VASSALBORO – Billy Haynes of Northeast Harbor defeated Greg Hanna of Augusta C.C. 3 and 1 in the final of the 16-17 year old division to win the Maine Junior Golf Championship at Natanis Golf Club Thursday. Adam Williamson of Oakdale G.C. defeated Ben Daughan… Read More
With all of the advantages Josh Pressley has had growing up, this American Legion season as the Bangor Comrades top gun makes sense. The 16-year old from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. has played three seasons of varsity baseball for Westminster Academy, which attracts some of the… Read More
The final figures on the success (or not) of Bangor Raceway’s recently completed extended race meet won’t be ready for a couple of weeks, according to Fred Nichols, general manager of Bangor Historic Park, the group that leases the racing facilities from the city of Bangor. But just… Read More
ORONO – Andy High supplied the pitching and Robert “Popeye” Cole took care of the offense as the Bangor Blue Ox notched their ninth win in the last 10 games. Bangor improves to 9-2 in the Northeast League’s second half standings and keeps first place… Read More
BANGOR – Brian Lawton has played Bangor Municipal Golf Course virtually in his sleep. He’s shot a 66 before with ease. And after finishing in the top 10 in 10 tournaments this year, he’s even in a groove. But the 27-year-old Hampden native has been… Read More
The Northeast League’s planned expansion to 10 teams next season looks like a go, with Allentown, Pa., a lock to be one of the expansion teams… but the independent league may not stop at 10. The 10th team will either be located in Montclair, N.J.,… Read More
It took a tiebreaker to crack up the top three Zone 1 American Legion teams but pitching will determine the zone’s champion. “We’re certainly going to have to get the kind of pitching we’ve gotten for most of the summer,” Old Town-Orono coach Dave Paul… Read More
BOSTON — Citing his global perspective, Bank of Boston Corp. named chief of Brazilian operations Henrique de Campos Meirelles as the bank’s No. 2 executive on Thursday. As president and chief operating officer, Meirelles will be responsible for all major businesses of the company beginning… Read More
MACHIAS — Residents will decide the fate of their school budget from the inside of a voting booth for the first time Aug. 5. The town budget committee is urging them to defeat the school board’s proposal for the fiscal year that began July 1. Read More
AUGUSTA — Central Maine Power Co. on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings of $9.1 million, compared to an $8.6 million loss in the second quarter of last year. Last year’s loss was associated with the cost of a lengthy outage at the Maine Yankee nuclear power… Read More
AUGUSTA — DeCoster Egg Farms could face thousands of dollars in new penalties for building a waste water treatment center in Leeds without permission from the state, officials said. During a public hearing Wednesday, the state Board of Environmental Protection directed the state Department of… Read More
HOLDEN — A Florida couple who died when their single-engine Cessna airplane crashed on Wednesday morning were considering getting married on their vacation trip along the East Coast, according to friends. Kim Beachler, 43, of Delray Beach and his girlfriend, Aileen Maale, 34, of West… Read More
BANGOR — Seeing Ivan Lendl at the Greater Bangor Open Pro-Am Tournament on Wednesday, you would have thought he was simply everyman’s golfer: playing to improve, hoping to win, having fun, ending the round with a drink and a smile. If you didn’t know your… Read More
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe raised the stakes Thursday in her crusade against the right wing of the Republican Party, rallying GOP abortion rights lawmakers to oppose the human life constitutional amendment endorsed by the party’s platform. Standing on the steps of the U.S. Read More
Starting later this summer, some Shop ‘n Save customers in Bangor can add certificates of deposit or home and auto loans to the lists of items they need at the grocery store. Beginning sometime in August, the Shop ‘n Save store at the Airport Mall… Read More
PORTLAND — UNUM Corp.’s earnings fell 17 percent in the second quarter of 1996 because last year’s profits included more than $200 million in capital investment gains. UNUM, a leader in disability and special risk insurance, said Wednesday that net income for the second quarter… Read More
