DOVER-FOXCROFT – Maine Central Institute of Pittsfield erased an eight-point halftime deficit and held on for a 57-54 victory over Foxcroft Academy. Jodi Cummings paced the Huskies with 16 points. Karen Brown and Jaime Jensen chipped in with 12 and 11 points, respectively. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
FORT FAIRFIELD – Jeremy White nailed 4 of 4 free throws in the last minute to give the Hodgdon Hawks a 54-50 schoolboy basketball victory over the Fort Fairfield Tigers Tuesday night. Sam Henderson paced the winners with 27 points, 17 in the first half. Read More
CHICAGO – The University of Maine ventured into the Rosemont Horizon Tuesday evening hunting for its first men’s basketball victory over DePaul in seven tries. The Black Bears are still hunting. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
PORTLAND – Sugarloaf USA will host the U.S. Alpine Championships for the next two years, marking the first time an eastern ski resort has hosted the complete event in 18 years, officials said Tuesday. World Cup champion Picabo Street and Olympic gold medal winner Tommy… Read More
Mike Smith’s drive for a revised soccer tournament schedule for next season hit a patch of ice Tuesday. The Winslow boys soccer coach, who worked out an expanded postseason format using the Heal Point system, took his plan to the Maine Principals’ Association’s soccer committee. Read More
LOUDON, N.H. – The NASCAR SuperTruck Series will race at New Hampshire International Speedway Sept. 8, 1996. The 200-lap race will be part of a Tripleheader race day, including the Busch North Series and the Featherlite Modified Tour events. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
BRUNSWICK – Bowdoin College senior Dee Spagnuolo was named recently to the 1995 Division III Field Hockey All-America second team and Northeast Regional All-America first team by the College Field Hockey Coaches Association. The Laconia, N.H., goaltender helped the Polar Bears earn their first Eastern… Read More
ORONO – Jason Seavey scored on a breakaway at 6:02 into the third period to snap a 2-2 tie and give Brewer a 3-2 victory over Gardiner Tuesday night in a high school hockey contest at Alfond Arena. James Testa and Trevor Watt each scored… Read More
READFIELD – Mia Lombardo tossed in a game-high 43 points, including her 1,000 career point, to lead the Georges Valley Buccaneers to a 62-59 schoolgirl basketball win over the Maranacook Bears Tuesday night. Jessica Demers paced the way for the Black Bears with 26 points. Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – The Owls perched on the back of Willie Rivera who scored 20 points in a UMaine-Presque Isle 105-86 victory against Westbrook College. Ron McAtee and Sean Thomas added 15 points each and Pierre Michaud finished with 14 points for the Owls. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
ORONO – Jen Freese’s eyes must have lit up when she saw the Mount Desert Island girls switch to a zone defense in the second half. The move allowed Orono’s senior guard to light up the Trojans, and the scoreboard, from long distance and fuel… Read More
HOWLAND – Rance McEachern had a game-high 32 points as Greenville edged Penobscot Valley 68-64 in schoolboy basketball Tuesday night. Mike Burgess netted 12 and Doug Wilson added 11 points for the Lakers, who came back from an eight-point halftime deficit for the victory. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
GORHAM – David Segal scored 19 points, including six 3-pointers to pace the University of Southern Maine to the 98-58 win against Maine Maritime Academy. Mike Boissonneau and Rod Kinsey scored 10 points each for Southern Maine and Jason Van Bennekum added nine points and… Read More
DALLAS — Kimberly-Clark Corp. has moved closer to completing its $9.4 billion acquisition of Scott Paper Co., but had to agree that Scotties facial tissue won’t join the expanded products lineup that includes Kleenex. Shareholders of both companies approved the deal Tuesday and European regulators… Read More
LINCOLN — Eight proposed policies outlining how police handle pursuits, residents’ complaints, use of force and hostage situations will be the topics for a public hearing at 7 p.m. today in the town office. Town Manager Glenn E. Aho said the proposed policies were prepared… Read More
ROCKLAND — After a year and a half of dodging its execution, it now appears that not even a phone call from the governor can save the old Knox County Jail — unless he’s in the market for a real handyman’s special. The huge crane… Read More
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed Congress to pass legislation barring physical desecration of the American flag. It was the second time this year that the Senate rejected a constitutional amendment approved by the House. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BRIDGTON — A fire that destroyed a textile mill complex in Massachusetts has put 300 employees of a Bridgton company out of work, officials said Tuesday. Malden Mills of Methuen, Mass., which burned on Monday, owned Bridgton Knitting, which processed raw material for the main… Read More
HOULTON — Aroostook County Superior Court Justice Paul T. Pierson last Friday continued his temporary restraining order, originally issued in October, that recognizes Maliseet Indian Tribal Chairman Clair Sabattis as the essential representative of the tribe’s government. The order also allows Katahdin Trust Co., which… Read More
CARIBOU — The Bureau of Veterans Services has announced that it will no longer provide itinerant service to the Fort Kent and Houlton areas. Veterans services will be available only at the Caribou office, located at the National Guard Armory, 59 Bennett Drive, or by… Read More
