Those waiting for a new Bangor Comrades American Legion baseball coach to be named will have to be patient. Bangor Legion Inc., which has overseen the program since 1989, hasn’t even scheduled a meeting yet, never mind given thought about who should succeed coach Steve… Read More
Former University of Maine All-American Billy Swift of the Colorado Rockies, who had arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder to remove damaged tissue in June, said he has begun throwing and is hoping to return to action in September. “They’re talking about sending me to… Read More
CASCO – Geoff Sisk of Marshfield, Mass., used an eagle on the par-5 seventh hole to vault into a four-shot lead after two rounds in the Maine Open Championship at Point Sebago Golf Club on Thursday. Sisk fired a 69 to go with his first-round… Read More
The Maine agricultural fair season is in full swing. This week, two fairs, Topsham and Northern Maine, will wind up a week of head-to-head competition, with racing programs scheduled on Friday and Saturday. Harness racing then moves to Skowhegan Fair beginning Sunday. At Presque Isle… Read More
ORONO – In his first two series with the Bangor Blue Ox shortstop Wade Evans was in a slump. Thursday he showed signs that he’s coming out of it. Batting first for the Ox in the bottom of the seventh, Evans knocked his second homer… Read More
ORONO – The University of Maine ticket office will begin accepting order forms, on a limited basis, for men’s and women’s basketball on Monday, Aug. 12, at 8:30 a.m. Season packages, as well as Hoopspaks (men’s and women’s basketball), Sportspaks (men’s and women’s basketball, football,… Read More
ORONO – The University of Maine announced Thursday that Jackie Gebhart has been hired as the women’s soccer assistant coach to replace the departed Darcie Woodruff, who left to pursue other opportunities. Gebhart, who played for current UMaine head coach David Patterson at Lenoir-Rhyne College… Read More
ORONO – Jay Kemble has less head coaching experience than the other four finalists for the head baseball coaching job at the University of Maine. His six years as a head coach include two years at Harwich of the Cape Cod League; two years as… Read More
EDMONTON, Alberta – First it was Mario Lemieux. Now Paul Kariya of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks has withdrawn from Canada’s entry in the upcoming World Cup of Hockey. The high-scoring left wing, one of the NHL’s upcoming stars at age 21, has a serious groin… Read More
BANGOR – The Bangor Police Athletic League’s scheduled boxing show on Friday has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date. The final race of the mountain bike championship series will be held at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 11 at the Essex Street recreation area. Read More
NEWINGTON, N.H. — With revenues a million dollars short of projections, the Pease Development Authority finished another fiscal year in the red — though the size of its annual shortfalls is shrinking. Expenses exceeded income by $765,646 — a smaller shortfall than the $1.1 million… Read More
The Union Trust Co. in Ellsworth has become the latest banking institution in Maine to be named a certified lender by the U.S. Small Business Administration. On Thursday, Patrick McGowan, regional administrator for the SBA, formally presented Union Trust with the designation that will allow… Read More
CARIBOU — Aroostook County commissioners accepted the resignations of two full-time deputy sheriffs, approved the commissioning of two part-time deputies, and promoted two officers to the rank of sergeant Wednesday. Michael Bouchard, a full-time officer patrolling the St. John Valley, resigned to accept a position… Read More
The Acadia Hospital Aftercare program for chemically dependent patients is in need of volunteers. If you have an interest in sharing your own recovery experience with others, have been in recovery for the past two years, and have one evening a week to share, then… Read More
Phytoremediation, the cleansing of polluted waters and soil by means of plants, is one of the newest weapons available in the fight to regain control of the environment. Tina Adler, in a recent issue of Science News, tells how plants are being used to clean up radioactive and… Read More
Gov. Angus King’s announcement Monday of a special legislative session to consider a forestry referendum bill sets the direction of the struggle for control of Maine’s woods. The Legislature must now deliver to voters a substantial alternative to the clear-cutting ban. The proposed alternative, the… Read More
ELLSWORTH — A judge has reissued a preliminary injunction barring a Stonington granite quarry from violating a local noise ordinance until a trial can be held on a lawsuit pending against the operation Aug. 29. At a motion hearing in Hancock County Superior Court Thursday,… Read More
