Two of the three finalists for the 1996 Fitzpatrick Trophy, awarded annually to the state’s top high school senior football player, should be very familiar to Eastern Maine football fans. Dustin Ireland, Mt. Blue of Farmington’s three-year starter at quarterback, passed for 1,843 yards while… Read More
    OLD TOWN – When Nokomis’ streaky shooters hit their first three 3-pointers against Old Town’s zone defense Friday, Indians coach Marty Clark called time out and asked his starters if they wanted to junk the zone in favor of man-to-man. They decided to stay with… Read More
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    High school AT HOWLAND Penobscot Valley High School Christmas Tournament Dexter 199, Penobscot Valley 167, Mount View 145, Ellsworth 119, Foxcroft Academy 108 1/2, Mattanawcook Academy 77, Monmouth Academy 35, Nokomis 20, Calais 14 Championship round googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
    High school AT UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, Orono Ellsworth boys, Bucksport, Hermon, MDI, Foxcroft, George Stevens Academy, John Bapst, Nokomis (exhibition, no team scores) googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i =… Read More
    MILLINOCKET – The host Stearns Minutemen hit eight free throws down the stretch in overtime to come away with a 68-62 over Foxcroft Academy Friday night. Corey Streams lead Stearns with 25 points. Steve Osborne added 13 and John Montgomery added 12. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
    Madawaska’s Anne Cyr is one of those brave Maine wrestlers who is breaking the gender gap and grappling against boys in high school matches that span the state this winter. For the purpose of this column, Anne Cyr is Everygirl. What she faces, others face. Read More
    EMMITSBURG, Md. – The University of North Carolina-Wilmington held the University of Maine without a field goal for the first 9:29 of the second half and rode that defensive effort to a 72-58 men’s basketball win in the first round of the Holiday Inn Bow Tie Classic Friday… Read More
    To appreciate how far into the proverbial dog house I crawl during the season to be jolly, understand that when my wife heads for Boothbay on Christmas Eve to play “Ho-Ho-Ho” with our grandchildren, I stay home and baby-sit my dogs. Admittedly, I’d like to be making merry… Read More
    DEXTER – Greg Gobel scored a game-high 24 points and Steve Smith sank three free throws in overtime to lead the Bucksport Golden Bucks past winless Dexter 56-51 here Friday night. Jody Peak scored 13 points for the winners. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
    WASHBURN – Tim Mega scored nine of his 11 points in the fourth quarter as previously winless Ashland Hornets stunned previously undefeated Washburn 59-55 in schoolboy basketball action Friday night. Ashland outscored Washburn 38-23 in the second half, including 27-16 in the final period, to… Read More
    AUGUSTA — State health officials announced Friday that 13 cases of whooping cough have been diagnosed in Maine and anyone displaying symptoms of the disease should have a checkup. The highly contagious disease, also known as pertussis, has turned up at elementary and high schools… Read More
    Elan Nyer, a fifth-grade pupil at Yeshiva R.S.R. Hersch in New York City, is doing a project on United States cities and needs information on Bangor. Postcards or other information, including maps, are welcome. Send them to Nyer at 48 Old Orchard Road, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804. Read More
    Do most Maine citizens stand a better chance of being economically helped or harmed by the gas pipeline? Your answer will depend on who you believe and how well educated we all are on this revolutionary issue and trend of deregulation. In a recent [commentary] in the Bangor… Read More
    Madawaska District Court: Steven J. Thibodeau, 22, Caribou, furnishing liquor to minor, two days in jail. 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… Read More
    Secretary of State Bill Diamond last week announced a month before the deadline that the property tax cap referendum campaign was at least 12,000 signatures short of its goal. While the secretary certainly issued the statement to encourage the petitioners to redouble their efforts, it is hard not… Read More
    As I waited last week for the cold winter winds of the north to blow in, I completed my first ever, mid-December landscape project. Nature granted me a reprieve from its usual December fare of snow and ice. Unusual and unwelcome April-like weather at least gave me a… Read More
    Life is funny. One minute you’re standing beneath a canopy of leaves ablaze in an autumn blue sky; the next minute the trees are delicate crystal sculptures only nature could have crafted. OK, it was two months, not two minutes, but time didn’t lessen the… Read More
