NEW YORK – Senior Rebecca Donovan, a center from Kennebunk High School, has received the Gatorade Circle of Champions Maine High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year Award. The 51 winners are now eligible to win both Regional and National Athlete of the Year… Read More
With four feet of snow still on the ground, the University of Maine-Presque Isle’s eight baseball home games could very well wind up being played at the Husson College field in Bangor. The weather is something UMPI coach Brian Cronin and his Owls can’t control… Read More
Bangor television station WABI-TV (Channel 5) will provide live coverage of local auto racing for a third straight summer. Channel 5 will broadcast two Sportsman 100 races from Speedway 95 in Bangor this summer on Aug. 3 and 24. Both races are on Sunday afternoons. Read More
BANGOR – The Clown Princes of Basketball invaded Maine Wednesday night and were treated to a raucous welcome at the sold-out Bangor Auditorium. Kind of. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
University of Maine men’s basketball player Terry Hunt, who was charged with three traffic violations last year, is scheduled to spend the weekend in the Penobscot County Jail. The 23-year-old Hunt was at 3rd District Court in Bangor March 20 after failing to appear there… Read More
BREWER – Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes will host its first round of roll-offs Saturday to qualify for spots in an upcoming televised candlepin bowling competition. The roll-offs are open to anyone and cost $20 per shift to compete in. Four bowlers will qualify for the first… Read More
BOSTON – Former Maine high school basketball star Andy Bedard informed Boston College basketball coach Jim O’Brien Tuesday of his intention to transfer, thus joining an exodus that includes four forwards graduating from the Big East champion. “He just wasn’t happy about his playing situation,”… Read More
Nate Ponitz, a former Messalonskee High School hockey standout, has verbally committed to attend the University of Maine, according to Messalonskee coach Danny Bolduc. Oakland’s Ponitz, who went on to have a productive postgraduate season at Exeter Academy (N.H.) this past winter, is a 6-foot-5,… Read More
WILLIMANTIC, Conn. – Four Bucksport High wrestlers and three former Bucksport wrestlers participated in the Middle Atlantic Wrestling Association District Championship last weekend. Freshman Dan Orsmby finished fourth in the advanced heavyweight class and classmate Josh Carter came in second in the 120-pound class. Sophomore… Read More
HARTLAND — A bill before the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee next week could be the stepping-stone to professional acceptance for independent paralegals. But the paralegals will have to step over the opposition of lawyers. Sponsored by Rep. Vaughn Stedman, R-Hartland, LD 1178 is an “act to… Read More
AUGUSTA — Maine lawmakers Wednesday approved a ban on same-sex marriages, likely avoiding a controversial referendum campaign on the issue. The Senate’s 24-10 tally came a day after the House voted 106-39 for the ban. After the lopsided preliminary votes, final enactment was routine. Gov. Read More
SKOWHEGAN — The attorney for a Cutler Navy petty officer accused of killing his wife last October has filed a motion to suppress the man’s confession. The motion, one of several filed in Somerset County Superior Court by Bangor attorney Wayne Foote, charges that two… Read More
CHAPMAN — At the annual town meeting on Monday, voters approved a total 1997 budget in the amount of $356,716.97, an increase of $19,507 over last year’s budget. The budget will require $203,119 in local taxes, up $13,126 from last year. The tax rate will… Read More
SCARBOROUGH — Gov. Angus King, local police and state troopers are among those wondering if a deadly crash at a Maine Turnpike toll plaza could have been prevented had anyone responded to telephone warnings about a dangerous driver. Gary Sledzik, 44, who police say was… Read More
EASTPORT — This city must take an active role in promoting economic development if it is to survive the imminent closure of its Guilford of Maine yarn mill, business and municipal leaders agreed at a meeting Wednesday. The gathering that included business owners and local… Read More
PORTLAND — An East Livermore man was sentenced Wednesday to five years and three months in prison, and three years of supervised release, after he pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and one count of making a false statement on a firearm purchase… Read More
You don’t read many positive stories these days about politicians and their campaign fund-raising activities. Political candidates solicited more than $2 billion during the 1996 election cycle. Former members of Congress, the ones who retired or were defeated, took in so much dough they have… Read More
AUGUSTA — Interrupted by bursts of Democratic applause, Gov. Angus S. King signed the state’s next two-year budget into law Wednesday while unconvincingly trying to characterize the $3.8 billion package as a bipartisan effort. Acting a lot more like a shrewd politician who wanted to… Read More
The 22 student members of the Hampden Academy Mock Trial Team, their parents, friends and adviser Kathryn King are in the same boat as many of us. Somehow, we’re just not quite ready for this to be Easter weekend. Nearly everyone we’ve spoken with this… Read More
KENDUSKEAG — It’s not what you expect to hear from an ambitious 19-year-old living in rural Maine, but Kristie Pinkham wants to stay in tiny, close-knit Kenduskeag. She loves her hometown and she wants to make it better. That’s why she’s up for the job… Read More
