SCARBOROUGH – This trip was just for the taste of it – the higher level of competition, the bigger crowds, and the chance to face a more experienced team. Bangor got all of that in an 8-0 loss to Augusta East in the first round… Read More
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. – The Bangor Blue Ox’ second half charge continues as the Northeast League team swept two games against Elmira over the weekend and won its seventh straight game. Bangor downed Elmira 7-5 Sunday and 7-6 Saturday to run their second half record… Read More
BANGOR – Two-time Maine Mountain Bike Series winner Scott Seymour said in mountain bike racing, anyone can crash. Fortunately, for the riders competing at Essex Street hill Sunday, no one did. But not because of an easy course. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
HERMON – Mike Lenfestey’s two-RBI, eighth-inning single delivered Calais’ 11-8 win in the opening end of Saturday’s Zone 1 American Legion doubleheader, but Hermon’s Spencer Day crafted a three-hitter to notch the Navigators’ 8-6 win. Josh Thornton powered Calais to the first game win with… Read More
OXFORD – Oxford Plains Speedway’s three-eighths of a mile oval has been host to some gritty side-by-side racing in the 22 previous editions of the True Value 250, and don’t count on track owner Michael Liberty putting an end to the banging. At the midday… Read More
Bangor West finished 1-1 for the weekend, defeating Gardiner on Saturday 13-8 before losing to East Biddeford 6-4 Sunday at the Little League state championship for 9-10 all-stars at Saco. Camden wasn’t so lucky, losing to Scarborough 12-0 Saturday, and Sunday’s 11-7 loss to Gardiner… Read More
UNITY – Larry Burgess of Oakland drove into the Unity Raceway winner’s circle for the first time this season, as he led the final 48 laps of Saturday’s Coca-Cola Classic Super Street 75. Burgess was followed by Glendon Mehuren of Searsmont and Duane Haight of… Read More
OXFORD – In the greatest race you never saw, pole sitter Larry Gelinas of Scarborough bided his time, ignored by the majority of the 13,000 fans, not to mention the scoreboard operator, and snuck into the winner’s circle at Sunday night’s True Value 250. Gelinas… Read More
BANGOR – Jason Littlefield scattered seven Bangor hits as Waldo County posted a 9-5 victory in the first game of a doubleheader but Bangor took the second game 11-4 in American Legion action at Mansfield Stadium Sunday. In game one, Waldo’s George Tripp had a… Read More
EDMUNDSTON, New Brunswick — This city across the St. John River from Madawaska, Maine, is preparing for the 18th edition of its annual Foire Brayonne, the largest Canadian Francophone festival outside Quebec. The five-day spectacular will feature music each night for an expected crowd of… Read More
WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating the possibility that more than one assailant was involved in the killings of a Maine woman and her female companion on a hiking trip in Shenandoah National Park, according to the agency’s regional chief in Richmond. In the FBI’s… Read More
DEXTER — Community groups, town employees and area merchants are gearing up for Dexterfest 1996, to be held Aug. 15-18. Organizer John Simko said the theme for this year’s celebration is the 30th anniversary of the Dexter Historical Society. The official Dexterfest booklet will include… Read More
MILO — A paddle boat excursion on Schoodic Lake early Sunday morning turned into a wild ride for three area teens. Officials said the youths were lucky to have escaped the harrowing experience mostly unscathed. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
Boyd McNally, 58, is a peace-loving, taxpaying citizen, but lately he has packed a loaded pistol when he answers the door at night at his Bangor Gardens home. It’s pitch black at night for half a block surrounding his house at 27 Knox Ave., a… Read More
CORINNA — Town officials are cautiously optimistic about the town’s financial future and hope that three full-time employees laid off this summer can return to work by the beginning of September. Gary Dorman, town manager, said Friday that the town finances are about where he… Read More
The latest “road hazards” on the information superhighway are scams broadcast over rapidly growing computer networks and electronic bulletin board services. The scams aren’t new, just the medium. Some con artists who always used telemarketing, infomercials, newspapers and magazines, and the mail to attract consumers to their products,… Read More
THOMASTON — When the Friendship Sloop Society sails into Rockland this week for its annual family reunion, the 93-year-old patriarch of the clan will be sitting high, dry and handsome, greeting visitors at Thomaston’s Maine Watercraft Museum. Voyager, built in 1903 by Charles Morse in… Read More
BREWER — The grounds of the Brewer Auditorium took on the air of a real live M.A.S.H. unit Saturday, during an annual blood drive centered on that theme. The activities of Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals in the Korean War era gained fame through a book,… Read More
Maine’s welfare legislation in recent years anticipated many of the reforms currently being considered in Washington. But some of the changes approved in the House last week would be harmful to Maine and other states and should be rejected by the Senate. Welfare reform on… Read More
CLIFTON — At first glance, the only clue that Boy Scouts were in the area Saturday morning were diving flags — red with a white diagonal slash — bobbing on the water surface, and the boots, sneakers and jackets they’d left behind on the shore of Fitts Pond,… Read More
Americans lecture each other on the virtues of exercise and nutrition, but the evidence suggests people have exhausted themselves with the preaching and in increasing numbers are slugging it on the couch with the no-fat chips. The recent U.S. surgeon general’s report on phsycial activity… Read More
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — Henry Donnell found his call to public service in the pages of state law that time forgot. Chapter 10, section 34, to be exact. The part called “Fences.” googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
BLUE HILL — Beth Murdaugh set out early Sunday morning in search of a mate. Not a match for herself, but for the cozy Morris-style chair everyone at her house is always fighting over. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
