Ray Katsiaficas resigned as Ellsworth’s boys varsity basketball coach Tuesday, athletic director Tim Thornton confirmed Friday. “That is correct. He verbally resigned Tuesday, but hasn’t turned in his official resignation yet,” said Thornton. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
Contrary to a sign common in camps and other sportsmen’s sanctums – “A fisherman is a jerk at one end of a line waiting for a jerk at the other end” – most disciples of Izaak Walton are dedicated individuals whose abilities to observe, analyze, and innovate are… Read More
HODGDON – Hodgdon rallied to score two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to knock off Katahdin of Sherman Station 8-7 in schoolboy baseball Friday. Aaron Henderson doubled in Brad Fredericks for Hodgdon’s tying run, then Darren Stewart scored the game-winner on Jeremy… Read More
Those in the ever-evolving world of professional sports love to use such phrases as “market test” and “franchise feasibility.” The use of the words, they apparently believe, adds a much-needed inflection of seriousness to their purpose. The purpose, in plain English, is to determine whether… Read More
PORTLAND – The Portland Mountain Cats have announced their opening day roster. It will include former South Portland High School and St. Joseph’s College standout John Wassenbergh and University of Maine guard Casey Arena. Team members include: Jay Webb, Iowa; Brent Scott, Rice; Ron Huery,… Read More
ORONO – All Little League players and coaches are invited to attend Little League Day at Mahaney Diamond when the UMaine baseball team hosts the University of Southern Maine at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 11. Players should arrive at 4:15 to participate in a pre-game ceremony. Read More
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MAINE vs. SOUTHERN MAINE Time, site: Saturday, 5 p.m. (9 innings); Mahaney Diamond, Orono Records: Maine 18-34; Southern Maine 26-9-1 Series: Maine leads 19-1 Maine Black Bears Southern Maine Huskies googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Michael Stewart broke a 3-3 deadlock with 3:11 remaining Friday night to save the Springfield Falcons from elimination in the American Hockey League playoffs with a 4-3 victory over the Portland Pirates. Portland still holds a 3-2 edge in the best-of-seven Northern… Read More
ORONO – Chris Collins remembers pulling out a textbook on the University of Maine basketball team bus and hearing snickers from some of his teammates. Even as a freshman, Collins wasn’t bothered by the reaction. He had developed enough confidence to stand up for his… Read More
The Bangor Blue Ox have added two more players to their roster and have firmed up plans for local player tryouts. Only 20 days before its Northeast Baseball League season-opening game, the Blue Ox reached agreements with lefthanded pitcher Herb Baxter, Jr., and infielder Robert… Read More
Now that Gov. Steve Merrill of New Hampshire has been unmasked as a highly effective secret agent for the State of Maine with his plan to lift his state’s gasoline tax in order that hordes of summer tourists might fill up their tanks there in order to travel… Read More
ORONO — “This is what makes my job really fun,” said Norman Poirier, director of the Parks and Recreation, as he surveyed the dance floor filled with little boys bopping up and down energetically, and more or less in time to the music. Their dates… Read More
Dear Mom, Here we are at another Mother’s Day. I don’t mind telling you that it is a tricky holiday for me. It’s not that I don’t want to take the time to honor you and all you have done to make my life good. Read More
An open house to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earl and Gloria Shorey will be held from 2-6 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at their home on the Bennoch Road in Old Town. Eva Burgess will observe her 99th birthday on Thursday, May 16, and would… Read More
Now in its eighth year, the annual Hampden Children’s Fair, from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, is an event that expectant parents, new parents, young parents, even grandparents can’t afford to miss — especially not in Maine, famous as we are for our “yahd sales.” For this… Read More
Bangor attorney Tom Needham faces a hearing before the Board of Overseers of the Bar, an arm of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, not the state bar as reported in Friday’s editions. Also, J. Scott Davis’ correct title is Bar Counsel. Read More
WATERVILLE — The Holiday Inn in Waterville recently secured a $6.02 million refinance loan from Nomura Asset Capital Corp. through its Nomura Direct loan program. Nomura extended a 25-year term, 25-year amortization loan. The 138-room hotel is the dominant hotel in the Waterville area. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Maine State Housing Authority recently awarded $378,349 to 17 of Maine’s emergency homeless shelters, including more than $95,000 to five shelters in the Bangor area. Area shelters receiving funding are the Shaw House, $24,500; Greater Bangor Area Shelter, $29,678; and Hope House,… Read More
Seth H. Bradstreet, state director for Rural Development, reminded the public this week that the 1996 federal budget included more than $700 million of guaranteed loan authority to assist businesses in rural areas, including nearly the entire state of Maine. Bradstreet said his agency still… Read More
ELLSWORTH — U.S. Rep. John Baldacci will hold a small business forum today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Ellsworth City Hall. Among the issues to be explored are international trade, export assistance, opportunities for women entrepreneurs, financial assistance and… Read More
WISCASSET — An Episcopal church in this coastal town was made suddenly rich when a retired school secretary left it a more than $2 million bequest. Now parishioners have to figure out what to do with all that money. Surprised churchgoers learned last weekend about… Read More
