ORONO – At 5-foot-9, he’s easy to miss in a crowd, but Steve Hine is standing tall in the Bangor Blue Ox lineup this season. Hine capped off another great night at the plate with a game-winning solo homer leading off the bottom of the… Read More
CAMDEN – Until Tuesday, the John Bapst Crusaders had hit exactly zero triples this season. Bill Ford hadn’t hit once since his Senior Little League days. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
Most people would agree that exercise best fits into days or weeks that are regular, that are routine. Travel, therefore, is the enemy of exercise. The past couple of months I have travelled to Connecticut and Washington, D.C., for a week each, and to England… Read More
PHILADELPHIA – After 42 years of waiting, maybe the time has finally come for the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup again. One thing is a little more certain after the Red Wings’ 4-2 victory Tuesday night gave them a 2-0 lead in… Read More
The addition of women’s ice hockey at the University of Maine would go a long way toward helping the university solve its gender equity problems, but it also would increase the demand for scholarship dollars. UMaine now has the pros and cons of the new venture to juggle. Read More
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In 1995, the University of Maine announced “Realizing the Dream,” a proposal to achieve Title IX compliance by improving funding and facilities for women’s athletic programs. The plan is designed to push the ratio of female athletes from 31.4 percent to 43.2 percent and boost… Read More
The Eastern Maine Amateur Baseball League’s future, which had been uncertain two months ago, appears to be bright, according to league president John Kolasinski. In fact, Kolasinski, who had announced his retirement in April, has decided to stay on as president. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
PITTSFIELD – Maine Central Institute’s Huskies hadn’t done much with hard-throwing Rockland High School righthander Rachel Ervin recently. In fact, entering the fifth inning of Tuesday’s Eastern Maine Class B softball preliminary playoff game, MCI had managed just one unearned run in the previous eight… Read More
The Calais Blue Devils softball and baseball teams both advanced to the Eastern Maine quarterfinals with playoff victories Tuesday. Eighth-ranked Calais knocked off No. 9 Penquis 8-5 in softball and No. 8 Calais stopped No. 9 Fort Fairfield 6-2 in baseball. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
BANGOR – NASCAR star Ricky Craven of Newburgh inked a one year contract with Wal-Mart Monday. Craven and his show car will appear at each of Maine’s 19 Wal-Marts and the store will offer limited-edition Craven collectibles, available only in Maine. Craven, 31, was NASCAR’s… Read More
WMSGA AT CASTINE GC Weekly Tournament A-1 Gross: Deb Wiley 89; Net: Kit Bartlett 79; A-2 Gross: Nancy McEwen 94, (tie) Lindy Warren and Priscilla Aucoin 95; Net: (tie) Ilse Pfander and Barbara Gallant 74, Sue Roberts 76 googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
BELFAST — If City Hall adheres to the will of the people, the former Penobscot Poultry Co. site will remain as open space. That was the consensus that emerged from last week’s public meeting by the Task Force 2000. The meeting was called to gauge… Read More
GARLAND — Taxpayers said enough is enough Monday by agreeing to investigate a tax cap on school spending. If the SAD 46 budget is adopted later this month, Garland, a member of the district, will see a property tax increase of more than 26 percent. Read More
AUGUSTA — The Maine Historic Preservation Commission announced recently that three Maine buildings have been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. The entries include the John B. Curtis Free Public Library in Bradford, District 2 School in Passadumkeag, and the Walter and Eva… Read More
RICHMOND — A man who helped stage children’s puppet shows for a local church has been charged with molesting a 13-year-old boy, and police say the suspect may have had dozens of other victims. Eric Pfeil, 43, appeared in court Monday to face one count… Read More
PITTSFIELD — A 9-year-old girl was hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after she was struck by a car as she rode her bicycle home from school. Kera Cummings received facial and head injuries when she was struck by a 1988 Oldsmobile driven by Linda Spaulding, 35, of… Read More
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — The U.S. Coast Guard held a change of command and retirement ceremony May 30 in which Chief Boatswain’s Mate David J. Brugger became officer in charge of the group, replacing Chief Boatswain’s Mate Edward M. Butz. Taking over Brugger’s command of the… Read More
Paige Barton embarked on a meaningful journey last weekend that helped close a sad chapter in an otherwise productive life. Barton, an advocate for the disabled who will speak Thursday in Brewer, returned to Ohio and one of the mental institutions where she wrongfully was… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Eastern Agency on Aging community service consultant Leslie Lizotte will offer outreach assistance to senior citizens at the following places in June, all from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.: June 5, St. Ann’s Parish, Dexter. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
