High Schools MAINE SENIOR ALL-STAR CLASSIC Friday, at Mahaney Diamond, Orono East team Matt Kinney and Mark McEwen, Bangor; Jared Seavey, Brewer; Scott Murphy, George Stevens Academy; Mark Sprague and Eric Cunningham, Fort Fairfield; David Winchester, Bucksport; Greg Michaud and Greg Dunbar, Winslow; Curtis Graffam… Read More
ORONO – Wickes Canines of Bangor-Brewer posted two victories during Sunday’s Eastern Maine Amateur Baseball League action at Mahaney Diamond. The Canines beat Downeast 6-1 in the first game, then edged Mid-Maine 3-2 in the second contest. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
BANGOR – Penobscot Valley Country Club in Orono won the Bud Leavitt Team Trophy in the Bangor Daily News Amateur Golf Tournament last weekend. The trophy is awarded to the club with the lowest four-man total over the three days. PVCC, led by winner Bob… Read More
Former Hermon High School girls basketball coach Tim Thornton will be officially named Ellsworth High’s new athletic director Saturday, July 1. He replaces former Ellsworth sports star Jack Scott, who retired after 27 1/2 years as AD to devote more attention to his landscaping business. Read More
Zone 1 will again have its own postseason baseball tournament to qualify two teams for the State American Legion Tournament. The Zone 1 tourney, pitting the top four regular-season finishers in a double-elimination format, will be held July 28-30 and is tentatively scheduled to be… Read More
It’s no secret that Mother Nature’s nursery is now brimming with the newborn of many wildlife species. It’s also common knowledge that, like kids, once young animals get their feet under them they become difficult to manage. Obviously, however, the parents of wildlife species don’t have playpens to… Read More
Hampden boys basketball coach Earl Anderson has resigned after two years of coaching. “He’s going to be greatly missed,” said Hampden Athletic Director Bill Conners. “The kids like him and he had our program going in the right direction.” googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
Michael Gaige says he’s not counting on a repeat. “That certainly was a fluke last year,” said the 42-year-old Bangor man. “There were three or four racers last year who were faster than I was, but they didn’t get in their five races.” googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
News Amateur Tourney MEN’S CHAMPIONS 1995 – Bob Girvan II 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++) { if (isMobileDevice()) { if (slot_sizes[i][0] googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
Kevin Alley was the winning pitcher for Jonesport-Beals in their state Class D baseball championship Saturday, not Elliott Peabody as reported in Monday’s edition. — Lance Fenimore of Bangor did not “no card” in the Bangor Daily News Amateur Golf Tournament as was announced in… Read More
BANGOR – Less than 48 hours after pitching Bangor High School to the Class A baseball state championship, star pitcher Matt Kinney was out on the baseball diamond again, in 97 degree weather. Kinney was on hand for Bangor’s American Legion team tryouts Monday afternoon… Read More
Speedway 95 POINT STANDINGS Sportsman John Phippen 318, Dave McLaughlin 303, Jon Austin 298, Art Beam 261, Larry Cole 259, Kim Gray 190, Gary Smith 178, Jack Dyer 117, Roger Richards 109, Dave St. Clair 80 Limited Sportsman googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
PALMYRA — The awarding of the solid waste disposal contract to the chairman of the town’s Board of Selectmen is raising questions in Palmyra. In May, Board of Selectmen chairman Victor Kimball, who runs Kimball and Sons, became the new solid waste contractor. The contract… Read More
AUGUSTA — A watered-down Republican initiative designed to bolster the prospects of widening 30 miles of the Maine Turnpike is sailing through final votes in the Legislature. The compromise requires the Maine Turnpike Authority to complete a study by December 1996 to determine if there… Read More
WISCASSET — Maine Yankee says repairs that begin this week should keep the nuclear power plant running until its license expires, but critics say the repair technique hasn’t been proved. The repairs entered a new phase Monday as technicians prepared to install 220 demonstration sleeves… Read More
For the Education Committee, the pain has stopped. For the full Legislature and many parts of Maine, it only is beginning. The committee last week accepted the inevitable, voting 12-1 to continue to use the existing school funding formula for the next year. It would… Read More
The Bangor Daily News should be commended for beginning a long-overdue discussion of the way in which Maine runs its technical college system. The system and operation are important to our state for a number of reasons, not the least of which are the impact… Read More