ISLESFORD — An overabundance of rabbits once munched the edibles on Little Cranberry Island, but now it’s the deer who are the unwelcome guests in backyard gardens. A handful of Islesford residents looked for answers on how to curtail the burgeoning deer population at the… Read More
BELFAST — Though hardly ever at a loss for words, City Councilor Walter Ash and Code Enforcement Officer Robert Temple weren’t talking Thursday after being named in a character defamation complaint. “No comment,” Ash said. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
Quick, name a major female literary figure. Virginia Wolfe? A suicide. Emily Dickinson? A spinster. Amanatine Lucile Aurore Dupin? She published under the pseudonym George Sand and proclaimed marriage a trap. Sappho? A murdered poet. Sylvia Plath? Another suicide. For modern women considering a life in the arts,… Read More
AUGUSTA — Leaders of the state’s two major political parties were claiming a partial victory Thursday in their search to find replacement candidates for 31 legislative contenders who dropped out of their races. Republican and Democratic activists had until Monday to secure candidates for the… Read More
Advances in medicine have extended our life expectancy by many years but the body’s aging process has not slowed to any appreciable extent. This means we can look forward to our “golden years” being filled with brittle bones, wrinkled skin, forgetfulness, and a myriad of ailments that our… Read More
WASHINGTON — The Senate adopted a measure Thursday that would tone down proposed economic sanctions against Burma, whose military rulers are accused of violating citizens’ human rights and stifling a pro-democracy movement. The measure, sponsored by Sen. William Cohen, was supported by the Clinton administration. Read More
In a story about the establishment of a medical/dental clinic at St. Agatha Wednesday it was reported that James Chamberland is the owner of Montfort Heights, where the clinic will be situated. The owners are James Chamberland and Frances Morin. Read More
Exposure to tobacco smoke is a much bigger risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than was previously suspected, and keeping newborns away from tobacco smoke could reduce the death rate from SIDS by nearly two-thirds, British researchers report Friday. In the largest study… Read More
It comes wrapped in the jargon of the state’s largest bureaucracy and the private health care industry, and it has wrinkles that need to be smoothed, but the move to managed care for this state’s Medicaid clients still is a package worth delivering. The Department… Read More
AUGUSTA — A plan to give lobstermen a voice in making the rules they fish by got many kind words at a Department of Marine Resources hearing Thursday, but also a tongue-lashing from full-time fishermen who said the “one license, one vote” principle will leave them outnumbered by… Read More
Sometimes it seems as though one of the big buzzwords of the ’90s is “access.” Access to decision-makers, political access, access to opportunity, access to the Internet. I’m all for it. But until you’ve taken a walk with someone who uses a wheelchair, you don’t fully understand what… Read More
BOSTON — Elizabeth Dole was scheduled to stand in for her husband Thursday night at a $1,000-per-head fund-raiser at the Boston Harbor Hotel. After a day of starts and stops, the Dole campaign announced Wednesday that Bob Dole, the presumptive Republican nominee, would not appear… Read More
WASHINGTON — The air filled with bitter partisanship, the House Thursday decisively rejected a Republican-written bill aimed at revamping the way congressional campaigns are financed. “It is a first step in the right direction,” House Speaker Newt Gingrich had argued, urging support for a bill… Read More
Has Maine become a one-party state? If we really have more than one political party in this state, why haven’t we heard even a peep of opposition from party leaders in response to Gov. Angus King’s proposal to effectively gut the Maine Constitution’s guarantee that Maine voters have… Read More
Bangor Savings Bank opened its newest office in Waldo County and its 14th branch office on Tuesday in Unity. The branch will provide full-service banking and some of the latest ideas in banking services and financial products. The Unity branch will serve customers from Belfast to Waterville from… Read More
Here’s some shocking news: There are 40 more days until the kids go back to school. If that sounds like a long time to you, break it down. Ten sets of four days. Four sets of 10 days. Anything to make it seem like fewer… Read More
