ORONO – Freshman goalie Jen Brooks made a big splash in her debut, saving 21 of 25 shots, including a penalty stroke attempt to give the Red Riots a 3-2 overtime opening day win. Angie Genco had an overtime penalty stroke goal and assist, and… Read More
ORONO – Chris Binder knows the ecstasy – and the solitude – of place-kicking. He hopes to experience the first emotion here Saturday when he and the University of Maine football team open their 1995 season against Division II Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. Kickoff… Read More
SUB5/BDNC Standings FEMALE Overall: Sheila Hodges 41, Katrina Bisheimer 29, Donna Hurley 27, Nichi Farnham 25, Bernice Stockley 24, Robin Emery-Rappa 21, Jo-Ann Nealey 20, Michelle Severance Isham 10, Margaret Jones 10, Dena Flye 10 googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
The flock of 100 or so waterfowlers who gathered in the Augusta Civic Center last Wednesday evening hunted late but went home empty-handed regarding agreement on season dates and regulations for Maine’s 1995-96 migratory bird hunting seasons. However, the controversy created by the U.S. Fish… Read More
EAST MILLINOCKET – Thomas Jamo scored five goals to give the Schenck Wolverines a 6-1 schoolboy soccer win over the Searsport Vikings Friday. Chris Wyman added a goal, and Erik Giberson recorded three assists for 1-0 Schenck. Tony Turcotte, Darren Stanley, and Chad Michaud each… Read More
The search for a new University of Maine athletic director has seen the number of finalists fluctuate from five to two and now back to three. Dr. Vivian Fuller, athletic director at Northeastern Illinois University, was added to the list of finalists by UMaine President… Read More
Holes-in-one Landry gets two aces MILLINOCKET – The summer has been kind to Millinocket golfer Patrick Landry, who has scored two aces at Hillcrest Golf Club. He scored his first on the par-3, 160-yard second hole with a 5-iron. That shot was witnessed by Frank… Read More
Last fall, Jen Farina, a senior midfielder, was on the cover of the University of Maine women’s soccer media guide. This fall, she’ll be lucky to find enough time to read a media guide. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
BANGOR – The 13th Terry Fox Run, a 5-kilometer charity road race, will bring 1988 U.S. Olympian Bruce Bickford to town for the Sept. 10 event. The 10 a.m. race will go through the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad yard, beginning at the Best Western White… Read More
BANGOR – Football fans at Cameron Stadium expected to see Bangor High School debut its powerful running attack against Edward Little of Auburn Friday night. They saw that and then some as the host Rams dominated the Red Eddies 45-14 in the season opener for… Read More
When Rich Lovering goes to camp in Maine, he doesn’t bring his sleeping bag, his compass or flashlight. He brings his Mozart. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0;… Read More
BANGOR — A 27-year-old Brewer man with a three-page criminal record was sentenced to two years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to four felony charges. Mark Reynolds, the former owner of the Special Touch relaxation spa on Exchange Street, also pleaded no contest to… Read More
ROCKLAND — A second man accused in the April 1992 beating death of Carroll Howard, 82, in Warren plans to change his plea next week in Knox County Superior Court. Camden attorney Steven C. Peterson said Friday that his client, Earl A. Nash, 25, of… Read More
BATH — An accident that sent five people to the hospital this week has prompted a city councilor to call for an examination of how the city and Bath Iron Works manage foot traffic to and from the shipyard. “A root cause of that accident… Read More
PORTLAND — Two people were killed and a third person was critically injured in the fiery crash of a small airplane Friday at Portland International Jetport, officials said. The single-engine Cessna was taking off when it lost altitude and crashed near the end of a… Read More
WASHINGTON — Bangor High School Principal Norris Nickerson says his librarian blots out explicit advertisements for phone sex lines in Rolling Stone magazine. “It fairly typifies the kind of action that’s going on around the country,” said Matt Freeman of People for the American Way,… Read More
FORT KENT — Seven of 42 bicyclists in the fifth annual Tour de la Vallee completed the 100-mile tour of the St. John Valley on Thursday, an event that raised more than $11,000 for the Guy Paradis Cancer Fund, a service of the Northern Maine Medical Center at… Read More
WHITING — The Sustainable Cobscook Community Alliance Inc. will hold a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, at the Whiting Community Center Building to act on draft bylaws for the SCCA. Other business will include election of directors and activities of the SCCA. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Donald Christen, 43, of Madison went to jail for three months Friday afternoon after he pleaded no contest in Somerset County Superior Court to charges he violated his bail conditions. Christen had been on bail from a possession of marijuana charge lodged after… Read More
ORONO — In the 21 years he’s been working for the Penobscot County Sheriff’s department, Galen Adams thought he had seen everything Maine’s forests had to offer, from wildfowl to bears and deer. That changed Friday afternoon, when on a routine stop, Adams found a… Read More
