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ORONO – Maine clinched second place in America East despite losing 6-4 to Towson State in the first game of Sunday’s America East baseball doubleheader. That was no consolation for the Black Bears, who had dropped five straight league games. Maine’s seniors, in particular, didn’t… Read More
ORONO – All season, the University of Maine baseball team has been chasing Delaware in the America East standings. While the Black Bears have remained relatively close in the loss column, Saturday’s America East doubleheader sweep by the Blue Hens demonstrated the magnitude of Delaware’s… Read More
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College AT MEDFORD, MASS. New England Divison III Championships Williams 144 1/2, Springfield 71 1/2, Smith 59, Middlebury 59, Colby 56, Tufts 53, Bowdoin 45 1/2, Amherst 42, Wesleyan 32 1/2, UMass-Dartmouth 32, Brandeis 31, Wheaton 24, Connecticut College 23, Fitchburg State 22, Worcester State… Read More
STANDISH – After Maine Athletic Conference softball perennial power St. Joseph’s College handed the University of New England a 6-2 loss in the MAC championship game Saturday, senior captain Dani Bernier was solemn. Bernier of Bethel has been the starting catcher for the Monks for… Read More
There’s no bunting, no stealing and no windmill pitching. Those are the modified rules for softball as written for the Penobscot Valley Middle School League, a nine-school league of communities surrounding Bangor. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
High school BASEBALL Friday’s Postponements Wisdom at Limestone, at Wisdom (2) May 15 Friday’s Results 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())… Read More
Saucony 5K AT BANGOR Top men’s finishers: 1. Andy Spaulding 15 minutes, 11 seconds; 2. Justin Valliere 16:10; 3. Michael Gallagher 16:14; 4. Matt Archembault 16:28; 5. Andrew Beardsley 16:39; 6. Brent Leighton 16:49; 7. Phil LeBreton Jr. 16:59; 8. Rick Chalmers 17:00; 9. Morgan… Read More
SONOMA, Calif. – Mark Martin, winless on the Winston Cup circuit for 1 1/2 years and runnerup in the Save Mart Supermarkets 300 for the past two years, finally got his victory Sunday. Martin, who started from the pole, surrendered the lead only three times… Read More
World Pro Championships AT PORTLAND Women All around: 1. Shannon Miller 49.7; 2. Amy Chow 49.675; 3. Svetlana Boguinskaia 49.525; 4. Dominique Moceanu 49.45; 5. Dominique Dawes 49.175; 6. Yelena Piskun 48.8; 7. Amanda Borden 48.675; 8. Lilla Podkopaeva 48.625; Vault: 1. Dawes 9.95; 2. Read More
BANGOR – Two area golfers put themselves into extremely elite company on Saturday when they aced the 140-yard 16th hole at Bangor Municipal Golf Course. Back to back. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
CARIBOU – The Caribou Vikings battled back to down Nokomis 6-4 in the second game of the doubleheader after being shutout 12-0 in game one in schoolboy baseball Saturday. In game two, Jamie Bell singled home Scott Raymond in the bottom of the sixth inning… Read More
Marsh Stream Race Kayak: 1. Kenny Cushman 40:24; 2. Steve Mosher 43:08; 3. Warren Greeley 54:21; Short kayak: 1. John Carter 51:19; 2. Earl Baldwin 51:48; 3. Dick Hanson 59:56; Women’s kayak: 1. Paula Lunt 1:28.28; One-man open canoe rec: 1. Tom Cronkite 50:52; 2. Read More
OLD TOWN – The Old Town Indians exhibited a flair for the dramatic this weekend. Thanks to five, two-out hits which produced two-thirds of their runs, the Indians rallied past visiting Brewer for a 9-7 baseball victory on a frigid Saturday afternoon at Old Town… Read More
STANDISH – If you came in during the eighth inning of the Maine Athletic Conference baseball championship game Saturday, you saw all you needed to see. After St. Joseph’s College took a 2-1 lead in the eighth, Husson first basemen Andy Boure turned a big… Read More
MSGA AT KATAHDIN G.C. Class A Gross: (tie) Tom Caron and Mickey Davis 69, Nate Davis 72, draw; Net: Ned Collins 66, (tie) Hal Stewart and Peter Rouleau Jr. 67 googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
HOWLAND – Rachael Dawson hit two doubles and a single to power the the Penobscot Valley Howlers to a 10-1 schoolgirl softball victory over the Schenck Wolverines Saturday. Mitchelle Doyon plated two runs on a double and a single for Penobscot Valley. Carrie Braley chipped… Read More
OXFORD – Jeff Taylor continued his quest for a record fifth straight Pro Stock season points title by posting a win in Oxford Plains Speedway’s 35-lap feature on Sunday. Taylor started on the outside of the front row, beat pole-sitter Al Hammond to the first… Read More
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – The University of Maine advanced to the final day of the America East softball tournament on Sunday, riding big innings to a pair of wins. The Black Bears rallied to top Drexel 5-4 in a morning game, then edged Vermont 5-3 later… Read More