NEWPORT — Until the level of state funding is certain, all bets are off with budget planning in SAD 48, Superintendent William Braun said Monday. The final draft of a $10 million budget proposal was presented two weeks ago. But now Braun has reason to… Read More
FORT KENT — The SAD 27 board of directors Friday was briefed on the latest turn in the withdrawal of two member towns. Hours before the start of Friday night’s school board meeting, Superintendent Sandra Bernstein received a summons asking that the district respond to… Read More
Van Buren District Secondary School Fourth quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Terry Dionne, Robin Lagasse, Kim LaPlante, Kristy Parent and Leslie Pelletier; honors: Keith Amato, Ryan Beaulieu, Tammy Boutot, Ron Brown, Joey Cormier, Jennifer Cyr, Peter Dolinsky, Philip Doucette, Joshua Levesque, Peter Madore, Jaime… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Interested participants may sign up for window painting activities, part of the annual fun at the Central Maine Egg Festival, by calling Chairman Mary Gaetam at 487-5101, or Ring’s Clothing Store at 487-5102. In keeping with this year’s theme of Christmas in July,… Read More
NEWPORT — The Newport Board of Selectmen will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 21, in the town office meeting room. The agenda includes a discussion of the cable television franchise, the signing of a street discontinuance order, a public hearing for a liquor license… Read More
TORONTO — Environmental concerns of little significance to bridge builders may mean a great deal to fishermen, a group that wants to sink the bridge to link Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick told a Federal Court hearing Monday. Former public works minister Elmer MacKay… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Somerset County Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 21, in the county courthouse. Their agenda includes a tax abatement hearing for Laurainne Truchon vs. the town of Norridgewock; an examination of the bond on the sheriff, chief deputy and deputies; and… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Sebasticook Valley Hospital’s Asthma Support Group meetings are being cancelled for the summer. In the fall, SVH will resume the meetings with a workshop. The date and time will be announced in the fall. Read More
NEWPORT — The Newport Board of Selectmen will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 21, in the town office meeting room. The agenda includes a discussion of the cable television franchise, the signing of a street discontinuance order, a public hearing for a liquor license… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Seven puppies were found abandoned on the Phillips Corner Road over the weekend, wandering around on a resident’s lawn. The puppies, a Lab-mix type, were in excellent condition, said Rick Curtis, the town’s animal control officer. The puppies will be added to the… Read More
Nine high school students from Maine were honored with Promise of the Future Student Awards by New England Science Teachers. Given at a school represented by a NEST member, the award is presented to the student who through personal initiative has done the most to promote awareness of… Read More
SHERMAN STATION — The SAD 25 board, at its meeting last week, voted to fund a full-time elementary guidance position next year. The board approved funding for the position 7-3. The amount shall not exceed $40,000. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
CAPE ELIZABETH — The first scientifically confirmed sighting of a mountain lion in Maine since 1938 came in an unlikely setting — the wealthy bedroom community of Cape Elizabeth. Rosemary Townsend reported seeing the animal while walking in an undeveloped area in the southern part… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — A Caribou woman who didn’t know she was the subject of a 16-hour missing-person search by local and state police and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, was located Monday. But she is still being sought by the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department. Read More
AUGUSTA — Nebraska’s unique single-house legislature remained unchallenged here Monday after the House overwhelmingly rejected a similar proposal for Maine. Sponsored by Rep. William Lemke, D-Westbook, the idea of converting Maine’s House and Senate with a total of 186 members to a unicameral body of… Read More
While her peers were spending the school year working with their pupils at Fifth Street Middle School in Bangor, Betty Spekhardt was unable to do the job she loves. Instead of helping others along in life, she has had to help herself along. But she… Read More
