BANGOR – Bangor High junior Chris McLean stood at midfield at Cameron Stadium, smiling widely despite sporting a forehead that was missing a substantial chunk of flesh, a face that was stained by blood, and a uniform that was downright grubby. The blood and grime… Read More
BREWER – Despite the limited availability of their star running back and the absence of a starting offensive lineman, the Brewer Witches still mounted an impressive ground attack to notch their second straight win and maintain hot pursuit of a playoff spot. Brewer’s running game… Read More
Nokomis, Winthrop and Oxford Hills advanced to the semifinals in Eastern Maine field hockey playoffs with wins Thursday. In Class A action, No. 6 Oxford Hills beat No. 3 Gardiner 2-1. In Class B, No. 7 Nokomis downed No. 2 Lincoln Academy, 3-2. In Class… Read More
ORONO – It was their first home game at Alfond Arena and the University of Maine’s home opener, but Cory Larose and Bobby Stewart played as relaxed as veterans. Not even when the Bears were down 3-1 in the third period of their game Friday… Read More
ORONO – University of Maine junior left winger Scott Parmentier, who shed 20 pounds in the offseason thanks to the University of Nebraska football team’s diet, exhibited his extra step of speed Friday night. Parmentier scored a pair of third-period goals 3:56 apart to tie… Read More
RICHMOND, Va. – Annie Elkanich scored two first-half goals to lead the University of Maine to a 4-0 field hockey victory over Virginia Commonwealth Friday night. It was Maine’s eighth straight win. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
RINDGE, N.H. – John L’Heureux of Old Town, a senior center for the Franklin Pierce College men’s basketball team was named to the New England Collegiate Conference preseason first team. L’Heureux, a 6-foot-8, 260-pound center, averaged 12.8 points and 8.3 rebounds last year while shooting… Read More
Mention deer hunting and someone’s sure to remark that something stinks about the doe-permit system or the dates of the hunting season or “residents only” day. It’s odd, however, that the smelly business of using scents to attract deer is seldom mentioned, especially since increasing numbers of hunters… Read More
Throw all Maine’s small-college football teams together and the result is an abysmal combined record of 3-18 this season. Of the four, only Maine Maritime Academy of Castine has won in the last two weeks. Two of the teams are winless. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
BELFAST – Sazi Guthrie’s 10-yard touchdown run with three minutes left to play gave the Belfast Lions a 36-29 LTC Class B football victory over the Old Town Indians Friday night. Guthrie scored two touchdowns on the ground and was 4-of-6 passing for 112 yards… Read More
ORONO – Brian Bates scored at the 72:58 mark of the second half to lead the Delaware Blue Hens to a 2-1 men’s soccer win over the University of Maine Black Bears Friday in America East action. Chris Ahern scored at the 35:43 mark off… Read More
ORONO – Unsure of her team’s ability to create offense with second-leading scorer Kacey Strout sidelined for the year with a knee injury, junior fullback Jeni Turner suggested to University of Maine field hockey coach Terry Kix that she move her up to the front line. Read More
College 1996 MEN’S DIRIGO CUP Final Standings Top 5 Teams: 1. Unity College 20, 2. Maine Maritime Academy 17, 3. University of Maine at Presque Isle 12, 4. University of New England 11, Saint Joseph’s College 8 googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
I have three young children. Some day, they may wish to compete in high school athletics. Luckily, we live in Brewer. If we lived in Dexter, then there’s a chance my children would have to urinate in a cup to prove they are not on… Read More
DANFORTH — If the late Winston Churchill, the prime minister of England during World War II, were alive today, he might summarize the situation facing the East Grand Ambulance Service this way: Never have so many paid so little to so few for so much. Read More
PORTLAND — The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency toured flood-damaged areas of southern Maine on Friday and promised a swift response to the state’s request for federal assistance. James Lee Witt stopped short of promising to seek a federal disaster designation for York… Read More
AUGUSTA — Bedfellows make strange politics — just ask the Pendletons of Scarborough. They’re just one example of how the Nov. 5 election in Maine is a real family affair. Republican state Rep. Robert Pendleton is campaigning for a second term, while his wife, former… Read More
HOULTON — It’s a sign of the times, political sign, that is, and someone is taking them. Hundreds of political campaign signs from all over southern Aroostook County have been stolen from where they were displayed, according to state police at Troop F in Houlton… Read More
HOULTON — Trash that is supposed to be going to a privately operated transfer station but isn’t has prompted a showdown among local commercial trash haulers. As many as 1,000 people in Houlton are suspected of disposing of their trash in burn barrels or at… Read More
BUCKSPORT — Two 16-year-old Bucksport boys who allegedly stole more than $3,000 in personal property from a River Road residence Thursday evening were apprehended after a nearly three-hour search by several law enforcement agencies. According to Bucksport police dispatcher Byron Vinton, the River Road homeowner… Read More
AUGUSTA — An environmentalist who accuses Maine of harming the endangered right whale compared the state’s treatment of the mammal Friday to the near annihilation of the American Indian. “The Maine people have not only killed off the American Indians that were living in Maine,… Read More
ALLAGASH — A sign on the front door of the Allagash Consolidated School says WELCOME, but the door is locked. In the entranceway three glass-front cases are filled with trophies of past athletic and academic achievements. In empty classrooms, computer screens are dark. At a… Read More
