SEATTLE – Living up to her advanced billing, Cindy Blodgett took charge when it mattered most Wednesday night and keyed the University of Maine women’s basketball team to a 73-69 victory over Santa Clara in the first round of the Husky Classic. Blodgett, a 5-foot-9… Read More
AT HOWLAND Penobscot Valley 196, Dexter 165.5, Foxcroft 124.5, Mattanawcook 110.5, Madawaska 102, Calais 48, Stearns 16, So. Aroostook 15 googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i… Read More
CARIBOU – Jason Leighton scored 23 points in leading Brewer to an 80-76 schoolboy basketball victory over host Caribou here Wednesday night. Nate Freeman added 19 for the Witches who trailed 52-48 after three quarters before slipping past the Vikings. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
I don’t know about you, but I’ve reached the age where I no longer take it lightly when older folks say time passes quicker as you grow older. To make matters worse, this job provides constant reminders of that casual but cogent observation. An example… Read More
BANGOR – For many teams, playing the John Bapst Memorial High School basketball teams at their home court – the cavernous Bangor Auditorium – can be a daunting task. Not so for the boys and girls from Rockland Wednesday evening, however, as both teams stayed… Read More
Less than a week after the University of Maine announced it would suspend hockey coach Shawn Walsh without pay for one year and prohibit UMaine from competing in the NCAA tournament for violating NCAA rules, three high-ranking UMaine officials made a pilgrimage to Florida. President… Read More
With the new year almost upon us, it’s the perfect time to suggest some resolutions that ought to be made by members of the sports broadcasting community. Sports media personalities, both local and national, should resolve to clean up their language while on the air. Read More
JONESPORT – Jeremy McCarthy scored a game-high 16 points as the visiting Woodland Dragons defeated Jonesport-Beals 71-50 in schoolboy basketball action here Wednesday. Tory Robb and Brian McCarthy scored 12 and 11 points, respectively, for Woodland. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
Maine Maritime Academy senior sweeper Ryan Reed of Howland has been named to the Adidas Soccer Academic All-American Team. The team encompasses all divisions. Reed has a career 3.71 grade-point average in engineering. It is the second time he has been selected to the team. He was also… Read More
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While the search for an assistant coach continues, the University of Maine hockey program has lost a fourth player who has quit due to a lack of ice time. Sophomore left winger Tony Tempestilli has told interim head coach Greg Cronin that he has decided… Read More
MOUNT DESERT – Sarah Joy scored 16 points in leading Mt. Desert Island to a 73-40 schoolgirl basketball victory over Camden-Rockport here Wednesday night. Brianne Barker had 14, Jamey Lewis tossed in 13 and Erin Shaw chipped in 11 for the winners. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
MOUNT DESERT – Sarah Joy scored 16 points in leading Mount Desert Island to a 73-40 schoolgirl basketball victory over Camden-Rockport Wednesday night. Brianne Barker had 14, Jamey Lewis tossed in 13 and Erin Shaw chipped in 11 for the winners. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
ORONO – Joe Field kick-started the goal barrage with a hat trick in the first period, and Old Town skated to an 8-5 high school hockey victory over Lawrence of Fairfield at Alfond Arena on Wednesday. Old Town scored four goals in the first period… Read More
CARIBOU – Jason Leighton scored 23 points in leading Brewer to an 80-76 schoolboy basketball victory over host Caribou here Wednesday night. Nate Freeman added 19 for the Witches who trailed 52-48 after three quarters before slipping past the Vikings. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
FORT FAIRFIELD – Amy Berube converted two free throws late in the game to put Limestone up by three and the visitors escaped with a 40-39 win after trailing by eight at halftime, highlighting schoolgirl basketball action Wednesday evening. Sodine Ith led the winners with… Read More
FARMINGTON — An ugly act of anti-Semitic vandalism has triggered an outpouring of support for the family that was victimized. Last week, a rock was thrown through the living room window of Jonathan and Victoria Cohen’s house. Candles in the family’s heirloom menorah were burning… Read More
HOULTON — The Town Council Tuesday night voted unanimously to approve business-ordinance amendments that will regulate relaxation spas and nudity. The relaxation spa amendment was enacted as a prohibitive measure in response to inquiries from a Bangor man who last month expressed an interest in… Read More
FORT FAIRFIELD — Interstate Food Processing Corp. has sold its refrigerated product line of potatoes to Michael Foods of Minneapolis, Minn., the country’s leading processor of refrigerated food. “We were the second-largest [producer of refrigerated potatoes], so this strengthens their position in the marketplace and… Read More