AUGUSTA — The co-chairman of the Natural Resources Committee was confident Monday that lawmakers will vote to keep reformulated gas sales in southern Maine in order to avoid federal penalties. A bill to free Maine of the mandate was due to reach the full Legislature… Read More
A new book titled, “Why We Get Sick, The New Science of Darwinian Medicine,” has been written by a psychiatrist in collaboration with an ecologist. They are Drs. Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams. They look upon conditions that plague the human species from the perspective of… Read More
An 11-year-old Jefferson girl and a 41-year-old Ashland man were killed Sunday in separate accidents in Aroostook and Knox counties. State police said Amber Woodburn was killed in a three-car crash on Route 1 in Waldoboro. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
AUGUSTA — The House voted 98-47 Monday to kill a bill that would have imposed more restrictions on how logging operators could run cutting operations in the Maine woods. The bill would have required that bigger and better trees be left standing in partial clearcuts… Read More
For yers, certain highly trained nurses have been providing primary care to patients for whom they are directly responsible, but Maine law has not kept current with pratice. Sometime in the next several weeks, Maine legislators will be considering LD 948, an act to provide greater access to… Read More
Just in time for the barbecue season, Congress is mulling legislation that could lead to increased illness and death through food-borne bacteria. As the presence of a deadly strain of E. coli becomes more widely recognized, this lax attitude is unacceptable. E. coli O157:H7 produces… Read More
WARREN — Domestic violence took a fatal turn Sunday night when a man apparently shot himself in the head accidentally while using a rifle to smash through a window at his ex-girlfriend’s house. Steven Henderson, 33, of Thomaston was pronounced dead at the scene from… Read More
AUGUSTA — A Republican-led effort to reach consensus on the state budget failed Monday night in an Appropriations Committee vote that split along party lines. Sen. Dana Hanley, the Republican committee co-chairman from South Paris, was clearly undeterred by the 7-6 vote and promised to… Read More
WASHINGTON — The Base Closure and Realignment Commission will decide the fate of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at a public meeting on Friday. In a letter to the seven other members of the BRAC panel released Monday, Chairman Alan Dixon urged that all commissioners not… Read More
SULLIVAN — Sullivan and Sorrento voters put off and did not set a new date for a vote on the proposed $1.4 million 1995-96 budget for the K-eighth grade Mountain View School Monday night. A Sorrento resident who is serving as school superintendent in Blue… Read More
YARMOUTH — A small dredging project in Maine will serve as a proving ground for deep-water capping techniques that may be used in the cleanup of Boston Harbor. The Army Corps of Engineers wants to use the sand and silt dredged from the Royal River… Read More
FREEPORT — A major telephone cable was cut in half, disrupting phone service throughout the state Monday night, a spokesman for NYNEX said. Starting at about 6:30 p.m., those trying to make toll calls within the state couldn’t get through to certain areas, said Peter… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Two men have been charged in connection with the recent theft of a Nissan truck and cash from the H.O.M.E. co-op in Orland. Frederick H. Smith, 21, of Frankfort was summoned on charges of theft, burglary and criminal mischief. He was reported to… Read More
AUGUSTA — The National Council on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependence in Maine will hold its annual dinner meeting beginning at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 27, at the Embassy Room, Senator Inn, on Western Avenue. Guest speaker will be George P. Connick, president of the… Read More
BANGOR — The annual Shriners Clinic will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, June 22, at Eastern Maine Medical Center for 150 Maine children. The event is organized by the Sunshine Club for Crippled Children. The children will see a Shriners orthopedic… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Maine Technical College System has awarded grants to enhance firefighter training facilities to Carrabassett Valley, Old Town and Waterville, among eight Maine communities receiving grants. Recipients will match $4 for every dollar received, using direct funds or in-kind items such as land,… Read More