At the Maine State Instrumental Jazz competition March 14 and 15 at Bonny Eagle High School in Standish, Leonard Middle School in Old Town won first place in Division I of the junior high school competition for the fourth straight year. Mattanawcook Junior High School in Lincoln placed… Read More
MADAWASKA — Voters approved a $1,551,269 budget at their annual town meeting Tuesday night to operate the town from Feb. 1 to June 30, when the town will start a new fiscal year. Voters last November voted to change the town’s fiscal year from February-January… Read More
WASHINGTON — Newspaper advertising revenue increased by $2 billion last year, the Newspaper Association of America reported Wednesday. Total advertising revenue grew to more than $38 billion in 1996, a 5.8 percent increase over the previous year. Classifieds increased by 9.9 percent to $15.1 billion,… Read More
BANGOR — Police on Wednesday stopped short of saying they had a suspect in the January shooting death of a Bangor neurologist, but did say they had “focused their investigation” and had ruled out robbery or burglary as motives for the slaying. Bangor police Detective… Read More
Kindergarten registration for the 1997-98 school year is being held at the following schools: SAD 3. Child should accompany for screening. Call school for appointment: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
AUGUSTA — Gov. Angus King presented the seventh annual Governor’s Award for Business Excellence to four Maine firms Wednesday. The firms were Cable TV of the Kennebunks of Kennebunk; J.S. McCarthy Co. Inc. of Augusta; Katahdin Forest Products of Oakfield, and Weathervane Seafoods of Kittery. Read More
HAMPDEN — The Democratic Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the home of Carl and Margaret Pease, 6 Elm St. For directions, call 862-4340. Read More
BREWER — The Brewer Historical Society will hold its annual meeting and potluck supper at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Clewley Museum, 199 Wilson St. Members will organize the society’s yearly event calendar and discuss plans for the year. A presentation will be done on… Read More
BANGOR — A Greater Bangor-Brewer area juvenile was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court for making and possessing a sawed-off shotgun. The 13-year-old was sentenced in federal court to four years of probation on two counts of juvenile delinquency. Other conditions to the youth’s probation… Read More
The Rustic Overtones is what happens when seven musicians with widely disparate backgrounds combine their creative energies. The Portland-based septet blends rock, pop, jazz, ska, reggae, R&B and soul into a powerful sound that is capturing fans all along the Eastern Seaboard. The group will… Read More
BETHESDA, Md. — Hepatitis C, a usually-silent, blood-borne disease, will kill about 24,000 Americans annually within 20 years and current treatments are not effective for most patients, a panel of experts said Wednesday. A committee sponsored by the National Institutes of Health reported that about… Read More
NEW YORK — People with diabetes might someday be able to take insulin in pills rather than shots, using an approach in which the drug is put into tiny plastic beads, a study in mice suggests. The approach might also help scientists plant genes in… Read More
BOSTON — Bone marrow transplants for curing cancer can themselves cause cancer many years later, a study found. The reason appears to be the high doses of radiation that are a crucial part of marrow transplants. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
High-fashion jewelry usually comes with a pricey tag and a fancy label bearing the name of Liz Claiborne, Elizabeth Taylor or Christian Dior. But would you consider making your personal fashion statement under the aegis of IBM, Hewlett-Packard or Canon? For Myra White of Camden,… Read More
Madawaska District Court: Angela Gagnon, 31, Vernon, Conn., theft by unauthorized taking, $300, restitution of $50 to Keegan Variety. 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;… Read More
Limestone Community School Second quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Joe Butler, April Carroll, Sean Edgecomb, Ian Hall, Jamie LaBreck, Randy Leavitt, Brent Tweed and Brain Tweed; honors: Brian Edgecomb, Dawna Elliot, Kelly Hartman, Kara Johndro and Michael Myers. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Andrei Bossov, Maine’s celebrated ballet artist, formerly a principal dancer with Russia’s Kirov Ballet and a teacher in the Vaganova School, will conduct a ballet training camp this June on the campus of Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield. This is the first step… Read More
From the tumult of a brutish, short session, legislators Tuesday produced a $3.8 billion budget lacking bipartisan support but sound in most areas. It is remarkable for two reasons: it emerged from the Legislature while the ground was still covered with snow and it was built, for the… Read More
The 1997 school budget of $1.3 million approved in Surry reflected a $45,851 increase over last year. The local appropriation for education will go up by $86,000. The state funding loss is $20,000. At Saturday’s Montville town meeting, Ed George was elected first selectman, beating… Read More
Belfast Area High School Second quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Andrew Foreman, Ewa Kleczyk, Andrea Lapierre, Alex Lear, Ian Lewis, Joseph Moser, Emily Sproch, Sarah Wilder; honors: Sarah Annis, Heather Arpan, John Asuncion, Liza Bachelder, Anna Baldwin, Sarah Berry, Marc Box, Renee Box, Carl… Read More