    Had the governor suggested for elimination a less popular or well-supported program than Maine Career Advantage, the technical college school-to-work project, he might have had to watch it sink in the swamp of the state budget. He singled out a program backed by checkbooks in the private sector,… Read More
    AUGUSTA — State regulators must soon decide whether to give their blessing to the merger of NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. While approval is considered very likely, a consumer agency says the deal doesn’t do enough to lower in-state long-distance rates and wants the Maine Public… Read More
    Interesting material surfaced during the trial of Allen Sockabasin [BDN, Dec. 19]. Are state and Indian game wardens guiding out-of-staters in western Maine? Seems to me this would be a conflict of interest, a good way to corner the market. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
    [Columnist Joshua Reichert is] absolutely right — “logging is no way to prevent forest fires.” [“Smokey doesn’t need chainsaw,” BDN, Dec. 13]. This needs to be handled on a state level. The state shovels out millions of dollars to the Forestry Service, and its rangers,… Read More
    It has been years since I’ve written to the editorial pages of the Bangor Daily News. I am, however, compelled to write now. I am outraged both by the statement of Brewer Mayor Janet Cobb and by the tone of the article, “Conflict in Brewer,” in the BDN,… Read More
    Re: the new school agricultural building at Presque Isle High School. As there is a lot of trouble with this very successful program, there seems to be a problem with traffic on this very important street. If one were to look, the Methodist Church is… Read More
    The brouhaha concerning the television rating system is ridiculous. Whatever happened to common sense? Don’t we know that “Friends” or “NYPD Blue,” for example, are not suitable for viewing by children? What difference will a rating make? Why are parents so eager to surrender their responsibilities?… Read More
    VAN BUREN — A house was destroyed Thursday night by a fire that started in the living room, according to local fire officials. No injuries were reported in the fire at the residence of Scott Michaud on Park Street. The owner of the two-story house… Read More
    Calais District Court: Clayton H. Gay, 30, Machias, operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, $600, 20 days in jail, all but seven days suspended, one year probation with special conditions, license suspended 18 months; possession of marijuana, $200. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
    There I was, trying to work myself into a proper snit over “Ebonics,” the latest California-hatched scam to dumb down the country while simultaneously plundering the public till, when the phone rang. A Brewer man by the name of Larry Bryant said that I probably… Read More
    Thank you, Channel 7, for sharing the Bangor Symphony Orchestra-Robinson Ballet “Nutracker” with us on Dec. 21. The temporary blackout during the program was a disappointment, but a reminder of how important it is for our community to have access to the local artistic productions on which so… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Maine’s general fund revenue came in about 4 percent below estimates for November, but continue to exceed projections for the year, Gov. Angus King announced Friday. Revenue for the month totaled more than $124.9 million, or nearly $5.7 million below the budgeted figure. Read More
    CARIBOU — A Presque Isle man was ordered to serve 11 months in jail for burglarizing a church and stealing food from its kitchen. Ralph E. McAfee, 71, was charged with entering the Grant Memorial United Methodist Church in Presque Isle on May 13, 1995. Read More
    SOUTH PORTLAND — Laurence J. Reid, a veteran corrections official from Pennsylvania, will take over Feb. 15 as superintendent of the Maine Youth Center. Reid will succeed Richard Wyse as top administrator of Maine’s only juvenile corrections facility. Bruce Johnson has been serving as acting… Read More
    In a recent editorial [Dec.5], the Bangor Daily News relates that “GNP’s opponents” are “petitioning [the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] for new hearings” on the recently issued licenses for the Ripogenus and Penobscot Mills hydro-electric projects. You identify the Conservation Law Foundation as one of the oponents, together… Read More
    SKOWHEGAN — A Somerset County grand jury will be asked to return a manslaughter indictment in connection with a fiery pre-Thanksgiving crash that killed three Skowhegan-area residents, a prosecutor says. Kennebec-Somerset County District Attorney David W. Crook said he plans to present evidence to the… Read More