The University of Maine men’s basketball team has lost two walk-on players in recent weeks, reducing the roster to 11 players. Redshirt freshman Jared Rivers, a 6-foot, 3-inch guard from Skowhegan, hasn’t practiced with the team since last Monday and didn’t suit up for Sunday’s… Read More
    In trailless woods of Mohawk Trail State Forest, about a dozen of us bushwhack up a steep hill, feet slipping on the carpet of dry leaves. When our leader pauses, we followers gather around him, some in the group panting heavily. Paul Rezendes looks around,… Read More
    Tim Kilroy was named the new Brewer High School ice hockey coach Tuesday night. One of seven applicants seeking to replace Bill Schwarz who took the same job at Bangor, the 37-year-old Brewer man was approved by a 5-0 vote by the school board, athletic… Read More
    BEAVER FALLS, Pa. – Todd Madden’s goal late in the first half snapped a 1-1 tie and led Geneva College to a 3-1 win over the University of Maine-Presque Isle in their NAIA Northeast Regional Tournament men’s soccer quarterfinal Monday. Geneva, 10-7-3, will now face… Read More
    The University of Maine men’s basketball team has landed another big man for its 1997-98 freshman class. Jamar Croom, a 6-foot, 9-inch, 225-pounder from Reading, Pa., has verbally committed to play for the Black Bears, according to his high school coach, Pat Tulley. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    Easy and difficult decisions will be made Thursday at the Maine Principals’ Association Fall Conference in Portland. Principals attending the meeting will vote on separate proposals to adopt lacrosse and volleyball as MPA-sponsored activities, complete with state championships and tournament play. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
    Thursday is opening night for the Presque Isle High School Drama Club performance of “Grease.” It is hoped it will become part of the “closing night” of the PIHS Adopt-A-Chair committee’s work to refurbish the high school auditorium, which has not been renovated since it… Read More
    BELFAST — A man who allegedly had sexual contact with a young girl and a second man who allegedly beat him for doing so both were indicted when the Waldo County grand jury rose last week. Silas D. Reynolds, 63, of Unity was indicted on… Read More
    PORTLAND — Victims of last month’s flooding in southern Maine have received nearly $1.5 million in disaster assistance checks, officials said Tuesday. The first checks were authorized within 10 days of President Clinton’s federal disaster area declaration for York and Cumberland counties on Oct. 28. Read More
    COOPER — Escalating property taxes have motivated residents of this tiny Washington County community to explore the possibility of deorganizing. Their 35-7 straw vote Monday night in favor of such a move will enable a committee to begin the process of developing a plan. Distrust… Read More
    HOULTON — Veterans Day is set aside to honor the men and women who took time out from their lives to serve their country in military service. On Monday, the prisoners and the missing also were honored. After a two-month effort by local Vietnam veteran… Read More
    SEATTLE — Allen W. Jacobson, who directed Boeing Co. warplane development during World War II and helped bring civilian aircraft into the jet age, died Nov. 4. He was 94. Jacobson went to work for Douglas Aircraft in 1934, when wood was still used in… Read More
    BANGOR — Corey Moran held aloft an extra saxophone the John Bapst Memorial High School Band had brought along, hoping President Clinton would be fired up enough to play a tune during the late-night political rally at Bangor International Airport the Sunday before last week’s general election. Read More
    I read with interest the article in the Oct. 28 issue of the Bangor Daily News titled, “Aging boomers pop vitamin pills in search of health.” The entire article missed the point. As a recent convert to “popping” vitamins and nutrients, let me relate why… Read More
    Overwhelmed by the Election Day hoopla was the quiet rolling of a pen as ink went on documents closing the deal to redevelop a portion of the long vacant Freese’s Building in Bangor’s downtown. The Freese’s signing is an important step. It begins the serious… Read More
    WASHINGTON — A vast army of 99 million Americans suffer from chronic ailments such as arthritis and diabetes, which impose great hardship not only on the sufferers themselves but also on their family members and the U.S. health care system, according to a comprehensive study issued Tuesday. Read More
    A book about our national parks once called them “Islands Under Siege.” Breathtaking scenery and spectacular natural features are hallmarks of our national park system, but often the park’s ecosystems, watersheds, and vistas extend far beyond the legal boundaries of the park itself. National parks… Read More
    Five years after the Navy’s Tailhook emabarrassment, and after The Citadel and the Virginia Military Institute accepted the inevitability of women in the military, the Army’s current sexual-harassment scandal is a reminder that for all the Pentagon’s talk about wanting women in the service, the institution has yet… Read More