A new incentive program has been initiated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to benefit farmers and landowners in Somerset County. The Environmental Quality Incentive Program offers long-term conservation contracts consisting of cost-share and incentive payments for certain conservation practices. New and expanding manure management… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Registration for the YMCA summer swim programs will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, June 9 and 10, at Piscataquis Community High School, Guilford. At Dover-Foxcroft, registration will be June 16-30 at the YMCA, 30 Park St. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
WATERVILLE — Political novices yanked the campaign stump out from under a roomful of old pros, including three members of Congress, at a recent Maine Democratic Party dinner honoring Eleanor Roosevelt. A highlight of the event Sunday was the appearance by six young women who… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The City Council voted 4-2 Monday night to again solicit proposals to manage a portion of former military housing left vacant when Loring Air Force Base closed in 1994. The development appears to be another wrinkle in the years-long effort to reuse… Read More
BRUNSWICK — A husband-wife veterinarian team whose practice gets referrals from throughout New England has won recognition for creating the region’s third-largest private veterinary-surgical hospital. Gail D. Mason and Mark B. Mason of Brunswick and 49 other business owners chosen by the U.S. Small Business… Read More
WASHINGTON — The government banned the use of virtually all slaughtered-animal parts in U.S. livestock feed Tuesday because of links to “mad cow disease.” That disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, caused public panic when the British government announced last year that a new version of a… Read More
GREENVILLE — The results of Greenville municipal and school elections were announced Tuesday. Bonita DuBien and incumbent Paul Breton were elected to two three-year terms on the Board of Selectmen. The tally was Breton, 229; DuBien, 138; Nester “Terry” Beckwith, 113; and Paul Fichtner III,… Read More
TRENTON — The Hancock Memorial American Legion Post and local Boy Scouts of America will hold a joint flag retirement ceremony at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Legion post on Route 3. The event will commemorate the first day of National Flag Week and is… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The Hancock County Planning Commission and Maine Department of Transportation will discuss proposed ferry service from the Schoodic area to Bar Harbor from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 25, at Ellsworth City Hall. Topics will include potential demand for the service and… Read More
FORT KENT — Carol Roy still feels the disappointment, nearly a year after a bilingual education program was torn from the curriculum in SAD 33 at Frenchville-St. Agatha. “Mine is not a success story. I have four sons who are all limited English proficient and… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Judith Tredwell of Brooksville was chosen to receive the Emergency Medical Service Provider of the Year Award during a reception on May 22 in recognition of National Emergency Medical Services Week at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital. Tredwell and her husband, Bob, started the… Read More
AUGUSTA — Homosexuals will not have to fear bias when they apply for jobs, voters will get another crack at the Maine Turnpike widening plan, and more moose hunters will head to the woods as a result of action taken by the Legislature. Farther down… Read More
The Title IX complaint against 25 colleges and universities, including the University of Maine, became inevitable April 21, the day the Supreme Court decided without comment to let stand a decision in an equity suit against Brown University. The concluding rap of the gavel in that case must… Read More
“Life is like a baseball game,” says Roxanne, a character in the play “Some Days Are Better Than Others.” “Sometimes it’s all long, drawn-out innings where nothing much happens. Sometimes you go into overtime. … Sometimes it’s a grand slam! Home run city.” Life may,… Read More
Roger Shorey took his gun off the gun rack, loaded it and went looking for something to shoot. Unfortunately, he was in his house at the time, and the only living creatures nearby were his daughter, his girlfriend of 10 years and her three children, whom Roger had… Read More
Machias District Court: David Perry, Sr., 44, Cherryfield, criminal mischief, $100. 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 (slot_sizes[i][0] googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
In downtown Oklahoma City stands a tree, a slippery elm stripped bare two years ago by a terrorist’s bomb. Monday evening, just hours after a Colorado jury found Timothy McVeigh guilty of that horrific crime, those who lived through the blast and friends and family… Read More
Laura Winters wants her kids to regard every part of the day as a learning experience. That’s why she and her husband, Jim, spend every day “unschooling” their seven children at home: designing their own lessons, using a variety of textbooks and library books, and making sure that… Read More
HOWLAND — Voters from the eight towns in SAD 31 will consider a proposed school budget reflecting the smallest increase in five years. “For the first time in recent memory we are getting a decent increase in state aid, about $30,000 [more],” said Superintendent William… Read More