SEARSPORT — Fantasies Plus received a dose of reality Monday night when the planning board tabled granting a permit to the proposed “sex shop.” After a lengthy discussion of owner Donald Bennett’s plans to open an adult book-video-sexual device emporium in the former Yarn Bin… Read More
WASHBURN — Santa Claus is coming to town, courtesy of the Washburn Fire Department, at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, and will arrive at the new town gazebo. Children and parents should line up at the south side of the gazebo to see Santa, who… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — The Somerset County budget committee will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. today, to hear comments on the proposed county budget. The meeting will be in the Skowhegan Community Center on Route 2. “I think it’s a very good budget,” said Committee… Read More
BANGOR — Republican efforts to slash $245 billion in funding for Medicaid and Medicare services could endanger the welfare of children and the elderly, a group of panelists said Tuesday. If there was one theme that echoed throughout the discussion, held at Bangor Theological Seminary,… Read More
PORTLAND — Central Maine Power Co. wrote off $3.8 million in bad debt last year after nearly 20 percent of its residential customers failed to pay electric bills on time. While only 11 percent of home phone customers at NYNEX money during that period, its… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Hancock County commissioners Wednesday adopted a 1996 budget that will require a 9.92 percent hike in county taxes. The rise represents nearly half of what was proposed and results from an intensive round of budget-cutting in recent days. Responding to criticism from towns… Read More
Neither the paper industry nor environmentalists were entirely correct in their predictions about the Maine forest, according to preliminary U.S. Forest Service estimates of timber stocks in Penobscot and Washington counties. The federal agency is almost finished with its first inventory of Maine’s timberlands since… Read More
MEDWAY — Residents will decide next week whether the town should sell a 100-acre parcel for a possible development project. The special town meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20, at the middle school. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — The 18-year-old daughter of a Maine state trooper spent four hours on the witness stand in Somerset County Superior Court Tuesday saying that her father sexually abused her when she was a sixth-grader. Suffering from a variety of eating disorders, including anorexia and… Read More
BOSTON — Bank of Boston Corp. on Tuesday signed an agreement to acquire BayBanks Inc. for $2 billion in stock. In a prepared statement, Bank of Boston, the nation’s 18th largest bank, said it will exchange nearly 2.2 newly issued Bank of Boston shares for… Read More
ROCKLAND — In a highly unusual step, Superior Court Justice Andrew Mead will interview the grand jury that indicted Harold Clarke Jr. for manslaughter, to determine if the indictment process was tainted by “extensive and emotional” media coverage. Clarke, 32, of Rockland is awaiting trial on a manslaughter… Read More
WASHINGTON — Prompted by a cold snap that claimed at least 12 lives over the weekend, lawmakers are taking a variety of routes to try to free up funding for a program that helps poor people pay for heat. The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program… Read More
The U.S. government will file an official complaint with Canada stating that Canadian trade practices regarding potatoes violate international trade agreements. This action, which could be good news to Maine’s beleaguered potato growers, resulted from a Washington meeting Tuesday of U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor… Read More
We reached the summit of Mount Lafayette and scrambled in behind a cluster of boulders to shelter ourselves from the biting wind. There, while admiring the view eastward of the roadless Pemigewasset Wilderness and the white-capped Presidential Range, we pulled off our packs and started… Read More
Shame on the Maine newpapers that carried two recent wire service stories that covered up the true financial condition of many low-income edlerly and disabled people on food stamps. The Nov. 24 and Dec. 1 articles gave readers a false image that those people were “on the verge… Read More
PALMYRA — Hearings on junkyard license renewals are scheduled at 6 p.m. today for all but one of the town’s junkyards. The hearings will precede the regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen, which ultimately will act on the license renewals. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
What a difference a day makes. Last Wednesday, the downsizing plan of the Maine Department of Education was red-penciled by the management review team of the Productivity Realization Task Force. They couldn’t determine exactly how DOE planned to save $1.1 million and eliminate 25 percent of its work… Read More
An old man is lost in the forest. It is cold and snowy. He has no place to go. His world is lonely, dark and hungry. It seems as if the most desperate moment is at hand, when, in the blink of an eye, a… Read More
BANGOR — The father of an 11-year-old boy who died in a fiery triple fatal crash in Greenbush last summer has filed a lawsuit against the estates of both drivers and Community Health and Counseling Services. Ronald Rodgerson of Saco, father of James A. Thorne,… Read More
The Santa’s Helper Fund reached a milestone Tuesday with a total of $10,293 — about $1,000 more than on the same date in 1994. That’s good news for the Salvation Army. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
