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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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 — 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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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