CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Pete Albers’ single to center field scored Andrew Huling with one out in the 12th inning Thursday as Harvard eked out a 5-4 college baseball victory over the University of Maine. The Crimson, who had scored one run each in the ninth… Read More
PORTLAND – The Portland Sea Dogs will take part in the Eastern League’s 75th anniversary celebration when they where turn-back-the-clock uniforms in their game in Harrisburg, Pa., on April 20. The Sea Dogs will be the Portland Eskimos for that game as well as their… Read More
Bucksport Golf Club and Hermon Meadow Golf Club both open for the season today at 9 a.m. No carts will be allowed at Hermon where nine of 18 holes will be open with regular greens. Those seeking more information may call Bucksport at 469-7612 and… Read More
The 1997 Maine Standardbred Breeders Stakes will disperse more than $700,000 in purse money during the summer racing series which begins June 27 at Bangor Raceway, according to Henry Jackson, liason between the Maine Sire Stakes and Maine’s agricultural fairs. All three divisions of pacing… Read More
College soccer will adopt sudden-death overtime next fall. According to University of Maine men’s soccer coach Scott Atherley, the NCAA Soccer Rules Committee has voted to go to sudden death this coming season. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
Over the course of the canoe-racing season, Maine’s elite paddlers seldom pass one of their true competitors. Due to the staggered starts prevalent at races, an accomplished paddler will overtake dozens of boats – but most aren’t even in their division. The boats that are… Read More
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A week away from league play, the University of Maine-Presque Isle softball team is searching for any kind of playable outdoor surface on which to practice. Last year the Owls spent a lot of time shagging balls in the Aroostook Center Mall parking lot. Yet… Read More
Coach Dave Odom directed Wake Forest to a 24-7 record, a No. 9 national ranking and into the second round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament last season. On May 4, Odom will share some of his coaching expertise at Brewer High School, the site… Read More
BATH — Linda McDowell’s apartment is filled with the pungent smell of a favorite family recipe she’s cooking with the help of a couple of friends. Down the street, Ben Woodruff’s new friend gives him a ride to the laundry. On the way, they discuss… Read More
BANGOR — A District Court judge has dismissed prostitution charges against three people nabbed in an undercover police sting operation in Brewer last November, saying that charging to watch a sexual act does not constitute prostitution. Judge Ronald Russell’s five-page interpretation of the state’s prostitution… Read More
ALLAGASH — A decades-old land dispute in the Allagash pitting two local men against the Irving Pulp and Paper company is headed back to court, nearly four years after an Aroostook County Superior Court jury decided the case in favor of the two men. In… Read More
BANGOR — A group that refuses to pay federal income tax directed toward the military plans to hand out grants on tax day. On April 15, the Maine War Tax Funds for Life will present checks to the Clean Clothes Campaign, an organization to discourage… Read More
WASHINGTON — Bath Iron Works won a major reprieve Thursday when the Navy announced that an investigation of Bath and its top competitor provided no reason to move the construction of Aegis-class destroyers away from Maine’s largest private employer. The competitor, Ingalls Shipyard in Mississippi,… Read More
AUGUSTA — Proponents of a bill banning so-called partial birth abortion procedures were cautiously optimistic Thursday after an effort to defeat the measure was rejected in the House by a 2-1 margin. “We’ve been counting noses and if we can hang on to what we’ve… Read More
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Susan M. Collins has urged the Senate Committee on Finance to support her estate tax relief legislation to “reform an unfair, destructive and confiscatory tax.” Collins told the committee that her Family Business and Family Farm Preservation Act of 1997 would… Read More
BOURNE, Mass. — A driver thought to be from Maine was critically injured Thursday when his car crashed into a police cruiser while being pursued by state troopers. State police said they began their pursuit after the driver refused to pull over on Route 3,… Read More
AUGUSTA — The owner of DeCoster Egg Farms unsuccessfully pleaded with members of the Maine Senate on Thursday, trying to derail a bill that would scrap an exemption from state wage and hour laws for large agricultural operations. Despite his complaints of being unfairly singled… Read More
AUGUSTA — Two proposals aimed at fostering trade in the Francophone world market were combined Thursday during a hearing before the Legislature’s Business and Economic Development Committee. And in the process of the merger, two potentially controversial components were scrapped. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