FORT FAIRFIELD — An Easton man has been charged by local police with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating alcohol, possession of marijuana and leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury. Police Chief Neil Saucier said Dale W. Thompkins,… Read More
BANGOR — A Hampden woman convicted of stealing $46,000 from a Bangor doctor was sentenced Friday to three years in jail with all but eight months suspended, and ordered to repay Dr. Gary Parker $45,000. Duska L. Sarjeant, who was Parker’s office manager, was convicted… Read More
BANGOR — A Florida man charged with mail fraud has been sentenced to four months of home confinement and fined $3,000. U.S. District Judge Morton Brody on Wednesday also ordered Nicholas Merry, 33, of Boca Raton, Fla., to serve three years’ probation and to pay… Read More
HERMON — A dramatic early morning fire destroyed a Coldbrook Road home Friday and one young man narrowly escaped the fast-moving flames. A neighbor alerted the fire department to the fire at about 1:30 a.m. The neighbor said the fire appeared to start in the… Read More
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BANGOR — In the waning days of summer 1944, word of the Allied invasion of Normandy reached Luxembourg, still fully infested with German soldiers. With liberation just a matter of time, the Nickels family began to piece together its own tribute to the approaching American… Read More
Along the journalism timeline, television news is little more than an infant. But in the relatively few years it has been around, TV has replaced its older siblings as the greatest single source of information for Americans. The three network evening news programs combined reach almost the total… Read More
Starting this month, the Bangor Daily News will feature three new OpEd columns that will expand the scope of these pages. We think each fills an important niche and addresses concerns of the public. Mark Woodward, who has been on the NEWS staff for 24… Read More
Blanche Webster, Colonial Acres Nursing Home, Room L-11, Lincoln 04487, will celebrate her 97th birthday on Friday, Sept. 8, and would appreciate cards from old and new friends. Leone Huff of Oakes Manor, Sangerville, formerly of Guilford, will have a 90th birthday open house from… Read More
An article Friday about two WWII bombers flying over Bangor Sunday inaccurately indicated that the event would signal the 5:45 p.m. start of a Bangor Band concert performance atop the Standpipe. The time of the flyover is correct, but it will actually signal the end of the concert,… Read More
The sorry tale of Shannon Faulkner and the Citadel has left both contestants tarnished. Ms. Faulkner appears to many as a publicity seeker and quitter. The Citadel has the look of the bully and the Neanderthal. The controversy also provides object lessons for all sides of the question. Read More
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This morning, when proud old retired warrior Gen. William Westmoreland leads the Galen Cole-choreographed Mother of All Parades across the Veterans Remembrance Bridge from Brewer to Bangor, I shall give the man a two-thumbs-up salute as I cast an eye on the numerous campaign ribbons from three wars… Read More
Editor’s Note: This is the first in an occasional series of stories examining the freshman experience at the University of Maine through the eyes of Ben Morey, a first-generation college student from Little Deer Isle. On Friday morning University of Maine dormitories were abuzz with… Read More
BINGHAM — The normally quiet weekend in this small Upper Kennebec Valley town was punctuated with the peal of church bells as both St. Peter’s Catholic Church and the Congregational Church celebrated anniversaries, Aug. 26 and 27. St. Peter’s marked its 75th anniversary on becoming… Read More
HARTFORD, Conn. — It was her anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” that made Harriet Beecher Stowe a household name. “So this is the little lady who wrote the book that started the great war,” President Lincoln said upon meeting her. Less well known or appreciated is her contribution… Read More
Six or seven years ago, a man I know gave me a glass jar full of beans. They were beans he had dried from the plants in his garden that summer. He told me how his father’s father was the first in his family to propagate them, and… Read More
A road sign just north of Mexico on Route 17 boasts “32 miles of scenic highway.” But there is more than scenery to lure visitors to the Swift River valley. Anyone who has made the trek off U.S. Route 2 on their way to the… Read More
The “Fish On!” yell rang out loud and clear over the aqua glacial waters in Alaska’s Copper River Basin in view of the snow-capped Wrangell Mountains. Just minutes after our fishing boat was anchored at the Clawhammer on the Klutina River at Copper Center and… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Ideas, concerns and new growing techniques will all be part of Greenhouse Encounter ’95, an event for greenhouse growers throughout the state to be held on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 9-10, at the Piscataquis Valley Fairgrounds in Dover-Foxcroft. The event is sponsored by the University of… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Pittsfield councilors will vote Tuesday whether to designate Nov. 11 as Col. Walter G. Morrill Day. A native of Williamsburg in Piscataquis County, Morrill left the slate quarry there in 1861 to fight in the Civil War. He returned to Maine as a… Read More