WISCASSET — Maine Yankee could remain shut down for a week as engineers examine a potential problem with a cooling system. Workers will install additional valves in the “primary component cooling system,” said spokeswoman Leann Diehl. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
It appears that certain senators and congressmen in Washington are at it again in their continuing war against citizens’ constitutional rights, specifically, the right to keep and bear arms. Now Sen. (Barbara) Boxer has started legislation in her bill, S. 1654, which would: googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
On behalf of the Maine Council of Churches, I would like to thank you for Tom McCord’s article on restorative justice, printed July 13-14 in the Bangor Daily News. McCord’s article was interesting, informative, and provided an accurate profile of how the concepts of restorative justice are being… Read More
I am writing in response to your recent article (“Acadia land squabble,” BDN, June 26), which describes a landowner’s efforts to resolve a dispute with Acadia National Park. Having grown up on Mount Desert Island, I appreciate many of the qualities that having the park in our “backyard”… Read More
Recent articles in the local press pertaining to so-called “septage dumping” operations seem to be becoming much more numerous, and with good reason. This is an issue that is rapidly dividing outlying townships such as Franklin, Charleston, and Bradford. Increasingly, law-abiding, working homeowners are feeling… Read More
The back roads to Bucks Harbor in South Brooksville are about as convoluted as roads in Maine get. Right, right, left, right, left, right, left, pass a church, take a right, slow down. To make things worse, once you get off the main roads, there’s a relay race… Read More
New World Entertainment is developing a two-hour movie for Fox dramatizing two spine-chilling short stories by Stephen King and Clive Barker, it was announced Friday by Trevor Walton, senior vice president, Longform Programming, Fox Broadcasting, at the Television Critics Association meeting in Pasadena. Mick Garris… Read More
BANGOR — A would-be bank robber who broke into an automated teller machine over the weekend left without the money, but not without leaving his impression on the machine’s camera. Bangor police are reviewing the tape that shows a facial shot of a man fiddling… Read More
FORT FAIRFIELD — A potato house — filled not with potatoes, but with people — was the setting this weekend for the Maine Potato Blossom Festival tribute to a local farming family. Two Easton brothers who have helped keep a commitment to family farming going… Read More
Weekend accidents claimed the lives of three men, including a 27-year-old Portland man who died at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor Sunday night from injuries sustained in a one-car rollover accident on Route 204 in Lamoine Saturday evening. Peter Lukens, 27, of Portland died… Read More
Bangor District Court: Amy M. Pelkey, 20, Bangor, presenting false identification to enter premises, $100. 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++) { if (isMobileDevice())… Read More
SOUTH PORTLAND — A fence to deter inmates from fleeing the Maine Youth Center won’t be up soon enough. Seven juveniles escaped from the facility in a single day this week, authorities said. Three boys remained at large Saturday. They were among five who fled… Read More
WASHINGTON — In a move that will save the government millions of dollars, Social Security recipients who sign up for benefits after Aug. 1 will have their checks deposited directly into their bank accounts — if they have bank accounts. Senior citizen groups say the… Read More
Tropical Storm Bertha and subsequent rainstorms may have soaked much of the state, but they have left many clam diggers and dealers high and dry. As the summer tourism season peaks, shellfish flats from Portland to Matinicus Island — the heaviest producers of clams and… Read More
FORT KENT — Preparing for the new school year, SAD 27 directors have hired seven teachers and two educational technicians for its four elementary schools and the high school. Hired under one-year probationary contracts were Susan Olmsted as district music teacher, Karen Gagnon as a… Read More
VAN BUREN — In preparation for their role in a federal grant funding bilingual education, SAD 24 teachers and a school director participated in a two-week French immersion course in Quebec City. The course, sponsored by the University of Maine at Fort Kent, was taught… Read More
AUGUSTA — H. Ross is still “the Boss” of the political independence movement, and to prove it Perot took half the audience with him Saturday afternoon after departing from the Maine Reform Party’s state convention. That left about 150 people to listen to the party’s… Read More
NEW SWEDEN — Swedes celebrated their ancestors’ arrival to northern Maine more than a hundred years ago with a pioneering re-enactment Saturday and the dedication of historic places in New Sweden Sunday. The re-enactment of the Swedish arrival to Maine in 1870 started at the… Read More
CORINNA — A Corinna man operating an all-terrain vehicle in a ditch on the Town Line Road was injured Saturday night when the vehicle crashed into a culvert. James Bradley Jr., 23, set off from his house on the Town Line Road in a four-wheeler… Read More
DEXTER — A public supper will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Dexter United Methodist Church. The menu is baked ham, baked beans, potato salad, cole slaw, rolls, desserts and beverages. The price is $6 for adults and $2 for children younger than 12. Read More
CORINTH — An informational meeting will be held at 7 p.m. July 29 at the town hall to discuss the proposed name changes to town roads as part of the implementation of the Enhanced 911 system. Read More
DEXTER — Winners have been announced for the recent Dexterfest contest, in which students submitted drawings for the official festival T-shirt. John Simko, Dexterfest coordinator, announced the winners, who will be honored at a 10 a.m. ceremony Aug. 16 at the Main Street Stage in… Read More
We have good news for parents in the Greater Bangor area. New opportunities abound for those who are in need of emergency child care, or child care while you enjoy a concert, and concerts for you to enjoy with your children. First, the new emergency child care program. Read More