MADAWASKA – The Van Buren Crusaders went up by three points with 12 seconds remaining, then held off the Madawaska Owls in the waning seconds for a 60-59 schoolboy basketball win Tuesday night. Madawaska missed a 3-pointer, then put back the rebound for two points,… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – Phil Hodgkins hit eight foul shots in the fourth quarter, four in the last minutes, as Ellsworth hung on for a 55-47 win over Foxcroft Academy in schoolboy basketball action Tuesday. Hodgkins finished with 16 points to lead Ellsworth. Nick Johnston added 14. Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – Phil Hodgkins hit eight foul shots in the fourth quarter, four in the last minutes, as Ellsworth hung on for a 55-47 win over Foxcroft Academy in schoolboy basketball action Tuesday night. Hodgkins finished with 16 points to lead Ellsworth. Nick Johnston added… Read More
PITTSFIELD – Maine Central Institute had dug itself into a pretty good hole by halftime Tuesday night. Trailing by 10, the Huskies had committed 15 of the first half’s 22 fouls and were outrebounded 10-5 over the last eight minutes at MCI’s Wright Gymnasium. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
Some guy had the audacity to predict a decline in mountain biking in 1997. He didn’t offer any cycling credentials to back up his claim. Just another run-of-the-mill psychic cashing in on the new year’s hype. And he was taking the safe road. He was… Read More
College WENDY ATWOOD Wendy Atwood of the University of New England has been named the Fleet Bank/Maine Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. The junior guard from Fairfield averaged 25 points and 7.5 steals in two games for the Knights. Atwood made six… Read More
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BANGOR – The Bangor Rams have discovered that a special formula leads to success when playing Nokomis High School of Newport: 40 + 10 = 2. Warriors scoring leader Katie Nye wears No. 40. When you add tireless Bangor guard Kori Dionne (No. 10) to… Read More
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FREDERICTON, New Brunswick — Corroding pipes. Leaks of radioactive heavy water. Loose screws and pieces of wood floating somewhere in the reactor. Opposition politicians in New Brunswick said Tuesday the problems at a nuclear power plant within 30 miles of Maine sound like a recipe… Read More
BANGOR — A Greyhound bus leaving Bangor en route to Virginia played an unwitting role in the illegal transportation of several stolen firearms two years ago, according to case documents presented to the federal grand jury here Tuesday. James Michael Akers, 45, of Texas and… Read More
BANGOR — Maine Department of Transportation officials will explain a deck replacement project planned for the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, at City Hall. The project will involve closing the bridge to traffic and rerouting vehicles to the new Bangor-Brewer bridge… Read More
WISCASSET — A nuclear power plant run by the Louisiana company that has been picked to manage Maine Yankee was given poor scores by federal regulators after its most recent inspection. Performance ratings for the Waterford 3 plant in Taft, La., dropped in three out… Read More
ORONO — The Animal Orphanage will sponsor rabies clinics in Orono and Old Town during January. The first clinic will be held 3-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, at the Orono Fire Station. The second clinic will be held 1-2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at the… Read More
LAGRANGE — Fire swept through the interior of a mobile home Tuesday night off Route 16 in LaGrange, leaving Roger Trussell homeless and destroying his belongings. According to Trussell, he was sitting in his easy chair watching TV and heard a big bang. He found… Read More
CARIBOU — Local and county leaders are scheduled to meet Friday for a daylong session to figure out what needs to be done to boost the Caribou economy. The Caribou Development Corp. has invited Dr. Karen Pappin of Ontario to speak on economic development and… Read More
HUDSON — Town officials will hold a rabies clinic 6:30-7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, at the Hudson Fire Station, Route 221. All dogs must be on leashes and cats in containers. Dog licenses will be available at the clinic for Hudson residents. Fee is $5… Read More
After nine months of revision, the Department of Education has delivered a new version of a controversial plan to improve Maine schools by implementing statewide standards. The latest draft of the Learning Results is the subject of nine public hearings which will be held throughout… Read More
BANGOR — A fiscally healthy 1996 at Eastern Maine Medical Center allowed the hospital and its parent company, Eastern Maine Healthcare, to channel several million dollars into employee bonuses and community projects. Medical center trustees also agreed to freeze EMMC rates during the new year… Read More
We were happy to get an update from Katie Marquis of Old Town on the condition of her daughter, bone marrow transplant recipient Jessie Snyder. Jessie must be homebound to avoid exposure to germs, so she is being home-tutored as she continues her fifth-grade studies. Read More
AUBURN — A Belgrade motorist arrested after a traffic accident in Lewiston that took the life of a college-bound honor student was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for aggravated drunken driving. Daniel Asselin, 29, had faced a maximum of five years after pleading… Read More
BALTIMORE — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of Maryland death row inmate Steven H. Oken, a murderer whose victims included a motel clerk in Maine. Oken had appealed the Maryland Court of Appeals’ rejection of a post-conviction petition last year,… Read More
PORTLAND — Maine’s Roman Catholic bishop appealed to state regulators Tuesday to protect Mercy Hospital by rejecting a moneymaking managed care plan advanced by its larger competitor. Bishop Joseph Gerry said the for-profit HMO proposal offered by Maine Medical Center and Blue Cross and Blue… Read More