MACHIAS — The Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Housing Authority is countersuing its former Executive Director Pamela Francis, alleging that she breached her contract with the authority and was unjustly enriched while she worked there. Francis was fired last November after new commissioners appointed to the housing… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Dover-Foxcroft woman who claimed she could not afford to license her 14 pet dogs last year was in court Thursday to explain why she had not paid a fine levied several months ago for that reason. Before the start of the disclosure-type… Read More
LUBEC — The Maine Breast and Cervical Health Programs at the Regional Medical Center at Lubec and Eastport HealthCare Inc. have announced the federal Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program has been expanded to include all 50 states. The program is run by the… Read More
AUGUSTA — Grants for 32 projects, ranging from building trails to mapping natural areas, have been awarded to natural resource agencies by the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund Board. The projects are being funded with $1 million from the sale of Outdoor Heritage lottery tickets. The… Read More
DAMARISCOTTA — The owners of a campground say they plan to fight the state’s claims that some of their cabins were built too close to the water. The Department of Environmental Protection says that 18 of the 34 units at Pemaquid Camping are too close… Read More
PORTLAND — A judge Thursday ordered that convicted kidnapper Norman Dickinson be moved to Lewiston and that authorities continue to keep close tabs on his whereabouts. Dickinson, the subject of intense police and public scrutiny since his release from prison in January, will continue to… Read More
Tuesday night’s concert in Bangor marks only the second visit to Maine for Twila Paris. About 16 years ago, as her career was just starting out, the contemporary Christian singer performed at a small church in the Augusta area. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
The “golden age” for U.S. space exploration peaked during the 1970s and has been in decline ever since, a victim of reduced budgets and the end of competition with the now-defunct Soviet Union. Last week one more nail was driven into its coffin when NASA received a last… Read More
ORONO — My recurrent nightmare is a simple devastation: I return to my childhood home to find strangers living there. The bad dream took shape in daylight this week, a pair of Kris Sader paintings in the Museum of Art at the University of Maine… Read More
The forest industry, as a group, took a beating for all sorts of misdeeds in Maine’s forestry debate last year. While there was recognition that some large landowners are better practitioners of good forestry than others, very little public information was available to identify which companies did well… Read More
In a handful of cold water streams along food-prone wetlands in Maine, a species of mayfly survives that is arguably more ancient than any other ofts kind. It exists nowhere else on earth, and its numbers are extremely small. It is called the Tomah mayfly, and it was… Read More
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BATH — A Camden-Rockport High School Latin teacher will be arraigned in Bath District Court on May 21 on a charge of stealing lobster traps on Bailey Island. William Curtis, 47, of Owls Head will be arraigned on two counts of theft and two counts… Read More
Knox County Superior Court: Willis J. Dunton, 35, Rockland, operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, $2,400, two years in jail, all but eight months suspended, license suspended six years. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
The phone number to call the Bangor Humane Society for information about pet adoptions is 942-8902. Read More
Aroostook County Superior Court: Jason J. Moore, 21, Easton, assault, 60 days in jail, all but 48 hours suspended, one year probation; violation of condition of release, 48 hours in jail. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
Calais District Court: Jamie S. Perry, 28, operating a motor boat without a valid sticker, $50. 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… Read More
The worst thing that could come out of Congress this session is a commitment to study campaign finance reform. The topic has been studied more times than President Clinton has had coffees in the White House. Nothing less should emerge than significant legislation that will allow challengers to… Read More
OWLS HEAD — The SAD 5 school board is taking no chance with “sick school syndrome” this time around. In designing the $4.8 million replacement for the 100-year-old middle school, a premium will be placed on air exchange. School board member Richard Levasseur told the… Read More
