ORONO – Junior left winger Barry Clukey has officially withdrawn from the University of Maine, according to university spokesman Joe Carr. Clukey left the Black Bears hockey team after exchanging words with Coach Shawn Walsh during last Friday night’s shootout against the University of New… Read More
The University of Maine hockey team has picked up a bad habit. Over their past six games, the Bears have spotted their opponent the game’s first goal. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false;… Read More
Senior soccer players will get their due at the fifth annual Absolute Soccer Senior Bowl that will be played at Maine Maritime Academy’s Ritchie Field on Sunday. The East swept the Western teams last season, 5-2, in the boys game and 1-0 in the girls… Read More
Former WBA junior lightweight and lightweight champion Joey Gamache recorded an eighth-round technical knockout over Tony Enna Wednesday night in Baltimore. Gamache knocked Enna down in the third round with a right hand and left hook and then used a 10-punch combination in the eighth… Read More
PVC BOYS ALL-STARS All PVC Tony Caristi (Bangor); John Hatch (Central-EC); Ryan Janicki, Todd Atkins (Hampden); Adam Hunt (Hermon); Tim Pert, Christian Newman, Travis Vogel (George Stevens); Seth Jones, Rob Labonte (Nokomis); Robbie Butler (Orono); Travis Drew, Tony Draper, Tony Folsom, Paul Regan (PCHS); Levi… Read More
Readfield native Dean Gyorgy, with his father-in-law Vincent Burns, a Boston investment banker, is attempting to bring a Northeast Baseball League team to Bangor. But it is not the year-old independent professional league’s Yonkers (N.Y.) Hoot Owls, according to Miles Wolff Jr., president of Baseball… Read More
BANGOR – After struggling through the first half against “one of the most physical teams in Canada,” the Braves’ patience paid off in the second half. Saint Francis Xavier’s X-women came to Husson College’s Newman Gym looking for their first win of the season and… Read More
Brett Clark, the University of Maine’s freshman defenseman, was selected the Hockey East Rookie of the Week. Clark had three assists in the two ties against New Hampshire last weekend including one on Tim Lovell’s tying goal on Friday night. Read More
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High Schools PVC GIRLS ALL-STARS First Team Deri-Ann White (Foxcroft); Angela Cole (Hampden); Mattie Lord (Bucksport); Stephany Gaige (Bangor); Kim Hews, Rachel Bodkin-Rubino (Brewer); Sarah Reisman (MDI) Second Team googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
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WINTHROP – T.J. Caouette, Maine’s most highly recruited schoolboy basketball player, said Thursday he has signed a letter of intent to attend Villanova. During his first three years at Winthrop High, Caouette has averaged 25 points, 14 rebounds, and four assists per game. During the… Read More
The board of directors of Bangor Historic Track, operators of Bass Park, met last month to assess the performance of the 1995 harness racing season and refine the 1996 Bangor extended meet race dates before presenting the proposal to the Maine State Harness Racing Commission. Read More
HOULTON — Despite the loss in recent months of a women’s apparel store and two hardware stores, including Grossman’s, what would appear to be a slump in Houlton’s business climate just isn’t so. Several business projects are under way on U.S. Route 1 and more… Read More
ORONO — A diverse group of almost 200 people met Thursday at the University of Maine to discuss how the state can benefit from rapidly changing technologies instead of getting left in their wake. With its ability to easily bridge vast distances worldwide, improve productivity… Read More
WATERVILLE — He has been called the greatest newspaper man in New York City, the greatest columnist since Mencken. If Murray Kempton were working in a different country, said another admiring profiler, he would be considered a national treasure. Yet even as he approaches the… Read More
Sherry Krapf’s life hit a low spot a few years ago when the teen and some friends broke into several camps in the Lee area. For a long time the young woman had known that life in a small northern Penobscot County town wasn’t for… Read More
PORTLAND — A federal jury found Paul Dimeo, 24, of Old Orchard Beach guilty of armed bank robbery Thursday. In another case, James D. Lee, 32, of Auburn, was charged Wednesday with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to U.S. Attorney Jay… Read More
AUGUSTA — Appearing more relieved than elated, Bucksport town officials left the state capital Thursday pleased to have prevailed thus far in the three-year battle over a local paper mill’s property taxes. After two days of deliberations, the State Board of Property Tax Review voted… Read More
