Bangor West, Old Town and Border each advanced with wins Tuesday in the District 3 11-and 12-year-old Little League tournament. Bangor West stopped Calais 8-2, Old Town topped Bucksport 11-7 and Border eliminated Sunrise 12-0. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
WEST FORKS – Neil Phillips won the century category with his friend Chip Loring in the Whitewater Open Canoe National Championship Tuesday on the Dead River. And appropriately so. Phillips of Old Town is one of the event’s founding fathers. He has competed in all… Read More
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. – The Bangor Blue Ox split a doubleheader with Adirondack here Tuesday night to close out the first half of the Northeast League season with a 21-19 record. Bangor dropped the first game 2-0 in extra innings and won the second 7-4,… Read More
The land of wooden shoes will have to make way for Air Jordans next week as high school basketball players arrive for a week-long exchange program tournament. Two teams – one boys and one girls – made up of high school students from Maine will… Read More
BREWER – John McGlinn has hit the ball hard lately, only to have it find an opponent’s glove. McGlinn found a few openings in the Brewer defense Tuesday evening, stroking three hits to spark Old Town-Orono to a 4-2 Zone 1 American Legion victory at… Read More
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It was one of those things on my “to do” list. I always wanted to participate in an evening ride, but my work schedule never seemed to allow me the time. Since I was on vacation last week, I pulled out the Maine Freewheelers ride schedule and checked… Read More
NEWTON, Mass. – James Driscoll opened defense of his New England Amateur championship with a 2-under-par 68 to take a 3-stroke lead Tuesday at Charles River Country Club. Playing on his home course, the 18-year-old Driscoll, who won the Massachusetts Amateur championship on Friday, took… Read More
BANGOR – Nearly 300 athletes from around the state will converge on Bangor’s Garland Street Field today for the state Hershey Track and Field meet. Sponsored by the Maine Recreation and Park Association, the meet’s events for the 9-14-year olds will begin at 11 a.m. Read More
At the Whitewater Open Canoe National Championship race on the Kennebec River in West Forks this week, paddlers came from as far away as North Carolina to compete for the title of national champion. The national championship has been held at sights around the country… Read More
OK, here’s how the American Legion baseball season in Zone 1 has gone so far. Skowhegan goes out and beats then-No. 2 Brewer one night but gets one-hit by a first-year Waldo County team 24 hours later. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
AUGUSTA — See? Here’s the deal: You got yourself a whole bunch of people dissatisfied with politics in general and mealy-mouthed Republicrats in particular. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i… Read More
HOULTON — Two Caribou men were arrested Monday and charged with burglary, theft and criminal mischief in connection with a break-in at the former Blotner radar site in Conner. The charges against Roger McLaughlin, 32, and Daniel Randazzo, 27, were the result of a monthlong… Read More
WOODLAND — A 15-year-old Caribou girl was killed and three other people were injured Monday night in a single-car accident on Perham Road. Jessica M. Jack died when the car in which she was a passenger failed to negotiate a corner, struck a parked pickup… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County commissioners have been asked to pay 30 percent of the cost of closing Greenville’s former landfill, which represents about $16,300. The old Sawyer Pond landfill near Wilson Pond was used by Greenville and surrounding unorganized townships from the 1940s to 1984,… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A 25-year-old Dover-Foxcroft man was arrested on aggravated assault charges Monday after he allegedly opened the door to his moving car and struck a bicyclist on the Center Range Road. Dover-Foxcroft Police Chief Dennis Dyer said Andrew Foster will be arraigned on Aug. Read More
HOULTON — An Easton man already in jail on a misdemeanor charge was arrested again Tuesday on charges of trafficking in prison contraband and tampering with a witness. Scott McEntee, 19, was arrested on a Superior Court warrant after he was indicted last week by… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A group of juveniles apparently destroyed a small girl’s new bicycle on Main Street in Dover-Foxcroft Friday. Dover-Foxcroft Police Chief Dennis Dyer said the bicycle had been parked outside the Piscataquis Regional YMCA while the girl was inside the building. When she came… Read More