LIMESTONE — The man charged with closing Loring Air Force Base and conducting the installation’s smooth transition for civilian use has been honored for his efforts. David Belyea of Caribou was chosen from a field of 30 site managers at closed bases across the country… Read More
AUGUSTA — A Cony High School student accused of harassing another student because he believed he was gay has been named in a civil rights complaint filed by the state Attorney General’s Office. The 16-year-old from Windsor abused a 15-year-old Augusta boy in hallways and… Read More
BANGOR — Altrusa International, a civic service organization, is 80 years old this year and still growing. Meeting this weekend, members of Altrusa District 1, which includes New England, Quebec and Bermuda, reconfirmed their dedication to community service throughout the world. The spring conference began… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The state’s only four-year forestry management and havesting program offered by a secondary school will have a new home when the Burton N. Packard Center for Forestry Management is dedicated May 17 at Foxcroft Academy. University of Maine President Frederick Hutchinson will speak… Read More
SANGERVILLE — The community development committee is seeking a design for town signs. The committee is seeking a design for a sign to be placed on the lawn of the town hall. The same design is expected to be used in signs welcoming visitors to… Read More
BANGOR — “Wake up! Wake up!” 2-year-old Devon Lovett called Saturday to a quartet of puppies snoozing away in a kennel at the Bangor Humane Society’s animal shelter. Despite the Hermon toddler’s efforts to rouse them, the litter of part-Lab, part-husky puppies continued their afternoon… Read More
Who should pay is always the most difficult question to answer satisfactorily when lawmakers decide that increased enforcement is needed for health and safety concerns. The Great Ponds Task Force, created last year by the Legislature, concluded that the people most likely to use or affect the inland… Read More
MARK CARNEY has been named of director of sales of UNICEL Cellular Phone Service in Bangor. In this job he is responsible for overseeing all sales activities at the retail and business account levels. Previously, Carney was an outside sales account executive for UNICEL and had been responsible… Read More
TOWNSHIP 1, RANGE 13 — A group of white-water rafting guides were allegedly caught in the act of destroying Bowater Paper Co. property Saturday evening after they became locked inside paper company land. The six men apparently believed they were locked in and the only… Read More
On Aug. 22 of last year, President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. This law has many provisions, one of which is that states must meet specific targets for work participation among their welfare caseloads. Adults in families receiving assistance under the… Read More
Mental Health Commissioner Melodie Peet has walked a political razor’s edge as her department has tried to deliver community-based mental health care while respecting the need and economics associated with the state’s two large mental health institutions in Bangor and Augusta. A bill heard last week in the… Read More
We’ve all seen scenes on TV depicting the annual nightmare in the kitchen on Mother’s Day: Dad and the kids are trying to make Mom breakfast, but all they are making is a mess. Smoke billows out of the toaster, eggs are permanently stuck to the pan, pancake… Read More
Bangor District Court: John Trask, 32, Lincoln, operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, $700, license suspended 90 days. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i… Read More
Editor’s note: May is Electrical Safety Month. If a small device were installed in every home in the United States, more than two-thirds of all residentail electrocutions could be prevented. The device is called a ground-fault circuit interrupter, or GFCI. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
CASTINE — U.S. Rep. John E. Baldacci surveyed the soon-to-be graduates at Maine Maritime Academy’s 54th commencement exercises Sunday and promised the young people and their families that he would speak briefly. “Between the time it takes to hoist a sail and to sail to… Read More
When the Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment protecting freedom of the press, they never imagined millions of Americans someday would have their own version of one sitting in their back rooms. But with the advent of the World Wide Web, that’s exactly what has… Read More
DEXTER — Officials from five school districts are at odds over the governance and a cost-sharing formula for the operation of the Tri-County Technical Center in Dexter. Officials in SAD 46, the host site for the center, believe they have the right to withdraw from… Read More