BLUE HILL– The Hancock County Democratic Committee will hold its annual December holiday meeting and potluck dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 21, at the home of Ellen Werner and Bob Walker in Blue Hill. Members should each bring a dish to share at the… Read More
HOLDEN — Realizing that their town was the only one in the immediate area that had no public indecency ordinance to ban relaxation spas, selectmen Monday night approved a warrant for such an ordinance to be considered at the special town meeting at 7 p.m. Dec. 20. Read More
METHUEN, Mass. — An explosion and fire didn’t just level most of the Malden Mills textile factory. It destroyed a near-miraculous success story of the New England textile industry. It threatened the supply of fleecy Polartec fabric to customers such as L.L. Bean. And it… Read More
CORINTH — Fire of an undetermined origin damaged the David Dunfee residence on Route 11-43 in Corinth Tuesday night. The 150-year-old farmhouse, which recently had been remodeled, received substantial damage, but was not completely gutted in the blaze, according to Capt. Steve Foster of the… Read More
BANGOR — A City Council workshop originally scheduled for Monday has been rescheduled for 5 p.m. today at City Hall. Topics will include the pending vacancies created by the resignations of City Clerk Russell McKenna, who will retire next month; and by Community and Economic… Read More
BRUNSWICK — Craig Cheslog and Walston Gallie will take over duties from David and Jennifer Petersen as directors of the Maine Chapter of the Concord Coalition, coalition officials have announced. Gallie, of Portland, spent 28 years in banking, including a position as executive vice president… Read More
ORONO — The award of a graduate degree to Kathleen Maguire this weekend represents not only a personal achievement for the Gorham woman but a technological milestone for the University of Maine. Maguire earned her degree by taking four years of long-distance courses through the… Read More
ORRINGTON — Selectmen approved firing a permanent part-time firefighter when the board met Monday night, according to Town Manager Candy Guerette on Tuesday. The board voted after an executive session with members of the Orrington Volunteer Fire Department’s grievance committee to fire permanent part-time firefighter… Read More
ORONO — Three weeks after officials from Bangor, Brewer and Old Town agreed to work together to improve fire safety in the four-community region that includes Orono, town councilors Monday officially came on board. The regional fire service initiative proposed by fire chiefs from all… Read More
BAR HARBOR — MDI Hospital and affiliated clinics will offer free colorectal screening kits through January in an effort to detect untreated cases of cancer. Cancer of the colon and rectum is one of the most curable forms of the disease. For information about the… Read More
ISLE AU HAUT — It was no Gilligan’s Island scene, but still Murphy’s Law had its way with two Coast Guard crews stranded here Tuesday night. Two crews of aids-to-navigation personnel were attempting to retrieve buoys cut loose during a recent storm when the engines… Read More
DEDHAM — Town Clerk Kim Ericson has announced that openings exist for town board members and information is available at the Town Office at 843-6217. The town will hold a rabies clinic from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, at the town office. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BANGOR — The Bangor City Council on Monday weighed two similar proposals for disposing of the city’s sewer sludge, and decided after much discussion to award the contract to Sawyer Environmental Services in Hampden. BFI Waste Systems had submitted the low proposal, showing a total… Read More
PALMYRA — The annual Christmas Giving Tree is set up at the Palmyra Town Hall awaiting the generosity of residents interested in helping less fortunate families. Tags are placed on the tree with children’s names and ages. The tags may be selected between 9 a.m. Read More
The Lawrence sisters have always been extremely close. All eight of them grew up in Bangor. Most of them still live in the area and see each other as much as possible. They meet on weekends to play cards, or go to bingo, or simply… Read More
The article by John Nash (BDN, Dec 7), concerning the SAD 22 Maine Educational Assessment results, should cause alarm to those who are concerned about the quality of education in the district. Despite the encouraging words of Ruey Yehle, curriculum coordinator, and Richard Lyons, superintendent, the scores, while… Read More
Last evening, after the news broadcast, I said to my husband that it seems to me we are coming ever closer to a social holocaust in this country. This after viewing the eveining’s predictable partisan squabbling over the budget. Tonight on the radio I heard coverage of church… Read More
Fifty years ago, I was on a troop ship heading for San Fransisco and home. The war was over and I was looking foward to getting back to the peace and quiet of a potato farm. I have been in the farming business for most… Read More
I’m concerned about our waterways and the fish that live in them. I have fished in the waters of the river behind my house every summer since I was old enough to handle a fishing rod. I have seen garbage, like bottles, cans and boxes,… Read More
The English-only bills moving through Congress are examples of a resurging isolationism in the United States that ignore this country’s cultural traditions. They would hinder the nation’s role as a world leader and, at home, adversely affect worthy school programs here in Maine. The House… Read More
