the first time on lap 54. He then battled Ralph Nason Sr. of Unity, trading positions down… Read More
ORONO – Before 1 p.m. Saturday, Alissa Beals had produced 38 of Hodgdon’s 80 points with wins in the high jump, 100-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash, and a second place in the long jump. Beals, whose 5-foot leap took the high jump, and her two… Read More
AT CAMDEN Camden 10k Road Race Top Men’s Finishers Ethan Nadeau 33:01, Andy Latincsics 33:25, Jeffrey Banger 33:31, Mike Gaige 33:35, Derek Fisher 33:39, Shaun Keenan 33:48, Tom Thibeau 34:27, Bruce Nicholson 34:41, Phil Johnson 35:04, Chris Lincoln 35:18, David Drew 35:20, Scott Broerman 36:03,… Read More
WINSLOW – Rachelle Cummings stood gripping the javelin in her right hand. She carried the shaft high, keeping it parallel to the ground. The sharp point was aimed down the 20 yards or so of grass she would cover before the release line. Beyond the white line in… Read More
High Schools AT AUGUSTA EASTERN MAINE CHAMPIONSHIPS Class A Brewer boys 80, Oxford Hills 75, Brunswick 46, Old Town 46, Bangor 45, Cony 44, Mt. Blue 35, Messalonskee 27, Caribou 24, Gardiner 24, Mount Ararat 24, Waterville 14, Nokomis 12, Presque Isle 10, Skowhegan 7,… Read More
High Schools STATE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS AT BANGOR TENNIS and RECREATION, Hampden CLASS A Caribou girls (14-0) 3, Lewiston (12-1) 2 googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i… Read More
HAMPDEN – The Lewiston High School Blue Devils and their 29-match winning streak were extended to the limit. Cape Elizabeth’s Capers also found themselves in a dogfight in attempting to annex their third straight state Class B schoolboy tennis championship. But there was no such… Read More
When the Brewer boys climbed aboard the bus for the ride home, they carried the runner-up trophy, the result of a one-point loss to Oxford Hills at Saturday’s Eastern Maine Class A track and field championships at Cony High School in Augusta. Five hours later,… Read More
For Rosanne Dauphinee of Patten, it was a classic case of having her cake and eating it, too. Making the cake wasn’t hard because she loved to cook. But eating it was taking its toll on her health. A combination of heredity and family tradition… Read More
Hats off to SAD 32 School Superintendent Terry Despres and the Ashland School Committee for their brave mention of the unmentionable at their recent meeting on the wild and crazy idea of a possible shortening of the school year as a means of living with their 1995-96 budget. Read More
Remember how much a blistering sunburn hurt as a child? Medical experts now believe that too much exposure to the sun as a child and teen-ager is a major cause of skin cancer and premature skin aging. But regular sun exposure throughout the year also… Read More
BAXTER STATE PARK — An experienced Massachusetts climber hoping to master his 100th peak died in his attempt when he may have become disoriented in severe weather and slipped. The body of Jeff Rubin, 53, of Newton, Mass., a Tufts University psychology professor, was found… Read More
BOSTON — The independent commission that soon will decide the fate of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard heard impassioned pleas to preserve the nation’s oldest shipyard and its 4,000 jobs. “It is a living, working part of our lives,” Portsmouth, N.H., Mayor Eileen Foley told the Defense… Read More
BANGOR — Nearly 80 strong, they marched down State Street to Cascade Park, their banners proclaiming the Celebration of Life in observance of National Cancer Survivors Day. For many of them, the day began before dawn when about 80 cancer survivors and their friends, relatives… Read More
PARKMAN — Twelve-year-old Daniel Williams of Parkman was hospitalized at Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft Sunday night after an accident earlier on Route 150 in Parkman. According to Scott Richardson, an investigator with the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department, Williams was one of four bicyclists traveling… Read More
CARIBOU — Three people were treated at Cary Medical Center Saturday and released after a two-vehicle collision at 11 a.m. near the intersection of Reservoir and North Main streets. Police Officer Doug Bell said Sunday the cause of the accident remained under investigation. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
ORONO — The No. 2 administrator at the University of Maine will relinquish his duties at the end of the month. UM President Frederick Hutchinson announced last week that Vice President for Academic Affairs Judson Sheridan will leave that position as of July 1. He… Read More
AUGUSTA — Two weeks after last November’s general election, a recount made Joan LaPierre Pendexter of Scarborough the 18th Republican in the Maine Senate, enabling the GOP to claim a majority in the 35-seat chamber for the first time in a dozen years. Now, with… Read More
CARIBOU — City officials are asking residents who live on roads with similar-sounding names to work with them on possible name changes for improved and more efficient protection service, mail delivery and the planned Enhanced 911 emergency service. The Planning Board has scheduled a workshop… Read More
