ORONO – The success of New Hampshire’s top-rated offense has been predicated on its ability to keep opponents off-balance by setting up the pass with the run. Maine solved that puzzle Saturday by taking away the run. The Black Bears held Wildcats tailback Jerry Azumah,… Read More
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ORONO – Sophomore forward Dedra DeLilli’s score off a centering pass from Heidi Spurling gave the University of Maine Black Bears a 1-0 field hockey victory over the Drexel Dragons Sunday. Maine improved to 12-3 and Drexel slipped to 5-11. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
Eastern Maine soccer teams hunting for championships will take their first step Wednesday when the preliminary round begins. The final Heal Point standings, compiled Saturday, marked the end of the regular season and the playoff start for 66 Eastern Maine boys and girls soccer squads. Read More
WINSLOW – Belfast tailback Troy Sprague raced for a 10-yard touchdown with one minute, 19 seconds left for the Lions’ 16-8 Class B LTC schoolboy football win against Messalonskee of Oakland Saturday. The senior finished with a game-high 132 yards on 21 carries. Quarterback Sazi… Read More
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BANGOR – It was somewhat ironic the Penobscot Valley Conference Cross Country Championships Saturday were held behind Bangor Mental Health Institute, because the meet was a pyschological lesson in the cruel, illusive pleasure of victory. For the conquered and victorious alike, the meet served as… Read More
SAULTE STE. MARIE, Mich. – To say the beginning of the University of Maine’s hockey season has been difficult is an understatement. The Black Bears opened the season on neutral ice, dropping a 3-0 decision to defending national champion Michigan Friday night. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
SOUTH PARIS – Allegedly, Oxford Hills’ offense was its best defense. But the defense proved it could seal a deal Saturday as it stonewalled Bangor inside the Oxford Hills 10-yard line as the clock ticked off the game’s last minute for the Vikings 21-14 homecoming… Read More
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VASSALBORO – Greg Tribou shot a 78, heading a list of four Hampden Academy players to finish in the top 10 here Saturday, sparking the Broncos to the Class B golf team state championship at windy Natanis Golf Course. Hampden posted the low score of… Read More
ORONO – The tallest woman in the history of University of Maine basketball calmly tossed up 3-pointers. The second-shortest player on the men’s team mugged, wide-eyed, palms outstretched, seeking support from the crowd before dunking in a fashion generally reserved for the over-6-foot-3 set. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
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NEWPORT, R.I. – Jim Callahan carried 33 times for 170 yards as Salve Regina racked up 334 yards on the ground while grinding out a 30-13 Division III football victory Saturday over Maine Maritime Academy of Castine. The Seahawks, who have won 12 in a… Read More
Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment in a series of campaign profiles of candidates for the U.S. Senate and House. ROCKLAND — Two weeks to go. The endless procession of factory gate vigils, plant tours, Rotary speeches and radio interviews continues. Candidate Tom Allen… Read More
BANGOR — Alan Keyes’ voice boomed out over the crowd at the Maine Right to Life Committee convention, then dropped to a whisper as he spoke of abortion as an issue that has had a more devastating effect on America’s moral fiber than any other issue in the… Read More
WINN — Strands from overhead electrical power lines fell across NYNEX fiber cables near the Winn General Store at 7:35 p.m. Sunday, blacking out phone service to much of northern Maine, according to a NYNEX spokesman. State police had reported the communication problems to NYNEX… Read More
LEWISTON — A Peoples Heritage Bank executive says he will recommend to directors this week that the bank’s new operations center be located in the Bates Mill complex in Maine’s second-largest city. “Not only is the Lewiston-Auburn work force highly productive, but the facilities we… Read More
TOWNSHIP 11 RANGE 7 — The 17-acre parcel looks like a war-torn area, lone beech trees looming on the western and northern reaches of the parcel and a huge pile of diseased beech trees lining a road on the eastern side. It is a clear-cut… Read More
If you are a taxpayer, a parent, a student, an employer or an artist in this state, you have a $6.2 million investment now yielding a hefty dividend at the University of Maine. On Oct. 18, a brand-new, three-story building called Class of 1944 Hall… Read More
Following are some of the cooking safety tips shared with youngsters who took part in a recent program presented by the Old Town Public Library staff, with the help of the city’s firefighters: Turn pot handles in when cooking on the stove to prevent youngsters… Read More