NEWPORT — In a reversal of statements issued last summer, the Newport Board of Selectmen has decided not to pursue dissolving the Newport Sanitary District. Newport Town Manager Arthur Ellingwood confirmed it is no longer the board’s desire to press for dissolution, basically because communication… Read More
The shocking news of the assassination of the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was not altogether surprising to anybody who followed Israeli politics closely. The Israeli right, which opposes negotiations with the Palestinian Liberation Organization and any Israeli withdrawl from the occupied territories, launched an aggressive campaign of… Read More
While Portland and Boston eventually may be the big connection in Maine railroading, a smaller, successful link already has been made between Belfast and Burnham Junction. It’s modest and it’s working. The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad passed a mile marker recently with the announcement… Read More
BANGOR — Hugh Kelly is looking for a pediatric wheelchair. Surely, he said, some child in the area has outgrown a wheelchair that can be given to Viorel Covaci, a 3-year-old who lives in an Onesti, Romania, orphanage and was born with no legs. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BOSTON — A radiothon sponsored by three dozen radio stations raised more than $400,000 Thursday for Boston University freshman Travis Roy of Yarmouth, Maine, who was paralyzed a month ago in his first college hockey game. Read More
MILO — Penquis Valley Middle School has received $500 worth of water-quality testing equipment. The first project planned for students will be testing water from the Sebec River which runs beside the school grounds. The purchase was partially funded by the Department of Energy and… Read More
NEW LIMERICK — Three teen-agers escaped serious injury Wednesday night when the pickup truck in which they were riding skidded on a slippery road and rolled over. Maine State Police Trooper Mark Sawyer said the driver, Joshua Silvia, 17, of New Limerick, and Philip Buzzeo… Read More
Several years ago, an article in Science reported that increasing human longevity through medical advances has likely reached its limit. Mortality in those younger than age 50 is currently so low that the elimination of all deaths due to disease would increase life expectancy at birth by only… Read More
MARS HILL — The detrimental effects of rap and rock music on children will be discussed at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Fort Street School in Mars Hill. Dan Frazell of the Bangor Police Department will present the program for the SAD 42 Drug Abuse Resistance Education… Read More
WISCASSET — Maine Yankee workers nearly damaged two $700,000 fuel assemblies as they moved fuel into the reactor in preparation for restarting the nuclear power plant, federal regulators said. The error involving the 800-pound fuel racks was one of six recent miscues at the plant… Read More
NEWPORT — Is Veterans Day still a time to remember and honor those who have served their country, or has it become just another excuse for a three-day weekend? The answer found during a random sampling of several Maine schools, both secondary and post-secondary, won’t… Read More
ROCKPORT — A cut of 60 jobs at Penobscot Bay Medical Center is complete, but an atmosphere of sadness lingers on, a hospital spokesman said Thursday. The Rockport hospital announced in September the need to reduce its 620-member work force by 10 percent to accommodate… Read More
HANCOCK — Despite a possible pullout by one of its founding members, Coastal Recycling is anticipating a healthy future, the organization’s executive director said Thursday. “We still have members committed to the organization,” Antonio Blasi said. The director said the nonprofit cooperative does not anticipate… Read More
Through intercounty cooperation of the public, private, business and charitable sector, an Aroostook County woman is no longer house-bound. Maine Independent Living Services Inc. of Bangor has been able to provide the disabled woman with an outside chairlift for her wheelchair so she may come… Read More
BAR HARBOR — Maskers and magic take to the stage at College of the Atlantic this weekend, with the 10th anniversary performance of the school’s Theatre Workshop. “A lot is plain zany,” theater director Lucy Bell Sellers advised, as this year’s play blends some of… Read More
