The Maine Principals’ Association needs to take a closer look at the way it schedules baseball and, potentially, softball state championship games. A team should not be allowed to play a state final on its own home field, but that is exactly what happened Saturday… Read More
    Kenny Johnson is no stranger to Machias basketball. The former NEWS All-Maine second-teamer averaged 28 points and 11 rebounds a game to lead the Bulldogs to a state title in 1988. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
    BANGOR – He and his family had to drive better than 100 miles from their home to attend the 6th annual High School Senior All-Start Baseball Classic Friday night, but Brandon Brewer made it worth the trip. The graduate of Greely High School in Cumberland… Read More
    MADAWASKA – Five Maine youth golfers have become eligible to compete in the Optimist Club International Junior Golf Championship at the PGA National Resort and Spa at Palm Beach, Fla., July 19-25. Scott Beaulieu of Madawaska and Denise Dumont of Portage qualified for 16- to… Read More
    ROCKLAND – Michael Allan of Orrington only recently started working for the U.S. Postal Service, but he showed Friday he has learned its motto, “We Deliver.” Allan birdied five of the first seven holes at Rockland Golf Club en route to a 3-under-par 67 and… Read More
    HANOVER, N.H. – Maine won the annual women’s Tri-State golf tournament at Hanover Country Club on Thursday. The 30-member Maine team won with 102 points, a slim margin over defending champion Vermont, which had 96 1/2. New Hampshire posted 71 1/2 points. Team members could… Read More
    SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Infielder Kevin Millar and outfielder Mark Kotsay of the Portland Sea Dogs have been named to the National League Squad for the seventh annual Double A All-Star Game. Millar has hit .316 this season, racking up 16 home runs and 68 RBIs, while Kotsay… Read More
    Blue Ox players and officials have been writing some extra checks to the Northeast League lately after manager Roger LaFrancois and outfielder Hugh Walker were ejected from games. LaFrancois got his first ejection of the season Sunday after arguing a close call at first base… Read More
    In what might easily be construed as a blatant and shameless ploy calculated to win black votes, some members of the U.S. House of Representatives have started banging the drum for the issuance of a national apology to American blacks for the practice of slavery that ended in… Read More
    Heny David Thoreau was not the best writer to come out of New England, but he was certainly one of the most interesting. A friend of mine recently gve me a well-thumbed 1909 edition of “The Maine Woods.” This book has been described as the finest idyll of… Read More
    Madawaska District Court: Roger Cyr, 46, Clair, New Brunswick, 46-30, $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 (slot_sizes[i][0]… Read More
    Mrs. Madeline Rollins of Guilford is having a lawn party at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Flint of Guilford. This will take place Saturday, July 12, 1-4 p.m. in celebration of the 50th wedding anniversary of her three children, all married in… Read More
    I want to give a tribute to the nurses, doctors, and staff of Rosen NICU [Neonatal Intensive care Unit] at Eastern Maine Medical Center. The past few weeks have been very hard due to the illness of Dr. Mary Kate Davitt. Never have I seen… Read More
    The Brewer City Council is once again front-page news, but not for any reasons the citizens of Brewer can feel proud. Instead, we hang our heads and almost feel ashamed when people find out we live in Brewer. Don’t get me wrong. I love living… Read More
    As long as Blue Hill Memorial Hospital can continue saying it has a license to burn PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic and other medical waste, those protesting the continued operation of the incinerator in that village have little leverage to stop it. Apparently the information about toxic emissions is… Read More
    The Winterport selectmen have inserted an article in the town report to give them the authority to investigate the sale of the airport property at town meeting, today [June 21]. The proceeds of sale would be invested in a reserve account and only the income [could] be spent… Read More
    A liver transplant is the last hope for Andrew Sousa-Wakeland, who has a genetic defect that has pushed his cholesterol count upward of 1,200. Andrew has a homozygote LDL-receptor defect, also called familial hyperlipidemia, that keeps his body from disposing of excess cholesterol. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    TOPSHAM — Topsham authorities say a homemade bomb detonated by two 15-year-old boys could have been a recipe for disaster. The bomb was detonated Wednesday afternoon at the town landfill by the two youths, who say they got the idea off the Internet. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    I have been a state employee for the last few years working at Bangor Mental Health Institute. I feel Workers’ Compensation is a bad joke. It’s like going to a fair. As we all know, if you play a dart game, etc., they have to let some win… Read More
    It was an interesting juxtaposition on Wednesday’s front page — a story about a national problem paired with one about a company’s local solution. Bottom left we read that the already high cost of a college education in the United States may double by 2015,… Read More
    The Limestone Country Club was omitted from a listing of golf courses in the June 19 Experience Maine special section. The nine-hole, par 36 course is on the Sawyer Road. Read More
    In the June 11 edition of the Bangor Daily News, I read that a business owner is being sued because her failure to inform a customer of her infant’s chicken pox led to the contractions of a life-threatening illness by that customer. Attorney Peggy Gilbert… Read More