AUGUSTA — Health officials said Friday private sector contributions of $644,000 will enable Maine’s immunization program to serve children throughout the state. The program provides free vaccines, purchased at discount rates, to physicians and is designed to reduce the cost of childhood immunizations. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
WESTBROOK — S.D. Warren says its plan to cut 200 salaried workers throughout the company over the next six months is unrelated to heavy flood damage this week at its 142-year-old paper mill in this industrial city. The cutback, which affects 14 percent of the… Read More
AUGUSTA — While cash contributions keep flowing to the congressional campaigns of Tom Allen, John Baldacci and Jim Longley Jr., they are down to a trickle for Paul Young. According to financial reports filed at the Secretary of State’s Office, 1st District challenger Allen leads… Read More
JAY — Four years after workers booted the paperworkers union out of the International Paper Co. mill here, the union is trying yet again to get back in. United Paperworkers International Union organizers say they have gathered enough signatures to hold another recertification vote. The… Read More
Bangor District Court: David Ranlett, 33, Bangor, operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, jail 48 hours, license suspended 90 days, $450. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i… Read More
BANGOR — Professor Susan E. Davies, Jonathan Fisher Professor of Christian Education, will be installed as the seminary’s academic dean at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, at the David Nelson Beach Chapel of Bangor Theological Seminary, 300 Union St. Davies served as a parish minister… Read More
Outside my window, the orange and yellow maple leaves spin off the trees. They dip and glide, rise and glide, dip and glide again. Through the air they go on an invisible roller coaster. This day is entirely too beautiful to stay inside. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
Autumn is the season of enlightenment. I seem to discover that every year while I am cleaning up the sorry remains of yet another vegetable garden, sniffing the rather putrid odor of frost-nipped rotten tomatoes and tugging on stubborn pumpkin vines that turn slimier the… Read More
Downhill skiers are creatures of habit, particularly the weekenders. They hook their skis to the car roof on Friday night, pile in and head for the closest, best slopes where they might have rented a house for the season. They take this path of least… Read More
CAMDEN — Seeing it now, it’s tough to grasp how arduous a life The Bean House has coped with over the past decade — or how perilously close to extinction it was only three years ago. Like too many small-town landmarks, the ediface high above Camden Harbor could… Read More
BANGOR — Can it be more than three decades since a song from “Mary Poppins” earned an Oscar and gave movie-goers some notion that a chimney was something that ought to be cleaned? … chim, chim, cheroo, googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
I wrote to Ann Atkinson, the Democratic candidate for state representative in District 136, and asked her opinion on the “A” word. Apparently abortion is one of those words you just don’t bring up around election time. Wanne-be politicians don’t particularly like the word, oftentimes becoming scarce, or… Read More
HARTLAND – After a long and eventful career as town manager of Hartland, Peggy Morgan announced her resignation Friday, citing personal reasons. “It’s just time to do different things,” she said. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
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OLD TOWN – An award-winning author, Ellen Bryan Obed of Old Town, will have her work featured by one of Canada’s most respected theaters for the young. Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia had adapted Obed’s “Borrowed Black, a Labrador Fantasy” for the stage with a… Read More
The Bangor Daily News’ Oct. 24 editorial addressing the Sierra Club’s decision to devote resources to the Ban Clearcutting initiative for a yes vote on 2A raises some interesting points. We agree that voters should take a close look at 2B and read the whole… Read More
The news media lately are consumed with two sets of numbers: There are the public opinion polls that have dominated political coverage this election season, and there are the stock market measurements that purport to tell us the daily state of the economy. As for… Read More
Fair warning to University of Maine sports fans: The jig is up on the smuggled-food scam that you people – and you know who you are – have been getting away with for lo these many years. No more stuffing your pockets with Fig Newtons… Read More
OLD TOWN–George Pardilla was walking in circles around the historic Bradbury Block of North Main Street where black and dirty yellow smoke rose above the early morning fog and the orange flames in buildings near his store. His son, Jim Pardilla, stood with a cup… Read More
OLD TOWN–When fire devastated several North Main Street businesses and apartments Friday morning, it took with it a part of Old Towns history. The 151-year-old Bradbury Block and adjacent structures comprised landmarks whose names have been known in Old Town for a century or more. Read More
In politics, four years is a lifetime After the Gulf War, George Bush towered above the American political melodrama like the Colossus of Rhodes. Two years later, he was an ex-one-term president like Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
OLD TOWN–An early morning fire swept through the midsection of North Main Street Friday, cutting into the heart of the downtown business district. By the time firefighters from Old Town and several neighboring communities got the fire under control, flames had consumed three turn-of-the-century buildings… Read More