AUGUSTA — Two members of the Land Use Regulation Commission weathered a firestorm of criticism Tuesday and won support for reappointment to the board that oversees 10.5 million acres in Maine. The commissioners — LURC Chairman Stephen Wight of Newry and Commissioner Steven Mason of… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Two former Bowerbank residents charged with aggravated trafficking in marijuana entered not guilty pleas in Dover-Foxcroft District Court Monday. Robert Crozier, 23, now living out of state, and John Ogden, 23, of Dover-Foxcroft were charged after a search warrant was executed at a… Read More
CARIBOU — The daughter of a murder victim tearfully described Tuesday how much she misses her mother, who was killed execution style at the Oxbow Lodge in 1994. “She was my teacher, my friend,” said Anne Humphrey, describing the loss she experienced after Constance Humphrey… Read More
PEMBROKE — A Pembroke woman drowned late Tuesday afternoon when she lost her footing and fell 30 feet off a dam onto rocks in the Pennamaquan River, a spokesman for the Maine Warden Service said Tuesday night. The Warden Service blamed high water conditions for… Read More
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — After a week of riots, Northern Ireland’s polarized politicians returned to peace talks Tuesday and spent the day denouncing each other as liars, law-breakers, killers and hypocrites. Mostly, they avoided each other and talked to the press. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
This month’s Russian presidential election and what it means in the near term shares things in common with official public statements about the physical status of the winner, Boris Yeltsin. The most important is the lack of good information on which to base a reasoned prognosis for the… Read More
Southern Aroostook High School Fourth Quarter Honor Roll Seniors, high honors: Michelle Levesque; honors: Jeremy MacArthur, Chris Michaud, Kendra Swallow. 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
Our thoughts and prayers today are with a very special young mother whom many of us have known since she was a child. More of us in Eastern Maine got to know her as a star athlete at Piscataquis Community High School in Guilford, and even more —… Read More
AUGUSTA — Democrat Thomas Allen has raised more money than Republican Rep. James B. Longley in their 1st District congressional campaign, but Longley has a decided advantage in available cash. According to reports filed this week with the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election… Read More
When Gov. Angus King last month announced an independent investigation of Maine Yankee, the nuclear power plant’s president, Charles Frizzle, made a sensible request: that investigators include in their report conclusions easily understandable by the general public. Investigators begin their work this week to sort… Read More
PERRY — Maine State Police are continuing their investigation into an incident in which a Perry man armed with a hatchet allegedly injured his son. Ronald Trott Jr., who is believed to be around 37 years old, was taken by ambulance to Calais Regional Hospital… Read More
Lysa Levin is the sole owner of the Ellsworth home damaged in a gas explosion July 11. The wrong player was identified in a Little League photo in Tuesday’s paper. The Bangor West player was second baseman Nicholas Larochelle. Read More
Nokomis Regional High School Honor Roll Seniors, highest honors: Ben Baldwin, Jason Brewer, Nathan Cardozo, Caryn Carnbuci, Laurie Claing, Kristi Connell, Ian Dorman, Ron Fowle, Suzanne Hartford, Eleinor Hurlbert, Toni Johnston, Seth Jones, Seth LaPlant, Jeremiah Lary, Torrey McLeod, Darah Neal, Jaime Nye, Margaret Pettingill,… Read More
BROOKLIN — An 82-year-old resident was arrested during a selectmen’s meeting Tuesday afternoon after being served a court order banning him from municipal meetings earlier in the day. As he warned, “Don’t touch me,” Charles Hairston was arrested for criminal trespass by Trooper Brian Cernak… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — An Embden man was arrested July 12 for trafficking in marijuana after a search warrant was executed jointly by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department and agents with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Christopher Sargent, 40, of the East Shore Road,… Read More