AUGUSTA — An initiative unveiled Tuesday seeks to help owners of toxic waste sites listed in a government inventory remove themselves from the Superfund cleanup process and its often burdensome requirements. At a presentation at the Augusta Civic Center, state and federal officials outlined new… Read More
RALEIGH, N.C. — Gordon Clapp, former state travel director for Maine and owner and former president of Gordon Clapp Travel Services Inc., is the new director of the North Carolina Travel and Tourism Division, said state Commerce Secretary Dave Phillips. Clapp, who has been executive… Read More
GRAND ISLE — A 52-year-old Grand Isle man who suffered multiple leg, arm and collarbone fractures in an accident at Grand Isle Monday night was in guarded condition at a Bangor hospital Tuesday. Gilman Pelletier, 52, was helping his son, Raoul Pelletier, 22, also of… Read More
WASHINGTON — The decades-old effort to build a cargo port on Sears Island in Penobscot Bay received an unexpected boost Tuesday when Maine Gov. Angus King predicted construction on the project would resume next summer. King offered the forecast after a day of meetings with… Read More
BANGOR — A former Drug Abuse Resistance Education officer for Penobscot County, suspended for allegedly providing alcohol to a minor and having sexual relations with a teen-age girl, will remain on suspension but will start getting paid again, county commissioners ruled Tuesday. Deputy Daryl Whitley… Read More
Mainers may take pride in the fact that Paul Garelli of Knox has been named one of the 1995 “Heroes of Today” by Reader’s Digest magazine. Garelli’s effort to help the people of Waldo County have a happier Christmas is profiled in a December article… Read More
EAST MILLINOCKET — Proposals for interim development assistance will be reviewed by a regional development committee when it meets at 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15. Officials of the Katahdin Regional Development Corp., a nonprofit group representing East Millinocket, Medway and Millinocket, has asked Eastern Maine… Read More
HOULTON — The Town Council took steps Monday night toward adopting amendments to local regulations that will severely restrict relaxation spas and nudity in the town. Two weeks ago, the town’s code enforcement officer received an inquiry from John Stevens of Bangor regarding Houlton ordinances… Read More
PERKINS TOWNSHIP — A 31-year-old logger was killed when he was struck on the head by a tree, authorities said. Scot Johnson of Dryden was cutting trees on a lot when the accident occurred late Monday morning. His body was discovered lying next to a… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Philip Kelley, 48, of Randolph was arraigned on a variety of charges Tuesday morning in Somerset County Superior Court. He is charged with three counts of possession of a firearm by a felon, eluding an officer, two counts of reckless conduct with a… Read More
When federal employees are retroactively paid for the days missed when they were “furloughed,” what was the point of President Clinton’s moronic government shutdown charade? Was any money saved or was the taxpaying public simply inconvenienced (extremely and radically for some) by this political folly? I was surprised… Read More
EAST MILLINOCKET — The School Union 113 board on Monday approved pay increases for administrative personnel that range from 1.5 percent to 3.5 percent. The joint board, which represents East Millinocket, Medway and Woodville, voted to maintain the same cost-sharing plan for shared administrative costs. Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — On a spring day in 1948, Edwina Atkins was hanging out clothes in back of her home in Portage. The familiar drone of the little Piper Cub engine told her that her game warden husband, Wilfred, was cruising the skies above the Aroostook County watershed… Read More
BANGOR — Calling the cost of a railroad crossing “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Peter Anastos on Tuesday announced that he has withdrawn plans to develop the old Bangor Waterworks on State Street into a Muddy Rudder restaurant. “We have decided not to… Read More
DETROIT — Florence Howe of Detroit was staying with family Tuesday after fire destroyed her Route 220 home on Monday night. According to Detroit Deputy Fire Chief Robert Wright, firefighters were called to the scene shortly after 9 p.m. Monday. An unidentified passer-by noticed that… Read More
BREWER — Brewer residents, especially those in the Maple Street area, got word of an early Christmas present Tuesday, although it won’t be delivered until sometime next summer. A toxic junkyard site in the neighborhood, there since the turn of the century, will be cleaned… Read More
AUGUSTA — Terry Hayward says it’s becoming harder and harder to do his job as a discharge coordinator at Augusta Mental Health Institute. There’s an ever-stronger push to discharge AMHI patients, but little or no suitable places in the community to send them. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
Audrey Hepburn was on the movie set of “War and Peace” in Rome. Sophia Loren was a young starlet. Georgia O’Keeffe was already on Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. W.H. Auden was hanging out in a doorway smoking a cigarette. And George Daniell was there… Read More
BANGOR — The Penobscot County commissioners heard Tuesday from the Orono fire chief who said he was concerned about the manner in which the proposal for a regional dispatch center was being handled. It was clear at the meeting that a potential turf war was… Read More