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BREWER – Winslow High School, the defending state Class B hockey champion, received the quality goaltending it needed from junior Jon Taylor in the first period, then shifted into overdrive for a 5-0 win over a gritty Hampden Academy team at Bouchard Arena Wednesday. The… Read More
HODGDON – Hodgdon’s Darren Stewart hit eight foul shots in the fourth quarter to send the game into overtime and the two-time defending state champs showed their mettle from there, posting a 57-53 win over Limestone in a Class C preliminary game Wednesday. Stewart and… Read More
Manager Dick Phillips’ contract will not be renewed for the 1997 baseball season, the Bangor Blue Ox announced Wednesday. Phillips, who helped put together the first-year independent baseball squad, led the team to a 46-33 overall finish in the six-member Northeast League. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
CASTINE – Vanessa LeBlond’s 14 points led Maine Maritime Academy to a 43-24 women’s basketball victory over Unity College Wednesday night. Jessica Tebbets added 12 points and Lindsay Smith finished with 10 for the Mariners. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
For the first time in 11 years, WABI’s radio coverage of Eastern Maine basketball tournament action will be heard on both AM and FM. WABI (910 AM) will provide its traditional tournament coverage with a new twist this winter – sister station WWBX, or 97X… Read More
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High school MPA standings Old Town 148.69, Kennebunk 147.29, Biddeford 143.06, Hampden Academy 131.22, Mt. Valley 129.63, Medomak 128.68, Belfast 128.68, Noble 123.12, Waterville 110.36, Camden 95.81… Read More
BANGOR – Jennifer Harriman had 15 points and 10 rebounds as Bangor won its 10th schoolgirl basketball game 44-29 over Big East rival Nokomis Wednesday. Emily Morse added 12 points for the Rams. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
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MILLINOCKET – The question entering Wentworth Gymnasium was which Red Riots team would show up: the one known to live large from the three-point arc or the one which had trouble hitting 30 percent from the floor? Unfortunately for eighth-seeded Stearns of Millinocket, the Orono… Read More
PERKINS TOWNSHIP — A mother bear whose adopted beagle was rescued by its owner and a team of wildlife experts has returned to her 2-month-old cubs, allaying fears they had been abandoned. The 300-pound bruin ran off Monday after a game warden and state biologists… Read More
CALAIS — The planning board Tuesday unanimously rejected a request from San Francisco developer Sidney Unobskey to change the zoning of properties on the north side of High and Monroe streets near the former Rich’s Department Store from residential to commercial. Machias attorney Norman Toffolon… Read More
LINCOLN — A Bangor-based furniture manufacturer is eyeing the former J.J. Newberry Store in downtown Lincoln as a possible new location. But Darren Corcoran, the owner of Geppeto’s Workshop Inc. of Bangor, isn’t the only business interested in the vacant Main Street store. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
BATH — In a protest timed to coincide with Ash Wednesday, antiwar activist Philip Berrigan and five others allegedly broke into a defense contractor’s site and spread what appeared to be blood on a Navy ship. Berrigan, an excommunicated Catholic priest from Baltimore, and the… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — A former Pittsfield man is suing his two half brothers, who still live in the area, for his share of their father’s estate. Chad H. Friend, 23, of West Palm Beach, Fla., filed a civil lawsuit last week in Somerset County Superior Court,… Read More
GUILFORD — SAD 4 directors on Tuesday extended the contract of Bruce Lindberg, principal at Piscataquis Community High School, through June 30, 1999. They also agreed to form a search committee for a principal at Piscataquis Community Middle School. Current Principal Greg Bellemare was hired… Read More
BANGOR — The last of four participants in a bomb scare aimed at taking cash from an Old Town grocery store has been sentenced in Penobscot County Superior Court. On Tuesday, Erin Green, 19, of Dexter received a prison sentence of five years, with all… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Sayward Carolin of Dover-Foxcroft has received the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest honor a Girl Scout can receive. She is a junior at Foxcroft Academy and is the daughter of Lisa Laser and Michael Carolin. Carolin’s community service project was to develop… Read More
PITTSFIELD — A well-known local man, Gerald Trecartin of Middle Street, died Wednesday morning after he suffered an aneurism while driving on Route 100. Trecartin lapsed into a coma and slowly drove off the road, said Police Chief Steven Emery. He later died at Sebasticook… Read More
HOULTON — After a decision last month by the Town Council not to fund an agency that assists the elderly, the board at its Monday meeting discussed options for future funding to nonmunicipal, social-service groups. One option could put the entire issue before local voters… Read More
BANGOR — Participants will include wrestlers, mathematicians, artists and musicians, but the focus of the competition is something they have in common: chess. Students from kindergarten through grade 12 will come together at John Bapst Memorial High School over the next couple of months for… Read More
PORTLAND — Mental health and law enforcement officials have been given 30 days to decide what to do with convicted kidnapper Norman Dickinson. Dickinson, 27, returned to his hometown of Portland last month after his release from state prison, but was sent back to the… Read More
