BOULDER, Colo. – Colorado basketball coach Joe Harrington, in the middle of his sixth season with the Buffaloes, resigned Tuesday night before a game against Southern Utah. Harrington is a former Morse of Bath schoolboy basketball standout. He was an All-Maine first-teamer in 1962 and… Read More
    Sarah Billmeier of Yarmouth, will seek a fourth skiing medal Wednesday when she races in the slalom at the World Disabled Alpine Championships in Lech, Austria. The 18-year-old Dartmouth College freshman has, since Saturday, won gold medals in the giant slalom and downhill and a… Read More
    LIMESTONE – A Kevin Chasse free throw in overtime proved the margin of victory as the Limestone Eagles posted a 70-69 victory over Ashland for its first schoolboy baskeball victory in two seasons. Ashland had a chance to tie or win the game on foul… Read More
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    ELLSWORTH – The leader may have not been strong enough and the hook may have been too small, but both didn’t matter on Monday when Joe Kitchen hauled a 18 1/2-pound togue from Green Lake. Kitchen, 50, of Ellsworth used an 8-pound leader and a… Read More
    WASHBURN – Bobbi Jo Dyer scored a game-high 14 points as Central Aroostook’s full-court press smothered Washburn and collected a 56-41 schoolgirl victory Tuesday. After two periods, Central Aroostook had already outdistanced Washburn 42-14. Jessica Clark netted 11 points for Central Aroostook and Jamie Alexander… Read More
    BURLINGTON, Vt. – When playing at Alfond Arena, Cindy Blodgett has a knack for getting the University of Maine’s large crowds fired up with her flashy play. Maine’s sophomore point guard had the opposite effect on an upset-hungry crowd of 2,017 at Patrick Gymnasium here… Read More
    Nick Bragg of Messalonskee High School in Oakland, a senior defenseman, was omitted from a list of the Maine All-State Junior hockey team that ran in Tuesday’s editions. Read More
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    NEWPORT – The Bucksport Golden Bucks came away with the Penobscot Valley Conference Class A-B cheerleading championship at Nokomis High School Monday. Bucksport outdistanced runner-up Brewer 71.33 points to 69.0. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
    Milestones marks some of the outstanding accomplishments of the people of eastern and northern Maine. Submissions may be sent to Milestones, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402-1329. Gladys Hasty Carroll, Kay Gardner and Katherine Musgrave were the recipients of the 1995 Maryann Hartman… Read More
    SOUTHWEST HARBOR — The town office accepted responsibility Tuesday for misdirecting information from a Bar Harbor business owner, information that would have canceled a harbor committee public hearing on Monday evening. Gary Mohr, owner of Frenchman Bay Co., sent a fax to the town office… Read More
    ROCKLAND — Burglars struck five homes in rural Knox County Monday, netting $6,855 in cash, including more than $5,500 from one Warren residence. The burglars entered the homes in Warren, Union and Hope by forcing doors open or by breaking windows. The burglaries all occurred… Read More
    CARIBOU — In a surprising turn, a Presque Isle man accepted a plea bargain and pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to burn down a state trooper’s house in 1993. Richard J. Churchill, 26, originally from Ashland, had been scheduled to go on trial Thursday in… Read More
    ORONO — The Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestra and Ensemble will hold auditions for new members Sunday, Jan. 21, at Lord Hall at the University of Maine. The conductors will audition young musicians on bassoon, oboe, and all brass and string instruments, Dan Keller, string director… Read More
    CARIBOU — Irvin G. Belanger of Caribou plans to seek the House District 147 Republican nomination for the Legislature. The seat is being vacated by Julie Marie Robichaud, also of Caribou, who won’t seek re-election. Belanger recently resigned as superintendent of Caribou schools. He had… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — Park officials have announced “user friendly” improvements to the camping reservation system at Acadia and other parks in the National Park system. Campers now may reserve sites for 12 national park areas nationwide on the DESTINET. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
    Polished in local politics before he went to Washington, Sen. William Cohen, who has served Maine in Congress with style, dignity and courage for 24 years, appeared to be a man at peace Tuesday when he surprised the state with the announcement that he won’t run for re-election. Read More
    Humans are subject to emotional trauma all the time. As one grows older, the mind usually develops methods of dealing with these emotions. More often than not, we meet crisis by hiding reality — often by taking a nostalgia trip. This is why there is so much bad… Read More
    Requiring school buses to provide seat belts for all children, as a petition currently circulating in the region would do, could create as many headaches as it solves. Though the petition certainly was drafted out of a concern for safety, it would be unlikely to produce safer buses. Read More
    CARIBOU — Philip R. Bosse has been named executive director of the Caribou Chamber of Commerce. Bosse, who resides in Caribou and has a business, Mementos Inc., a hobby shop on Sweden Street, will start his new duties on Jan. 22. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