At 2:08 a.m. Tuesday, two young men were seen breaking into an automobile parked at the Granadas apartment complex at 818 Ohio St. in Bangor. Scott Robertson, 18, and an unidentified young man allegedly were seen rummaging through a blue Toyota Tercel owned by Daniel… Read More
BANGOR — One of Bangor’s four public docks on the Penobscot River buckled when the unseasonably brisk current jammed a large tree into its mooring chains early Tuesday. The damage to Dock 4 occurred when a renegade tree floating in the river got caught in… Read More
A car was stolen Tuesday from the parking lot of Papa Gambino’s restaurant at the corner of Main and Walter streets in Bangor, police said. At 11:30 a.m., Andrew Sjogren, 19, of Bangor reported a gray 1987 Buick Century stolen. At 2 p.m. the car,… Read More
BANGOR — If Dustin Hoffman, star of the 1960s cinema classic “The Graduate,” were a student at Eastern Maine Technical College, he would likely hear one word of advice — composites. Maine businesses like Hinckley Co. of Southwest Harbor and North End Composites of Rockland… Read More
Due to the tremendous growth in popularity of sea kayaking along the Maine coast, the U.S. Coast Guard this week issued a safety alert to all kayakers. The Coast Guard advises that when planning a voyage, no matter how short, people should make sure to… Read More
BANGOR — A group of parishioners from the Messiah Baptist Church erupted in a round of applause as the planning board meeting drew to a close Tuesday night. The board approved the site development plan for construction of a 13,216-square-foot home for the church at… Read More
ORONO — A local taxpayers group has presented a petition calling for a referendum on a plan to cap property tax increases at 5 percent a year, except in cases of extreme fiscal hardship. Although the petition, submitted Monday and signed by nearly 300 people,… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Arrangements were finalized Tuesday night at a meeting of the Pittsfield Town Council for a local resident to recover his tax-acquired property. At the council’s last meeting, members tabled action that would have allowed David Badger to negotiate with the town to “buy… Read More
OLD TOWN — Penobscot Shoe Co., which markets women’s comfort, casual and dress shoes under the Trotters brand, will cease local production at its plant on Gilman Falls Avenue in Old Town effective Aug. 2, the company announced Tuesday. The 27 employees affected by the… Read More
Old Town High School Fourth Quarter Honor Roll Seniors, highest honors: Neeburbunn Almenas, Joanne Bond, Tabitha Curit, Heidi Fortier, Rachael Glidden, Debra Godsoe, Daniele Gray, Kristie Grover, Heather S. Guy, Amanda Johndro, Kirsten Kelman, Joey Labelle, Heide Lambert, Kelli Michaud, Andrew Moore, Dawn Murray, Trisha… Read More
LINCOLN, Neb. — John Joubert died in the electric chair at 1:22 a.m. EDT Wednesday for the brutal 1993 slayings of two Nebraska boys. On Tuesday, Nebraska officials refused to let Joubert, who confessed to butchering the boys after they begged for their lives, have… Read More
MOUNT DESERT — Peony and delphinium, geranium and digitalis, hydrangea and plume poppy are blooming in white at a Mount Desert Island garden, one of seven private gardens open to guests this Saturday. The profusion of color — from the white and silver blossoms at… Read More
What is this working condition that the Bangor firefighters are living with? We ask this group to be ever-vigilant and protect our property 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, but we cannot give them a respectable contract. Three years without a reasonable contract… Read More
Have you read the World Health Organization’s new report on health risks posed by global warming? Have you also read how Congress favors freezing miles-per-gallon standards for cars and light trucks, for a second consecutive year? Does this worry you? It certainly worries me! Deadly… Read More
The July 11 letter to the Bangor Daily News, “Please slow down,” was disgusting. As a mother of two sons who drive tractor trailers, it makes me even more concerned to read about people with the attitude, “You get out of the way for me.” Remember, the highways… Read More
Excessive rainfall has swelled Maine rivers and turned the fast-running bodies of water into danger zones for swimmers. Two drownings in two days have been attributed to the high water levels. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
After reading Andrew Kekacs’ story of July 11 (“Attempt to sway LURC protested”), I must admit that I’m now somewhat confused. Could someone make sense of the following for me? First, the Natural Resources Council of Maine praises the efforts of the Greens and all… Read More