Presque Isle — The Rev. Jim Ackerson, a native of Smyrna, recently became pastor of the Bethany Baptist Church in Presque Isle. Ackerson graduated from the University of Maine in 1988 and received his master’s of divinity degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Mass., in 1992. Ackerson,… Read More
PORTLAND — The director of the Office of Public Affairs for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, which encompasses all of Maine, was recently elected as co-chair of the Commission to Study Poverty Among Working Parents. Marc R. Mutty will head the commission, established by… Read More
Jehovah’s Witnesses held their annual Special Assembly Day on April 28 at the Alfond Arena in Orono, with 2,327 participants. The theme of the program was “Qualified as Ministers of the Good News,” taken from 2 Corinthians 3:5. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
Caribou — Leo E. Paquin Jr. was recently appointed Catholic Charities Maine’s parish social ministry coordinator for Aroostook County. Paquin, who has served as director of religious education at Holy Cross Parish in South Portland, was most recently on the faculty of St. Joseph’s College in Windham. Read More
East Blue Hill — The East Blue Hill Baptist Church will reopen for the season at 9 a.m. Sunday, May 12, with Roland Hutchins as minister. Read More
In the chant of a monk, the wailing of the bereaved, in the streams of color that flow from a stained-glass window, sound and light signify something transcendent, something spiritual for human beings. For Harold Spaulding and Brian Catell, sound and light are the twin… Read More
The North Brewer-Eddington United Methodist Church celebrated the 25-year music ministry of its volunteer choir director, Melva Kent of Eddington, on April 28. Kent, who has been the librarian at the Holbrook School in East Holden for 17 years, received a United Methodist Women’s Service… Read More
Every spring, the soil calls earlier than it should. The ground thaws, its fragrance wafts through the April air, and temptation beckons. My hands want to dig into the muddy garden soil, my eyes want to see seedlings peek through the soil surface to greet… Read More
The University of Maine students in front of the Bumstock stage appear to have too many cups of coffee running through their veins as they dance and jump around with almost unrestrainable enthusiasm. It is not caffeine that is driving this frenzy, but instead a… Read More
THE CONVERSATION BEGINS: MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS TALK ABOUT LIVING FEMINISM, By Christina Looper Baker and Christina Baker Kline, Bantam Books 1996, 387 pages hardcover, $22.95. Many mothers choose not to teach their daughters the f” word these days. They think it’s offensive, embarrassing, unnecessary, passe. Read More
THE TUNK POND EPISODE, by Carl C. Osgood, Vista House, Surry, Maine 1995, 203-page paperback, $19. The program was intended to be short … but it was shortened accidentally because … the safety valve on the engine popped open with a roar that drowned out… Read More
DEXTER — A Dexter store was vandalized sometime early Friday morning when someone threw a brick through the glass front door. Dexter police said nothing appeared to have been taken from Toot’s Deli on Spring Street. Anyone who might have any information about the incident… Read More
Armed with a borrowed camcorder and a bottomless curiosity, Hugh Curran regularly heads out from his Surry home, ready to record another encounter with history in the flesh. His subjects are local men and women, sixtysomething to more than 90, who recall whole other lives… Read More
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HOULTON — There’s a clear-cutting controversy going on in Houlton, but it has nothing to do with the widely-discussed clear-cutting referendum which will appear on the November ballot. The issue here involves only six trees. On Friday morning, six large old maple trees on Broadway… Read More
MONTICELLO — Withdrawing from SAD 29 could wind up costing residents more than staying in the district. That’s what about 50 residents learned Thursday night during an hour-long informational meeting at the fire station to probe a plan to withdraw from SAD 29. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
BANGOR — The city of Bangor is being fined $24,400 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for alleged improper marking and storage of PCB-containing transformers back in 1994. The EPA caught the city by surprise in December 1994 when it filed the complaint over the… Read More
Maine Forest Service rangers were back in Brewer Thursday trying to sort out information about the 20 fires set in that community in the past few weeks. “Rangers have made some progress and are following a couple of leads that may help determine the person… Read More
ROCKLAND — The Rockport law firm of Cloutier and Briggs and its ancillary companies have filed suit against the company handling their employee payroll accounts, claiming the company embezzled about $132,500. The suit, filed Wednesday in Knox County Superior Court, charges that Mainely Payroll of… Read More
MILLINOCKET — Lena Guy, 85, of Millinocket might not be alive today if not for the efforts of two veteran police officers who entered her burning home and guided her out a few minutes before it exploded into flames. Town Council members and the fire… Read More
Not surprisingly, both sides in the raging debate over forest practices claimed victory Friday, as they interpreted new U.S. Forest Service data on the Maine woods. “It [the 1995 USFS forest inventory] clearly shows that for spruce and fir, the backbone of the paper industry,… Read More
DEXTER — Dexter councilors took no action on a request at their Thursday meeting to lease property at the public beach for a miniature golf course. Melvin and Cathy Wyman of Dexter proposed leasing the land at the public beach front for the amusement facility. Read More
Although I appreciate you putting my letter to the editor (as an Oped column) under the title, “Counting trees in a forest,” in the May 4-5 weekend issue, you changed one word in my letter. In the end of the fourth paragraph I wrote, “458 trees per acre… Read More