OLD TOWN — More than 100 Maine students raced their individually designed and built model sailboats Saturday for a chance to sail on a full-size version this summer. The model regatta at the Old Town High School gymnasium was part of a national education program… Read More
ST. FRANCIS — About 40 game wardens and volunteers searched Sunday for a 34-year-old man suspected of drowning in the St. Francis River sometime over the weekend. Randy Taggett of St. Francis fell into the river late Saturday afternoon when his boat hit a tree… Read More
FREEPORT — With help from his wife, son and about eight assistants, Richard Balzer spent two years assembling the first mechanical tower clock built in the United States in more than three decades. On Friday, Balzer beamed and about 150 spectators cheered as the clock… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — A Caribou artist was honored during the annual convention of the American Association of University Women held over the weekend in Presque Isle. Wilda Burtchell Hutcheon, 77, received the group’s award on Saturday for her achievements. The convention attracted about 50 AAUW… Read More
PORTLAND — Police and experts say it’s a mistake to dismiss the city’s budding street gangs as harmless wannabes. Police take them seriously enough to have formed a task force to come up with ways to defuse youth violence that has been increasing. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
MACHIAS — Four sessions of emotionally charged testimony have driven home this message: The National Marine Fisheries Service’s proposed whale protection plan would devastate Maine’s lobster industry. But whether the federal agency will radically change the regulations remains a question in Maine lobstermen’s minds. “We… Read More
A cutline in the May 3-4 weekend edition incorrectly identified the driver of a truck involved in an accident on Interstate 395 in Bangor Friday. Kenneth Appleton was driving the truck when a trailer behind it unhitched and forced the truck into another vehicle near the Veterans Remembrance… Read More
GENEVA — Medical advances mean more people around the world are living longer lives, but bad habits mean they aren’t necessarily healthier and happier ones, a new U.N. report says. The U.N. World Health Organization warns that so-called “diseases of the rich” — cancers, heart… Read More
ROCKLAND — In a move toward self-governance, Maine lobstermen have elected 76 of their own to serve on local management councils, but with a federal whale protection plan hanging over the industry’s head, the first order of business will be survival. The Legislature last year… Read More
BANGOR — Shirley Provost’s body lay just a foot from Bangor firefighter Mark Dunbar as he searched desperately for signs of life in the burning apartment. But in the smoke-induced darkness and intense heat of the fire four years ago, and with oxygen running out,… Read More
In your letters column on April 29, Roland Curtis asks, apropos of the equitable administration of drunken driving laws, “Whatever happened to our Constitution in which it says all men are created equal?” Actually, the U.S. Constitution doesn’t say that all men are created equal. Read More
Garry Rutherford’s letter, “No to the Greens” (BDN April 19-20), states the real purpose of Rep. [Tom] Bull’s bill, LD 1577, is “to destroy the Lincoln paper mill, jobs, and the community.” He also states “the bill is not about the non-detectable levels of dioxin and it’s not… Read More
I am writing in response to the commissioner of the Maine Department of Education, J. Duke Albanese’s, column in the Bangor Daily News (April 23). In the column he attempted to gloss over the failure of the “new” Maine Educational Assessment test to measure anything identifiable. However, more… Read More
In this day when there is often so much violence and cruelty to animals, as well as humans reported in the media, we should be emphasizing the observance of Be Kind to Animals Week, May 4-10. This observance has been going on for 82 years… Read More
Concerning our snowmobiling industry in Maine, I would like to offer my opinion on two areas of importance. One being OUIs, the other trail safety. I oppose drinking and driving in any aspect concerning motor vehicles. Nor do I agree with the proposed punishment. Suspension… Read More
This new call which sounds more like an order to volunteerism created by President Clinton is laughable. He didn’t even answer his call to serve his country, let alone volunteer as many did during the Vietnam era. Also, why should we volunteer to teach our kids in school… Read More
AUGUSTA — National Community Action Week will begin with legislative hearings for an Individual Development Account on Monday. Gov. King proclaimed the week of May 4 to 10 Maine Community Action Week. Private, nonprofit corporations offer hundreds of programs and services to more than 149,000… Read More