ORLAND — In a meeting described as “very quiet,” outside agencies’ requests for funding generated the most discussion, said Selectman Ralph Gonzales. The only item the 70 residents rejected during Tuesday night’s annual town meeting was a request for funds by Maine Coast Memorial Hospital… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — In recognition of their active role at Mayo Regional Hospital, doctors and their families will be honored with a reception on March 28. The event is in conjunction with National Doctors Day on March 30. “This reception is a way that we can… Read More
CASTINE — Now that the dust has settled over the controversial and now defunct Postal Service plan to abandon its historic facility here, expansion plans have been brought to the drawing board. When the Postal Service initially announced last fall that conditions at the facility… Read More
OLD TOWN — A cord attached to a refrigerator apparently malfunctioned late Tuesday night and caused a fire that destroyed Willette’s Welding business at 371 Main St., Old Town. State Fire Marshal James Ellis inspected the scene Wednesday morning and determined the cause of the… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Board of Selectmen will hold a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. April 14 to consider a proposal to create a new “Limited Commercial Zone” for certain nonconforming business uses on West Main Street and East Main Street. A full copy of… Read More
DEXTER — A budget workshop for the proposed 1997-98 SAD 46 budget will be held at 7 p.m. April 2, at Dexter Regional High School cafetorium. Residents of Dexter, Exeter, Garland and Ripley are encouraged to attend. Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A CPR course will be offered from 6 to 9 p.m. March 31, at Mayo Regional Hospital. The fee is $25 or $15 for recertification and includes an instruction book. For more information, call Laurel Robinson at 564-8401, extension 354. Read More
LINCOLN — Public works department employees represented by Teamsters Local 340 have verbally agreed to a new 30-month contract with the town. The contract, effective Jan. 1 of this year through June 30, 1999, provides workers with a 15-cent-an-hour increase for every hour worked since… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — The Somerset County commissioners gave Sheriff Barry Delong the go-ahead Wednesday night to conduct a survey of the town of Madison’s police coverage needs and to provide a quote for single-officer coverage, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If Madison townspeople… Read More
LINCOLN — For the first time in years, members of the SAD 67 board and officials of the three district towns met to discuss ways to improve communications between the groups, who are competing for the same local tax dollars. Town officials are concerned about… Read More
SHIRLEY — Tours of Baker’s maple syrup operations will be conducted on April 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the Shirley Town Hall. There will be a pancake brunch including pancakes, beans, bacon and fruit. The maple syrup will be provided by Baker’s maple syrup. Brunch… Read More
BUCKSPORT — An early afternoon fire that damaged a Silver Lake Road home Wednesday was “a set fire,” according to a Bucksport Fire Department official. The wife of the owner, Beverly Cox, 56, was arrested at the Bucksport Public Safety Building, said Assistant Chief Craig… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A seasoned hospital administrator from Brewer will serve as interim chief executive officer at Mayo Regional Hospital until a replacement can be found for Charles Fahd, who resigned to take a similar position in New York. George Avery of Brewer will fill the… Read More
In “Florida smoking law upheld” on page A10 of the March 18 Bangor Daily News there is this paragraph: “The tobacco industry also has sued to halt federal regulations that took effect Feb. 28 requiring stores to insist that all young people buying cigarettes show photo identification to… Read More
I have just read the commentary by George Sprague of Bucks Harbor (BDN, March 15-16) expressing his concern and that of other fishermen for the environment and the impact of Atlantic Salmon of Maine on Bucks Harbor. I find it to be so hypocritical that it is almost… Read More
I write in reference to The New York Times quote on the dairy “cartel” money (Other Voices, BDN, March 18). Here is a perfect example of city cousins displaying a complete lack of understanding of their country cousins. This nation has a cheap food policy. That is fine… Read More
I object to the news media continually asserting that the Chinese government “tried” to influence the U.S. election process in 1996. Money was funneled to the Democrat National Committee from the Chinese government via the Lippo Group via John Huang and other duplicitous functionaries and the money was… Read More
It is very difficult for me to understand what legitimate place “sucked,” “big time,” “I will be seriously bummed” and “like THAT wasn’t a stupid movie” — among other phrases — have in Alicia Anstead’s commentary on the Academy Awards (BDN, March 22-23). This type of writing would… Read More
This is in response to [Charlotte Ann] England’s letter [March 18] regarding the Surf-a-thon at the Etna-Dixmont school. I am one of the students who participated in it and she has it all wrong. We were not doing it purely as a fund-raising opportunity. While… Read More
Two articles in the weekend edition (BDN, March 15-16) were extremely worth your readers’ note: “Man branded as abuser fights DHS to see kids” by Kathy Holliman, and “Eastport plant faces closure” by Diana Bowley. As for the first article, I’ve always puzzled as to… Read More