On April 26, on the front page of the Bangor Daily News, there was an article titled, “Scrutiny of pet peeves woman.” If this was put in to reinforce what is wrong with our welfare system, it certainly did for myself and thousands of others… Read More
This is in response to the “`Unschool’ in session” by Mariene Cimons in the May 3 edition of the Bangor Daily News. As an educator, I am a strong advocate of home education. Much research has been done proving that children learn best through hands-on experience. What better… Read More
Several times recently, including (May 3) by Mrs. Gore, I have seen editorials and news releases referring to the U.S. Senate passage by 100-0 of the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill with the Domenici-Wellstone mental health insurance parity amendment. How many readers do you suppose take that as a done deal… Read More
AUGUSTA — Three Republicans who lost to Susan Collins in the 1994 Republican primary for governor have endorsed one of Collins’ opponents in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Robert A.G. Monks. Sumner Lipman, who finished second to Collins in 1994, Judy Foss and Charles… Read More
Your article in the May 6 Bangor Daily News about the ACCESS meeting in Ashland shows the type of citizen action which is necessary to defeat the November referendum on forestry practices in the unorganized territories. As the owner of a small business dependent on the lumber industry… Read More
BANGOR — Detours will be put into effect Monday in Bangor and Brewer in the areas where construction for the new bridge connecting the two cities across the Penobscot River is under way. In Bangor, Washington Street will be closed between Oak and Exchange streets. Read More
ROCKLAND — On trial for felony murder, Allen Teele heard his two convicted partners in a botched 1992 robbery testify Friday how a 79-year-old Warren man was beaten and left to die — and how Teele allegedly broke their oath of silence about the crime. Read More
BANGOR — The Maine State Police on Friday named Hampden native Rick Fowler its Trooper of the Year for 1995. During a ceremony at the Gray barracks, Fowler was presented with the department’s highest honor by the chief of the state police, Col. Alfred Skolfield. Read More
SALEM, Mass. — A woman who fled with her newborn baby rather than turn the infant over to the Department of Social Services was taken into custody Friday in Maine. Kristen Stanley, 27, of Lynn was arrested by police in Gouldsboro, Maine, at around 3… Read More
NEWPORT — Nick Chambers has operated tractors on his family’s farm since he was 6 years old. It’s no big deal to him. But this week, the 16-year-old sophomore at Nokomis Regional High School learned something new. Chambers learned tractors should be equipped with seat… Read More
Bird watchers across the state will be out in the fields and woods and on the water today, lending their eyes and ears to the fifth annual North American Migration Count. May 11 is also International Migratory Bird Day. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
“All my life, I’ve been draggin’ home flea-bitten, ragged little creatures.” That was how Jerry Elwell, the renowned wildlife rehabilitator and newspaper columnist from Sherman Station, characterized her life during an interview in 1982. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
A pre-Constitution amendment meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. today at the Helen S. Dunn School in Greenbush. The event is designed to discuss the clear-cutting referendum which will appear on the November ballot and the current efforts to retain a sustainable society in… Read More
Dave Bickford has been a Bangor firefighter for nearly 23 years, and he doesn’t like working without a contract. The father of two children, Bickford has worked his way up to a lieutenant’s position in the 100-person department, but his growing concern with the lack of a contract… Read More
PORTLAND — The leader of Maine’s Episcopal diocese for the past 10 years has offered to resign, less than a month after he was disciplined for having an extramarital affair. Bishop Edward C. Chalfant, 59, said he chose to resign after prayer, reflection and talk… Read More
A Maine canning company is recalling almost 6,000 cans of sardines in three states because of the possibility of bacteria contamination, a company official said. The 3.75-ounce cans of Holmes Sardines in Mustard Sauce were sent to a distributor in October by the Port Clyde… Read More
Christian Tripodi’s mom called him “chaos with a smile.” He was a dark-haired, dark-eyed kid from Hartland, who often drove too fast and lived too hard. He loved radishes, cowboy boots, baseball caps and dancing to the music of Garth Brooks. He was Frank’s son,… Read More
The Maine Public Broadcasting Corp. likes to think of itself as a user-friendly source of news and entertainment. But there’s nothing friendly about some of the things its corporate management is considering. “It is extremely unfortunate,” MPBC President Robert H. Gardiner wrote to his staff… Read More
As an academic institution, the University of Maine has a solemn responsibility to support the search for truth. The university frequently serves as a forum for controversial issues, allowing proponents and opponents the opportunity to state their claims, with validity being assessed by those with backgrounds sufficient to… Read More
AUGUSTA — No charges will be filed against a woman who was driving a car a state trooper had started to chase when he was killed in a highway wreck in Warren, authorities said Friday. James “Drew” Griffith of Thomaston was killed last month when… Read More
While most of the world is convinced of the irrelevance of location in siting modern telecommunications facilities, management at Maine Public Broadcasting Corp. still has trouble seeing the global picture. Even the tiny segment that stretches from Bangor to Cumberland County is fuzzy for network leadership, which apparently… Read More