R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Aretha Franklin sang it, but NHL players don’t get it, at least not from one another. This past weekend, New York Ranger Mark Messier took a hip check at the knees from Detroit’s Slava Fetisov, a check Ranger players viewed as illegal and with… Read More
    AUGUSTA – The Registered Maine Guides will celebrate their 100th anniversary Tuesday. Public appearances around the state, a proclamation from Governor Angus King and a display and gathering of guides in the Hall of Flags in the State House all will serve to acknowledge the Maine guides’ special… Read More
    PORTLAND – For the first time since the end of the 1992 season, all Eastern League umpire crews wil consist of three members each. The Portland Sea Dogs play in the Double A Eastern League. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
    BANGOR – Maine’s running community will have another resource at its disposal as the Sub 5 Track Club has launched its own web site. The site contains a Running in Maine Resource Center, through which runners can access road racing calendars from clubs around the… Read More
    BANGOR – For the first time in five years, the strains of “Sweet Georgia Brown” will serenade fans at the Bangor Auditorium as the Harlem Globetrotters hit the hardwood at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Globetrotters, marking their 71st year in existence, will feature new names… Read More
    BANGOR – The Bangor Police Athletic League Boxing Team went 5-0 at the Annual Downeast Boxing Tournament held in Machias on March 21. Participants from Team PAL were Ricky Hughes, Mike Howell, Mike Voye and Travis Bartlett who fought twice. All victories ended by knockout. Read More
    FARMINGTON – Gretchen Eastler, a 1990 gradute of Mt. Blue High School in Farmington, and a 1996 graduate of Simmons College in Boston, finished second for the United States and third overall at the 1997 US World cut 10 kilometer racewalk qualifying meet held in Washington, D.C. Read More
    What a difference two years make. From January to March 1995 the first Republican Congress in 40 years was a legislative dynamo, passing hundreds of laws in sessions that often ran well past midnight. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
    WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, has announced she has filled three staff positions — two in her Washington office, and one, Valerie Emerson of Wayne, to head her Augusta office. Emerson will join Collins as state office representative in Augusta. She is a… Read More
    AUGUSTA — The Maine Children’s Trust, the statewide organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, has received a $10,000 grant from the Maine State Troopers Foundation for community-based solutions to child abuse and neglect. The trust is a private nonprofit corporation whose… Read More
    WASHINGTON — Maine will receive a $140,877 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to fund a substance abuse treatment program for adult inmates at state and county jails. The grant was awarded by the Office of Justice Programs under the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment… Read More
    NEW YORK — The number of new tuberculosis cases in the United States dropped last year to the lowest level since record keeping began in the 1950s, the federal government announced Monday. It was the fourth straight year of decline, suggesting the nation is recovering… Read More
    If you are a professional or amateur crafter, or an individual with an intercultural background and are willing to celebrate that craft or ancestry with others this summer, Mike Dolley would certainly like to hear from you. Dolley is coordinator for Bangor Center Community Events,… Read More
    PORTLAND — The driver who slammed his pickup truck into a Maine Turnpike toll booth, killing two members of a New Hampshire family and injuring a third, had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, investigators said Monday. Gary Sledzik, 44, was arraigned in… Read More
    Women’s History Month brings to mind suffragists and activists on the national level, congressional representatives and senators. But it isn’t necessary to look that far to find evidence of women who made significant contributions. Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden. She didn’t stay in Maine,… Read More
    If you are a beer-guzzling, fat-eating, cigarette-smoking, gun-owning, dope user who drives drunk without a seat belt and practices unsafe sex, you may not be long for this world. That is bad news. The good news? The 1 million-plus Americans who die each year of… Read More
    When a window of opportunity meets a core response group, it’s time to assess those factors that would be stumbling blocks to making things happen. The window of opportunity will happen during this legislative session when welfare reform escalates as a primary issue facing lawmakers… Read More
    Dioxin is not harmless. Hiram perry’s Op-ed piece is wondeful public relations for the paper companies and the chemical companies that sell to them. Dr. Michael Gough, one of the international experts he quoted, is known to have a history of working as a paid consultant for companies… Read More
    When the tide went out seven years ago for funding the University of Maine System, it exposed fractures in a funding method that relied on decades-old habits rather than a set of identifiable standards. No university has gotten rich through the absence of a funding formula, but at… Read More
    The ecumenical 7 p.m. Good Friday service originally scheduled for the First Baptist Church in Belfast has been rescheduled to be held at 7 p.m. Good Friday at the First Church in Belfast. Read More