The telephone number to call for ticket information and reservations for “On Baile’s Strand” and “The Cornfields of New York” is 581-1773. Read More
Calling it expensive, ineffective and biased, Maine trial lawyers are saying it’s time to shut down the State Forensic Service, the two-person office that provides court-ordered psychological evaluations of defendants. Trial lawyers intimately familiar with the service, and its two evaluators – psychiatrist Ulrich Jacobsohn… Read More
Four of the eight referendum questions on the Nov. 5 ballot ask Maine voters to approve issuing state bonds worth more than $40 million to finance a variety of environmental, economic and capital improvement projects. If all four 1996 bond issues – listed as Questions… Read More
Campaigns are about political positions and issues, but ultimately they are about people, what is inside them, their potential for growth. As Maine voters look down the list of U.S. Senate candidates Nov. 5 they will find a name that offers ideas, character and promise: Susan Collins. Read More
The Compact for Maine’s Forests is an essential step forward in both the health of Maine’s forests and the future of state regulations. Instead of being only a list of limits, the compact sets standards for forestry and lets landowners decide how to meet them. It gives landowners… Read More
BANGOR- Fifty-one years after the city vowed its intention to erect a memorial to those who served in World War II, it’s going to happen– without city money. Councilor Don Soucy will introduce a resolution at the City Council meeting on Monday evening to support… Read More
Citizens of Maine are faced with making a very difficult, yet extremely important, decision on the future of the forest resources of Maine. These choices are embodied in the three options on the upcoming forestry referendum. The College of Natural Resources, Forestry and Agriculture at the University of… Read More
On Nov. 5 in SAD 22 we will be asked to vote for three new members to join the school board. Four people are running for the three positions. They are Betsy Chapman, Arlene Nicholson, Ivan McPike, all incumbents, and Lynn Madden. Betsy Chapman will… Read More
Our political process is rotting from the top down, and can only be rebuilt from the bottom up. Unprecedented amounts of money, in the form of campaign contributions, are eating away at our fragile economy like some sort of parasite. The symptoms of this parasitic… Read More
Perhaps it was where you saw your first movie — The Wizard of Oz — while sitting on Mom or Dad’s lap so you could see over the lady in front of you who was wearing her favorite plumed hat. Maybe it was one of… Read More
The representatives of corporate interests have spent millions of dollars to make you believe that the Compact for Maine’s Forests (2B) is a middle ground, a compromise that considers both environmental and economic concerns. But the truth is that 2B is not a compromise, a viable alternative or… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension will no longer contribute to the salaries of new employees hired as secretarial support staff in its county offices. Although those hired as support staff are considered university employees whose salaries and increases are set by collective… Read More
BELFAST — The city’s splendid Colonial Theater rolled out the red carpet Friday night for the premier of Stephen King’s “Thinner” — an actual red carpet, with spotlights, limousines, popping flashbulbs, sidewalk saxophones, dinner out, and the entire panoply of Hollywood hoopla. Too bad they… Read More
PORTLAND — With 10 days remaining before the referendum, a poll by the Portland Newspapers shows strong backing for the timber harvesting compact backed by Gov. Angus King. The results, released today, showed that 53 percent of the statewide sampling favor the compact, 17 percent… Read More
BIDDEFORD — A suspect was arrested Friday night on a burglary charge in an attack on a church here that desecrated its most sacred object, the tabernacle of the Eucharist, police said. Patrick W. Ordway, 19, of Old Orchard Beach was taken into custody after… Read More
BELFAST — On the morning after the 1992 presidential election, Waldo County residents could have christened their Down East enclave Perot Country. Ross Perot finished first here, beating Bill Clinton and George Bush as he did in 13 other counties around the nation. But this… Read More
Hillary Rodham Clinton will visit Maine on Sunday and Monday. A rally featuring the first lady will start at 5 p.m. Sunday at Memorial Gym at the University of Maine. Later that day she will fly to Portland, where she will spend the night. Monday… Read More
PITTSFIELD — A candidates night in the Pittsfield Town Council chambers Thursday attracted a little more than two dozen local voters and few candidates. Candidates for House District 104 — Democrat Arthur Clement of Clinton and Republican Sumner Jones of Pittsfield — offered the liveliest… Read More
Union 92 in Hancock County is one of three school systems in the state selected this year for a Maine Arts Commission grant through the Arts in Education program. With the $2,000 grant, an amount to be matched by the six member schools, the school… Read More
CALAIS — The National Park Service Thursday night presented several options for the development of historical St. Croix Island as a tourist destination site. NPS officials hope the project will be completed by 2004, the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the earliest European settlements… Read More
DENNYSVILLE — Residents in this sport fishing community will meet this morning to develop a strategy to fight the state’s efforts to prevent farm-grown salmon from migrating up and spawning in the Dennys River. The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Dennys River… Read More