TURNER — Stop & Shop, New England’s largest supermarket chain, is joining the list of grocers that will stop buying eggs from DeCoster Egg Farms because of customer concerns over working conditions there. Meanwhile, egg farm owner Austin DeCoster said in an interview published Thursday… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Pad thai and mee ped may be listed on several menus, but only one menu in town may have Bangkok in its name. A Hancock County Superior Court judge ruled this week that a new Main Street restaurant must change its name, having… Read More
HOULTON — It seems as though no matter what jail marijuana activist Don Christen ends up in, he isn’t satisfied. Christen mailed a four-page letter this week to the commissioner of corrections and three daily newspapers complaining about conditions at Aroostook County Jail. The well-known… Read More
SHERMAN STATION — Members of the Green Party continued to avoid public discussion of the so-called clear-cutting referendum in Aroostook County when they turned down an invitation to debate the issue Wednesday night at Katahdin High School. The party, some of whose members had drafted… Read More
The robbery and abuse of blueberry growers must stop. So who is robbing whom? This is a reply to a column about blueberry raking by Tom Hilyard (BDN, July 24). The underlying theme of his piece seems to be that the blueberries somehow belong to the rakers. This… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Have you ever been kissed by an alpaca? Or have you eaten a blooming onion, had your weight guessed or your fortune told? Watched horses straining to move massive weights, guided by the directions of their handlers? Enjoyed quilt, flower, photography and painting… Read More
AUGUSTA — The state of Maine has offered to donate and deliver a state-owned chapel to victims of church arsons in the South, Gov. Angus King announced Thursday. A spokesman for the governor said there had been “no takers” yet, but that King had asked… Read More
BATH — The Associated Press erroneously reported Wednesday that four unions were voting on a performance-base bonus plan at Bath Iron Works. Only one union, Local S6 of the machinists’ union, voted on the plan. Thursday’s MaineCalendar listed the wrong name of a performer at… Read More
They were a constant source of company and a ready means to a friendly chat. At the very least you could count on them for a wave and a smile as they drove by. Rural mail carriers have always provided a link to the world… Read More
NEWPORT — Jack Wilson, public works director for Newport, said this week that his success with using prison labor from Penobscot County Jail for town work has been incredible. During the past two summers, Wilson has worked with prisoners to repair both Newport playgrounds; paint… Read More
The nation began accumulating nuclear waste at 3:20 p.m. Dec. 2, 1942, when Enrico Fermi calculated that the fission reaction in Chicago Pile One had achieved criticality demonstrating the feasibility of plutonium production (for weapons fabrication). Soon, three plutonium production reactors were operating in Hanford, Wash., and increasing… Read More
As constituents of a free and democratic society, we are entitled to our opinions and are required to respect the opinions of those who have conflicting views. However, in his recent letter to the editor (Aug. 5), Terence J. Hughes stepped over the line and committed a horrific… Read More
I am a young mother with two small children who receive AFDC benefits. I have no work experience and no education, but I do participate in the ASPIRE program. I am enrolled in the Maine State Academy of Hair Design. I am scheduled to start… Read More
After a few revs of the engine and some final equipment checks, Ken Butler taxis his small red airplane a short distance along Runway 1-19 at Houlton International Airport before it leaps skyward, its engine straining as it climbs above the tarmac. Almost immediately he… Read More
VEAZIE — The School Building Committee discussed Thursday night what must be done to move the community’s proposed $5.3 million elementary school into its next phase. Proposed is a roughly 42,000-square-foot elementary school to replace the community’s aging John R. Graham School, which was built… Read More
AUGUSTA — Donated items from bird carvings, furniture and ceramics to woven items and artwork will be auctioned at noon Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Maine State Museum. More than 165 items will be sold at the fourth annual Made in Maine Auction, a benefit event for the… Read More
