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
    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
    WMSGA AT POLAND SPRING C.C. A1 Gross: Alyssa Munger, Bridgeton 79; Net: Karen Nichols, Martindale 85-69; A2 Gross: Andrea Littlefield, Purpoodock 88, Debbie Marshall, Spring Brook 91; Net: Elaine Casey, Turner 91-66, Charlotte Hall, Kennebec Heights 95-69 googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… 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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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