CARRABASSETT VALLEY – New Englanders, specifically Patriots fans, will have to excuse Sacha Gros, newly crowned U.S. giant slalom champion and John Elway fan. The Coloradan did win his first U.S. title his first year on the U.S. Ski Team Saturday as he captured the… Read More
    ROCK HILL, S.C. – The University of Maine women’s softball team split a pair of games Saturday in the Winthrop Invitational tournament. Maine beat Virginia Tech 11-3 and lost to Akron 4-2. Maine finished first-round play in the tournament with a 2-2 record and is… Read More
    HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – The University of Maine benfited from 11 Hofstra errors in the second game, earning a split of Sunday’s America East baseball doubleheader on Long Island. Hofstra won the opener 4-1, but Maine bounced back for a 15-7 win in the second game. Read More
    College AT ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND Navy men 143, Maine 56, Columbia 52.5, Delaware 31.5, Colgate 12, Bucknell no score 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++)… Read More
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    DARLINGTON, S.C. – Dale Jarrett finally overpowered the track that’s supposed to be “too tough to tame,” dominating the field Sunday in the TranSouth Financial 400. Maine native Ricky Craven, who qualified in second, crashed with Robert Pressley on lap 163 and left the race. Read More
    High school CLASS A ALL-STATE TEAM First team goalies: Jon Leino (Lewiston) and J.D. Hadiaras (Thornton); Defense: keith Genest (Cony), Russ Chapman (Lewiston), Chad Laliberte (St. Doms) and Chad Hart (Waterville); Forwards: Tom Langlois (Lewiston), Matt Greason and Jeff Mercier (North Yarmouth), Tim Desmarais (St. Read More
    APPLETON — Never mess with the Fire Department. Appleton selectmen relearned that municipal lesson Saturday afternoon during the town’s last March town meeting. Voters sided with the Fire Department over their economy-minded selectmen as they adopted an 18-month budget which will move the town meeting… Read More
    RESTON, Va. — The American Cancer Society recommended Sunday that women begin annual mammograms at age 40, and the National Cancer Institute may soon reverse itself and adopt similar guidelines. Until now, the cancer society has urged mammograms every year or two to look for… Read More
    Like a shortstop trying to catch a wild throw from out in left field, I will try to snag two misconceptions expressed by Chris Holmes in a Bangor Daily News Op-ed comomentary on March 11. I take particular issue with Holmes’ arguments that Maine’s teacher educators are out… Read More
    The Robinson Ballet Company stepped into spring over the weekend with its annual dance exposition, this year called “A Festival of Motion” and performed Friday and Saturday in Peakes Auditorium at Bangor High School. There were bursts of innovative charm, and much of the rest of the two-hour… Read More
    One year ago, the Bangor City Council voted to delay any increases in the sewer rate until July 1997. It was a welcome respite for Bangor ratepayers, who had seen sewer fees more than triple since 1988. City officials now say there will be no… Read More
    One day last week at noon in the food court of the beautifully restored Union Station in our nation’s capital, I was one of three dietitians seeking lunch. A throng of people of every age, size and nationality filled hundreds of tables and chairs — all eating and… Read More
    Reading is my field, and teaching reading is my area of expertise. Generally, though, I stay out of the “reading wars;” they gain momentum from the extreme proponents of phonics or whole language and neglect the realistic middle ground — one can’t read without phonics, and there is… Read More
    Madawaska High School Second quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Christina Baron, Connie Bellefleur, Ryan Cyr, Tina Dechaine, Jessie Dionne, Sarah Doucette, Andrew Gendreau, Tina Nadeau and Amy Pelletier; honors: Brianne Albert, Steve Ayotte, Jana Bauerova, Becky Bourgoin, Monique Cormier, Anne Cyr, Jessica Cyr, Laurie… Read More
    Would you know how to escape safely if your house caught on fire? Many people do not have a planned escape route. According to the National Fire Protection Association, everyone should map out two fire escape routes and test them. When planning your escape routes,… Read More