BANGOR — Six-month-old Jamin Jordan smiled and kicked his pudgy feet as soon as his mother, Christie Jordan, dipped him into the water Monday afternoon at a public pool on Union Street in Bangor. Record-breaking heat and sweltering humidity did not deter the winsome tyke… Read More
ROCKLAND — A sweaty and frustrated SAD 5 School Board tried to work through its budget problems Monday night and set 7 p.m. June 29 as a public budget hearing for revoting on two of the three articles rejected by voters last week. The third… Read More
BANGOR — The City Council’s finance committee on Monday tabled a proposal to expand the use of collection agencies for overdue bills. Currently, the city turns to bill collectors only for small items — such as overdue parking tickets — for which the collectors receive… Read More
ROCKPORT — A dump truck pulling out onto Route 1 from Camden Street at about 5 p.m. Monday got its half-raised dump body caught in power lines, snapping a utility pole and severing a fiber-optic telephone line. The accident knocked out power for about four… Read More
MILBRIDGE — Low-income residents from District I in Washington County may vote for a representative to the Washington-Hancock Community Agency board of directors up to July 24. W-HCA is accepting nominations for those willing to serve District I. The district includes Alexander, Baileyville, Baring, Calais,… Read More
ELLSWORTH — In the opening of a Dedham doctor’s rape trial Monday, the defense attorney portrayed his client as the victim of an overzealous prosecution and of a confused teen-age girl. The prosecuting attorney begged to differ, noting the doctor’s alleged threats against the girl,… Read More
Eight people were injured in motor vehicle accidents over the weekend in Washington County. Two Princeton men were injured when the all-terrain vehicle on which they were riding crashed into a parked car. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
Q. We plan to build a 2,000-square-foot, contemporary house that we can expand as our family grows. We want a semi-passive solar design with many large windows and skylights. Would a modular house fit our needs? — A.K. A. An energy efficient modular house would… Read More
Craig Zeleski is 5 years old and smiling on this Father’s Day Sunday, which makes his dad real happy. Three weeks ago, Craig was sitting at Shea Stadium, six rows back, between home and the third base dugout. Brett Butler, the Mets’ center fielder, laced… Read More
I’d just like to thank Bob Dole for showing us all how truly dangerous the conservative movement in Republican politics is becoming. In his salute to Hollywood, it wasn’t so much what he panned that caught my attention — no surprises there — it was the fact that… Read More
In Maine we pride ourselves on clean air and clean water, two natural gifts our state can be thankful for. Like any resource, these take care and effort to preserve and protect. Unfortunately, Congress is working to undo the water quality protections many of us might take for… Read More
I was suprised and pleased to see that little piece recently about corydalis. I had never heard of that flower until a few weeks ago, when walking through a field, I spied this lone, very unusual plant. Its flowers were so odd, pink with bright… Read More
I am writing in response to your editorial on June 9 regarding the 7 percent gross receipts tax on nursing homes. I am the person who had this bill, LD 27, introduced and I have not forgoten this tax. It has been on my mind continually since I… Read More
NEWPORT — Newport Town Manager Arthur Ellingwood said he will take a wait-and-see attitude regarding a drainage problem on Spring Street that has put the town in the middle of a dispute between a property owner and the Newport Sanitary District. Dick Thompson, owner of… Read More
AUGUSTA — A bill to make it easier for the state to identify older people who may be unsafe behind the wheel was overwhelmingly rejected in the House of Representatives on Monday. The bill, which stemmed from a task force study of senior drivers, would… Read More
SANGERVILLE — The Grace Bible Church in Sangerville will feature the Joy Quartet from Pensacola Christian College, Pensacola, Fla., at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 21. The program will include a multimedia presentation and a message from the Scriptures. Child care will be available. Newsport selectmen… Read More
NEW SWEDEN — Summertime in the Swedish colonies in northern Maine is a time to celebrate. With a climate similar to the European Sweden, Aroostook County appeared to be a perfect place to transplant a handful of immigrants eager to begin a new life in… Read More