BOSTON — Talking on a cellular phone behind the wheel is about as risky as driving close to legally drunk, a study found. Using a car phone while driving quadruples the risk of an accident, researchers in Canada reported in Thursday’s issue of the New… Read More
AUGUSTA — After months of dangling the lure of empty warehouses and acres of land, developers for the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone have landed both a major manufacturing firm and a huge PHISH. A nationally known manufacturer of hardwood gymnasium floors is… Read More
AUGUSTA — It won’t completely solve the “China Lake Syndrome,” but new regulations adopted Wednesday by the Board of Environmental Protection will buy time until the state develops a more comprehensive program to keep Maine lakes from turning green with algae. In a 4-2 vote,… Read More
Once upon a time, fishing was fun. Bait a hook. Tie on a fly. Feel the sun in your face and listen to the hum of insects. For members of the Sunkhaze Stream Chapter of Trout Unlimited, the only thing in their face these days… Read More
It was a delicious piece of news. The prim and proper Victorians, it seems, had a penchant for naughty valentines. “On the surface they all appeared to be so pristine, so beautifully varnished — and yet underneath was an underlying disposition toward the ribald,” said… Read More
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers Wednesday proved that term limits may be popular at home but poison on Capitol Hill. For the second straight session, the House Wednesday failed to garner a two-thirds majority needed to pass a constitutional amendment to limit lawmakers’ length of service here… Read More
In 1974, Tony Shalhoub, Antonio on the sitcom “Wings” and a star in the film “Big Night,” was playing the role of Sitting Bull in Arthur Kopit’s sardonic, tragic farce “Indians.” In early rehearsals, he was struggling with a speech that set him and the rest of the… Read More
WASHINGTON — The United States must be extremely reluctant to deploy troops for missions that are less than vital to the national interest, Defense Secretary William Cohen told lawmakers Wednesday. While defending the Bosnia mission now under way, the new defense chief said he is… Read More
It’s time to end the use of our tax dollars — more than $7.5 billion a year — subsidizing arms sales to countries around the world. It’s time to cut the 6,400 government employees who service these arms sales on behalf of giant U.S. weapons… Read More
Negotiated by President Ronald Reagan and signed by President George Bush, the Chemical Weapons Convention, a treaty banning the production and use of poison gas, now is being held up by Republican senators. Their refusal to endorse the treaty threatens this country’s role in ensuring that all nations… Read More
Dede Johnson, the artistic director of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Hancock County, has a bevy of actors clustered around her at the Maine Center for the Arts. They are about to go into a rehearsal of “The Mikado,” and Johnson has notes on choreography, projection, and… Read More
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND — Fewer than 70 residents showed up at the annual meeting Wednesday evening to consider a $3.5 million budget for Mount Desert Island High School, the lowest voter turnout in recent memory. With only one person, George Peckham of the town of… Read More
ST. ALBANS — A 57-year-old St. Albans man was killed Wednesday morning when he fell through the ceiling of his garage while insulating the structure. Errol Bowman of the Denbow Road fell 16 feet to the concrete floor, striking his head. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
AUGUSTA — Sun Life of Canada has agreed to establish a $2.3 million fund to compensate up to 64 investors who were sold securities investments by two former company agents who are alleged to have violated securities law, Attorney General Andrew Ketterer announced Wednesday. Sun… Read More
BATH — Maine’s congressional delegation expressed concern Wednesday about reports that the Navy may shift work on its Aegis destroyer program from Bath Iron Works to a competing shipyard in Mississippi. In a letter to Navy Secretary John Dalton, the delegation said the Navy must… Read More
Bangor District Court: Lawrence R. Hall, 48, West Roxbury, Mass., speeding, $70. 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
BANGOR — A strategic plan for the future of Bass Park is officially on the table, thanks to Wednesday’s presentation to the City Council by several members of a committee that has been working on the project for nearly 10 months. Pieces of that plan… Read More
BELFAST — The Waldo County commissioners have figured a way to keep the tax rate the same as last year, but they need the approval of the budget committee before they can put it in place. The solution deals with borrowing in anticipation of taxes. Read More
BANGOR — A proposed chemical-free dance club cleared a big hurdle Wednesday evening when the board of appeals granted it a parking variance for the lower level of 190 Harlow St. Outback will probably open at 7 p.m. Tuesday, said club director and former rock… Read More
JAY — Wausau Paper Mills Co. announced Wednesday a tentative agreement to buy Otis Specialty Papers for $58 million. The Wisconsin-based maker of printing, writing and technical specialty papers said it has signed a letter of intent with Otis’ parent company, Rexam Inc., a unit… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — As Regina Brewer conducted a tour Tuesday afternoon of a newly built ranch home on Main Street in Skowhegan, she dreamed of putting her own furniture in the living room. She envisioned her three little girls playing in the back yard and thought of the many… Read More
