That’s no sandbagger – that’s my father. First of all, I would like to congratulate Hank Veilleux on his wonderful round of 77 in Friday’s first round of the Citgo Paul Bunyan Amateur Golf Tournamnet; it was a round of a lifetime. Not much different from my father’s… Read More
The University of Maine’s Gender Equity Plan, its road map to achieve a more equitable environment in athletics, still must travel over a bumpy road to reach its goal of Title IX compliance by 1998. On Tuesday, the university released an optimistic two-year progress report… Read More
LYNN, Mass. – The Bangor Blue Ox seemed to have their game with the Massachusettes Mad Dogs in hand Tuesday night. The Ox were up 8-3 entering the bottom of the ninth, but then everything fell apart. The Mad Dogs scored six unearned runs with… Read More
BAR HARBOR – Instead of Mount Katahdin looming over Lonnie Pinette’s tee shots on Tuesday it was Cadillac Mountain. Instead of the fresh Maine woods air, there was a steady, summery sea breeze that greeted him every time the Millinocket 17-year-old lined up a putt… Read More
LAWRENCE, Mass. – Hockey East has long been a very tough conference as far as college hockey goes. Last Saturday’s NHL entry draft showed one of the big reasons why. Thirteen players and recruits from Hockey East schools were chosen in the 1997 Entry Draft,… Read More
Atlantic puffins, formerly called common puffins, present several significant challenges for those who want to photograph them. Not the least of those challenges is getting close enough for good photographs. These most photogenic birds nest today on several of Maine’s coastal islands thanks to the… Read More
ELLSWORTH – It is the one thing always asked of a pitcher: Throw strikes and make them hit ground balls. Tuesday night, that is excately what Josh Sadlier did. Sadlier allowed just six hits and allowed three runs, while recording 10 ground-ball outs as Trenton… Read More
ROYCE MORRISON ELLSWORTH – Royce Morrison of Otis aced the 150-yard, par-3 first hole at White Birches Golf Course on Sunday with a 6-iron. It was witnessed by Phil Pelletier and Ed Brissete. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
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Two Baileyville women made an initial appearance in District Court in Bangor on Tuesday after they were arrested for unlawful trafficking in heroin on Monday in Newburgh. Sylvia Lebel, 47, and Lisa Fuller, 19, will be scheduled for a probable cause hearing at District Court,… Read More
OLD TOWN — Gerald P. Nelson Jr. of Freedom was sentenced recently for theft of timber valued at $25,000 from four separate landowners. These thefts occurred from 1991 to 1994 and included properties in Bristol, Woolwich, Casco and Monmouth. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
BELFAST — One woman was killed and seven people injured Monday evening in a two-car accident which was blamed on high speed, according to a preliminary investigation. No charges had been filed as of Tuesday morning. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
CARIBOU — A $9.3 million spending plan to operate the Caribou School Department during the 1997-1998 year was approved Monday night by the City Council. The budget is expected to have no impact on the tax rate for the city, but includes a $92,323 expenditure… Read More
People interested in information on the characteristics that make a site suitable for cranberry production may attend a cranberry site assessment workshop at 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 15, at Dave Marceau’s house in Searsmont. It is an opportunity for growers and potential growers to meet… Read More
HOULTON — The Town Council on Monday night appointed Debra Guiod to fill a vacancy on the SAD 29 board until the next municipal election in November. Guiod, a former schoolteacher at Houlton High School, will replace Lawrence Tonzi, who resigned effective July 1 to… Read More
BANGOR — Though it might sound like a simple solution to a problem that has plagued this city for years, enforcing the teen curfew adopted by the City Council Monday night could prove cumbersome. The curfew, which takes effect in nine days, is aimed at… Read More
Although it was difficult to hear the news that young Alan Langley — known in Hermon as “Mr. T” — is suffering from a recurrence of cancer, it was equally heartening to learn that he is receiving a great deal of support from his young friends, their parents,… Read More
FORT KENT — Town officials considered an option to correct septic waste problems at the Stadig Trailer Park during the Town Council’s regular Monday meeting. The council was given a brief update on the trailer park during the meeting, according to Town Manager Don Guimond… Read More
FORT KENT — Town councilors learned this week that audits of the municipality’s finances were complete and that a report would be made public within two weeks. The May 10 suicide of Fort Kent’s office manager, Marilyn Deschaine, prompted a second audit of the town’s… Read More
Hospice of Eastern Maine is offering an evening and a daytime volunteer training class this summer and fall. Evening training is 5:30-9:30 p.m. Tuesdays, July 22-Aug. 19; daytime training is 9 a.m. to noon Fridays, Sept. 12-Nov. 7. HOEM provides skilled and volunteer services which… Read More