FORT KENT — The story of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19, in Fox Auditorium at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. The production for children under 12 is presented by… Read More
PORTLAND — Unions representing a Maine State Police trooper and two dispatchers plan to appeal the punishment they received for their actions prior to last month’s deadly crash at a Maine Turnpike toll plaza. Meanwhile, the state police chief and his assistant appeared before the… Read More
PANMUNJOM, South Korea — Defense Secretary William Cohen peered across the Demilitarized Zone on Thursday and predicted the demise of “decaying and dying” communist North Korea. Less than an hour earlier, North Korean soldiers had crossed into the South’s sector, retreating only after guards fired warning shots. Read More
FREDERICTON, New Brunswick — There’s a new brand of rustler roaming the ridges of eastern Canada with no interest in livestock. The quarry is the prized bird’s-eye maple. The phenomenon has taken on alarming proportions due to both the value of the trees and the… Read More
BRUNSWICK — A Brunswick man who spent two nights in the Cumberland County Jail before police realized he couldn’t be the robber they were looking for says his experience behind bars was hardly unpleasant. “It was like a vacation for me,” Scott Sanborn said. “I… Read More
Bangor District Court: Clair A. Champ, 49, Walpole, Mass., speeding, 54/35 mph, $60. 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… Read More
BANGOR — Area residents gave a “thumbs-up” Thursday night to the idea of creating a children’s museum in eastern Maine. Imbued with a can-do attitude and unflagging optimism, more than 200 civic and business leaders, museum curators, community members, parents and children put their heads together to come… Read More
PORTLAND — The Maine Turnpike Authority said Thursday it has the green light to build an interchange that offers direct access to Portland International Jetport. Groundbreaking for the new interchange between Exits 7 and 8 will be this spring, and construction is expected to be… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Selectmen gave Economic Director Jeff Hewett the go-ahead Tuesday night to apply for a planning grant from Wal-Mart. The grant, which could be up to $6,000, is offered by Wal-Mart to communities with industrial development projects and Skowhegan will be one of many… Read More
ORONO — An Austrian graduate student at the University of Maine is continuing to make his mark on the chess world. Master chess player Martin Raubal won the top division Sunday in the octet tournament at UM’s Memorial Union. Raubal, who is studying spatial science… Read More
BAILEYVILLE — With a cloud of black exhaust trailing down the highway, the diesel-powered Mack truck eases its 30,000-pound bulk up yet another of the many snow-covered hills that are mileposts along the 88-mile Airline, connecting Maine’s eastern border to Brewer and points south. Growling… Read More
BANGOR — Natural resources will be one of the areas of focus as the city updates its comprehensive plan. A group of councilors and planning board members has been meeting in committee the last few weeks with Planning Officer John Lord to update the document, last revised in… Read More
GREENVILLE — Greenville officials were elated to learn Thursday that the town received a $400,000 Community Development Block Grant for waterfront development and downtown revitalization. Greenville Town Manager David Cota, who was in Augusta for the announcement, said later that the project would go a… Read More
DEXTER — Years of delaying major renovations in order to present a budget that was palatable to taxpayers have come back to haunt SAD 46 directors. With school buildings in great disrepair, directors on Wednesday voted to take the plunge and include $374,444 in the… Read More
MONHEGAN ISLAND PLANTATION — A state-hired sharpshooter killed 52 deer crowding this coastal island and the meat has been delivered to a program for the needy, state game officials said. The program was carried out earlier this month without a hitch, said spokesman Paul Reynolds… Read More
I’m writing in support of LD 1691, An Act to Significantly Reduce Smoking Among the Young People of Maine, and also to respond to John Buell’s April 1 column. Buell compares the devastation of tobacco use to the use of cellular phones. Direct medical costs of treating smoking… Read More
Growing up on a farm, I had plenty of chances to learn how a field that’s stiff enough to drive on today can mire a tractor up to its hubs after a few days of rain. The reality of digging a tractor out was a powerful inducement to… Read More
Concerning the referendum question in Millinocket; the school board says vote yes. The school board has been working on this school renovation plan for several months now. It has been very costly so far. Engineering fees are approximately at the $100,000 mark. Other costs to… Read More
