BREWER – The Brewer Witches broke a 34-game losing streak with a 50-46, comeback win over Caribou Saturday. Leslie Trott scored 15 points and Liz Boone had 10 to pace the Witches. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
DURHAM, N.H. – The University of Maine men’s basketball team survived eight ties and four lead changes to post a 57-53 America East win over the University of New Hampshire at Whittemore Center Saturday night. The win was the Black Bears’ first conference road victory… Read More
ORONO – Sunday was a big day in many ways for the University of Maine women’s basketball team. The Black Bears built a bulky early lead, only to suffer a sizeable second-half lapse. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
ORONO – Clad in Brewer track T-shirts, the three girls manning the trophy table were just one more sure sign of things to come Saturday. With four wins and 13 more point-worthy finishes, Brewer earned an overwhelming win at the Penobscot Valley Conference-Eastern Maine Indoor… Read More
BUCKSPORT – The Camden-Rockport High School Windjammers made a statement at the Eastern Maine Class B wrestling championships Saturday. Despite having only two seniors, the Windjammers will send 13 wrestlers to next Saturday’s state B meet in Belfast as the result of their impressive showing. Read More
ORONO – Before long jumper John Schwarze twisted his ankle and turned it into a bulging, bulbous mass, before coach Dave Jeffrey suspended his best distance runner and threw his second-best 600 man off the Brewer track team for disciplinary reasons, the number that mattered most to the… Read More
CALAIS – The Dexter High School Tigers placed 10 wrestlers in the finals, including Aaron Thompson, who hadn’t wrestled in more than a year, and they went on to edge Penobscot Valley of Howland by 7 1/2 points to win the Eastern Maine Class C Championship Saturday. Read More
BANGOR – For only the second time in the last 18 years, a school other than Bangor High School celebrated a Penobscot Valley Conference boys swimming championship. And both of those times, the Old Town Indians have been the team to break Bangor’s string. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BANGOR – For Machias Memorial High School – “Grease” is definitely the word. The cheerleading squad performed to the Broadway hit theme song and danced, chanted and tumbled their way to the school’s first state championship by a girls team. Machias claimed the Class D… Read More
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Maine’s Julia Kirtland broke away over the final 10 miles to win the U.S. Women’s Marathon Championship by nearly 1 1/2 minutes. Kirtland, who does her winter training in Columbia, passed early leader Jeanne Peterson along the 16th mile of the rain-slicked… Read More
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PRESQUE ISLE – Kasey Keenan fired in 24 points to power Presque Isle to the 91-72 Big East schoolboy basketball win Saturday. Jon Blanchard scored 18 points and Travis Mastro chipped in 14 for Presque Isle. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Jeff Gordon, mostly silent through the first few days of Daytona’s Speed Weeks, came to life Sunday by winning the Busch Clash. In a race marked by surprisingly little action, Gordon started last in the 14-car field. The 20-lap, 50-mile race… Read More
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Mike Skinner of Susanville, Calif., surprised the Daytona 500 field when he captured the pole during first-round qualifying Saturday. Skinner directed his Chevy to an average speed of 189.813. Steve Grissom placed second and Dale Jarrett took third. Maine native Ricky… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – The Presque Isle Wildcats went on a 19-8 third quarter run to defeat the Nokomis Warriors 53-34 in schoolgirl basketball action Saturday. Kim Condon scorched the nets for 26 points for Presque Isle. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
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The shift in the provision of mental health services from large, centralized institutions to community-based services has created a good deal of discussion about how mental health clients are served in Maine. As the president of the Maine Association of Mental Health Services, I have experienced first hand… Read More
CAMDEN — One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. “It all depends whose side you are on,” said David E. Long, one of the Sunday speakers at the 10th annual Camden Conference. The weekend conference drew capacity crowds to the Camden Opera House and… Read More
As chairman of the Board of Selectmen for the town of Trenton, I feel a sense of obligation to our community to explain and clarify recent newspaper articles in the Bangor Daily News and Ellsworth American wherein the town is heavily criticized for failing to provide assistance to… Read More
A caption published Saturday incorrectly identified a photo regarding Monson’s 175th anniversary. The building pictured is not owned by the Monson Historical Society. The building no longer exists and is actually where the Monson municipal building is located. The winner of Friday’s junior varsity basketball… Read More
Marta Collins of Bath contacted Northeast COMBAT. She told us that television was her only entertainment. Collins stated, “I watch TV with a little note pad and I take down the necessary information when interesting mail order commercials flash on the screen. I love music and memories of… Read More
ROCKLAND — A probably bogus distress call, in which a captain claimed his fishing boat, the Black Bitch, had struck a rock and was sinking Friday night, triggered a four-hour search by the U.S. Coast Guard and wound up costing taxpayers more than $40,000. Just… Read More
For tax-cutting inspiration, Gov. Angus King last week turned to Maine’s only U.S. neighbor, New Hampshire. The Granite State is renowned for its government parsimony, but Maine should use care in adopting its practices. The governor, in his State of the State address, praised New… Read More
Maine potatoes, in a paper bag, looked good through the fabric window. Emptied on the counter, they were washed clean, of uniform size, free of bruises and deep cuts. If the contents inside every bag compare favorably with this one, consumers throughout Maine and the Northeast are receiving… Read More
AUGUSTA — Police searched Sunday for a man who commandeered a car in Pennsylvania and forced the owner to take him to Maine before abandoning the vehicle. A state trooper on Saturday found a blue 1987 BMW sedan belonging to Joseph Caviston, 34, who was… Read More