    An article that appeared in the June 19 MaineDay section reported that Brewer Code Enforcement Officer Peggy Elmer secretly tape-recorded a June 11 staff meeting in which former assistant to the city manager Kenny Rankin made an emotional outburst. Although Elmer did not announce to… Read More
    A concert of sacred music, featuring more than 35 voices of the combined Dennysville Festival Choir and the choir of St. Dunstan’s Church, Ellsworth, will be held on 3 p.m. Sunday, June 22, at Holy Name Catholic Church in Machias. The offering will benefit Down… Read More
    Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins joioned the fight for cleaner air in Maine last week by informing the White House that they would support its Clean Air Act update under certain conditions. Their support was important for helping the state address legitimate concerns about regulating dirty… Read More
    SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Young, independent readers are invited by children’s librarian Candy Emlen to participate in the Southwest Harbor Public Library’s Summer Reading Program. Beginning in July, the program will take place every Wednesday morning and will last through April. For information about any of… Read More
    FRENCHVILLE — It took a handful of voters less than seven minutes Thursday night to pass the $3,042,013 budget for SAD 33 for 1997-98. Not one question was asked of administrators and school board members who developed the budget. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
    DIXFIELD — A half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington was set up Friday in this western Maine town. The “traveling wall,” bearing the names of the 58,202 Americans who died in the war, will remain on display in Harlow Park until 8… Read More
    ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — Scientists from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and Acadia National Park will explore air pollution research and monitoring in Maine at a presentation “Acadia: Downeast and Downwind.” Ozone advisories appearing in local weather forecasts and reduced visibility on Acadia National… Read More
    On a stifling-hot August afternoon in 1930 Tammany lawyer Joseph Force Crater, 41, just recently appointed to the New York Supreme Court by then-Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, cut short his vacation to withdraw $5,000 from the bank and sell $16,000 worth of stock. The good… Read More
    BROOKSVILLE — Philip L. Farr, manager of Holbrook Island Sanctuary, has announced that Barbara Whyte of Blue Hill has been awarded the 1997 Holbrook Island Sanctuary Scholarship. The scholarship money will be used to complete Whyte’s project, a “deer resistant” garden. She will receive assistance… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — The Mount Desert Senior Task Force recently received a $25,000 Faith in Action grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, N.J. The money will be used to establish an Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers project for older disabled persons on Mount Desert Island and the… Read More
    ELLSWORTH — Geri Snowden of Ellsworth will be recognized at 2 p.m. Monday, June 30, for her outstanding volunteer service to older people in a presentation at Meadowview Apartments. Also receiving recognition will be ECHO, an Ellsworth-based health care organization. Snowden has volunteered extensively for… Read More
    GLENBURN — Residents here have given the school committee the go-ahead to proceed with its plans to withdraw from Union 34, which consists of Glenburn and Hermon. Ray Freve, assistant superintendent in Glenburn, said Friday that, according to the results from a recent survey, residents… Read More
    OLD TOWN — A children’s parade, reading clubs for all ages, a tea party and a stuffed animal show are among the highlights of the Old Town Public Library’s 1997 Summer Reading Program. This year’s theme is “Take Flight With Books — Read!” The program… Read More
    The Bangor Police Department has suspended its investigation into allegations that a 13-year-old Bangor boy was held down and burned repeatedly with a cigarette and cigarette lighter earlier this month. The teen-ager told police that on June 12 he was walking in Second Street Park… Read More
    Friends and neighbors are planning a benefit for the family of Larry Waters of Bradford. The well-known local dairy farmer has been fighting a “miraculous battle” against cancer, according to Amy Bishop of Bradford, one of the event’s organizers. The Benefit Supper and Dance for… Read More
    NEW YORK — Scientists have identified a gene that causes a rare form of migraine headaches and may play a role in more common types. Some 23 million Americans get migraines. Scientist have long known that genes play a major role, but the genes themselves… Read More
    MONTPELIER, Vt. — Maple syrup production fell this year in nearly all of the nation’s top 10 producing states. But so did syrup prices, the U.S. Agriculture Department says. Production dropped 28 percent in Vermont, the largest source of maple syrup with 30 percent of… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Some of the country’s finest police canine teams will demonstrate their abilities during the Region 9 field trials here today and Sunday. The field trials, in conjunction with the United States Canine Association Inc., will be held starting at 10 a.m. at Foxcroft… Read More
    BELFAST — City Councilor Walter Ash’s standing with the Police Department is so low he probably couldn’t get arrested. Ash infuriated the men in blue during a budget hearing this week by suggesting that all they did was direct traffic. The remark was made during… Read More