PORTLAND — Weeks after two people were killed when a drunken driver plowed into their car at a tollbooth, state police have written a policy to seek outside help when a trooper cannot respond to emergencies. State police were criticized and a trooper was suspended… Read More
BAR HARBOR — A 12-pound bald eagle, jolted and injured last month on power lines, has returned to the wild after recuperating. Coleen Doucette, who rehabilitated the bird at her nonprofit Acadia Wildlife Foundation in Bar Harbor, said Friday the eagle was released Wednesday morning… Read More
ELLSWORTH — A 33-year-old Ellsworth elver fisherman faces felony charges stemming from an incident in which he allegedly shot at another eel harvester Friday night. Roy E. Jordan III was arrested by Ellsworth police on a Class C charge of reckless conduct with a dangerous… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The state Supreme Judicial Court has denied an appeal of the former Eagle Lake town clerk convicted last year on charges related to registering a vehicle purchased by her husband so that less sales tax would be paid. Linda Allison, 40, and… Read More
DAMARISCOTTA MILLS — Russ Williams points to an eagle’s nest bulging from the branch of a towering tree, then mentions he’s counted as many as two dozen ospreys at once circling in the sky above. It’s no wonder the great birds of prey find the… Read More
BANGOR — A Gorham motorist and one of his passengers were arrested in the wee hours of Sunday morning after an incident that was witnessed by four police officers from three area law enforcement agencies. John C. Speed, 21, of Gorham was arrested and charged… Read More
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program has awarded loans and loan guarantees of $3.5 million in Maine. The York-Cumberland Housing Development Corp. will receive a 40-year, 5.5-percent interest loan of $750,000 and $2.25 million in loan guarantees for a 36-unit residential… Read More
KITTERY — The man who oversees the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard’s submarine work has been selected as its next commander. Capt. Vernon Williams will assume command of the shipyard at a ceremony this summer, shipyard officials said Tuesday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
PORTLAND — Philip Berrigan and five other peace activists plan to serve as their own lawyers when they go on trial next week in U.S. District Court on charges of breaking into a shipyard and vandalizing a destroyer. The six members of a Baltimore-based group… Read More
AUGUSTA — Maine has climbed to the No. 2 rating in the country when it comes to indicators of childhood well-being, according to the eighth annual Kids Count Data Book released today. The state had been in fourth place last year. The Pine Tree State… Read More
SANGERVILLE — The town does not have an obligation to construct an access road to property at the rear of the landfill, as requested by a landowner, according to a legal opinion. In the 1970s, George Harms and town officials worked out an agreement for… Read More
HERMON — Determined to set a positive tone for the community, officials have adopted a theme for the town and begun projects to enhance pride, communication and cooperation among residents and employees. Town Manager Kathryn Ruth said recently that the Town Council reviewed suggestions for… Read More
FORT KENT — Although a flood warning was still in effect Sunday, local officials were not worried about the St. John River pouring over onto Main Street. The river was just below 20 feet Sunday afternoon, the flood level set by the National Weather Service,… Read More
HOULTON — Two Oakfield men have been arrested in connection with a series of business burglaries in that town. Jesse Stow, 18, and Christopher Rackliff, 20, have been charged each with three counts of burglary and three counts of theft. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
BANGOR — An Elm Street man will undoubtedly choose his drinking buddies more carefully after being fleeced by two new “friends” he met Friday night while out at The Tavern. According to the police report at the Bangor Police Department, Joe Mundy made friends with… Read More
NEWPORT — A little more than two years ago, Ron Richards thought his life was over. He was no longer a police officer, which was the only career he ever wanted. He couldn’t hold a driver’s license. He even had to sell his beloved Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The future… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Town councilors will award almost a half a million dollars in construction projects to Maine firms on Tuesday night. The projects — which range from $94,000 to just under $9,000 — represent a fraction of the spring projects under way in town. Housing… Read More