BREWER — Residents who believe they may qualify for the 1995 Maine Residents Property Tax Program can pick up material about it at Tax Assessor Gregory Zadakis’ office in City Hall. Similar forms are available at town offices throughout the state or by calling (800)… Read More
FORT KENT — Aroostook County commissioners will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, in the conference room at the Fort Kent Municipal Building. The agenda includes contracts with Van Buren for ambulance and fire protection and solid waste services for Township 17 Range 3;… Read More
MADAWASKA — A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, for Madawaska’s $5.9 million elementary school on 11th Avenue. The 55,000-square-foot school, for kindergarten through fifth grade, will replace the town’s 60-year-old Acadia School and 68-year-old Evangeline School. The new school has… Read More
EAGLE LAKE — The SAD 27 board of directors will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, at the Eagle Lake Elementary School. Agenda items include discussion of policies, accepting gifts, changes for high school graduation, approval of school handbooks, receipt of a report on… Read More
LIMESTONE — The public is invited to the grand opening of the Maine School of Science and Mathematics at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5. Guest speakers will include U.S. Rep. John Baldacci, state Rep. James Donnelly and Leo Martin, former Maine commissioner of education. Read More
LIMESTONE — The U.S. Air Force will hold an auction of surplus personal property at 9 a.m. Sept. 14 in Building 8710 at the former Loring Air Force Base. Items may be inspected from 7 to 9 a.m. They must be paid for in cash… Read More
HOULTON — Robert Hall of Houlton has been selected to receive one of 250 national American Hometown Leadership Awards, for which Houlton will receive a $1,500 economic development grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation. The award, sponsored by the National Association of Towns and Townships, with… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Police believe two males who were upset with the town’s aggressive fight against drug trafficking were responsible for damaging a police vehicle late Thursday. All four tires on a 1988 Ford Bronco were punctured and two windows were broken by rocks at about… Read More
For first-generation college students like Ben Morey, the University of Maine can be an overwhelming place. Some dormitories on the Orono campus house nearly as many people as live in Little Deer Isle, his hometown. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
AUGUSTA — State government started the new fiscal year $2.8 million in the black, as the state collected 2 percent more than anticipated during July, the King administration announced Friday. The administration attributed most of the surplus to individual income tax receipts, which were 10… Read More
MADAWASKA — Madawaska’s Sharon Pelletier, Miss Maine 1995, won’t be alone in Atlantic City. N.J., on Sept. 16 when she competes in the Miss America Pageant. A bus load of northern Maine supporters will be at the pageant cheering for their hometown girl. Roger Collin… Read More
They befriended the soldiers when they were lonely, cheered them when they were downhearted, and made them forget — at least for a while — that the burden of delivering the world from tyranny rested on their young shoulders. Last night I caught a glimpse… Read More
Thomas Sheehan’s column in the Aug. 23 issue taking me to task for proposing an exit exam for high school graduates is intriguing because he and I are obviously in very close agreement as to the value of a Maine high school diploma. The difference is that he… Read More
Many thanks for Roxanne Moore Saucier’s reporting (Aug. 27) of the celebration by the National Organization for Women (NOW) of women’s suffrage at the Peace & Justice Center in Bangor. The article captured the rich, deep connections today’s feminists have with our feminist foremothers. Reporter… Read More
If Alice Knight believes that the story about students studying cadavers is the “most tasteless news” she’s ever seen in the Bangor Daily News, she must not read the newspaper very often (“Ghoulish `news,”‘ July 20). Most people support the use of cadavers donated by… Read More
In response to the woman who feels the dropping of A-bombs on Japan was prompted by vengeance, I would like to share my remembrances. A friend’s brother, captured with Gen. Wainright, suffered through the death march on Bataan, was herded onto a Jap ship with… Read More
The column by Gov. Angus King (BDN, Aug. 24) mentioned that Maine cannot go into the future with infrastructure and ports left over from the 1920s. Neither can we go into the future with laws governing the movement of cargo between those ports that were made in the… Read More
DETROIT — The Detroit Planning Board will visit Dogtown Road at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5, to review a three-lot subdivision. The application, submitted by Anthony Valley, is for three large lots, each more than 6 acres. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