BANGOR — Maybe it was 1960, something like that. Looking through my parents’ bookcase, I found a slim volume my mother had owned as a youngster, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine. So at about age 9, I made the literary acquaintaince of Donn Fendler,… Read More
AUGUSTA — If elections were held this week, Susan M. Collins would be Maine’s next U.S. senator and President Clinton would be re-elected, according to a Bangor Daily News-sponsored poll. The poll, conducted by Mason-Dixon Political/Media Research of Columbia, Md., surveyed 612 registered likely voters… Read More
MONTPELIER, Vt. — The rights of dairies outweighs consumers’ right to know what’s in their milk, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, suspending Vermont’s law requiring labels on products from cows given bovine growth hormone. The 2-1 decision by a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of… Read More
Former Bangor resident Patricia McCarthy Warren of Boston was too shy to talk with us, but she gave her mother, Annie McCarthy, permission to relate the tale of “Caroline and her Cat.” On a Sunday in June, Warren; her son, Russ; and cousin, Nancy Prange… Read More
MATTAWAMKEAG — The 30-year-old Lincoln Maine Federal Credit Union this week opened the doors of a new branch office in Mattawamkeag. The new banking facility, believed to be the first in Mattawamkeag in many decades, opened for business in the VFW building on Willow Street. Read More
PORTLAND — Sixty-eight percent of Mainers spend too much time sitting on the couch and not enough time walking, swimming or just plain moving, according to a study released Thursday. “You can support that figure by just looking around at people and their weight,” said… Read More
PORTLAND — Sen. Olympia Snowe on Thursday applauded a compromise reached on the abortion issue in the GOP platform, saying it is a step toward removing abortion from the platform altogether. “I would have preferred to drop the anti-abortion plank, but this is a significant… Read More
BOSTON — A surprising number of people — perhaps one in 100 whites — have genes that will protect them from AIDS even if they have risky sex thousands of times, scientists discovered. The finding answers one mystery of the AIDS epidemic — how some… Read More
ROCKLAND — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court Thursday overturned a Maine State Prison inmate’s assault conviction. In May 1995, a Knox County Superior Court jury found Joseph L. Bowman, 35, who is serving a 60-year jail term for a 1989 murder, guilty of assaulting prison… Read More
WASHINGTON — Milk lovers who are worried about fat and cholesterol but think skim milk tastes thin and watery will soon have an alternative. Golden Jersey Products, a Vero Beach, Fla., company, unveiled what it calls an all-natural, cholesterol-free milk that relies on oat flour… Read More
BAILEYVILLE — Georgia-Pacific Corp.’s new cooling tower, part of the company’s $49 million capital investment program at its Woodland mill, has been completed. G-P officials said Thursday that area residents might notice a new source of water vapor coming from behind the pulp warehouse on… Read More
Professor Barry Kilch asks his students to step up to the blackboard. They obediently do so, walking to the edge of a large black rock outcropping overlooking Eggemoggin Reach. Soon the students are clambering over the rocks, gathering tiny crabs and periwinkles. A beaming blonde… Read More
PORTLAND — A former coach and teaching assistant at Scarborough Middle School faces up to five years in prison after being convicted of giving marijuana and cigarettes to a 14-year-old girl. Steven E. Thomes, 29, of South Portland is free on $1,000 bail pending sentencing… Read More
BATH — Members of Bath Iron Works’ largest union overwhelmingly rejected a plan Wednesday that would have based employee bonuses on the shipyard’s performance. The plan was worked out by a team of labor and management representatives as a way to provide the profit-sharing bonuses… Read More
MACHIAS — A 24-year-old Calais man was sentenced Wednesday in Washington County Superior Court to three years in prison for assaulting his live-in girlfriend with a claw hammer. Devery Johnson had pleaded no contest to the charge of aggravated assault. Johnson was charged in the… Read More
The Lemforder Corp. in Brewer has been named the top plant among 18 facilities worldwide owned by the Germany-based Lemforder Metallwaren company. Five employees of the Brewer plant, which produces automobile suspension parts, flew to Germany this week as part of the Lemforder Quality Prize… Read More
BANGOR — The New England School of Broadcasting will change its name to the New England School of Communications on Monday. The new name reflects the direction the school has taken during the past few years, according to President George Widley. While continuing to focus… Read More