BREWER – He’s a familiar face in Maine candlepin bowling circles, but now he’s competiting for a Massachusetts-based team. Chip Carson of Bangor, a longtime bowler at the Bangor-Brewer Lanes and a former member of the Maine Heat team, is bowling for Canal Lanes of… Read More
ORONO – Expectations are only significant when they are one’s own. That was the theory espoused Tuesday by University of Maine basketball coaches and players in relation to preseason polls during Tuesday’s America East media day at UMaine’s Dexter Lounge. For the third straight year,… Read More
MAINE vs. AUSTRALIA Time, site: Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; Alfond Arena, Orono googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length; i++) { if (isMobileDevice()) { if (slot_sizes[i][0]… Read More
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
CARIBOU — A local man has been indicted by the Aroostook County grand jury for manslaughter in connection with the death of a 15-year-old girl last July. Scott Tracy, 22, also was charged with aggravated operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating… Read More
GREENVILLE — The Greenville Merchants Association will sponsor the Christmas tree lighting ceremony in the village this season, continuing a program that has long been a tradition in the community. During the past several years, a volunteer group has provided the program, but it disbanded… 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
HAMPDEN — It’s not the first time a company has proposed a big change in a small town. It’s not even the first time it’s happened in Hampden. Irving Oil Corp.’s plans to build a 24-hour service station are generating as much controversy as past proposals to build… Read More
GREENVILLE — After a somewhat rocky split between a group of practicing physicians and the Charles A. Dean Hospital, the two parties have set aside their differences. Drs. Larry DuBien, Brian Griffin and Bill McCann and physician’s assistant Bill Shepard resigned as hospital employees Nov. 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
PRESQUE ISLE — After months of sometimes contentious discussion involving all levels of government, the future of about 180 former military housing units appears clear. Commonly known as the Bon Aire housing, the units have been the subject of endless meetings this year between the… 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
CALAIS — “Send an ambulance, I shot Mabel,” Albert Stanley told the dispatcher at Indian Township Police Department after he allegedly shot his girlfriend of 25 years three times. He later told police he did not know why he did it. Stanley, 45, showed no… 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
ROCKPORT — Asked how Maine should join other East Coast states in managing lobster, the answer from fishermen here Tuesday was blunt — let the other states get on board Maine’s conservation boat. About 50 lobstermen attended a Maine Department of Marine Resources meeting here… Read More
MIAMI — Home appliance-maker Sunbeam Corp. will eliminate half of its 12,000 jobs and drop its lesser-known products like patio furniture to stick with kitchen appliances. The drastic revamping announced Tuesday is the turnaround plan of Albert Dunlap, who was hired by Sunbeam months after… 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
Do you ever get the feeling that nowhere exists a place where there isn’t someone hawking something? After a day spent slaying the dragon, home awaits you. But instead of being greeted by some cheery note or even a couple of bills in the daily… 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
AUGUSTA — For people who live in Maine, registering to vote on Election Day is as easy as showing up with an ID and proof of an address. But that’s a hardship for many town clerks, who have to scramble to handle thousands of unexpected… 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
BREWER — Councilors here voted unanimously Tuesday night not to consolidate economic development, planning and code enforcement into one municipal department. Although those departments have been merged informally for about one year, the council agreed that continuing with such an arrangement would no doubt lead… 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
CHICAGO — A flawed enzyme present in millions of Americans may raise the risk of breast cancer in women who smoke, a study suggests. Heavy smokers who had reached menopause had about four times the risk of breast cancer as non- smokers who also had… Read More
AUGUSTA — New term limits already have made an impact on the Maine House and Senate, sending numerous lawmakers into other fields or off in search of other offices. Now, it’s time for a changing of the guard in prominent offices the Legislature fills. Alone… Read More
AUGUSTA — The top advocate for a gay-marriage ban in Maine said Tuesday her group collected far more signatures than needed to force a statewide referendum next year. Carolyn Cosby of Concerned Maine Families said volunteers collected more than 60,000 voters’ signatures, about 20 percent… Read More
From the Far East to New York to Bangor, it was a typical week in the whirlwind life of Robert A.M. Stern. It all started in Japan, where the internationally acclaimed architect raced through a round of meetings on his plans for a large hotel… Read More
WISCASSET — An antique store owner says he will allow the Egyptian government to inspect a 3,000-year-old mummy in his shop as a courtesy. But he says he won’t give up his mummy without a fight. “I have no intention of turning her over to… Read More
VAN BUREN — A former administrative assistant for business affairs for SAD 24 has filed a seven-count lawsuit against the district and three of its directors for firing him in February 1996. Robert Corbin, who worked for SAD 24 for more than eight years, claims… Read More
BANGOR — Two drivers apparently were locked in an antagonistic battle for the road covering at least 30 miles before one stabbed the other Monday morning in Brewer. Oscar Gonzalez, 46, and his wife, Digna Gonzalez, 49, of Framingham, Mass., were arraigned on felony assault… 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
NEW ORLEANS — Spotting a deer during hunting season is a thrill — maybe even a dangerous one. A study of middle-age male hunters tramping through the woods found that the heart races wildly at the sight of a big buck. In fact, the excitement… Read More