    The U.S. embargo against Cuba has lasted for 35 years, the longest in our history. The embargo also interferes with the trade of other countries with Cuba. The rationale has been to cause suffering in order to provoke opposition against Cuba’s socialist government. Any policy… Read More
    It was incorrectly reported in Tuesday’s editions that Robert and Laura Dapolito of Farmington are fighting a Greenville zoning ordinance so they can build a play area for their handicapped foster son at their camp on Wilson Pond. They are seeking to build an area so the child… Read More
    Poor Descartes is everybody’s whipping boy. Robert Klose [BDN Oped, Oct 24] is arguably right about gorillas, but his history of philosophy is all wrong. The inventor of analytic geometry was no mere “amateur number jumbler.” And while he denied that animals could think, his reason for thinking… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — A Prince Edward Island company will be the new operator of the Bluenose ferry service between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and Bar Harbor. The Northumberland Ferries Ltd. proposal was rated the best of four put forward to privatize two ferry services now run… Read More
    A big thank you is owed to the many volunteers who contributed their labor and skills to the recent work on the historic tramway of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. The newspaper feature by Andy Kekacs of the Bangor Daily News [Nov. 2-3] did a fine job telling the… Read More
    Competition among Maine’s railways is accelerating this week with both the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad and Guilford Transportation Industries expecting backing that will put them on track for the lucrative truck-to-train transportation market. Later this week, the B&A will receive a French-made, $500,000 reach stacker… Read More
    The Rev. Mark Worth [Letter, Oct. 11] neglects the crucial biblical text regarding the expression of human sexuality. God’s intent for the use of our sexuality was expressed for all time when God “created them male and female… For this reason man will … be united to his… Read More
    Now that Question 1 has passed, candidates for public office will have their position on term limits printed next to their names on the ballot. I suggest that we also print their positions on 1) clear-cutting, 2) abortion, 3) assault weapons ban, 4) balanced budget amendment, 5) school… Read More
    The Central Intelligence Agency will have no problem fending off recent allegations concerning the merchandising of cocaine because this organization, in the past, has danced away from federal and international laws like the river drivers of old jumped from log to log in a mill pond. The CIA… Read More
    BUCKSPORT — An election recount Tuesday night confirmed Sharyn Davenport Betts the winner of a Town Council seat, this time by a single vote. Council candidate Wayne Rowell had requested the recount after a tally of ballots cast Nov. 5 suggested that Betts had defeated… Read More
    NEWPORT — Working together is a step forward for two communities in the Sebasticook Valley with a history of working apart. Tuesday night selectmen from Newport and Palmyra took that step. In an informal session, the two boards discussed the mutual needs and concerns of… Read More
    FARMINGTON — A New Sharon man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly pretending to be a police officer and raping a Massachusetts woman in his old police cruiser this summer. Merton Parker, 54, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with gross sexual assault after an arrest… Read More
    PORTLAND — A Falmouth woman who has been with UNUM Corp. for more than 20 years was named Tuesday to head the UNUM Life Insurance Co. of America, the corporation’s largest business unit. Elaine D. Rosen, 43, will take over Jan. 1, succeeding Stephen B. Read More
    BROOKS — An arrest warrant has been issued for a local man after he bolted from a sheriff’s cruiser Monday night and fled into the woods. Although Waldo County deputy sheriffs, state police and game wardens ringed the area and mounted a search with the… Read More
    PORTLAND — You don’t need waterfront property to get a view of Portland Harbor. Three digital cameras connected to the Internet in Portland broadcast updated photos of the harbor around the world. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
    THOMASTON — The election recount for House District 61 will be held on Friday at 9 a.m. at the State Police Barracks in Augusta. Rep. Dick Simoneau, a Republican, apparently lost his seat after two terms to Democrat Jim Skoglund of St. George by 2,178… Read More
    Several area high school students have earned recognition this week for recent accomplishments. Congratulations are extended to the following: Johanne LePage, a sophomore at Old Town High School, who won the 50th annual VFW Voice of Democracy Contest at OTHS. Her essay on this year’s… Read More