ORONO — How do you give a show-stopping performance like Maria? Just ask Julie Lynne Price, because that’s exactly what she did Saturday night at the Maine Center for the Arts. Price, a native of Washington, D.C., is touring the country with the NETworks cast… Read More
What do you get when you mix 6 pounds of hamburger, three heads of lettuce, 11 young chefs and a crew of hungry firefighters? A lesson in cooking safety — and a unique opportunity to strengthen community bonds over a homemade lasagna dinner. Over three… Read More
Ryan Robbins’ article in the Oct. 16 Bangor Daily News gave some of the flavor of the controversy that arose this past summer over municipalities’ use of pedestrian crossing barrels, but the article omitted a few particulars. Use of pedestrian crossing barrels in the congested… Read More
DR. CRAIG CURTIS has been appointed medical director of occupational health at St. Joseph Healthcare in Bangor. Curtis was formerly a specialist in occupational medicine at St. Joseph Hospital in Elmira, N.Y., and also served as an occupational and emergency medicine specialist at Griffiths Air Force Base in… Read More
State transportation officials who missed playing dodge-’em in Bangor’s downtown traffic are critical of the city’s effort to protect pedestrians at five well-traveled crosswalks by marking them with yellow barrels. The city needs the plastic props, at least for now. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
Northeast COMBAT received a letter from Ethel Warner of Bath who related that she had sent an order to Direct Leatherware Inc. of Tacoma, Wash. The merchandise she ordered was a brown leather handbag in a diamond pattern. Enclosed with the order was a check in the amount… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Aroostook County educators were told Saturday that they need compassion, persistence and resilience to place children on “the high road of life, the international highway.” Dr. Crystal Kuykendall, the product of a poor Chicago background but nurtured by caring teachers, told educators… Read More
PITTSFIELD — A wish list for the future will be discussed again Tuesday night when the Pittsfield Comprehensive Plan Committee meets at 7 p.m in the library at the Warsaw Middle School. During the past two weeks, the committee hosted several public forums soliciting the… Read More
KITTERY — Authorities hope a national television show will help them track down a New Hampshire man accused of murdering an Exeter, N.H., store clerk. Maine State Police hope “America’s Most Wanted” will assist in the nationwide search for Jeffrey Sibley by featuring the case… Read More
AUGUSTA — Tax activist Carol Palesky was indicted Friday for aggravated forgery in connection with petitions she collected to push for a statewide cap on property taxes. Palesky, of Topsham, called the charge a “government conspiracy at the highest level” to keep her referendum off… Read More
The hunting death of a former high school golf champion illustrates tragically that many accidental shootings don’t fit the image of the high-profile case in which a human mistaken for game at long range or in bad lighting is shot and killed. In many cases,… Read More
The ballot indicates the people of Maine have three choices dealing with forest practices and clear-cutting, but to me there is only one clear choice. I will be voting for 2C and hope many other voters will join me. 2A would put major new restrictions… Read More
The Bangor Daily News deserves thanks and recognition for kicking-off Domestic Violence Awareness Month with three days of editorials and Oped pieces focusing on the topic of domestic violence. This kind of in-depth coverage from the NEWS and other local media is invaluable in educating us all about… Read More
I am writing to express my views regarding the recent apparent purchase, technically a “time brokerage agreement,” and format change of FOX 104.7 radio station. Before the dissolution of FOX, I listened to it equally with Q106.5 country. It was always such an invited change to be able… Read More
I finally got around to reading the actual”2A and 2B” documents, which made no sense to me. They reminded me of what my father, a lawyer, used to say: “Perfect democracy makes bad law.” The citizens’ initiative is a very important safegaurd against legislative and… Read More
In the weekend Maine Day section of Oct. 5-6, an article titled, “History teachers ponder ways to bring America’s past to life,” discussed methods that Maine’s social studies educators might find to teach “200 years” of U.S. history (or, as the keynote speaker indicated, “from Columbus to Clinton”… Read More
BREWER — Shortly before midnight Sunday, police responded to a fight and reported stabbing at Cowboys Tavern on South Main Street, helped secure the scene at an accident on Elm Street, and got involved in an accident themselves. “Everything happened all at once,” said dispatcher… Read More