A network of computerized highway message signs installed on the Maine Turnpike will help motorists avoid traffic backups by providing rapid, on-the-road information about accidents and road conditions. Fourteen message signs have been installed at toll plazas and strategic locations along the turnpike from York… Read More
PORTLAND — Mainers who are blind or visually impaired will have the opportunity to participate in a summer schedule of events sponsored by the Maine Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired and its Sports and Recreation Advisory Committee. MCBVI is a statewide nonprofit organization… Read More
The National Kidney Foundation of Maine honored 26 people at the annual meeting held at the Senator Inn in Augusta on June 12. The awards were given for outstanding contributions to people in Maine and their commitment to the foundation. The purpose of the NFK… Read More
AUGUSTA — This week’s U.S. Supreme Court affirmation of a state’s right to lock up sexual predators beyond their allotted sentences has improved the chances of passing a similar law in Maine next year. Rep. Debra D. Plowman, R-Hampden, said Tuesday she will press the… Read More
Five years after the first international Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1990, 2,500 scientists taking part in the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change settled, for now, the most contentious question of the summit. The scientists decided that man-made emissions contributed to a small increase… Read More
HOULTON — A local businessman has called for an investigation of the town’s police department, alleging that its officers are following his customers. Frank Draus, who operates Club 63, Dance & Eat, read a statement before the Town Council Monday night stating that police regularly… Read More
BASS HARBOR — Nicols Fox wants you to become a “dragon consumer.” That’s right, a dragon consumer. She wants you to be able to make a choice whether or not to buy a food item based on its label. She wants the label to tell… Read More
Rockland District Court: Operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, James H. Benson, 36, St. George, two counts, $400 each count, seven days in jail each count, license suspended 90 days each count; Bowling L. Byers, 49, Union, $400, two days… Read More
Sumner Memorial High School EAST SULLIVAN — The following students were awarded scholarships during graduation ceremonies for the Class of 1997 at Sumner Memorial High School: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
I grew up in Bangor, Maine. Since college, I have lived near big U.S. cities. In each city, I learned to be afraid. I do not mean I lived in fear and never left the house. I mean if I walked home at night, I learned to carry… Read More
Northern Maine Medical Center at Fort Kent recently honored 38 employees for a total 430 years of service to the hospital. Those with the most longevity were Rinette Dubois and Cecile Theriault with 30 years each, Russell Beaulieu with 25 years and Gayle Lambert, Pauline… Read More
MONSON — More than a glimpse of the past will be on tap when Monson celebrates its 175th anniversary Saturday. The long forgotten wail of a train whistle and chug-a-chug of an engine as it winds its way along the tracks will sound in the… Read More
It was supposed to be an easy layup during just another pickup basketball game. But as fate would have it, my man cut me off and when I came down I had one foot facing the floor, the other foot facing Hampden, and a really bad sprain that… Read More
Any time Congress goes bipartisan, it’s a good sign we’re in big trouble. Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee last week reached a unanimous agreement on Medicare reform and we, indeed, are in the jam of a lifetime. The committee’s plan would make… Read More
FORT KENT — United Artists’ 1929 film “Evangeline” will be shown twice in area theaters during Acadian Festival Week June 22-29. Sponsored by the University of Maine at Fort Kent Acadian Archives, this newly restored movie will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 25,… Read More
Anybody else find this proposed tobacco settlement just a wee bit unsettling? The tobacco companies are ging to pay the States 368.5 billion dollars over a thirty year period. They will refrain from most forms of advertising, commit to lowering the percentage of teens who smoke, and eventually… Read More
A whirling vortex of bright pattern opens onto peaceful furrowed fields rolling out toward the sea. A breezy white porch radiates late afternoon light back over the ocean below it. A road of stripes ripples along a valley floor like ribbon candy, tumbling out to touch distant “painted… Read More
Sally Lyman expresses what appears to be a real sincere concern for the welfare of Washington County residents in her op-ed column (BDN, June 19). She has a beautiful, easy reading, style of writing. Unfortunately, Lyman failed completely to mention the negative consequences related to the casino she… Read More
Belfast District Court: Operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor: Dale Gray, 25, East Orland, $400, license suspended 90 days; Philip J. Perkins, 24, Winterport, $400, 48 hours in jail, license suspended 90 days; Jill M. Burr, 28, Somersworth, N.H., $400, license suspended… Read More
