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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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    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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 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
    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
    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