PLEASANT POINT — Clifford Joseph “Spotted Pony” (Buddy) Big Mountain, a ventriloquist, comedian, puppeteer and dancer, will perform at 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday in the gymnasium at the Beatrice Rafferty School. Born in Newton, N.J., and raised in the Catskills of New York, Buddy… Read More
Congress has one more chance to pass meaningful campaign-finance reform before spring brings presidential primaries and members of Congress hit the fund-raising road. The reform issue has been debated for years, and a worthy bill currently is in the House. Speaker Newt Gingrich’s response to this, unfortunately, has… Read More
WASHINGTON — With a potential federal default and government shutdown at stake, Congress toiled over a pair of budget bills Thursday and lurched ever closer to a jolting veto showdown with President Clinton. A day after the House approved legislation that would provide stopgap funds… Read More
Belfast District Court: Operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor: Jayne C. Peaslee, 38, Augusta, $1,000, 364 days in jail, all but 30 days suspended, probation for one year, license suspended for four years; Leon Lucas, 61, Belfast, $450, license suspended for 90… Read More
BANGOR — The distant report of an assassin’s gun echoed here Thursday, as Jews and gentiles joined to remember slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin, 73, was gunned down last Saturday by a rightist Israeli who opposed the prime minister’s plan to settle land… Read More
Second District Rep. John Baldacci announced today that the Maine Cranberry Growers Association has been awarded a $36,700 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The grant will be used by the Maine Cranberry Growers… Read More
As a student with the University of Maine System, I wished to raise major issues and concerns about the condition of the University of Maine System, to the Board of Trustees. I attempted to use process and address these concerns and issues before the board meeting in Machias… Read More
University of Maine senior sweeper Paul Kelly was selected to the All-North Atlantic Conference soccer first team for the second consecutive year. Two of his University of Maine teammates, senior striker Jake Ouimet and junior midfielder Kyle Gray, were also selected to the first team… Read More
BELFAST — People for People, an all-volunteer organization that provides food and gifts to more than 750 needy Waldo County households at Christmas, is participating in a fund-raising drive held in conjunction with the Ending Hunger Campaign. Coordinated by Hand to Hand, a nonprofit Maine… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Maine Green Party said Thursday it has given up its court challenge of a law that bars the Greens from having a contribution checkoff box on the 1995 state income-tax returns. But a spokeswoman for the fledgling party said it may still… Read More
GREENBUSH — By a unanimous vote Thursday, the town’s board of assessors rejected a tax exemption request by a religious radio station, the community’s largest taxpayer. Owned by Florida-based Prophecy Countdown Inc., the radio station accounts for one of every five tax dollars in this… Read More
ROCKLAND — It’s two steps forward, one step back for SAD 5. Just as the district won approval of a $300,000 proposal to establish new leased space and started to work out the kinks in a new split session schedule forced by the closing of… Read More
CARIBOU — The executive director of the Caribou Chamber of Commerce, Brenda Libby, is no longer at her post and no one is saying why she was dismissed. President of the board, Brenda Sleeper, said that Libby’s last day at the chamber was Nov. 2,… Read More
CARMEL — Improving technological education, writing instruction, and community involvement are just three of the key goals put forth by the three principals of SAD 23 for the 1995-96 school year. At its monthly meeting, held at Superintendent Paul Whitney’s office on Thursday night, the… Read More
The current crisis in financial management in the Maine state government has resulted in budget cuts for support of public education. The cutback in state support has placed a greater financial burden on the towns and local taxpayers to provide the quality of education that students like myself… Read More
On behalf of the MSAD 22 Board of Directors, I want to express sincere appreciation to the citizens of Hampden, Newburgh and Winterport for participating in the recently completed school budget process. Our district, like many districts throughout Maine, is feeling the effects of reduced state funding to… Read More
