BANGOR – For three years, Jon Martin of East Sullivan worked for other people. Since the first of May, though, he has started working for himself again. Martin, one of the state’s better amateur golfers for several years, has embarked on a career as a… Read More
Brian Gaine, the career reception leader for tight ends at the University of Maine, had a rough finish to his college football career, but his future brightened Tuesday when he signed a rookie free-agent contract with the New York Jets of the National Football League. Read More
A funny thing happened in Scarborough Saturday. After arriving, I went to the officials box to get the lineups for the Bangor-Augusta East game at the Senior League softball state championship. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
Anyone who enjoys a good hike on level-to-moderate ground should consider getting to Swan Island this summer. Anyone who wants to experience a journey back to another time should go there as well. And for those of you whose interest includes watching wildlife, Swan Island… Read More
BANGOR – Defending champion Eric Egloff of Rockville, Md., will be one of more than 40 pros participating in the 30th Greater Bangor Open Golf Tournament pro-am today, but he may find it difficult pulling in the gallery which could be following the pro in the group in… Read More
ELMIRA – The Elmira Pioneers got a two-run double in the ninth to send the Bangor to a 7-6 loss, snapping the Blue Ox’ eight-game winning streak. The Blue Ox return home today and will take on Rhode Island at UMaine’s Mahaney Diamond at 7:30… Read More
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ORONO – While the search for UMaine men’s basketball coach Rudy Keeling’s successor moves forward, a public forum will be held for each candidate to meet with the Friends of Maine Basketball and the general public. The forums will be held at the Wells Conference… Read More
AUGUSTA – The Maine Bankers Association will host its annual Maine Higher Education Assistance Foundation Scholarship golf tournament August 5 at Augusta County Club. The scramble format tournament, which has a 12:15 p.m. shotgun start, is open to all bankers, retired bankers, bank directors and… Read More
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BANGOR – The Bangor Comrades had a knack for getting out of tight jams and they got out of a couple against cross-river rival Brewer Monday night. With men on first and third, the Falcons were threatening with a two-out rally. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
The Bangor West Little League All-Stars clinched a berth in the state championship game with an 18-5 win over East Biddeford for ages 9-10 . Bangor West will face unbeaten Scarborough Wednesday night. Should Scarborough lose, the two teams will play again for the state… Read More
CALAIS — Calais may be called a city, but it has a small-town attitude when it comes to helping its own. Many people demonstrated that concern when they stepped forward to help the 11 people who lost everything in the fire Thursday that destroyed Johnson’s True Value Hardware… Read More
BELFAST — Accused armed robber Harry Seavey’s hopes of making bail were dashed last week when the U.S. Attorney charged him with violations of federal gun laws. Prior to his arrest for the July 4 armed robbery of the Belfast Big Apple, the 33-year-old Seavey… Read More
BREWER — Councilors took another step in reshaping Brewer Monday night, as they voted to establish a land use and zoning oversight committee to help implement the city’s comprehensive plan. A $9,325 state Comprehensive Plan Implementation Grant will go toward hiring a land use consultant… Read More
PITTSFIELD — A “fiddling devil with a hat” is one description applied to Bill Booth, formerly of Pittsfield. His music offers “a rootsy style of blues and rock with a country twang,” and originates in Norway — not Maine, but Scandinavia. Booth is home for… Read More
CHICAGO — Nose drops provided long-lasting relief from migraine headaches for about a third of patients in a new study, but some migraine experts expressed skepticism about the treatment’s long-term effectiveness. Nineteen of 53 patients receiving nose drops of the topical anesthetic lidocaine got long-lasting… Read More
BRUNSWICK — Dr. Leonard W. Cronkhite Jr., a physician and health care administrator who headed Children’s Hospital in Boston and the Medical College of Wisconsin, died Saturday at his home after a brief illness. He was 77. An expert on human survival in space, Cronkhite… Read More
Arthritis patients who take antacids and acid-blockers such as Tagamet, Zantac and Pepcid in an effort to stave off aspirin-induced ulcers may be doing themselves more harm than good, according to a new study by Stanford researchers. An estimated 14 million arthritics take relatively high… Read More
PORTLAND — L.L. Bean says it plans to open a factory store downtown, and officials hope the retail giant’s presence here will help attract other stores, as it did in Freeport. L.L. Bean said Monday that it will occupy part of a former Congress Street… Read More
AUGUSTA — Setting up short-term debate about unmet state needs and longer-term argument concerning desirable levels of taxation, the King administration is preparing to release final figures that are expected to show a healthy revenue surplus for fiscal 1996. According to preliminary data analyzed by… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — A man accused of killing two nuns in Waterville last winter would rather take his chances in court facing a judge than a jury. Mark A. Bechard, 37, of Waterville appeared in Somerset County Superior Court Tuesday and on the advice of his… Read More