Dance is the physical expression of human emotion. It can depict gaiety or sadness, joy or loss, its motions staccato or fluid, troubled or serene. When nationally renowned dance master Arthur Hall performs a benefit holiday dance concert on Saturday night, the mood will be somber yet celebratory. Read More
SOUTH PORTLAND — The Million Dollar Bridge may be on its last legs, but it’s still tough enough to stand up to a whack from a loaded oil tanker. The superstructure of the bridge, which spans the Fore River between Portland and South Portland, was… Read More
BANGOR — Several men in heavy rubber coats set fire to a home on Patten Street Wednesday, extinguished it, set another fire, extinguished that one, then stood by and watched as the building burned to the ground. The “controlled burns” were set by firefighters as… Read More
Today’s column by Molly Ivins was not available for publication. The column by the vacationing Mary McGrory will return on Friday, and those by David Broder and Cal Thomas will again appear on Jan. 1 and Jan. 5, respectively. Read More
The head of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad has resigned after less than a year on the job. Last March, at the same time that the Washington, D.C.-based holding company Iron Road Railways announced its purchase of the B&A, the company named Alfred E. “Ted”… Read More
It’s Saturday night. The crowd of loud and mostly young Americans packs a sidestreet bar in downtown Edmundston, New Brunswick. Young bodies writhe to ear-piercing music raining down on them from four enormous speakers. Beer and liquor flow freely. Many of the patrons are from Maine and younger… Read More
A number of northeastern Maine school systems this year launched aggressive campaigns against what they believed was increased student drug use. Both the initiatives and the perceptions were right on. In Dover-Foxcroft, Calais and Bangor, at John Bapst and Bangor Christian, administrators cited their concern… Read More
Bangor District Court: George M. Smith, 22, Bangor, assault, 120 days in jail; assault, 120 days in jail. 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++)… Read More
A few months ago, sick and dying of cancer, Francis Dorsey said to a friend that if he thought it would work, he would put on a black hood, hold a sickle and run a Grim Reaper sale at his furniture store in Holden. Dorsey,… Read More
PORTLAND — Maine businesses pinned their hopes on a last-minute surge in Christmas shopping to bolster what was shaping up as the weakest season since the 1990-91 recession. Many analysts across the nation believe a late rush won’t rescue the season, but some Maine retailers… Read More
Merry Christmas to Coach Shawn Walsh and the Maine hockey team! For gifts this year the coach gets suspended and the team gets no NCAA tournament appearance. The University of Maine administration, especially its humbug president and sobbing athletic director, has now assumed new roles as judge, jury… Read More
Maine’s forests will be the subject of the monthly science series, “Quest,” which will air at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2, on Maine Public Television and Maine Public Television PLUS. The “Maine Woods” edition of “Quest: Investigating the World We Call Maine,” will examine the… Read More
ROCKLAND — After numerous meetings, the Knox County budget committee finally approved a $4.1 million budget Wednesday night, with a tax assessment to the communities of $3.2 million. The assessment is a decrease of $47,000 from the budget requested by county commissioners, and an increase… Read More
PALMYRA — The Wednesday night meeting of the Palmyra selectmen opened with a surprise when Selectman Sheila Later read the resignation of board Chairman Victor Kimball. Kimball cited health reasons for submitting his resignation, effective immediately. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
BANGOR — The third trip to City Hall was the charm for Mark McClure. The Bangor City Council on Wednesday night finally approved his application for a liquor license for the former W.T. Grant’s building at 6 Central St., with a vote of 5-3. McClure… Read More
PORTLAND — The Coast Guard on Wednesday evening called off its search in Casco Bay for two people reported missing after a 17-foot skiff was found circling at full throttle with no one aboard. The search was suspended after the Coast Guard decided it had… Read More
BANGOR — A man from Chapel Hill, Va., was taken to St. Joseph Hospital Wednesday night after his car struck the abutment of the railroad bridge, known as the Tin Bridge, about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday. Sgt. Robert Bishop of the Bangor Police Department said that… Read More
MACHIAS — A newly formed group sent petitions bearing the names of Washington County residens opposed to the proposed listing of the Atlantic salmon as a threatened species to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Massachusetts Wednesday. Calling for a series of public hearings… Read More
CHERRYFIELD — Perceiving growing interest in tourism issues among area towns and organizations, a nonprofit organization serving Hancock and Washington counties hopes to form a new alliance of several groups with an expressed interest in those issues. The momentum for such an alliance was apparent… Read More