Traditional fisheries such as lobstering, scalloping, and sea urchin harvesting are in jeopardy by a new threat from Augusta and Washington. The Department of Commerce, the National Wildlife Foundation, and the Department of Marine Resources are using our tax dollars to subsidize a new aquaculture… Read More
The millage raised for education in School Union 122 — Woodland, New Sweeden, and Stockholm — is near the highest in Aroostook County and certainly above the state average. The schools do not have gifted and talented or art programs. We have cut staff and reduced guidance, physical… Read More
The same issue of the Bangor Daiy News, Feb. 3, which reported that the number of sexual assaults nationwide is the lowest since 1989, also contained news of two reported rapes in the Bangor area. Is it possible that this crime is increasing in our area but not… Read More
I am writing concerning the Associated Press article, reprinted in the NEWS on Feb. 10, concerning the judicial selection process for the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. The article quoted certain critics, prominent in the Democratic Party, who complained both about Congressman John Baldacci’s judicial… Read More
A wonderful Valentine’s Day gift is available, right now, to many Maine babies. But others must wait for volunteer truckers to get this gift to them. The Good Shepherd Food-Bank of Lewiston has 1,000 cases of baby formula that it is attempting to deliver to… Read More
AUGUSTA — You can have a strong university without economic development, but you can’t have economic development without a strong university. That was a conclusion of E.J. Lovett, who headed up a committee looking at Maine’s technology needs in the future, the results of which… Read More
Machias District Court: James R. Murray, 22, Pembroke, two counts of criminal mischief, seven days in jail for each offense to be served concurrently, restitution of $144.80 for each offense to District Attorney’s Office. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
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SKOWHEGAN — Sheriff Barry Delong was singing an old tune to the Somerset County commissioners Wednesday morning, but he sang the jailhouse blues with a new urgency. “Our jail is totally inadequate by today’s standards,” said Delong. The sheriff presented a laundry list of problems… Read More
John Michael, like Stephen Bost, is a John Martin-era Democrat who wandered from the party. Both served in the Legislature during the era when Democrats began their ascendency in Augusta. Bost left to become Ross Perot’s Maine point man and later ran himself as an… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The SAD 68 budget advisory committee is pondering the possible closure of the Mayo Street Elementary School as one of several avenues to decrease an anticipated $600,000 gap in funding next year. Superintendent Ann Bridge said the district’s budget advisory committee has been… Read More
ROCKPORT — The benefits of the $2 billion, 600-mile natural gas pipeline planned for 1999 are not likely to extend to Aroostook County, according to William C. Penney, vice president and project manager of the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline Co. But the project could bring as many as… Read More
It’s crunch time in many of the small town offices across the state. With February winding down and March looming on the horizon, it’s time to gather the auditors’ reports, town officer reports, department reports and prepare the list of articles for annual town meetings. Read More
DYER BROOK — A loss of state education funding to the Southern Aroostook Community School District for the 1997-98 school year could result in staff cuts. At a school committee meeting Monday night, Superintendent of Schools Terry Comeau said that under the present 1 percent… Read More
BIDDEFORD — A star basketball player could have his probation revoked for a Christmas Day collision that seriously injured a Saco police officer. A judge Wednesday ordered a March 19 hearing to decide whether James Saccuzzo, 18, violated his probation because of the crash that… Read More
ST. FRANCIS — About $18,000 in property tax money is missing in this small town in the St. John Valley. The Maine State Police received a report of a burglary from the home of Tax Collector Belinda Michaud on Feb. 3. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Dover-Foxcroft man’s effort to have voters decide school choice was temporarily thwarted Monday when selectmen passed over his request. Earlier this year, Randy Thibeau presented selectmen a petition asking the board to draft an ordinance which would create a voucher system for… Read More
AUGUSTA — A statewide survey done by state agencies and the University of Maine draws some chilling conclusions about the incidence of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drug abuse in grades six through 12. Girls are smoking more than boys while 24 percent of all… Read More
MACHIAS — Two college students who died in an automobile accident Tuesday in Cooper were described as “winners,” as family and friends struggled to cope with their tragedy. Staff and students at the University of Maine at Machias who knew Jessica Kelley, 20, of Princeton… Read More
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Once it seemed there always would be plenty of lobsters in the sea. But in recent years, more fishermen have turned to lobster as a source of income and more efficient traps and technology made the crustaceans easier to find and catch. Read More
Jim Haslam knows about poor soil. His acre-plus on Lamoine’s Raccoon Cove is just right for a modest home; he just can’t put any plumbing in it. The soil isn’t good enough for an underground septic system. Not too far through the woods and around… Read More
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