GLENBURN — The town’s first Community Development Block Grant housing rehabilitation program has proven so cost-effective that the number of low-income properties that can be renovated has been upped, according to the community development planner who wrote the application for the grant. Ron Harriman of… Read More
I had a visit from my aunt and uncle from Portland the other day that finally prompted me to write this letter. While I was giving them a tour of Bangor they commented on how nice it was to see an active downtown since their downtown (aside from… Read More
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame” as offered by Disney seems to me an act of vandalism. To take an artist’s creative offerings and distort them so completely (however prettily) for profit is wrong. Victor Hugo’s work is contorted beyond what might be called “artistic” license. Read More
Once again the Bangor Daily News has come down on the side of fairness and cleaner politics in exposing the most recent cynical House maneuver, HR 3760, the campaign spending bill, for what it is: a fraudulent, “appearances only” scam, hiding under the rubric of the Clean Congress… Read More
The recent (TWA) plane crash was terrible. Dole and Clinton offering their condolences and a moment of silent prayer are playing to the audience. Doing something about our unsafe planes would be a better tribute. Israel makes flight safe from terrorists and it sits in the middle of… Read More
BANGOR — The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department arrested a 21-year-old man who claims to be a Perry resident on charges he burglarized a Carmel home on July 15. Richard Quinn, who police say has no fixed address, was being held at the Penobscot County Jail… Read More
You are invited to join in the celebration of the 83rd birthday of the Bangor Area Visiting Nurses from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Cole Land Transportation Museum on Farm Road in Bangor. BAVN board members and staff hope you will join them… Read More
KITTERY — About 5,000 lobsters contaminated this month by an oil spill in the Piscataqua River will remain in storage tanks until state authorities decide whether the crustaceans can return to the ocean. Jay Krouse, the state’s top marine biologist, said Wednesday that fisheries officials… Read More
AUGUSTA — The King administration told legislative budget writers Thursday that the state closed out fiscal 1996 last month with a surplus of $27.6 million, 2 percent above projections and reflecting a commitment of $38.2 million more to offset potentially bad debts. With half of… Read More
ST. ALBANS — A boat parade, chicken barbecue, pony pull and archery demonstration are among the activities that make up the 7th annual St. Albans Summerfest on Aug. 3. Chairman Jim Bullock of the Summerfest ’96 Committee described the summer festival as a day given… Read More
PALMYRA — Selectmen have designated the town’s new administrative assistant to receive and review all applications by residents for financial assistance from the town. Heather Noyes was made general assistance administrator at Wednesday night’s selectmen’s meeting. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
HOULTON — Voters in Merrill and Smyrna this week rejected a proposal to build a community center to jointly serve three area towns, leaving only Oakfield to pursue the project — maybe. It has been estimated that the cost of the project, including the purchase… Read More
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — In the age of television, a candidate with the kind of “taco-pizza-sunny-side-up charisma” that Democrat Bill Clinton possesses enjoys a distinct advantage. Veteran journalist Philip Geyelin made that observation Thursday night before a packed room at the Claremont Hotel during his “Fearless… Read More
Hodgdon High School biology teacher Carlton Brandt has been chosen one of the 100 most creative biology teachers in the United States by the National Science Teachers Association, on behalf of Genentech Inc. The teachers who were selected were inaugurated into the Access Excellence Fellowship… Read More
GREENBUSH — This town’s Board of Assessors Thursday trimmed $11,701 from the 1995 tax bill issued to World Voice of Historic Adventism Inc., settling on a figure significantly below the more than $40,000 tax reduction for which the owners of the powerful shortwave radio station initially asked. Read More
