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
BANGOR – It had been a while for Nokomis guard Katie Nye. All those people up in the bleachers after two years of playing in front of crowds whose first names she knew. “It was [fun]. I’m really not used to playing in front of… Read More
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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
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The hype had gotten out of hand. It was time to consult some experts on these young, hot-shot shortstops who have baseball fans enraptured by their dazzling play and dashing looks. After all, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez seemed to be everywhere this winter. There… Read More
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
AUGUSTA — Fans of Brownie Schrumpf gathered Saturday afternoon at the University of Maine at Augusta to celebrate her induction into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame, and to sing the praises of the beloved 94-year-old cooking guru whose folksy food column appeared weekly in the Bangor Daily… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Awards, speeches and food all were part of the local Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet on Saturday, with Sen. Susan Collins serving as guest speaker. Collins described her first piece of legislation, submitted last week, that would reduce the federal estate tax. 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
HERMON — Dressed in black and carrying a scepter, King Hades stood among the sleeping dead and tried valiantly to explain to the fair Persephone why it was pointless for her to stay in the dark nether world. “Nothing grows here,” he said royally to… Read More
CLIFTON — Three young men from Pleasant Point were apprehended late Friday night and charged with armed robbery in connection with the shooting of a Clifton store owner Thursday night. All three were students at Lee Academy. Presently held at the Penobscot County Jail are… 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
Dancing cowboys. What a preposterous idea. Riding cowboys: yes. Singing cowboys: conceivable. But dancing cowboys? Hardly. Yet in a pleasing evening of song and dance Saturday at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono, the Tennessee Dance Theatre brought a great big western howdy… Read More
It isn’t Easter in Lebanon, or in the homes of Maine families of Lebanese descent, without the small, half-moon cookies filled with nuts or dates. It’s a tradition built on flour, butter, milk and sugar, flavored with anise and cherry seed in a yeast dough,… Read More
CALAIS — Federal, state and Canadian officials along with biologists, aquaculture farmers, and anglers attended a daylong seminar Saturday on issues that concern salmon restoration projects of several Maine-New Brunswick border rivers. At times the discussion became quite lively as the 22 people at the octagonal table debated… 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
SCARBOROUGH — A mother and daughter were killed Sunday when an alleged drunken driver crashed his pickup truck into a row of vehicles waiting at a toll booth on an exit of the Maine Turnpike, police said. Barbara Maxfield, 36, and her daughter, Brooke Willis,… 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
SKOWHEGAN — When he is not reading CAT scans in Kansas City, Kan., or patching up broken rodeo cowboys in Texas, John “Jack” Steeves can be found deep in the sugarbush at Skowhegan, tapping trees and turning their clear liquid sap into dark, thick maple syrup. 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
STETSON — The “UTU Traveling Road Show” came to Stetson Saturday morning, as Robbie McKay put it. Just a dozen people traversed slippery roads to get there, but the Kingman woman rarely misses a chance to spread the message of Unorganized Territories United, the fledgling organization that has… 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
Editor’s Note: A federal law enacted last summer virtually wiped out 60 years of welfare in this country. Like other states, Maine must rethink the way it uses federal dollars to finance welfare programs. The following story is the first of a two-part series exploring the possible impact… 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
BANGOR — With or without Baker, Newman and Noyes’ withdrawal Friday from bidding on a city auditing contract, the firm’s relationship to school committee Chairwoman Martha Newman was going to be brought out. Mayor Patricia Blanchette said Sunday that Newman had called her on Thursday… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — There’s renewed interest in mining a mineral deposit located at Bald Mountain in western Aroostook County, about 15 miles west of Portage. The project, proposed by a Canadian company, would create about 100 jobs in the mining of gold and silver and… Read More
PORTLAND — A convenience store clerk was so stunned to see a naked man walk into his store during a snowstorm that he didn’t even notice the 3-foot sword he was carrying. The clerk at the Big Apple store told police that the man, identified… 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
PORTLAND — Fleet Financial Group is denying it did anything wrong as the U.S. Justice Department amends a civil complaint alleging the bank falsified documents and provided false statements under oath in an effort to shed troubled loans at government expense. The amended complaint was… Read More
LEWISTON — Wood cut for International Paper Co. is doing more than feeding paper machines and going to lumber yards in Maine and other states. IP has donated enough finished wood products to rebuild 17 churches in the South that have been burned in a… 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
BANGOR — The blueprints don’t indicate the location of woods animals with moving parts or a talking tree that cracks jokes — features that have helped make a restaurant in South Portland so popular. But those are details to be filled in later. After all,… Read More