BAR HARBOR — Chiropractor Floyd Rupp ate a cobb salad with his wife at the Quarterdeck Restaurant Tuesday, then decided to call his Sands Spring, Okla., clinic to check up on business. He had a few messages. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
NEWPORT — Coaches packed a special meeting of the SAD 48 board Tuesday night. The board met, as is customary after a budget referendum, to accept the results of the district vote. Despite the low voter turnout and narrow approval, board members had no problems… Read More
CLIFTON — In a churchlike room dominated by a single ceiling fan, a large bingo scoreboard and a strong smell of mothballs, town residents listened as state auditor Gail Chase told them why they really didn’t want an audit. It would cost $55 an hour,… Read More
BONAVISTA, Newfoundland — Precisely 500 years ago Tuesday, a flimsy, 70-foot English caravel called Ye Matthew plowed through the heavy fog of the icy sea and dropped anchor at this rocky spit of land. Or maybe not. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A poor turnout at the polls and even lighter attendance at Dover-Foxcroft’s annual town meeting Monday night disappointed Town Manager Owen Pratt. Pratt estimated fewer than 250 people voted Monday, and only 70 turned out for the annual town meeting. Those who came,… Read More
A James River Corp. millworker was severely injured Monday evening after a high-pressure water hose used for cleaning a pipe gave way. The worker, who was not identified, is expected to live but had lost a lot of blood and suffered extensive trauma to the… Read More
GOULDSBORO — “It is six minutes after 7,” Gouldsboro resident Bob Hedger bellowed Tuesday night, urging moderator Gary Hunt to get on with annual town meeting, which ran for three nights last year. By 10:30 p.m., the fewer than 200 voters in attendance had taken… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Portrayed in court Tuesday as an overburdened caregiver who felt pushed to the brink, Carol E. “Sunshine” Graves of Hancock was sentenced to 17 years in prison for fatally shooting her father in his Ellsworth mobile home May 14, 1996. Graves, 37, had… Read More
WATERVILLE — Waterville Patrolman Thomas Rowe inadvertently was the cause of a three-car pileup on Interstate 95 Tuesday morning, although Rowe was quick to shift blame for the crash onto an injured deer. Rowe said he was called to the interstate about 10 a.m. after… Read More
EAST CORINTH — In the past, guns and knives have been prohibited in SAD 64 schools, and students caught with the weapons could be suspended and eventually expelled in some cases. Now items from pencils to chains can get students in trouble if they are used as weapons,… Read More
BANGOR — The Greater Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce and Action Committee of 50 will hold a reception for retiring University of Maine President Frederick E. Hutchinson at 5 p.m. today at the Main Street Holiday Inn. Hutchinson will retire June 30 after five years as president of… Read More
PORTLAND — The owner of an Old Port bar accused of murdering three young men early Tuesday morning was caught dragging the bodies to a vacant lot next to his house, police said. Sabato Raia, 26, was charged with three counts of murder in connection… Read More
PITTSFIELD — After a two-year absence blamed on the lack of a director, the Central Maine Egg Festival scholarship pageant is back. Judy Hartley of Corinna stepped up this year to revive the tradition, just in time for the festival’s 25th anniversary celebration. Fourteen young… Read More
OWLS HEAD — Five people were injured Tuesday when a pickup truck slid off Dublin Road and slammed into trees, at about 5 p.m. The accident occurred close to the Knox County Airport. Police and ambulance personnel went to the scene when it was reported… Read More
I cannot remember when I was so profoundly affected by a photograph, as I was by the picture of the young child with his mother in [the June 19] Bangor Daily News. They had just attended the funeral of his father, a policeman, murdered by IRA terrorists. Read More
I read with sadness recent print media reporting of Drug Enforcement Agency discipline applied to Doanld M. Robertson, M.D. During the first of two stints at Down East Community Hospital, I was involved in convincing him to become involved with DECH. During most of the… Read More
As a social worker of 25 years in medical and community agencies, I found Dr. Erik Steele’s words on real men, real parenthood, and real partnership some of the most profound I have ever read [BDN, June 17]. In a perfect world, our media would… Read More
I have a much simpler solution to the high divorce rate than the one being considered in Louisiana. Don’t eliminate “no-fault” divorce. Making someone show “cause” (abuse, abandonment, adultery, or cruel treatment) is just going to be a battle of his word against hers. Instead,… Read More
While reading the recent article on the Allagash [BDN, June 16], I was reminded of the time prior to the state’s aquisition of the waterway. My late husband, John Maines, represented one of the paper companies involved and jokingly referred to it as “Fighting the Allagash War.” Canoeing… Read More
Regarding a column in the June 21-22 edition of your paper by Laurel Cornell, as a person living with AIDS since 1994, and an AIDS educator, I cannot in good conscience let such a misleading column go by without comment. First, the title is misleading. AIDS is not… Read More