Aroostook County Superior Court: Bryan Thibeault, 22, Van Buren, tampering with witness, 12 months in jail, probation revocation, 353 days; eluding police officer, three years, all but 16 months suspended, two years probation; passing roadblock, 12 months; operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating… Read More
BANGOR — The Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine will hold a Martin Luther King Day celebration at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, at the center, 128 Main St. The program will be a three-part presentation featuring James Varner, president of the Bangor chapter… Read More
Some years ago, an American historian, referring to the brief agrarian-labor political rebellion of the late 19th century against the dominant business oligarchy of that era, labeled it “the populist moment.” The uprising was, indeed, momentary; it lasted less than a decade and was judged at the time… Read More
When Maine legislators consider a bill this session on physician-assisted suicide, they will face a question that the nation’s medical community has been unable to settle after long debate. Legislators should respect the enormity of what they are being asked to consider, recognizing that there are many steps… Read More
If you’ve seen the movie-musical “Evita,” then you know Madonna was well-cast as Eva Perone, the first lady of Argentine politics. It’s not that Madonna is an ace actor — though she’s come a long way since “Shanghai Surprise.” Nor is she an outstanding singer… Read More
WASHINGTON — President Clinton’s designated Pentagon chief, former Sen. William Cohen, will be working with the White House as he fills positions in the Defense Department, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The former GOP senator “will have the normal authority that a Cabinet secretary has… Read More
I want to thank the Bangor Daily News for its coverage of the governor’s proposal to phase out Maine Career Advantage as part of his two-year budget plan (“Career Moves,” Dec. 28-29). Since 1992 when the Maine Legislature created this program, many of us have watched it develop… Read More
The jab of flu shots. Gulping down little plastic cups of blue-green liquid to suppress coughs, ease headaches and dry up runny noses. Humidifiers pumping moist air. Cold season. Yukkk. It’s lousy being sick, but added to the misery is the feeling of helplessness. What… Read More
In a feature on Tuesday’s MaineStyle page, it was reported that interviewers for the “Women and Children on Family Farms up to 1940” project must be wives or children of farmers. Instead, project director Mary Jo Sanger said that volunteers may come from any type of background. Those… Read More
I’m a little confused by this business about reintroducing wolves into Maine. Wasn’t there something in the Bangor Daily News last year about the Fish and Wildlife folks’ efforts to discourage dog packs? If we just let the dogs do their thing, it seems like the effect would… Read More
ROCKLAND — Van Baalen Pacific Corp.’s free pass to dump tons of cardboard at the transfer station has been canceled. The City Council voted Monday to stop allowing the garment warehousing firm free disposal of cardboard and will start charging $35 per ton to handle… Read More
ROCKLAND — Lt. Todd Butler was picked Tuesday as the new chief deputy of the Knox County Sheriff’s Department. Butler, of Thomaston, has been with the Sheriff’s Department for 15 years, rising from patrol officer to detective, detective sergeant and, most recently, patrol administrator. He… Read More
LAGRANGE — A LaGrange man was arrested Tuesday night after he failed to appear in Hancock County Court on assault charges. Bruce Carey, 20, was apprehended by police in the basement of a friend’s house in LaGrange Tuesday night. Penobscot County Deputy Scott Young said… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Selectmen were urged Monday to offer school choice to SAD 68 students. Randy Thibeau, who circulated a petition last fall asking for school choice, and Frank Heller of Brunswick, state coordinator for the Maine School Choice Coalition, suggested that selectmen follow through with… Read More
BREWER — Before a packed audience at City Hall Tuesday night, the City Council voted unanimously to demolish a run-down house at 160 Wilson St., the home for the last five years of a tenacious tenant who lives without heat or electricity. The vote gives… Read More
BELFAST — The days of two separate personnel policies for Waldo County employees soon may be over. The odd situation of separate personnel policies resulted from the decertification of the deputies union at the Waldo County Sheriff’s Department in the mid-1970s. Although the union was… Read More
UNITY — Selectmen will seek authorization to spend $36,500 for completion of a sand-salt shed at a special town meeting to be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the new Masonic Lodge, Route 202. The funds would be transferred from uncommitted money to… Read More
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Acadia Naitonal Park invites public comment on the Environmental Assessment for Exchange of Lands between Southwest Harbor and the National Park Service. The service has proposed the exchange of 10.01 acres adjacent to Long Pond Road for three parcels of undeveloped land… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy and SAD 68 directors are at odds over who should control the special education program at the academy. SAD 68 now operates and funds the program throughout the district and the staff are considered district employees. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
After reading Professor Marquita Hill’s Oped [commentary] in your Jan. 4-5 issue, I had a few comments. We have heard and read a wide range of information about dioxin over the past 20 years or so, most of it confusing and contradictory. Professor Hill’s comments do shed some… Read More