Under the specious cover of “reducing the budget,” Republicans have pushed through Congress legislation which would hit heavily and unpredictably upon the poor, the aged and the health care system. At the same time tax cuts would be given to the middle class and the wealthy. And, of… Read More
It’s the little frustrations in life that grow to big frustrations as one gets older. With all the latest inventions, technology, etc., one would assume the most elementary things in life could be solved. Not so with the Postal Service. We live on a mounted… Read More
Letter writer Douglas Flagg (BDN, Oct. 26) brings up some important points about the tax code and confidentiality laws. The dirtiest little secret in public life today is the confidential protection and tax subsidies afforded to certain major industries. Close inspection of the tax code… Read More
GREENVILLE — Gov. Angus King could have coined his phrase “Maine is on the move” with Greenville in mind. A group of town officials and business representatives there are preparing the town for the 21st century, ensuring its survival as a tourist-oriented mecca, while at… Read More
PORTLAND — The Shipyard Brewing Co. has formed a partnership with Miller Brewing Co. that will pay off Shipyard’s debts, double its production and continue its rapid growth, officials said Thursday. American Specialty & Craft Beer, a Miller subsidiary dedicated to forming alliances with microbreweries,… Read More
BUCKSPORT — A firewalking workshop promises to help students walk on fire, break boards with bare hands and bend steel. The workshop, Spirit Dance, The Firewalk Ceremony, will be offered from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at Spirit Dance, Route 46. Actual firewalking… Read More
EASTPORT — A vacant warehouse on Clark Street will become home to 14 disabled adults, thanks to a $632,000 low-interest loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the Washington County Association for Retarded Citizens. The warehouse will be bought and renovated with the funds,… Read More
AUGUSTA — State workers in the midst of another wave of downsizing have begun putting their resumes on the Internet through the state’s World Wide Web home page. About a half-dozen have posted their resumes since the service was offered in mid-October. Prospective employers can… Read More
BELFAST — State police Col. Alfred R. Skolfield has praised a state trooper and three Belfast Police Department members for their role in saving people during a 1994 apartment house fire. “These officers were quick and decisive and helped avert a tragedy,” Skolfield said. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
ROCKLAND — Midcoast boaters interested in honing their marine skills, helping others on the water, and even lending a hand to the Coast Guard are invited to an informational open house. The meeting, open to all boaters — commercial, recreational, expert and novice — is… Read More
ROCKLAND — Postmaster Arey Bryant announced that Veterans Day, Saturday, Nov. 11, is a legal holiday and the following schedule will be in effect at the Rockland Post Office. There will be no window service and no city or rural delivery. Express Mail will be… Read More
Chubby Carrier, an award-winning zydeco musician, will appear in Rockland at 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, at the Blues Plus Lounge at the Trade Winds Motel. Carrier and his Bayou Swamp Band won the 1994 critics award from Living Blues Magazine for the best record… Read More
GLEN COVE — The eighth annual Riley School fund-raiser to benefit the Riley School Scholarship fund will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, in the Arts Building at the Riley School, Warrenton Road. Refreshments will be served and a drawing for prizes will take… Read More
The state’s Department of Economic and Community Development is going mobile and is offering presentations to civic and business groups. Tom McBrierty, commissioner of the department, has the formation of a speakers bureau to get his staff into Maine communities to provide information about the… Read More
FORT KENT — Dr. Wendy Hagen Bauer, professor of astronomy at Wellesley College, will make three presentations on astronomy at Fort Kent on Nov. 12 and 13. On Sunday, Nov. 12, at 2 p.m., Bauer will have a round-table seminar with physics and astronomy enthusiasts… Read More
CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Elementary School received the Best Practices Award for the Northeastern United States from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. John Magnarelli, director of special nutrition programs for the Northeast division, made the presentation Nov. 7 in recognition of cooperative efforts of the… Read More