    Thanks to Dr. Erik Steele (March 11) for a beautiful essay (“This picture is worth a thousand words,” concerning a dog that mauled a small child). He is a joy to read. Betsy Hunter Lincoln… Read More
    SKOWHEGAN — Two Cumberland County men being held in Bangor for the murder of a Bradley man during a break-in were indicted Friday by the Somerset County grand jury. Douglas Burr, 20, of Falmouth and Charles Jones Jr., 21, of South Portland were indicted on… Read More
    UNITY — Unity College will offer an intensive back-country medical training course, Wilderness First Responder, to help students deal with medical emergencies that happen miles from help. The course will be held May 19-27 and is recommended for outdoor professionals and those who spend much time in remote… Read More
    BELFAST — Senior Spectrum is planning to expand its Meals on Wheels Program to reach all needy elderly shut-ins in Waldo County, but needs committed volunteer drivers for the project. At least two hours a day, one day per week are required of volunteers, who… Read More
    CAMDEN — Mr. and Mrs. Woger Wabbit and the Lincolnville Band will be on hand for the 15th annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Camden Health Care Center on Saturday. The hunt has grown from an informal egg hunt for CHCC employees’ children to an event that involves… Read More
    Libby is having a bad day. She’s hosting a dinner party and, in the course of preparing the food, tries to open a jar with her teeth. Out pops the cap on her front tooth. She spends the rest of the evening with her index finger attached to… Read More
    As I read the Bangor Daily News recently, I was amazed to see a large crowd of demonstrators in Augusta attacking the gays and lesbians. “God is Love.” In my opinion, God loves everyone whether they are gay or lesbian, black or white, green or yellow. Let’s get… Read More
    In a show of hands at the Searsport town meeting on March 15, almost all of the 250 residents attending the meeting rejected the two articles to spend $380,000 of town money as the town’s match to help purchase Sears Island. Searsport residents voted to spend the money… Read More
    I write to correct the mistaken statements, reflected in “Lobster Council sets white meat challenge,” BDN, March 15-16, and “White meat war escalates,” BDN, March 1, that the Maine Lobster Promotion Council and the Maine Lobser Festival are one and the same organization. It is… Read More
    The Fin and Feather Club of Millinocket has recently introduced legislation to prohibit our state government from selling, trading or giving away our public lands for the purpose of creating a national park in Maine. The reasons are simple: Why would we want to give up more than… Read More
    Maine once possessed wildness, openness, pristine forests, clear, clean air, and sparkling lakes and rivers. They can still be found, but in pitiful remnants. Why just remnants? Because most of the Maine woods is private property where owners can do what they want. They can cut it, road… Read More
    MACHIAS — Several retired business owners will be guests of honor at the annual Machias Bay Area Chamber of Commerce dinner April 11 at the University of Maine at Machias. They are Norma Reynolds and Barbara Sawyer of Parlin Gardens; Ken and Barbara Manchester of the Bluebird Motel;… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Students from all over Maine will demonstrate science and math to legislators from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday during the fourth annual Science and Math Day. Scarborough students will offer to wrap lawmakers in a giant bubble sheath in the State House… Read More
    PARKMAN — Two Parkman men were injured Monday afternoon when the car in which they were traveling hit a tree. Nicholas Benoit, 18, was southbound on the North Dexter Road when he lost control of his 1983 Chevrolet Monte Carlo and it hit a tree,… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE — The University of Maine System board of trustees on Monday approved the William S. Cohen Center for International Policy and Commerce at the main campus in Orono. With the first contribution of $100,000 from the secretary of defense, the new center will… Read More
    CORINNA — A pregnant Exeter woman was hospitalized as a precautionary measure Monday morning after she was involved in a single-car accident. Jennifer Glover, 25, was driving a 1984 Buick sedan on the Exeter Road in Corinna early Monday morning when it skidded on ice… Read More
    HARTLAND — A break-in last week at the Hartland Town Office resulted in “a few drawers pulled out and a door kicked in,” according to Town Manager Peggy Morgan. “None of the paperwork was disturbed,” she said after discovering the break-in on Friday morning. “Just… Read More
    Blue Hill Gordon Emerson, who has served as selectman for more than three decades, last weekend won his bid for re-election following a race against Kevin Poland. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false;… Read More
    CARIBOU — Local residents welcomed Monday the new executive director of Cary Medical Center, a man who is trading Florida sunshine for Maine winters in order to find a better balance between his career and family. Lee Thomas Ashjian, 49, started work at the 65-bed… Read More
    John Bapst Memorial High School Second quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Margaret Crofoot, Adam Goodenough and Deanna Michaud; honors: Jared Ashley, Todd Berry, Amanda Black, Lauren Bosse, Laurie Brophy, Carl Buffington, Amy Bunker, Gustavo Burkett, Jessica Cammack, Breeanne Candland, Steven Cartwright, Erin Casey, Kenneth… Read More