AUGUSTA — Sen. Dale McCormick, D-Hallowell, said Wednesday she will withdraw a gay rights bill from the coming session of the Maine Legislature. In the wake of a bitter referendum campaign over the anti-gay rights Question 1, McCormick said, “What Maine needs now is a… Read More
CARIBOU — An Aroostook County judge was considering Wednesday whether a man who admitted to killing his wife three years ago should be evaluated to determine if he was competent enough to plead guilty to the charge. Albenie LaFerriere, 51, was charged with murder after… Read More
LINCOLN — The Greater Lincoln Area Republican Committee will meet at 7 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 30, at the Timber House Restaurant. All area Republicans are invited. For information, call Lee Rand, Republican town chairman, at 794-8071. Read More
The butterflies that fluttered somewhere deep inside Margaux Albair’s midsection seemed to have suddenly grown claws. The 16-year-old sophomore at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor was already a bundle of nerves as she sat inside the family car, awaiting that important rite of… Read More
The Maine Humanities Council recently awarded more than $20,000 in grants for Century Project programs throughout Maine. Programs funded through these grants are a part of “The Century Project: Modern Times in Maine and America, 1890-1930,” a two-year initiative to stimulate public awareness of how… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County just realized it will have to ante up with the state in the event of a forest fire in unorganized townships. The Piscataquis County commissioners were unaware until Wednesday that a law went into effect last year that shifted some of… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Dover-Foxcroft plans to open its regional demolition debris landfill by Jan. 1, 1996. Dover-Foxcroft Town Manager Owen Pratt informed those communities planning to use the facility that Karen Knuuti of the Department of Environmental Protection had given her verbal approval for its use… Read More
Dexter Internal Medicine will hold an open house 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11. “This open house is for those people who made a New Year’s resolution to be healthier in 1997. We will be offering free health screens and have handouts covering many health care… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Potatoes will be on the table today when two high-level U.S. agriculture officials arrive in Aroostook County to talk with growers, officials and businesspeople about Maine-Canada trade issues. Gus Schumacker, administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture Service, which deals… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Hancock County commissioners and Ellsworth officials agreed Wednesday in concept to explore joint construction of a public safety building to house the Hancock County Jail, Ellsworth Fire Department and other services. They set finding a suitable site as their top priority. City and… Read More
HOULTON — The basic rate for cable television service in Houlton will go up more than 11.5 percent starting in February, the Town Council was informed Tuesday night. In a letter dated Dec. 15 addressed to Town Manager Alan Bean, Peter P. Kozloski, president of… Read More
AUGUSTA — Nominations for the first Giraffe Awards, for Maine people who have helped children, are being sought by the Maine Children’s Alliance. A nomination may be made by sending a name, address, and telephone number with a description of why a nominee deserves the… Read More
ORONO — The Penobscot County Greens will hold a municipal caucus on behalf of the Green Party at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2, in the 1912 room of the Memorial Student Union at the University of Maine. Municipal caucuses must be held biennially in each… Read More
CARIBOU — Cary Medical Center is ending one of its most satisfying and successful years in its 70-year history. “We have had an extremely successful year,” John McCormack, executive director, said Wednesday. “We’ve been blessed. We’ve had a lot of public support, we’ve started new… Read More
The Maine tax policy study sponsored by the Maine Chamber and Business Alliance, which currently is in progress by economists at Harvard, Northeastern and Simmons College, will not address at all, and is not intended to address, the central fiscal policy issue in Maine, namely the level of… Read More
Welfare reform in the 1990s has been based, understandably, on the notion that people receiving aid should be strongly encouraged to find stable employment as soon as possible. That’s why the welfare proposal passed by the House and Senate makes so litle sense, and why President Clinton is… Read More
EAST MILLINOCKET — The quick thinking of a G.E. Goding Cement Co. truck driver was commended by police Officer Bill Brennen Wednesday afternoon for preventing more accidents at the scene of a pileup during a snowstorm Tuesday night. Brennen said that 23-year-old Paul Lagasse of… Read More
SALT LAKE CITY — The 13-year-old boy who told authorities he was abandoned before his Christmas birthday is actually a 25-year-old woman who has attempted similar scams in at least nine other states. State officials discovered the woman’s true identity Wednesday morning after authorities in… Read More