AUGUSTA — Maine State Police will beef up patrol of state highways during the Labor Day weekend, said Col. Alfred R. Skolfield, chief of the Maine State Police. Troopers will be looking for drunken drivers and speeders and will keep traffic moving. Aircraft also will… Read More
AUGUSTA — Innuendo, rumors and outright fibs seem to be driving the revived Republican offensive to recapture the Maine House of Representatives. In fact, some House Democrats have been counting noses this week to see if political proselytizing hasn’t turned them into the minority party. Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The world’s largest exporter of seed potatoes is here this week to encourage a stronger Maine presence in global markets. Sam Wolf of Holland, managing director of Agrico, and Larry Kavanaugh of Grand Falls, New Brunswick, manager of North American development for… Read More
GARLAND — Four days of events will highlight this year’s Garland Days, which starts Thursday, Sept. 7, and runs until Sunday, Sept. 10. Thursday’s events will include a baby contest for children 4 and younger at 6 p.m. at the Garland Grange Hall. The contest… Read More
The letter obviously was written by a young hand, which makes the thought behind it more meaningful. The author apparently was uncertain of the protocol for writing such a letter, because while it was delivered to our Letters to the Editor department, it was entitled… Read More
ELLSWORTH — One man may be behind a series of burglaries involving the theft of $20,000 worth of goods from Hancock, Penobscot and Washington county homes. Police are urging residents not to keep valuables at home and to watch their own properties closely and others in the neighborhood. Read More
MONROE — As selectmen flirt with labor law violations by asking volunteers to run the town office, Gov. Angus King is being kept abreast of the fragmenting situation. The town has been without a welfare director, tax collector and treasurer since Aug. 25 when the… Read More
Two convicted felons sought in an extensive manhunt by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department were arrested in New Hampshire early Friday. According to Chief Deputy Paul Davis, Robert Tucker, 25, and Scott Tucker, 20, were apprehended by police in North Conway, N.H., after they were… Read More
ST. ALBANS — Failure to pay a legal bill has resulted in a complaint against the town of St. Albans. Attorney Philip Mohlar of Alsop and Mohlar of Norridgewock filed a complaint in 12th District Court in Skowhegan last week seeking $380 from the town… Read More
SANGERVILLE — Whether residents swap stumpage on town wood lots in exchange for some land that could be used for industrial purposes will be decided by Sangerville residents later this month. Selectmen have proposed bartering wood from the town wood lots for a 39-acre parcel… Read More
MILO — The Milo and Brownville police remind motorists that school is in session in the Penquis area and that they will encounter bus traffic in the early morning and late afternoon. State law states that bus drivers only need obtain the license plate number… Read More
ATHENS — The third annual First Light Native American Intertribal Gathering and Festival will be held Saturday through Monday, Sept. 2-4, in Athens, according to Jeannine Manywinds, the festival’s organizer. Manywinds, who was born in Canada and is a member of the Mohawk Tribe, said… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Columbia Forest Products Inc., Indian Head Division, with alleged “willful, serious, repeat and other serious violations,” and proposes penalties totaling $226,600. C. William Freeman III, OSHA area director for Maine, said the alleged violations… Read More
ROCKLAND — They won’t have “Big O” to kick around anymore, at least for a while. Oram Lawry III, 39, who once challenged John McKernan in a congressional bid, announced Friday that he will not seek another term on the City Council. Lawry’s tumultuous three… Read More
BATH — Stinson Seafood Co., which has been processing fish in Bath since the 1940s, will keep its sardine packing plant and its 100 jobs here. Owner Richard Klingaman, whose five-year lease on the 5-acre property along the Kennebec River expired this year, said his… Read More
BANGOR — Postmaster Steven Hathaway announced Friday that the U.S. Postal Service in Maine will join with the Maine State Police in creating a new program called Eagle Eye Child Network. Hathaway said the program is expected to be launched statewide on Sept. 6. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
AUGUSTA — Organizers of a statewide planning conference on volunteerism talked in lofty terms of Maine’s vision of service. The 35 to 40 people attending the session in Augusta talked passionately about the ingredients needed for effective volunteerism in Maine. The fact they represented about… Read More
TOWNSHIP 24 — With no rain in sight, dozens of firefighters on Friday continued to battle a fire that is burning underground and now covers 300 acres of largely peat bog about 12 miles northwest of Columbia Falls. Maine Forest Service spokesman Jim Downie says… Read More
MACHIAS — Saying his department had been “micromanaged, super-scrutinized and budget-cut nearly to death,” Robbie Dirsa resigned this week as Machias police chief. The resignation is effective Friday, Sept. 8. At an emergency meeting Wednesday night, the Board of Selectman voted unanimously to accept Dirsa’s… Read More