PITTSFIELD — The theft of a cellular phone and a bicycle from a Highland Avenue home in Pittsfield on Friday remained under investigation Sunday. Officer Chris Tremblay of the Pittsfield Police Department said that Wendy Thorn reported a break-in at her garage sometime in the… Read More
Police officers will run the length and breadth of the state this week in the 10th annual Torch Run to raise funds for the Maine Special Olympics. More than 900 officers from Fort Kent to Kittery will take off their uniforms and don running shoes… Read More
AUGUSTA — Economic and Community Development Commissioner Thomas D. McBrierty has announced selection of Clinton, Guilford and Lubec to receive $1.2 million in ECD funding. The program provides funds for improvement in public facilities to create or keep jobs for low- and moderate-income wage earners. Read More
AUGUSTA — The head of the company that publishes the Kennebec Journal and the Central Maine Morning Sentinel is resigning, the newspapers reported this weekend. Brian C. Thayer, president of Central Maine Newspapers, which is a subsidiary of Guy Gannett Communications, will leave his post… Read More
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — A Parula warbler “bz-bz-bz-zipped” in the roadside vegetation, its song a familiar spring tune at Acadia. Like other songbirds that have flown in from distant ports — Mexico, Nicaragua, the Caribbean islands, South America — the yellow-green saddle-backed Parula has stopped… Read More
PITTSFIELD — A temporary loss of consciousness was cited as the cause of an accident in downtown Pittsfield on Saturday. Pittsfield Officer Chris Tremblay said Sunday that Ian Aitken, 64, of Grand Entry, Quebec, lost control of his 1992 Chevrolet Lumina van on Park Street. Read More
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — Although Maine is still considered a haven for songbirds, a state group is identifying species that are in trouble. According to Ron Joseph of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Old Town, the state chapter of the international Partners in… Read More
BAR HARBOR — A summer day camp for English as a Second Language will be held Monday through Thursday, July 3-Aug. 17, at the E.I. Conners School. Register before June 15 by calling Rebecca Mealey at the Conners School at 288-5708. Part of the cost… Read More
GLENBURN — Sarah Goodell of Glenburn has received the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest in Girl Scouting, for a project using information from a 1993 health leadership institute at the Edith Macy Conference Center in a conference for Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts. While… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Champion of Maine will complete the transportation contract of Raymond’s Bus Service in SAD 53 for the 1995-96 school year, if school directors grant approval Monday night. The SAD 53 board of directors will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 5, in the… Read More
CASWELL — A New Brunswick man was treated at Cary Medical Center in Caribou and released Thursday night after his motorcycle struck a moose on Route 1A. Trooper Jim Graves said Robert Cote, 45, of St. Jacques, New Brunswick, hit the moose at about 9… Read More
Vehicle safety equipment which functions automatically, such as brake lights and safety wheel rims, or that which is easily used or deemed necessary like turn signals, wipers and low beams, is agreed to be necessary by drivers. To some, seat-belt use fails to fit this safety category, so… Read More
I am distressed at Gov. King’s vow to veto any budget that comes to him with a tax cut other than maybe one proposed by him regarding machinery and equipment. Governor King wrote a book in which he said “quite simply we have to do… Read More
Once again the Bangor Daily News weighs in with its anti-NRA, and by extension, anti-gun opinion (BDN, May 18, “The Bush message”). Once again the BDN and the national mainstream media miss the message and instead attack the messenger. If the BDN and the national… Read More
Margaret Chase Smith was a woman, and senator, ahead of her time. Her “Declaration of Conscience” statement of June 1, 1950, could have been written today, as it touches on so many points that are wrong about the Democratic Party now. The American people are… Read More
President Clinton’s seemingly brave stand on the “issue” of Vietnam war MIA’s is but yet one more example of the man’s pathetic cowardice and spinelessness. He knows full well that this is not a real issue. In any large scale war, there are thousands of MIAs. There were… Read More
PORTLAND — Artists over the age of 55 are invited to write for the rules and regulations governing the seventh annual Senior Perspectives 1995 exhibition sponsored by the Danforth Gallery. Fred Lynch, painter and art instructor at the Unviersity of Southern Maine, will jury the… Read More
CAMDEN — On National Trails Day, Jack Williams of Camden watched his close friends Carlton Dougherty, Peter Norcross and Charles Loper dig in the dirt at Camden Hills State Park. For once, he just stood there. It seemed inappropriate for him to install the sign… Read More