While traveling south on I-95 July 4 at about 2:30 p.m. with friends, we could see at quite a distance the American flag draped over a bridge. About eight or 10 people I believe to be teen-agers were there waving at vehicles. This bridge may have been the… Read More
When it comes to the drama of politics, you won’t find anything more grass roots than Mark St. Germain’s play “Camping With Henry & Tom,” which opened last weekend at the Belfast Maskers Railroad Theater. It imagines auto maker Henry Ford, inventor Thomas Edison, and 29th president of… Read More
LINCOLN — The 250 pounds of pea beans and yellow-eyes are soaking in large black kettles. The serving tents are erected. Today fires will burn in the 2-foot deep holes in the ground until there is a bed of red-hot coals to place the bean pots on. Read More
Sion and Diane Elalouf of Long Island, N.Y., were on a whale watch Thursday with Goober, their Wheaton terrier. About 15 miles offshore, somewhere between Boston and Gloucester, Mass., Goober, who was wearing a lifejacket, went overboard. The Elaloufs, who believe currents could have carried… Read More
BANGOR — The future of a former superintendent-principal’s civil suit against SAD 19 in Lubec is now in the hands of a Penobscot County Superior Court justice. Justice Ian MacInnes heard several motions concerning the suit Tuesday and is expected to issue rulings within the week. Read More
CARIBOU — A local man was ordered Tuesday to serve two years in jail for his part in the burglary and robbery of a Stockholm auto repair garage last April. During the robbery, a 16-year-old girl was shot in the arm. Fernando Dasilva, 25, pleaded… Read More
As the setting sun paints a copper band across the horizon, a field of tall grass slowly fades into the darkness of night. Out of the corner of your eye, you spot a flash of light. Suddenly, the darkened field comes alive with tiny drifting flashes of light. Read More
Martin O’Connell of Poplar Street, Bangor, is concerned his children think there’s a murderer in the neighborhood. Signs printed by a small but vigorous group of anti-abortionists indicate that their physician-neighbor kills babies. Pam Correll is angry her children are confronted by grotesque pictures of… Read More
ROCKLAND — The nine-story cement towers that have sat idle here for 30 years near the edge of the harbor are an eyesore to neighbors who say they should be demolished. So Mechanic Street-area residents have presented a petition to the city council to have… Read More
ST. ALBANS — A trend of holding the line on taxes was broken Monday night when St. Albans selectmen approved the 1996 tax rate. After five years, the rate will be going up from $14.50 per $1,000 of valuation to $15. A number of factors… Read More
HALLOWELL — The state Marine Resources Advisory Council did more than just preserve a 91-year-old island fishing tradition Tuesday when it unanimously approved a special lobster conservation zone for Monhegan. It may have averted the mother of all trap wars. Maybe. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
LUBEC — Advocates of the recently approved SAD 19 budget, which will result in a 24 percent increase in the local appropriation, waited outside the gymnasium door Tuesday night to see if opponents of the budget could rally enough voters to force a review. Only… Read More
WINTER HARBOR — A public hearing on the future of the Naval Security Group Activity will be held 7-9 p.m. Thursday at Hammond Hall. Allan Smallidge, town manager, will be among those at the meeting. Ron Beard, UMaine Cooperative Extension; Judy Cuddy of Sen. William… Read More
WASHINGTON — A major study has failed to connect indoor radon exposure with lung cancer, raising new uncertainty about public health warnings that the colorless, odorless gas is responsible for as much as 10 percent of America’s lung cancer. Americans have spent about $400 million… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The first membership meeting of the Maine Dads organization will be held at 6:30 tonight at the First Congregational Church. Executive Director Lawrence Ouellette said Maine Dads is dedicated to developing fair treatment of fathers in the state’s courts and Legislature. The scales… Read More
At 2:25 a.m. Tuesday, a 25-year-old Bangor woman was assaulted in her home on Finson Road, according to Lt. Brian Cox of the Bangor Police Department. The victim was awakened by a male intruder who was armed with a knife and clad in a black ski mask. The… Read More