Daily, via the news media, teachers and police, we are made aware of the many serious social problems in our country. A primary one is problems with our young people. After spending money on none-too successful remedial programs, having discussions on radio and TV and… Read More
A dog nearly beaten to death with a lead pipe; another dog allowed to freeze into the ground during last winter’s brutal cold; a tiny cat shot in the head with an arrow; another unfortunate feline kicked around like a soccer ball; seven puppies thrown into a stream… Read More
I was very pleased to see the extended front-page article in the Jan. 31 edition of the Bangor Daily News reporting on the recent progress and success of the Higgins Classical Institute. In addition to Higgins and the other schools mentioned in that article, your… Read More
I want to compliment the Bangor Daily News for the positive news story featured on Feb.1-2, “Saved by an angel,” written about the young Brewer man rescuing the wandering young child from the cold. I would like to share my own story about two reoccuring… Read More
AUBURN — Fire broke out Sunday at an automobile parts manufacturing plant storage yard, sending a thick cloud of black smoke billowing into the air. It took firefighters from Auburn and neighboring communities about six hours to contain the fire at Gates Formed Fibre Products… Read More
AUGUSTA — Even as Maine’s new curbs on campaign contributions are being challenged in court, lobbyists themselves are taking steps to impose a ban on in-session campaign gifts by themselves and their clients. Jon Doyle, one lobbyist involved in the push, calls it “a good… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — In a dark cave 100 feet below the surface of the Pacific, hidden in the tissue of a rare sea creature, scientists found one of the most powerful cancer-fighting compounds they’d ever seen. They have not been able to find it again. Read More
SOUTH BERWICK — They don’t advertise. There isn’t even a sign on the cluttered home garages where they work. But business is booming for two small-town Maine men, with calls coming in from Australia, Germany, a multimillionaire in New York City and a collector in New Orleans. Read More
GREENVILLE — When a swarm of neon snowmobiles buzzed around a corner at Squaw Mountain Saturday morning, a waiting platoon of camouflage-wearing, gun-toting Marines stepped back to let them pass. The drivers slowed their sleek machines, and some waved as their helmets flashed by in… Read More
MACHIAS — Improvements have been made to the Rose M. Gaffney Elementary School, a building state officials last year described as “sick.” Those improvements have allowed some pupils who suffered from a variety of ailments to return to school, but the issue still has not… Read More
NORTH HAVEN — This little Penobscot Bay island is proud to be one of those rare places where drivers, without exception, wave at oncoming cars. Even a stranger cruising the narrow, winding lanes gets the index-finger waggle, if not a full-arm howdy. These days, that… Read More
It looked a little like a baby beauty pageant Sunday on the second floor at Eastern Maine Medical Center, with dozens of pink-cheeked baby boys and picture-perfect little girls in ruffled red velvet dresses. The babies weren’t there to compete for prizes — the cupcakes… Read More
It was the aroma that first intrigued me. Instead of waking to the familiar Sunday morning smells of eggy French toast or the sharp, acrid bite of burning pancakes, I was aroused by the heady, perfumed scent of nutmeg. Warm wafts of air, cushioned with a yeasty, bread-like… Read More
AUGUSTA — State officials will need at least another year beyond a June 30 deadline to complete support plans for mental patients living in Maine communities, a court master says. Gerald Rodman, who oversees an Augusta Mental Health Institute consent decree that calls for the… Read More
Local supporters of the Children’s Miracle Network are hoping for lots of snow this month. That could help make their first Snowmobile Poker Run, beginning at 10 a.m. Feb. 22, at the East Corinth Snowmobile Club, a great success. And nothing could make organizer Cindy… Read More
It’s a safe bet Shakespeare never envisioned his plays becoming a tool for teaching science, but that concept makes perfect sense to Robert Gridley. The Orono Middle School science teacher demonstrated the technique during one of several workshops at “The Arts in Our Schools” conference at Husson College… Read More
PORTLAND — A Portland cabbie was in critical but stable condition Sunday after being shot four times and robbed in a parking lot late Saturday night, police said. Merrit Warren, 56, a cab driver and co-owner of the Kleen Taxi Co., called police at 11:30… Read More
FORT KENT — Temperatures hovered around zero at 1 p.m. Saturday but children and adults were undeterred, as the sun shone bright on their colorful parade for the town’s spirited sixth annual, six-day Mardi Gras Festival. Bright, colorfully costumed characters threw purple, orange and pink… Read More
MADAWASKA — A three-day snowmobilers festival roared to life Friday night when approximately $5 million worth of snowmobiles traveled across the international bridge between Edmundston, New Brunswick, and Madawaska. It took less than one hour to get the parade of nearly 500 machines from a… Read More
PORTLAND — Maine’s ranking elected Democrat is being criticized by influential members of his party for the procedure he used to pick candidates for a seat on the federal appeals court bench. U.S. Rep. John Baldacci, who represents the 2nd District, formed an 18-member committee… Read More
Three separate snowmobile accidents over the weekend sent three people to area hospitals. A Lincoln man was in intensive care at Penobscot Valley Hospital after a Sunday accident at Nicatous Lake. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
HOULTON — There is a bumper sticker seen around northern Maine that touts life in Aroostook County as “The way Maine used to be.” That was certainly true in Houlton with the return Saturday and Sunday of Moose Stompers Weekend. A variety of winter and… Read More
BANGOR — Convicted kidnapper Norman Dickinson may be on his way back to southern Maine, but he isn’t taking all of this city’s concerns with him. Councilor Michael Aube’s resolution that objects to the way the Department of Corrections transferred the Portland man to Bangor… Read More
BANGOR — The City Council will vote tonight on the 1995-1998 collective bargaining agreement with the 45 patrol officers in Teamsters Local 340. If ratified, the agreement would bring the total number of current contracts with city unions to six. Contracts already have been approved… Read More