Bangor District Court: Fenton Philbrick, 70, Holden, operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, $400, jail 48 hours, license suspended 90 days. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i… Read More
A Piper Navajo aircraft bound for Bangor crashed late Sunday morning in a field near Dalhousie, New Brunswick, killing all eight people aboard, including a Maine man who was the pilot. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the pilot, Michael Burns of Waterville, had… Read More
MACHIAS — Representatives of several nations were on hand Saturday when the University of Maine at Machias accepted a Peace Prayer Pole, an 8-foot-high symbol of peace from the Japanese people. Tokyo native Kentaro Nakazawa, a senior biology major at UMM, said the pole was… Read More
The hurricane-fed nor’easter that postponed a World Series game and flooded other parts of the Northeast moved into Maine on Sunday with gale-force winds and heavy rain. High winds yanked four pleasure boats from their moorings and washed them ashore at Willard Beach in South… Read More
PORTLAND — The Portland area is experiencing a dramatic rise in the number of gonorrhea cases transmitted by men having sex with other men. Last year, the Maine Department of Human Services reported 11 cases statewide of male-to-male transmitted gonorrhea, with four cases in the… Read More
AUGUSTA — One of the state’s fastest-growing employers has given more than $14,000 to this year’s legislative races, but MBNA America seems to have no particular agenda. Most of the money has gone to Democratic legislative candidates and campaign committees, according to finance reports filed… Read More
NEW ORLEANS — Five years after welcoming casinos and video poker, Louisiana has that what-was-I-thinking morning-after feeling. After a gumbo pot of corruption scandals, mob infiltration and a disastrous casino venture in New Orleans, voters will decide on a parish-by-parish basis Nov. 5 whether to… Read More
ST. FRANCIS — SAD 27 directors agreed with parents Friday night that a multiage classroom setting, which placed kindergarten pupils with first- and second-graders, was not working and approved the hiring of a half-time teacher for kindergarten. The St. Francis Elementary School kindergarten class has… Read More
National Make A Difference Day is Saturday. Throughout the week, The Standpipe will feature as many events as possible that are specifically planned for this special day. We begin with a fund-raiser by the Country Kids 4-H Club of Unity. The “Kids” are working to… Read More
AUGUSTA — All four candidates for Congress emphasized veterans and defense issues Friday night when they squared off at the Maine Veterans Home. This fall, incumbent Reps. John Baldacci, D-2nd District, and Jim Longley Jr., R-1st District, and their respective challengers, Limestone Republican Paul Young… Read More
CASTINE — “There are still a few of us who still love the natural resource we are privileged to fish,” Herman “Junior” Backman of Beals Island said Saturday while accepting an award at the Island Institute’s annual conference. Backman and six other men were presented… Read More
BANGOR — Tabitha King, speaking at the groundbreaking for the addition to the Bangor Public Library Sunday afternoon, announced that she and her husband, Stephen King, will donate $250,000 to cover the moving and operating costs for the library’s temporary relocation to Outer Hammond Street. Read More
CASTINE — A causeway on the Petitcodiac estuary near Moncton, New Brunswick, could be a textbook example of cause and effect, a panelist at the Island Institute’s 14th annual conference said this weekend. Julia Chadwick of Eco Action, a Canadian organization aimed at restoring the… Read More
GARLAND — Two weeks before one of the state’s most important and controversial elections, there wasn’t a coffee shop in Maine where someone didn’t say the words “forestry referendum” last weekend. Some whispered the phrase, others shouted it. It was impossible to keep track of… Read More
Cable, cobwebs, crawl space, and stubborn plaster are well-known elements to a distinct group of volunteers after they finished their work over the weekend. They are among the many who volunteered their time Saturday to run special cable through the walls, floors, attics and ceilings… Read More
MARS HILL — A handful of volunteers worked atop Mars Hill Mountain Saturday and Sunday, erecting the first of many shelters and campsites along a 434-mile extension of the Appalachian Trail from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Mount Jacques Cartier in the Province of Quebec. Read More
LEBANON, N.H. — Dr. John Sutton brakes for moose. But he’s fascinated by people who don’t. The general surgeon at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has carved out a niche for himself by analyzing the injuries people receive when their cars and trucks collide with the giant… Read More