LUCERNE-IN-MAINE — Residents here may take the first step toward eliminating land the village owns jointly with Dedham during the annual town meeting Saturday. Voters will decide whether to authorize the overseers to participate in a discussion with Dedham regarding the disposal of roughly 50… Read More
(On July 17) a letter by Harry Riley of Bangor was published regarding our Bangor firefighters. I would like to share my own personal experience with our firefighters. On Jan. 28, my home caught on fire. At the time my two children and I were caught in a… Read More
PITTSFIELD — An elderly Florida couple escaped serious injury Thursday morning when their rental car rolled over on Interstate 95 in Pittsfield. Nora Appleton, 68, of Boynton Beach was driving a Hertz rental car, a 1996 Ford Contour, according to Maine State Police Trooper Mark… Read More
PRINCETON — Arthur Dolan has announced his candidacy for Washington County commissioner, running as an independent for the District 1 seat. Dolan said that the challenge by Gov. Angus King for Washington County people to develop their own economic system requires leadership of five county… Read More
A 17-year-old Milford youth told police his brakes failed Thursday afternoon, causing him to crash into the side of a train, and resulting in $2,000 damage to his vehicle. The minor, whose name was not released by police, said he attempted to stop the car… Read More
HOLDEN — A three-car collision on Route 1A Thursday evening left six people injured and three cars severely damaged. A Mazda Protege, driven by Debra Lindsey, 37, of Newport crashed into the rear end of a Toyota Land Cruiser, driven by Jack Holemes, 61, of… Read More
ST. GEORGE — A St. George teen-ager was killed late Wednesday night when a speeding truck went out of control on the Wallston Road, slid into an embankment, struck a pole and rolled over. State police said Owen Carignan, 14, died of head injuries in… Read More
OLD TOWN — The Maine Forest Service unveiled its newest piece of equipment Thursday, a 6-ton track vehicle to help firefighters battle forest fires. The vehicle, which was demonstrated near service headquarters in Old Town, is equipped with an 850-gallon tank and portable pump to… Read More
DEXTER — Residents in need of housing repairs whose homes are not eligible for a Dexter housing rehabilitation project may qualify for low-interest loans through Penquis Community Action Program. According to Patricia Roy of the housing services division of Penquis CAP, Dexter residents whose homes… Read More
KITTERY — Maine State Police want to talk with anyone who stopped at an Exeter, N.H., convenience store the night of July 16 — the last time a clerk in the store was seen alive, a state police spokesman said. Aaron White, 23, of Exeter… Read More
The widow of a 26-year-old Bangor man is seeking at least $500,000 in a lawsuit against two firms she believes were negligent in manufacturing, designing and installing a piece of equipment that crushed her husband to death a year ago. Thomas Hammond Jr. died on… Read More
Medway Police Chief Phil Cram, who lost part of his right hand Wednesday afternoon when a homemade explosive blew up while he was fishing on a lake near Lakeville Plantation, is facing more than a serious medical problem. Warden Sgt. Douglas Tibbetts said charges are… Read More
FORT KENT — A Fort Kent man who was free on bail pending sentencing is back in Aroostook County Jail after being charged with violating a bail condition that required him to stay away from witnesses in the case against him. Judge Ronald A. Daigle… Read More
BANGOR — Ostrich burgers, wild blueberries, the rain forest, and Maine’s outdoors are among the new attractions to be featured during the 147th rendition of the Bangor State Fair, which opens at noon today and runs through Aug. 4. For the first time this year,… Read More
YARMOUTH — Travis Roy held an open house at his new wheelchair-friendly home to thank all the people who helped finance and build his new apartment. “It seems like all I can do is say `Thank you’ to them, in the most sincere way,” he… Read More
WASHINGTON — An FBI official says that the agency is studying similarities between the killings last May of two female hikers in Shenandoah National Park and a decade-old double homicide in eastern Virginia to determine whether the two might be connected. Bo McFarland, special supervisory… Read More
AUGUSTA — As Gov. Angus King met with House and Senate leaders Thursday to sound out sentiment on holding a special session of the Legislature, Secretary of State Bill Diamond warned that a theoretical timetable advanced by the administration probably wouldn’t work. King has said… Read More