AUGUSTA — Gov. Angus King has signed legislation to increase proceeds to the departments of Conservation and Inland Fisheries and Wildlife from the sale of loon registration plates, and to cut the renewal fee by $5. The loon plate program was begun in 1994 to… Read More
Many key financial indicators at Bangor Savings Bank continued to rise last year, but not enough to increase the bank’s bottom-line income, which fell slightly. The bank’s corporators learned this at their annual meeting Monday, the same day many met P. James Dowe for the… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Maine Human Rights Commission on Monday found reasonable grounds to charges that Camden Police Chief Terry Burgess committed unlawful sexual harassment against two women officers. The charges were brought last October by Patrol Officer Linda Miller and former ticket officer Deborah Cunningham,… Read More
BANGOR — The 58-year-old Brewer woman whose nude body was found beaten and slashed in an industrial park Saturday in Hampden died as Alex James, but she was born, raised and educated in Sangerville as Joy Crafts. Investigators said Monday that she probably died at… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Two Somerset County men were indicted last week by a grand jury on charges of gross sexual assault on young girls. James Wright, 41, of Norridgewock was charged with four counts of gross sexual assault on a girl who was not yet 14… Read More
AUGUSTA — The energy conservation division of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development has announced the awarding of 15 energy conservation grants to schools and hospitals in the state. Schools receiving Technical Assistance Report Grants were the Spurwink, Breakwater and St. Joseph Parish… Read More
AUGUSTA — It wasn’t a resounding decision, but the Bangor School Department was cleared of a charge of discrimination Monday by the Maine Human Rights Commission. By a vote of 2-0, commissioners overturned the findings of their investigator, and ruled that Bangor did not violate… Read More
After reading the June 6 article, “Juvenile crime on increase, police blame system for repeat offenders,” I couldn’t believe the police were blaming the system for not having teeth in it. I’m not saying the system has teeth, what I’m saying is that if the police weren’t on… Read More
AUGUSTA — A bill calling for “intermediate” licenses for 16- and 17-year-old Maine drivers awaited final votes after being routinely approved by the House by a 72-70 vote Monday. Youths would be barred from driving from midnight to 5 a.m. unless they carry notarized permission… Read More
MOUNT DESERT — The Board of Selectmen put to an offical rest Monday evening a period of “innuendo and rumor” that had threatened the reputation of the town’s tax assessor. After a 40-minute executive session with Bangor attorney George Schelling, the board reiterated its full… Read More
If Beatrix Jones Farrand were still alive, she undoubtedly would think it quite appropriate that Jane Brown was in Somesville yesterday talking about gardens. It was, after all, Farrand’s 123rd birthday. She designed more than 50 projects — gardens, paths, driveways, bridges and summer houses — in Maine. Read More
AUGUSTA — The Maine House and Senate killed a bill Monday to require candidates for governor to receive more than 50 percent of the vote in order to win election. Supporters cited four elections in recent years — 1978, 1986, 1990 and the latest one… Read More
BELFAST — The lyricist of Liberty is about to become the balladeer of Belfast. Country Rose Langille, the karaoke chanteuse who wowed audiences at her Country Rose Lounge in Liberty, while at the same time running afoul of community sensibilities, will revive her act in… Read More
PORTLAND — Charles Leary hoped electric shock therapy at the Maine Medical Center would relieve symptoms of chronic depression. But he was sent home because side effects included memory loss. Leary believes the hospital sent him home prematurely because on his first night back he… Read More
DEXTER — The 1995-96 SAD 46 budget is now in the hands of the voters after a sparsely attended public hearing Monday night, with few questions asked and no debate exchanged. About 20 nonschool personnel attended the hearing, which lasted less than 40 minutes. Questions… Read More
EASTPORT — The U.S. Coast Guard will hold a hearing at 6 p.m. tonight at Shead High School to discuss the proposed closing of the Search and Rescue Detachment here. Rear Adm. John L. Linnon, commander of the 1st Coast Guard District, will present the… Read More
WHITING — Residents at a special town meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, June 26, will consider borrowing $1,500 to repair and repave Old Cutler Road, and closing a section of clam beds at Holmes Bay. Voters in March authorized selectmen to borrow funds for road… Read More