It’s odd how one subject leads to another. V. Paul Reynolds’ “Drop in the bucket” (BDN letter, Jan. 7) defense of a modest outlay in Fisheries and Wildlife’s involvement in hydro-dam fishways is a case in point. Since I like and respect Reynolds, I assume his point, in… Read More
Considering that the Maine Yankee atomic power plant is now in cold shutdown, and in view of the fact that the “top to bottom” safety inspection of the fall of 1996 dealt with only 4 out of 40 safety systems, and failed to discover the crossed cables and… Read More
My father Will would not let me have dancing lessons. Maybe it was lack of money or Methodist puritanism. Besides, I was fat. This, however, did not stop my love for the ballet. In the interim, in the decades following his death, I heard many symphonies, read many… Read More
At a time when trust in government and in the American ideals is becoming more and more tenuous, as well as more and more needed, we are faced with the spectacle of having a self-proclaimed liar and cheat re-elected to the position of Speaker of the House of… Read More
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PORTLAND — Mainers befuddled by this winter’s unseasonably warm weather and relatively light snow accumulations may find an explanation in the jet stream. “We’ve been a little bit away from the active part of the jet stream,” said Al Wheeler, a National Weather Service meteorologist,… Read More
ORONO — Maine Media Women will accept entries for its statewide competition for work in communications including editing, writing, advertising, publicity, photography, books, poetry and speeches. Entries must have been published during 1996. Any by nonmembers must be by Maine residents and include a $10… Read More
MILLINOCKET — Avid readers such as Robert G. Speed, whose desk drawers and tall bookcase at home are filled with books, are upset that Mr. Paperback may leave this paper-mill town later this month. The bright red-and-blue letters on a large white banner hanging near… Read More
ATLANTA — Georgia-Pacific Corp. is laying off another 150 employees, bringing to 445 the number it has cut in the past nine months. The latest phase is part of a $400 million cost-cutting plan for the giant forest products company, which employs 47,000 people overall. Read More
Heating-oil prices in Maine remained steady for the fourth week in a row, coming in again this week at an average of $1.06 a gallon, the State Planning Office reported Tuesday. Average prices continued to be the lowest in southwestern and western sections of the… Read More
NEW YORK — International Paper Co. on Tuesday reported a $5 million loss in the fourth quarter due to a one-time charge related to its investment in Scitex Corp., a maker of computerized printing equipment. The loss came to 2 cents a share. It compared… Read More
VEAZIE — Police in Veazie are still searching for a male youth who tried to cash a stolen check and assaulted a clerk at a local market over the weekend. The incident occurred about noon Sunday at Lancaster’s Market at 1552 State St., when a… Read More
BANGOR — A trial testing the city’s new parade ordinance continued Tuesday, but again failed to conclude. The case against five pro-life activists began in state District Court here Dec. 26, was postponed to Tuesday, and now will be continued at an unpecified date. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
GRAND ISLE — Almost 20 percent of the residents of Grand Isle have signed a petition seeking a town policy that would prohibit the election of more than one person from any family or business partnership to municipal positions. The petition would make the policy… Read More
AUGUSTA — An emergency state budget that’s nearly $10 million lighter than the original version submitted by Gov. Angus King received initial legislative approval Tuesday. With virtually no discussion, the House and Senate passed the $14.6 million package, setting the stage for final votes on… Read More
AUGUSTA — A new study indicates that darkness, speed and alcohol are the three most common factors contributing to snowmobile deaths in Maine. Last year, 12 snowmobilers died in Maine — the most fatalities in 25 years. This year, no one has died yet on… Read More
AUGUSTA — Democrats in the State House were searching for the muscle in a Senate Republican agenda that highlighted GOP goals Tuesday without detailing any supportive legislation. As House Republicans looked on during a press conference, Senate Minority Leader Jane Amero, R-Cape Elizabeth, outlined the… Read More
HOULTON — “It’s the same old song.” That was how Terry Comeau, superintendent of the Southern Aroostook Community School District in Dyer Brook, described the latest state proposal to fund education. Comeau said Tuesday his district will get $173,000 less than last year under the… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Tuesday was the final day to return nomination papers for municipal elections in three communities in central Maine. In Newport, both of the incumbents on the Board of Selectmen, board Chairman Al Worden and Ron Goode, returned papers seeking re-election. Challenger Ken Fredette… Read More
AUGUSTA — Rebuffed by the courts and the Legislature, Maine’s Passamaquoddy Tribe still wants to operate a gambling casino and is trying to take its case to the people. Rep. Fred Moore III, the Passamaquoddy representative in the Legislature, is sponsoring a bill to send… Read More
CARIBOU — A New Hampshire snowmobiler was treated Tuesday for injuries suffered when he lost control of his sled on a trail in Caribou, according to a Warden Service spokesman. James Boiko, 30, was riding with five other sleds when he hit a small embankment… Read More
NEWPORT — Waste from paper manufacturing was touted as a friend and not an enemy of Sebasticook Lake at a meeting Tuesday. The Tuesday meeting brought together organizations and individuals involved with the Newport lake and concerned about the quality of its water. The group… Read More