ORONO – Freshman center Ben Guite should ask Maine hockey coach Shawn Walsh if he could schedule some non-league games against Providence College next season in addition to their three regular season meetings. Guite scored his fourth and fifth goals in three games against the… Read More
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    PORTLAND – Mt. Blue of Farmington quarterback Dustin Ireland, who passed for more than 4,000 yards in the last three seasons, was awarded the 26th annual James J. Fitzpatrick Trophy as the state’s best senior player at a ceremony at the Holiday Inn-By The Bay Sunday night. Read More
    ORONO – University of Maine basketball coach John Giannini said there were a number of breakdowns that occurred during his team’s heartbreaking 65-62 loss to Delaware at Alfond Arena on Saturday afternoon. But as he readily admitted, late lapses in close games are remembered more… Read More
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    NEWARK, Del. – Four years ago, Cindy Blodgett remembers talking at length with Delaware basketball coach Tina Martin about their favorite athlete, former Boston Celtics great Larry Bird. At that time Blodgett was finishing up a brilliant scholastic career at Lawrence High School before taking… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE – UMaine-Presque Isle placed 13 different players in the scoring column en route to a 120-77 win over Thomas College. Ray King and Willie Rivera scored 18 points apiece to pace the University of Maine-Presque Isle. Brian Coleman and Jeffrey Joseph added 16… Read More
    GREENVILLE — Five snowmobile accidents sent several people to area hospitals this weekend, including one man from Port Clyde who was seriously injured when he crashed his snowmobile head-on into a Jeep Cherokee on a town road near Greenville. According to Maine Warden spokesman V. Read More
    A year ago Project DAL — Detectors Are Lifesavers — was getting organized. Today it is up and running, and such a success that DAL chairman Lt. Jason Johnson of the Bangor Fire Department Fire Prevention Bureau had to go out Friday and buy more supplies. Read More
    The special counsel investigating charges against Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich submitted his report to the House Ethics Committee last week, but it hardly matters what it contains. The positions of the committee members are so hardened that, short of the speaker being accused a major crime… Read More
    A list of faculty retiring from the University of Maine which ran Saturday incorrectly listed David H. Clark as being with the physics department. He is in economics. Read More
    Food is the single largest necessity in most family budgets. Here are some ideas on what and how to buy from grocery stores in order to stretch your dollars. Before you go to the store, make a shopping list, organized by your menus for the… Read More
    Once recognized nationally for having the nation’s worst Workers’ Compensation insurance program, Maine now is moving up through the middle of the pack and eventually might emerge as the poster state for intelligent reform of abysmal systems. “Might” is the operative word. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
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    Belfast District Court: Mark A. Grenier, 40, Waterville, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, $1,000, 364 days in jail, all but 30 days suspended, probation for one year, license suspended for one year; habitual motor vehicle offender, 364 days in… Read More
    Aroostook County woke up Sunday to a record 32 degrees below zero, according to the National Weather Service office in Caribou. The reading broke the previous record low temperature for Jan. 19, which was -26 degrees and was set in 1976, said the weather office, where the readings… Read More
    OLD TOWN — A motorcade will gather at the Ames parking lot in Orono Tuesday to welcome home the Old Town High School Marching Band from the presidential inaugural activities and parade in Washington, D.C., at approximately 10 p.m., the estimated time of arrival. The… Read More
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    AUGUSTA — The Center for Policy Alternatives has announced that Maine Senate Majority Leader Chellie Pingree, D-North Haven, has been named to the 1997 Flemming Fellows Leadership Institute. Flemming Fellows is a group of 35 state legislators from across the country chosen for leadership, dedication… Read More
    Bangor District Court: Keith Baumm, 28, Belfast, operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, $600, seven days in jail, $20 per day board fee, license suspended 90 days. Read More
    Early in the fall, my wife and I took some time to visit my parents. While on a walk, to our horror, we came upon a young opossum in a leg-hold trap. Emaciated, cold, in pain and obviously in this condition for days, he was barely alive. The… Read More
    I have followed with interest your coverage of late of Jonathan Carter’s latest brainchild, the Forest Ecology Network. Also of interest are some of the bills he has sponsored through legislators. First, his bill that would eliminate clear-cutting statewide must, indeed, mean no new development… Read More
    It was announced on the news that state Se. John Benoit of Sandy River Plantation was going to introduce a bill into the Legislature in the upcoming session for reinstatement of the death penalty in Maine. Ironically, this news bite took less time than electrocution or lethal injection… Read More
    I am writing in response to what was said about William S. Cohen. Bill Cohen has done more for the state of Maine and the people in it than you could possibly know. Thanks to him, and to others like Olympia Snowe and George Mitchell,… Read More
    ROCKLAND — Everyone agrees that choosing the waterfront location for the municipal treatment plant in 1974 was a colossal blunder. Virtually everyone agrees that the plant, now the cause of serious odor problems during tourist-rich summer months, would ideally be located elsewhere. But will voters… Read More
    SEDGWICK — A small trailer was destroyed by fire Saturday at the Rodney Gray residence on the Ridge Road. No one was injured in the blaze that drew dozens of volunteer firefighters from four towns. The fire broke out in a small, unoccupied trailer next… Read More
    The Bangor Police Department is investigating the thefts of $5,500 in computer equipment and food supplies late last week at a Bangor restaurant and a Bangor church. Officers are looking into burglaries at Captain Nick’s Seafood House on Union Street and the First United Methodist… Read More
    GLENBURN — Matthew Zamejtis-Brown of Glenburn has received his Eagle Scout rank, the highest in Scouting. He is the son of Edward and Sally Brown of Glenburn and is a member of Troop 302. Brown is a senior honor student at John Bapst Memorial High… Read More
    EDDINGTON — Nomination papers must be returned Tuesday by candidates for four town offices. One-year terms as treasurer and school board member are open, and three-year terms for school board member and selectman. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
    HAMPDEN — Hampden police are still looking for two men, possibly three, involved in an armed robbery at a trailer park here Saturday night. Joseph Brill and a friend of his, Michael Colby of Bangor, were reportedly drinking beer and playing cribbage at about 6:45… Read More
    Aroostook County Superior Court: Raymond McIntosh, 24, Ashland, operating after habitual offender revocation, two years in jail, all but 10 months suspended, one year probation; operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, six months in jail, four-year license suspension, $1,000; failure… Read More
    A Greenfield woman who was shot in the chest but feigned death to escape further harm by her live-in companion was upgraded to fair condition at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Drinda McBreairty, 52, was shot around 1:30 a.m. Friday by William Riches, a… Read More
    ST. AGATHA — Two Cross Lake teen-agers remained in critical condition Sunday at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor after an accident late Friday, according to state police and hospital officials. Jarvis Penninger Jr., 19, and Jules St. Peter, 18, suffered head injuries when their… Read More
    GREENVILLE — A contract that includes a 2.9 percent increase in salaries for support staff was approved by the Greenville School Committee Wednesday. Because the support staff has been operating without a contract for the 1995-96 and 1996-97 school years, a contract was approved Wednesday… Read More
    BANGOR — Frigid temperatures caused a sprinkler head to burst Friday at Bangor International Airport’s new air traffic control tower. On Sunday, tower officials were still assessing the damage from water that flowed from the sprinkler head into a fourth-level, unused shaft that contained duct… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — Courtney Vashro had to forsake ice hockey when she decided to attend College of the Atlantic, but she discovered a more exciting avocation once she got there. Instead of aiming slap shots at a goal, Vashro used a crossbow to fire darts… Read More