BANGOR — A ladder that fell off the back of a pickup truck caused a three-car pileup in the northbound lane of Interstate 95 Thursday morning, and led to five charges against the truck’s driver. Maine State Police Trooper Trevor Snow said a 1989 Chevy… Read More
HOULTON — Lloyd Chase, Richard Simpson and Heidi Warman were elected Tuesday to the Houlton Board of Budget Review, town officials said Thursday. There were no formal candidates for the three, three-year terms on the board, which is designed to determine the town’s annual budget. Read More
BREWER — Green Point Auto Parts Inc. was one of 23 auto recycling facilities to be inducted into the Automotive Recyclers Association Certified Automotive Recycler Program, Oct. 11-14 in Tampa, Fla. The CAR Program was created in 1993 to enhance professionalism in the auto recycling… Read More
TOGUS — The VA Medical and Regional Office Center, Togus has won special recognition for outstanding achievement and implementation in leadership, a category of the Margaret Chase Smith Maine State Quality Award. The Pine Tree Section of the American Society for Quality Control and the… Read More
BDL Employment and Rehabilitation Services Inc. in Bangor has been awarded a $167,485 grant each year for five years from the U.S. Department of Education. The grants will be used to operate a Projects with Industry program which is designed to assist individuals with disabilities and obtain and… Read More
BANGOR — Preliminary reports on campaign contributions and spending varied widely among Bangor’s candidates for city council and school committee this election season. Candidates file preliminary reports six days before the election, and final reports six weeks after the election. It’s been a particularly expensive… Read More
GOULDSBORO — Applicants for the Gouldsboro town manager’s job must have their resumes submitted to the town a week from tomorrow when selectmen will review the pool of candidates and schedule interviews. First Selectman Jacqueline Johnston says she aims to fill the position before the… Read More
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SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick — Workers on strike for 1 1/2 years at the Irving oil refinery have overwhelmingly rejected the company’s final contract offer, which calls for a major trimming of the work force. Ninety percent of the workers voted against the contract Thursday. Read More
AUGUSTA — With lawmakers preparing to convene to take up the first round of sweeping budget cuts proposed by the Productivity Realization Task Force, House and Senate leaders on Thursday again rejected a proposal to allow debate next year on a measure to repeal the advisory panel. Read More
PORTLAND — Five chemistry students who were exposed to radioactive gas during a tour of the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant sued the plant’s operators Thursday in federal court. The lawsuit that seeks $5.5 million in damages contends that Maine Yankee officials knew before the… Read More
BELFAST — Now it is left to Judge Bernard Staples to decide whether the death of Alan Wood was the result of a tragic hunting accident or criminal negligence on the part of Craig Turner, the 17-year-old Freedom boy accused of killing him. Charged with… Read More
WELLS — A 41-year-old Arundel man was killed Thursday when his car crashed into an iron girder on a truck that was making a turn from state Route 9 to Route 9-B. Francis Lehouillier was dead at the scene, said police. He was alone in… Read More
BLUE HILL — Police are now calling the Oct. 26 death of a Blue Hill woman “highly suspicious.” Lt. Darrell Ouellette of the criminal investigation unit of the Maine State Police said Thursday investigators have changed their stance on the gunshot death of Louise Potts… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Preventing domestic violence is the topic of a conference on Nov. 16 and 17 at the Northern Maine Technical College. Lt. Col. Malcolm Dow of the Maine State Police will be the keynote speaker for the session. The conference will offer current… Read More
BANGOR — Police are investigating the death of 27-year-old Ralph Tredwell, an area emergency medical technician and paramedic from Orono, who reportedly committed suicide on Wednesday night. Tredwell was found dead inside a family-owned pickup truck in the parking lot of the Eastern Maine Medical… Read More
CALAIS — A 19-year-old Canadian was arrested at the Ferry Point Bridge after U.S. Customs officers discovered a quantity of the psychedelic drug LSD and small amounts of hashish and marijuana in the vehicle he was driving. Shane Fletcher, 19, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, and… Read More