ROCKLAND — The people buried in the Almshouse burial ground “have been lost in the passing of time,” said Clyde Berry, president of the Maine Old Cemetery Association on Saturday morning. “But they were someone’s mother, someone’s father, someone’s son or daughter. They may not… Read More
MACHIAS — Three Baileyville men, facing complaints involving the alleged theft and sale of 1,200 feet of NYNEX copper telephone cable, will be arraigned on July 7 in Machias District Court. Sheriff’s Deputy Danny Bunker said Friday the Washington County Regional Communications Center at Machias… Read More
CALAIS — The history of St. Croix Island will be the topic at two open houses. The first will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 14, in the St. Croix Hall at Washington County Technical College, and the second at 6 p.m. (U.S. time) Thursday… Read More
MADAWASKA — Madawaska police Friday recovered parts from a snowmobile stolen in Madawaska last winter from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The frame of one of two snowmobiles stolen from Fred Wetmore at Madawaska on Feb. 14 was recovered from the woods at St. Anne,… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Turnabout is fair play, the saying goes. So when fifth-grade teacher Sherri Littlefield invited a parachutist into her classroom, it was only fair that the parachutist invite Littlefield to jump. Littlefield took her first — and she said her only — parachute jump… Read More
BAILEYVILLE — The ceremony was heartbreaking and healing as the community pulled together Sunday to dedicate the Woodland Elementary School playground to the three Armstrong children who, with their father, died in a head-on collision in Baring last year. The Armstrong children, Anna Maria, 5,… Read More
Maine’s Prevention of Blindness Programs Inc. recognized six chapters at its annual luncheon recently at the Lucerne Inn. Honored for their work in helping prevent blindness among Maine residents were the chapters for Franklin, Penobscot-Piscataquis, Knox-Waldo and Aroostook counties. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
ROCKLAND — Midcoast customers of Consumers Maine Water Co. emptied area stores of bottled water over the weekend after the utility warned them to boil water for at least five minutes before using it for human consumption. The warning, in effect until further notice, affects… Read More
After three decades of despair, mentally ill people in Greater Bangor are starting to get the help they need to stay well — when they need it. Mental health workers involved in a new crisis intervention program are available 24 hours a day to help people in Greater… Read More
ROCKLAND — “There is always evil in the world. The question is are there enough good people in the world to combat the evil,” the Rev. Wesley Woodman asked Friday night during a memorial ceremony for slain 4-year-old Deanna M. Wadsworth. Wadsworth will not be… Read More
WASHINGTON — He’s the top cop of a worldwide police department, with 1,600 personnel, that cracks 97 percent of its homicide cases and nearly 100 percent of criminal investigations involving rape. The commander of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, Maj. Gen. Peter T. Berry,… Read More
FORT KENT — An early morning fire destroyed two business buildings and two apartments, leaving a gaping hole in Fort Kent’s business district and five people homeless. A nearby resident said the flames from the Sunday morning fire cast the entire area in a red… Read More
BAR HARBOR — Four teenagers narrowly escaped serious injury Sunday in a harrowing one-car accident on Schooner Head Road. Excessive speed was a factor in the accident that occurred at about 3:10 p.m., according to Bar Harbor police Sgt. Glenn Grant. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
Gov. Angus King has the opportunity to do the University of Maine System a large favor. He can fill the three university trustee slots currently open with people who have practical experience with education and university life, giving the board greater balance and an improved chance of bettering… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Police in Hancock County responded to numerous accidents in recent days, one involving a 12-year-old driver. Last Friday, a 12-year-old boy from Hancock took without permission a 1995 GMC Sierra owned by Dennis Tozier of Ellsworth. While driving on Route 200 in Sullivan,… Read More
FARMINGTON — The talk at the Farmington Grange Hall on Saturday was not so different than it might have been a hundred years ago. But Herb Fest ’95, held by the Longfellow Herb Society, brought a new breed of farmers and gardeners to the hall to discuss planting,… Read More
Some local merchants and city councilors have found themselves squeezed between two crusty slices of reality. On one side is a hard economy that demands aggressive advertising and greater business visibility. On the other is a tough local ordinance that restricts the use of portable, sandwich board signs. Read More
Penobscot County Superior Court: Harry Wounded, 23, Brewer, aggravated assault, two years in jail, $25 to victims compensation fund. 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;… Read More