An author who visited dozens of Maine sporting camps to obtain material for a book says the camps have a unique character she has yet to see duplicated outside the state. Alice Arlen of Hallowell outlined some of the criteria in the book she published… Read More
SANGERVILLE — There are still a few days to go until the full moon, but Tuesday was a pretty weird day for town officials in two neighboring communities. At about 10 a.m., Sangerville Town Manager Derek Goodine found himself coaxing a 200-pound pot-bellied pig into… Read More
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PRESQUE ISLE — Not one Maine spud will leave the state or enter a grocery store without the state’s stamp of inspection, says Agriculture Commissioner Ed McLaughlin. The state’s top farming executive announced a plan Tuesday to implement mandatory inspection of all potatoes packed in… Read More
An impressive and overwhelming expression of support for historic fisheries legislation is ensnarled in cloture procedure in the U.S. Senate. The extension of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act is critically important to the future of the country’s commercial fishery. The Maine delegation should do whatever it… Read More
His excursion through the lives of the underclass — the poorest of the poor, as he describes them — led Castine author and filmmaker Peter Davis to the same troublesome conclusions that frustrate most thoughtful members of society: Poverty appears embedded in America. Anti-poverty programs… Read More
Did you ever wake up to them blueberry rakin’ blues? Did you ever wake up to them blueberry rakin’ blues? Oh, your legs is achin’. Your back is broke in two. This first verse of the “Blueberry Rakin’ Blues” about says it all. However, it… Read More
A familiar face will return to play for Maine’s country music fans, as John Anderson will perform at 3 and 8 p.m. Sunday at the Bangor Auditorium, as part of the Bangor State Fair. Anderson, 41, played last year at Rockland’s Lobster Festival and at… Read More
PHILADELPHIA — Peter Jackson, veteran State House correspondent for The Associated Press in Augusta, has been named the AP correspondent in Harrisburg, Pa. Philadelphia Chief of Bureau George Zucker appointed Jackson on Monday to succeed Rich Kirkpatrick, who resigned after two decades of reporting from… Read More
GREENVILLE — Residents here will be asked to spend as much as $22,500 from unappropriated surplus to close out the Sawyer Pond Dump at a special town meeting scheduled for July 31 at 7 p.m. Other action will be taken on a 911 ordinance, a… Read More
Your editorial, “Mental health: a deadline,” in the July 20-21 Bangor Daily News weekend edition, was a good one. The subject needs more Page One (coverage), and a bit more in specifics. The Legislature should work quickly and definitively on the closure of a mental hospital. Many professionals… Read More
An individual wrote that she can’t understand how we get upset reading about child abuse, and then allow insurance companies to practice it every day by sending mothers and new babies home from the hospital before it’s safe to do so. I’m not totally familiar with all of… Read More
For an ordinary Bangor Daily News reader to even try and keep up with the misstatements of John Day is like a western cowboy with a Colt revolver trying to out-shoot someone using an assault rifle. In view of space limitations, I would like to just mention a… Read More
Upon reading Mona Blanchard’s letter (BDN, June 29-30), I sent her some postal facts. Knowing the address was insufficient (name, town and ZIP only), I requested a return receipt. Much to the postal service’s credit, Mrs. Blanchard received and signed for the mail piece the very next day. Read More
Both pedestrians and citizens using wheelchairs would appreciate it very much if the handicap incline on Water Street below Main Street and diagonally across from Pickering Square at the corner of Broad and Water streets could have some yellow lines painted where white lines now exist. Read More
AUGUSTA — A body found at a Maine Turnpike weigh station this week was identified Tuesday as a New Hampshire man reported missing a week earlier. The state medical examiner classified the death as a homicide. The victim was Aaron White, 23, of Exeter, N.H.,… Read More
SANGERVILLE — A 6-year-old Sangerville boy escaped injury Monday when a shot from a BB gun ricocheted off a bottle that was a target and bounced off his back. The boy received a small, red welt in the incident and did not require medical attention,… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — A father, mother and daughter were arrested Tuesday and charged with setting fire to their house to collect the insurance money, according to Aroostook County District Attorney Neale Adams. The family members were among those indicted by the county’s grand jury earlier… Read More
TIM POND — Fifty years after his father took him fishing at Tim Pond Wilderness Camps, Edward Finney reactivated the “Bloody Band of the Buried Bottle” and dug up a childhood memory. Finney, his son Reed and camp owners Harvey and Betty Calden found the… Read More
ST. AGATHA — Plans for a medical/dental clinic here are proceeding quickly now after nearly four years of talks. Organizers are optimistic the center will open in a residential complex by December. David Daigle, St. Agatha town manager and chairman of the nine-member Community Health… Read More