WASHINGTON — William Armstrong took in a deep breath as he surveyed the grandiose surroundings: family, friends, Congress members and senators packed into the vaulted Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol. Looking toward his 33 new friends, the 22-year-old Hampden resident said, “Well, fellas, we made it. Wow.”… Read More
MACHIAS — Voters Monday overwhelmingly approved the 1997-1998 school budget and elected several new people to office. Voting on each article by secret ballot, residents approved each category of the line-item budget by margins of at least 80-20. This year’s vote was a cakewalk compared… Read More
The Maine Department of Transportation is scheduled to begin spraying state-maintained roads with a one-time herbicide application to control roadside brush. The spray will be administered throughout July in nearly 200 Maine communities. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
AUGUSTA — Sprawling development is forcing state and local governments to spend millions more dollars for schools, roads, police and other services, according to a recent report. The fastest-growing towns in Maine over the past 30 years have been new suburbs 10 to 25 miles… Read More
Monday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing federally funded public school teachers to teach remedial classes in parochial schools won’t have much of an impact in Maine — for now. But while school officials say it will have little effect on how they operate,… Read More
DYER BROOK — It took just 12 1/2 minutes for voters in the Southern Aroostook Community School District to approve next year’s budget of $2.98 million. The budget includes a 1 mill increase in the district’s assessment to district towns, an amount equal to about… Read More
ORONO — Math 4 ME, a summer program in which high school girls explore the serious fun of mathematics while gaining confidence in math studies, will be offered at the University of Maine Aug. 10-16. Now in its second year, the program is sponsored by… Read More
EAST MACHIAS — The following members of the Class of 1997 at Washington Academy received scholarships during recent graduation cermonies: Keith Albee — Wyatt Farnsworth Scholarship. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
BOSTON — The practice of removing eggs from female lobsters, or “lobster scrubbing,” has long been a way of skirting laws against their capture. The lobstermen make a few bucks for each fertile female. But the price for the environment is much higher: for every… Read More
SPRINGVALE — The 15-year-old boy accused of setting fire to Sanford’s historic Goodall Park last month will receive psychological and substance abuse treatment before standing trial. Blake Collela’s trial was supposed to begin this month, but a Springvale District Court judge agreed Monday to postpone… Read More
Our telegenic Gov. King may have been slightly intoxicated by his own sense of self-importance when he recently jumped into the Kennebec River to celebrate the joys of chlorine dioxide. After having worked for the last several months in the bleach plant of a major… Read More
The competition among Maine communities to get the national office of the international, French-speaking business network, the Forum francophone des affaires, is heating up. The Chamber of Commerce of Androscoggin County is holding a fund-raising breakfast today in Auburn, looking to raise between $15,000 and… Read More
CARIBOU — Local development officials are looking for a new leader to help them attract industry to the northern Maine city. After about seven months on the job, Jack Allston, Caribou Development Corp. executive vice president, is moving to a similar position in North Platte,… Read More
ORONO — Once a child can read, the world is his. But teaching a child to read is no easy task, first lady Mary Herman learned firsthand. When her and Gov. Angus King’s adopted son, Benjamin, entered first grade last fall, he had trouble reading. Read More
PORTLAND — Peoples Heritage Financial Group announced Tuesday that it will purchase Atlantic Bancorp, the parent company of Atlantic Bank N.A., for $70.8 million or $17 per share. Atlantic Bancorp, headquartered in Portland with total assets of $470.2 million, operates 15 banking offices located primarily… Read More
The gift of $3.2 million by Bangor Savings Bank to its new charitable foundation is not revocable. Read More
WASHINGTON — Determined to trim the price tag of government health care for the elderly, the Senate voted Tuesday to increase monthly Medicare premiums for better-off seniors and gradually raise the eligibility age for benefits to 67. The votes demonstrated a surprising willingness by the… Read More
PHIPPSBURG — The Maine-built Viking ship replica that will begin retracing Leif Ericsson’s journey to the New World next month will be launched from Greenland as originally planned. Expedition leader W. Hodding Carter had decided last week to sail the 54-foot Snorri from Iceland to… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Bangor has received a national award for outstanding management of housing and community development programs, announced HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, at the U.S. Conference of Mayors last weekend. Bangor won HUD’s John J. Gunther Blue Ribbon Practices Award for economic development by… Read More