NORTH HAVEN — Silent witnesses until now to the mess surrounding their school, island selectmen stepped right into it Tuesday by filling a vacancy on the school board in a way almost guaranteed to add to the ugliness. By a 3-2 vote, selectmen picked James… Read More
VASSALBORO — State police said slippery road conditions resulting from a snowstorm that later turned to rain were the likely cause of a motorist’s death on state Route 3. Gregory Tounge, 51, of Weeks Mills died when his car slid into a guardrail near Three… Read More
AUGUSTA — State Treasurer Dale McCormick’s office has unloaded about $500,000 of stock invested in cigarette giant Philip Morris Cos. “The trustees felt that public funds held in trust for the public should enhance people, not harm them,” McCormick said Wednesday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
ST. FRANCIS — Thirty-seven voters took two hours at St. Francis Tuesday night to approve expenditures of $121,900 for the town for 1997. Of the amount, $75,000 will come from excise tax collections and the remainder will be from taxes. Voters decided to check the… Read More
ST. AGATHA — Voters elected 10 municipal officials Tuesday and approved a budget totaling $509,572 Monday night at their annual town meeting. Of the proposed budget, $246,629 will come from property taxes, $12,275 from outside income, $91,045 from surplus, $102,623 from excise tax collections and… Read More
ALFRED — Before pleading guilty to two counts of unlawful sexual contact Wednesday, former prep school teacher David Cobb changed out of his bright orange prison garb so he would not resemble the “pumpkin man” who had so traumatized his victims. Justice Paul Fritzsche accepted… Read More
AUGUSTA — All the investigations are done, and a Maine warden supervisor who urinated on recruits during a training exercise will not be punished, the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says. “There’s just no indication that it was done on purpose,” said the department’s… Read More
PORTLAND — Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. said Wednesday it will ask regulators to approve a 6 percent rate hike over two years. The state’s second-largest electric utility said higher rates are needed to offset costs from the Maine Yankee nuclear plant, which has been closed since… Read More
For decades, the Westgate IGA in Bangor managed to survive the economic downturns, consolidations and expansions of supermarket chains that had claimed so many of its competitors. Now, the small supermarket that had prided itself on being the neighborhood store and which offered delivery service… Read More
HOULTON — Both the state and the defense rested Tuesday during the second day of the Donald Boyce murder trial in Aroostook County Superior Court. Boyce is charged with murder in the shooting death of Shawn B. Bither, 30. The shooting occurred last June while… Read More
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PORTLAND — Amtrak has moved to seek a settlement of disputes that have stalled an attempt to bring back passenger trains between Portland and Boston. Amtrak has asked the U.S. Surface Transportation Board for permission to use tracks owned by Guilford Transportation Industries. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
PHIPPSBURG — It was a lively children’s book about the great American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark that fired W. Hodding Carter’s imagination, launching him and his boyhood buddies on their own adventure, trying to catch crawfish near the Mississippi River. Five years ago,… Read More
BANGOR — A Bangor woman charged with two counts of distributing lethal doses of the painkiller fentanyl pleaded not guilty during her arraignment Wednesday in U.S. District Court. Because the alleged distribution of the drug resulted in a death, Beverly Montgomery, 35, could face a… Read More
A Bangor woman was hurt Wednesday night after crashing her truck and calling for help on her cellular phone. Theresa Byers, 26, was treated at the scene by a Bangor Fire Department ambulance crew after her pickup truck struck a tree on Ohio Street, according… Read More
ORRINGTON — Four teen-agers, all of them wearing seat belts, were involved Wednesday night in a vehicle rollover on Swetts Pond Road. Three of the teens were taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor with minor injuries, according to a deputy sheriff. The accident… Read More
BANGOR — City residents have five weeks to get used to the idea of a revamped spring cleanup — one that will have them doing their part to transport some of the items they used to leave at curbside. “We can’t go through what we… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Senior Activities Committee at the Piscataquis Regional YMCA will hold a spring coffee from 10 to 11:30 a.m. April 3, at the YMCA. Light refreshments, music and games will be available to those attending. Tickets are $2 and will be sold at the door. For… Read More
BAR HARBOR — The town’s planning director was fired by the town manager Monday, after just four weeks on the job. Dana Reed relieved Robert Georgitis of his duties Monday morning, giving him two weeks’ severance pay. In a letter to Georgitis, Reed asked the… Read More
GREENVILLE — Representatives of the Department of Transportation will discuss designating a portion of Route 15 in Greenville as a scenic byway at a public meeting on March 28 at 10:30 a.m., at the Greenville Town Office. Town officials have interest in pursuing an application… Read More