MILFORD — Voters here will have an unusually high number of positions to fill in their annual elections Monday at the municipal building. They’ll also encounter a new school budget format the next day at their annual town meeting. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
BAILEYVILLE — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission officials were looking for comment from area residents Tuesday night on a proposed $3.5 billion natural gas pipeline that could be a lifeline for rural and urban communities along its 620-mile path from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts. The possible… Read More
GREENVILLE — Greenville taxpayers defeated an attempt Monday evening to slash the Police Department account by nearly $41,000. For more than three hours, Greenville selectmen fielded questions on nearly every article dealing with municipal government at the annual town meeting, including police protection. More than… Read More
BANGOR — The planning board spent the biggest part of its meeting Tuesday discussing, then tabling CMI’s site development plan to fill and grade a 1.6-acre parcel at 799 Mount Hope Ave. Participating in the discussion were neighbors James Durham and his daughter, Cindy Durham,… Read More
FREEPORT — Ownership of Wolfe’s Neck Farm has been transferred from the University of Southern Maine to a nonprofit foundation that plans to increase public use of the 600-acre organic beef farm and public participation in its programs. The property, which includes three miles of… Read More
AUGUSTA — As Douglas Littlefield sits in his cell at Penobscot County Jail, investigators in the Bangor area are anxiously seeking his DNA sample. Since his arrest last January for raping an elderly Brewer woman, police have linked the 25-year-old Brewer man to the rape… Read More
OLD TOWN — The City Council on Monday night scheduled a public hearing on next year’s proposed budget, changed some of the city’s election sites and addressed a safety hazard at a local trailer park. City Manager Ron Singel said Tuesday that the councilors are… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Not a single person — other than town and school officials — showed up for the SAD 53 public hearing Tuesday night on the proposed $6.8 million budget. Nine members of the school board were there. And the town manager and mayor. And… Read More
BANGOR — A Penobscot County sheriff’s deputy arrested in March for drunken driving has been suspended for six months and removed from patrol indefinitely, the deputy reported Tuesday. In a decision handed down earlier Tuesday by the sheriff’s department, John Trask, 32, will remain on… Read More
After years of planning and plenty of disappointments, the state has finally found a way to save money and improve public health with a managed care program for Maine parents and children on Medicaid. Voluntary enrollment in NYLCare Choice began last week in Androscoggin County… Read More
NEWPORT — A series of executive sessions dominated the Tuesday night meeting of the SAD 48 board of directors. Two of the sessions involved student suspensions. The first of the executive sessions, and by far the longest, came about unexpectedly. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
BANGOR — A former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine blasted for-profit managed care Tuesday evening before an appreciative audience, the medical staff from St. Joseph Hospital. Arnold Relman, professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School, carried an after-dinner cup of coffee to the… Read More
BURNHAM — Six family members were injured Tuesday night when their car swerved across both lanes of Interstate 95 in Burnham, then rolled over at least twice in the median, shearing off trees and all but disappearing in deep undergrowth. The accident was reported at… Read More
Amen to Philip Tate’s letter to the editor which was printed May 28. Andy Capp is the same three humorless jokes on the same three humorless subjects (alcohol, infidelity, and sloth) again and again and again. Not only does it have no comic value, it is also tediously… Read More
Could you ask [reporter] Andy Kekacs to excercise a little restraint on the weather stories? He should have left well enough alone. Saying Mother Nature was a wimp and winter was over in March gave us an April blizzard and no spring. Now there’s a danger he’ll start… Read More
On June 10, the residents of Limestone will vote on whether or not to continue with a potato harvest recess. I am writing this in response to the policy of a harvest recess recently adopted by the Limestone School Committee. One of our school board… Read More
My husband and I are employees at Maine Yankee. I am a mechanical engineer and my husband is a nuclear plant operator. I was born in Bangor and raised in Hampden. My husband and I are both graduates of the University of Maine. First and… Read More
When multi-billionare Richard DeVos and his wife gave the Republican Party $1 million , they were merely repaying the party for the 50 percent tax break they and the other richest Americans received from the Reagan administration in 1982. To make up for the loss revenue to the… Read More
Gov. Angus King said he would not sign the doubling of the tax on cigarettes because it would be a burden on the people of Maine, and that it created new spending. Reducing the use of cigarettes with high taxes will not be a burden, but, on the… Read More