AUGUSTA — After enduring a monthlong barrage of anti-Republican radio and television ads, Maine GOP leaders are launching a $55,000 counterattack to publicize their side of the story. “That buys a lot of television in Maine,” said Rick Tyler, executive director of the Maine Republican… Read More
HOULTON — Local police are continuing to investigate the alleged abduction and assault of a local woman nine months ago, but so far there have been no new leads. Two months after the alleged September attack, the woman, who police say is in her 30s,… Read More
The Maine Department of Corrections has announced the appointment of Lars Olsen as the new director of the Charleston Correctional Facility. Olsen replaces Jeffrey D. Merrill, who left to become warden of the Maine State Prison in Thomaston in January. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
OWLS HEAD — The town will celebrate its 75th anniversary Saturday. Owls Head, formerly part of South Thomaston, was set off April 9, 1921, and incorporated July 9, 1921. The day’s activities will begin at 10 a.m. with a parade in the village section on… Read More
OLD TOWN — Curbside rubbish and recycling collection will change from Tuesday to Thursday, beginning Aug. 1, for the following streets: Oak, Bradbury, South Fourth, Summer, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Jefferson, Harding, Wilson, Lincoln and Abbott. Collection days will be changed from Wednesday to Friday, beginning… Read More
ROCKPORT — After talking about leadership for close to an hour here Tuesday, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf told his audience to forget all they’d heard and remember just two things — what the U.S. Army calls rules 13 and 14. “Rule 13: When placed in… Read More
Since 1993, Floyd Doughty has called Bangor “home,” not by choice, but by necessity. A diabetic and kidney transplant candidate, the 59-year-old Fort Fairfield resident was forced to move here because there is no dialysis unit in Aroostook County. County residents whose lives depend on… Read More
ELLSWORTH — A motorcyclist from Massachusetts was listed in critical condition at Eastern Maine Medical Center Tuesday night after being struck by a car in a four-vehicle accident on Route 1. Jack Izzo, 48, of Bolton, Mass., sustained severe foot injuries after Paul Urquhart Jr.,… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Dover-Foxcroft police arrested three men and a 16-year-old juvenile Monday on charges of aggravated assault in connection with the beating of another 16-year-old Dover-Foxcroft boy. As a result of the investigation into the beating, two of the three men and the juvenile were… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Maine’s new potato queen is putting on hold her plans to tour with the Up with People organization. Instead, she is flying home this week to assume her duties as an industry representative, her father said Tuesday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
HOULTON — There is some good news for the unemployed. While jobs remain scarce, people seeking work won’t have to travel far to get help finding it. Last November, a reduction of more than $4 million in federal funding for the Maine Department of Labor… Read More
ROCKLAND — A young man who threatened to jump from the roof of the Knox County Courthouse Monday night was talked down to safety by Police Chief Alfred Ockenfels. Police received a call at about 8:15 p.m. that a man was on the roof of… Read More
AUGUSTA — The state Attorney General’s Office is seeking a restraining order under the Maine Civil Rights Act against Laura Jackson of Bangor for an alleged assault on anti-abortion protesters outside a physician’s office in Bangor on July 3. According to Attorney General Andrew Ketterer,… Read More
BANGOR — A lot of office shuffling has taken place in the last few weeks at the home of 3rd District Court at the corner of Franklin and Hammond streets. Two of three tenants in the District Court building — Outpatient Chemical Dependency Services and… Read More
Dozens of Maine musicians will descend on the city of Portland Sunday to participate in the state’s premier celebrity fanfair to commemorate “Maine Recording Artists Appreciation Week.” A “meet the stars” opportunity and a CD-tape sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Read More
GOULDSBORO — New Town Manager Larry Barnes has been given a three-year contract after selectmen concluded the retired police chief had successfully completed a probationary period. First Selectman Luann Corkins Tuesday reported the five-member board had unanimously voted to grant a lengthier contract to Barnes… Read More
AUGUSTA — Final spending reports show that financier Robert A.G. Monks spent $166 per vote while setting the all-time Maine spending record for an election in his losing effort to win the three-way Republican primary race for U.S. Senate. Monks spent $2,154,014 on the primary… Read More
AUGUSTA — DeCoster Egg Farms will contest alleged violations of worker health and safety laws and has requested to meet with federal regulators to resolve a $3.6 million fine, lawyers for DeCoster said Tuesday. Bill Freeman, area director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration,… Read More
BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick Naval Air Station issued a “scam alert” Tuesday in response to a raffle conducted from a booth run by an independent telephone credit card company at last weekend’s Great State of Maine Airshow. Visitors who stopped at the booth and filled… Read More