SEDGWICK — Peter Billings was installed postmaster on Feb. 27. He began his postal career in July 1988 as a part-time clerk in Stonington and was officer in charge at Castine in 1992 and at Deer Isle in 1995. Billings has worked at the Ellsworth… Read More
BAR HARBOR — The latest strain of mice developed at the Jackson Laboratory soon will help researchers worldwide study Huntington’s disease. The lab is producing genetically engineered mice that have the symptoms of the inherited, degenerative brain disorder that affects an estimated 30,000 Americans. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
LUBEC — Boxboard has been removed from the list of items that may be brought to the Lubec Recycling Center. Boxboard includes cereal, tissue, cracker and cookie boxes, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, egg cartons and frozen food boxes. Boxboard was eliminated because a… Read More
AUGUSTA — For the second year in a row, changes to the state’s mass gathering ordinance were killed before they ever left the Legislature’s Health and Human Resources Committee. The controversial amendments were opposed Thursday by groups such as United Bikers of Maine, and Hunnewell… Read More
BAR HARBOR — Maine cancer survivors will begin a daylong celebration of National Cancer Survivor’s Day on Sunday, June 1, at the peak of Cadillac Mountain, where the morning sun’s rays first strike the United States. A bus will leave from Wing Park, across from… Read More
AUGUSTA — A small group of central Maine legislators wants to get a long-discussed project — an east-west highway across Maine — under way this year. Rep. Pamela Hatch, D-Skowhegan, said the group has two bills it will introduce soon to get construction of the… Read More
Later this year, out-of-work Mainers may be trading waiting in lines at the unemployment office for waiting on telephone lines when the Maine Department of Labor goes to a new system to track unemployment compensation. Over the next few months, the department’s unemployment bureau will… Read More
CASTINE — Prospective students and their parents are invited to an open house beginning at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at Maine Maritime Academy. Registration will be done at the student center, followed by a free continental breakfast and lunch. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
UNITY — A mother’s attempt to clean a vomit-covered cushion resulted in her home catching fire. Fire Chief Robert Jones said the fire started in a clothes dryer and caused $20,000 damage to the Wesley Road home of Sharon Mitchell and George “Chipper” Murdock. The… Read More
I am writing to respond to an editorial (BDN, April 1) titled, “Public’s Legislature,” which could easily give the public the perception that the budget process used during this legislative session in some way limited the public’s input and voice. This assertion is at best… Read More
OLD TOWN — City spring cleaning will be done April 21 through May 2. From April 21 to 25, city trucks will pick up refuse left at curbside south of Center Street (including the south side of Center Street), south of Stillwater Avenue, and east… Read More
THORNDIKE — The American Red Cross Blood Services will hold a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 18, at the Mount View High School library. Read More
ROCKPORT — The Rockport Public Library will hold an open house and party from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. “Every year about now, our volunteer group, the Friends of Rockport Library, sponsors an open house,” library director Sally Regan said. “The idea this year is… Read More
GREENBUSH — Rapidly deteriorating roadway has forced the Maine Department of Transportation to move up scheduled improvements to three sections of U.S. Route 2 from Greenbush to Macwahoc, covering about 38 miles of highway. Work had been scheduled to begin in 1998 but John Hodgkins… Read More
SEARSPORT — It’s back to the drawing board for SAD 56 Superintendent Roy Bishop and his board of directors. On Wednesday, voters gave an emphatic “no” to the district’s proposed $4.5 million renovation-expansion plan for the Searsport middle and high schools. Instead of suffering aftershock… Read More
Looking at yourself straight in the mirror and recognizing that the person staring back at you needs a little extra help is not an easy admission for anyone to make. Adults have a hard enough time making such statements, to say nothing of the invincible teen-ager. Read More
BOSTON — Sears Roebuck and Co. said Thursday it will repay bankrupt customers who were pressured to continue paying off their Sears credit cards even though their debts had been wiped out. Under threat of court action and a class-action lawsuit, the company said Thursday… Read More
FORT KENT — The University of Maine at Fort Kent has received a donation of 70 acres of woodland in central Maine for a living laboratory for forestry and environmental studies students from Stephen and Nancy Einhorn of Wisconsin. The Einhorns donated the land in… Read More