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon placed its final seal of approval Tuesday on a plan that calls for Bath Iron Works to build six Aegis-class destroyers for the Navy over the next four years. The decision effectively leaves in place the status quo plan, but represents… Read More
Maine businesses looking for an edge in exporting goods and services to South America need look no further than Gov. Angus King, who is preparing his next trade mission overseas. This time, he will take a stab at developing markets, specifically those of Argentina and Chile. Read More
LONDON — Multiparty talks aimed at reconciling hate-filled Protestant and Roman Catholic communities in Northern Ireland resumed Tuesday on the same note on which they opened a year ago: one of frayed patience and angry words in the shadow of violence. There was no progress,… Read More
LUBEC — The first issue of The Meridian, a Washington County newspaper published monthly by the Regional Medical Center for senior citizens, was released in May. The Meridian provides information on programs and services, health and nutrition, public affairs, recreation and the outdoors. The paper… Read More
THOMASTON — The movement to create a commemorative stamp to honor “one of the most overlooked historic figures in the history of the state” is gathering steam. Amateur historian Wayne C. Gray is behind the effort to honor Thomaston resident Jonathan Cilley, who, as a… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The need to eliminate beer-guzzling graduation parties held in local sand pits and elsewhere from April to graduation night was addressed Tuesday during a meeting of police chiefs, town officials and Piscataquis County commissioners. The keg parties, also known as pit or tailgate… Read More
ROCKLAND — It would have been a great bet that county and city law enforcement agencies could never get together, put their jurisdictional jealousies aside, and develop a combined Enhanced 911 radio dispatch plan. But Rockland Police Chief Alfred Ockenfels and Knox County Sheriff Daniel Davey brag that… Read More
RAYMOND — A farmers’ market is among the events that a new coalition of communities hopes will draw visitors to the Sebago Lake region. Members of three smaller business groups — the Casco-Raymond Business Alliance, the Bridgton-Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce and the Naples Business… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Sometime between Friday night and Monday morning, thieves entered the Cianchette Hall of Science at Maine Central Institute and stole nearly $15,000 worth of computer and scientific equipment. “They were really sloppy,” said Pittsfield Police Officer Wilfred Dodge. “They left plenty of fingerprints… Read More
CALAIS — A 21-year-old student at the University of Maine at Machias told police that a knife-wielding blond woman driving a shiny red car abducted him at knife point last week and took him to a motel where she and four men raped him. The… Read More
Congratulations. Your editorial, “The flag of freedom” (BDN, May 29), was a gem and said it perfectly. That Rep. John Baldacci could support such a jingoistic attack on the First Amendment is a great disappointment. While flag burning is odious, repression of even odious behavior… Read More
Old Town police are taking a new approach to the old problem of underage drinking. Frustrated at the continuing problem of teens drinking and partying while their parents are away, the Old Town Police Department is instituting a voluntary program in which parents give permission… Read More
BREWER — Consider, if you will, a tale of two Brewers. An observer present at the start of Tuesday’s council meeting would have heard the tale of Burton Smith, whose property was so cluttered with junk, power authorities couldn’t read his meter for 12 years… Read More
BANGOR — The city of Bangor is proceeding carefully on its revision of the juvenile curfew ordinance. The municipal operations committee decided Tuesday that before sending the measure to the City Council, it will hold a public hearing at its next meeting in two weeks. Read More
A June 3 story about an explosion at Brewer’s Eastern Fine Paper Co. misidentified one woman quoted in the account. She is Eleanor Epstein. It was incorrectly reported in Tuesday’s editions that the former town manager of Rangeley, Edward M. Barrett, became the city manager… Read More
BREWER — The City Council broke into executive session Tuesday night to discuss their search for a city manager, but no decision was made. Their top candidate — in fact, their only candidate — remains James Kotredes, the town manager of Millinocket for the past… Read More
DETROIT — Selectmen have called a special town meeting for 7 p.m. Tuesday to decide on two issues: construction of a salt-sand shed and whether the town clerk should be appointed rather than elected. The meeting will piggyback on the SAD 53 budget referendum. Polls… Read More
Newport District Court: Richard L. Shields, 67, Hudson, operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, $400, 48 hours in jail, license suspended 90 days. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Guilford man pleaded not guilty Monday in his initial appearance in 13th District Court in connection with a bizarre assault on the Guilford town manager in April. Carl Vainio entered the not-guilty plea to charges of assault, operating a motor vehicle while… Read More