    By backing away from appointing a commission to re-examine the cost of living adjustments produced by the Consumer Price Index, as the president did last week, the Clinton administration misses a chance to deal more honestly with federal programs and balancing the budget. For several… Read More
    While I commend the Bangor Daily News for its generally fair coverage of gay rights issues, I wonder why Larry Lockman was again allotted generous guest column status (March 10) to exercise his talent at presenting a minimum of thought in a maximum of space. And the twist… Read More
    If fishermen in the Machias-Machiasport-Cutler and Milbridge-Harrington-Addison areas have yet to inform themselves about Cherryfield Foods’ proposed cranberry project in Washington County, then perhaps it is time they did so. This project, if approved by the Department of Environmental Protection, will allow the company to convert 1,337 acres… Read More
    I am writing to provide additional detail to the brief article in the March 14 Bangor Daily News (“Stubborn fire keeps burning at Sawyer site”), and in particular the role our company played in this event. Someone reading the article could easily misinterpet that the “smoldering blaze” and… Read More
    Two letters in the March 10 Bangor Daily News require a response. Linda King recalled a “very good friend” whom Dr. Vance Aloupis is helping through a difficult pregnancy, and this makes him a “caring human being.” I am aware of another “good friend” who is finally pregnant,… Read More
    I was shocked to read the articles on March 13 about the debate in Augusta on gay marriages. Not shocked at the subject matter, but shocked at the biased reporting. The proponents of the bill “grunted” responses. They were a “flock,” “shepherded … into information.” One man “stared… Read More
    AUGUSTA — The deer moves its head, flicks its tail and wiggles its ears. It’s a couple minutes past sunset, but a hunter tempted by the sight fires a shot. A warden moves in to make an arrest — thanks to the decoy deer he operated by remote-control. Read More
    AUGUSTA — Some legislators are wondering whether the state relied too heavily on information a company supplied before it received permits to use incinerator ash containing dioxin in a highway paving mix. The project that had received a green light from the Department of Environmental… Read More
    WELLINGTON — A persistent voter at Wellington’s annual town meeting Saturday might have tested the patience of the moderator, the first selectman and the other 60 voters in attendance, but no one argued that Curly Brown didn’t have the right to be heard. The town… Read More
    A 33-year-old Scarborough man was killed in a snowmobile accident in Moscow Sunday, one day after a 16-year-old boy died when his sled crashed head-on into a tree in Gorham. Sunday’s accident was Maine’s 12th snowmobile-related fatality of the season, tying the state’s record number… Read More
    PORTLAND — The rabies epidemic is getting worse in Maine. Cases reported so far this year are running three times ahead of a year ago. The state’s 50th case of the year — and the first for Yarmouth — was confirmed Friday, said Dr. T.K. Read More
    AUGUSTA — When Maine’s sales tax was increased to 6 percent in 1991 to help make up a huge shortfall in the state budget, lawmakers said the hike would be temporary. Now, six years later, a state senator says it’s time to keep the promise… Read More
    BANGOR — Better than Bellingham, Wash. Greater than Green Bay, and ahead of Anchorage. Higher-rated than St. Louis and two Rochesters. That’s the city of Bangor — rated 19th in the country in a parents’ survey described in the April issue of Reader’s Digest. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    MORRILL — It was a historic town meeting at the Honesty Grange on Saturday as Town Clerk Lytle Wood and Treasurer Hilda Sheldon stepped down. Both women were presented roses at the beginning of the meeting in commemoration of their service. “I will miss it… Read More
    Callers have been asking how they can help victims of the tornadoes and flooding that recently hit the South and Midwest. We reported earlier that trailer-loads of emergency supplies were headed for the area from the Maine Veterans Center at 25 College Ave. in Waterville, where you may… Read More
    FRANKLIN — A choice between two private ambulance services sparked the most debate among the 42 residents who turned out for annual town meeting Saturday. Newly elected Selectman Bruce Carter said voters, after at least half an hour of debate, wound up opting to have… Read More