    Students at Bangor’s John Bapst Memorial High School got an unexpected day off Tuesday when a water pipe broke in the building shortly before 8 a.m., forcing officials to turn off the heat and send about 450 students home shortly after they had arrived for the day. Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Milo man has been named director of engineering at Mayo Regional Hospital. Mark Donaghy replaced Roger Mullins, who retired Dec. 28 after 18 years with the hospital. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
    BANGOR — Streets were on the mind of the finance committee Tuesday evening, from summertime striping to wintertime plowing. The committee gave the go-ahead to privatizing the striping and marking of streets outside the downtown area in a vote that will send the proposal to the full city… Read More
    BUCKSPORT — The committee charged with boosting the town’s economy wants to know why some people who work in town don’t choose to live here. To help the Bucksport Economic Development Committee to better understand why people choose to live where they do, committee member… Read More
    HAMPDEN — The Town Council and some members of the town’s planning board butted heads Tuesday night, after not seeing eye to eye on the recent consent agreement negotiated between the council and Sawyer Environmental Recovery Facility. Planning board Chairman Kevin Ingram said he was… Read More
    BANGOR — Firefighters and members of the Bangor School Department custodian staff were busy Tuesday night cleaning up an estimated 200 to 300 gallons of heating oil from the basement of the Garland Street Middle School. School custodian Jean Scripture said the school’s oil tank… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT — About $1,000 will be distributed among snowmobile clubs that groom the numerous snowmobile trails in Piscataquis County’s unorganized territories. Each year, the state donates a portion of the costs of snowmobile registrations to municipalities and counties. Clerk Carolyn Doore estimated Tuesday that Piscataquis… Read More
    OLD TOWN — Old Town’s Curriculum and Policy Subcommittee Tuesday officially upheld the school department’s “zero tolerance” stance on weapons in school, but put off a formal reaffirmation pending more information on a firearms provision recommended by state school law experts. The Old Town School… Read More
    The failure of the King administration to protect the public interest at Maine’s aging nuclear power facility in Wiscasset is another consequence of Gov. King’s bizarre fascination with the financial welfare of big corporations. Following disclosure by a whistleblower of fraudulent manipulation of computer safety… Read More
    On Jan. 29, 1995, after losing to UMass-Amherst, Coach Shawn Walsh communicated to his University of Maine hockey team the following: “It is in defeat that we face adversity. How we handle adversity will dictate our futur. … We had truck loads of adversity last season and we… Read More
    In 1647, when Maine was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Pilgrim forefathers passed the colonial ordinance which states, “In all great ponds lying in common, though within the bounds of some town, it shall be free for any man to fish and fowl there, and may… Read More
    Crime seems to be on the rise in Maine. The last few months of 1995 brought murder, assault and various other criminal activities to many rural areas throughout our state. True, Maine is no New York, but it does seem that our peaceful lifestyle is being threatened. We… Read More
    EMBDEN — Somerset County sheriff’s deputies, including the sheriff himself, converged on a rented home in Embden late Monday night armed with a search warrant and a tip that an illegal marijuana growing operation was under way at the East Shore Road residence. The tip… Read More
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Bill Clinton lamented Tuesday that Sen. William S. Cohen’s decision not to seek re-election further diminishes the number of moderate members willing to seek bipartisan solutions for the nation’s great problems. Cohen’s impending departure means that 13 incumbent senators and 33… Read More
    ELLSWORTH — A 7-year-old girl received a broken arm Tuesday morning when she was hit by a car as she was crossing the street to the Dr. Charles C. Knowlton School. Lauren Carter was taken by ambulance to Maine Coast Memorial Hospital for treatment Tuesday,… Read More
    Fire gutted house trailers in Frankfort and Montville late Monday night and early Tuesday, keeping firefighters from those areas cold and busy. In Frankfort, the Town Hill Road mobile home of Ralph and Robin Porter was struck by fire at 4 a.m. Tuesday. Across the… Read More
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    NEWPORT — Newport selectmen will meet at 6:30 tonight to discuss the state funding for schools and how that will affect their 1996 municipal budget. The municipal operating budget has been reviewed and passed, with minor revisions, during several recent workshops, and tonight’s budget review… Read More
    OLD TOWN — The Old Town School Board Monday plotted a course of action for its search for a new superintendent of schools. The school department’s top slot became vacant in early December when John Grady, who was halfway through his 24th year as superintendent,… Read More
    ROCKLAND — Two Rockland men have been charged with the October heist of $7,000 worth of lobster from a fishermen’s cooperative. Police hope the arrests will help crack a similar case from last month. Terry Weaver, 28, and Stephen Wentworth, 37, are charged with the… Read More
    DYER BROOK — The board of directors of the Southern Aroostook Community School District last week narrowly approved a two-year extension of the contract of Superintendent Kenneth Coville. The 5-4 decision means that his contract will now expire in June 1998. The vote came after… Read More