With 14 players returning from his 1996 State American Legion baseball championship team, Brewer coach Dave Gonyar knew fielding a talented team wouldn’t be a problem. The challenge would lie in keeping his collection of stars focused. “In the regular season we wanted to go… Read More
SACO – Lefthander Jay Verrill spun a three-hit shutout, striking out five and walking five, and he belted a pair of doubles as Auburn Suburban blanked South Portland National 7-0 to win the State Little League Baseball Tournament at Maremont LL Field Thursday. Auburn Suburban,… Read More
HOULTON – Connecticut beat New Hampshire 12-2 to win the New England Babe Ruth Baseball Regional on Thursday. New Hampshire had won Thursday’s first game 13-12 over Connecticut to force an extra game. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
HEBRON – Meg Muller, a junior at Hebron Academy placed fourth in the high jump at the 1997 National Junior Olympics Track and Field Championship held in at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La. Muller also took sixth overall in the heptathlon. Read More
Hole-in-one DICK EVERETT ORONO – Dick Everett hit a hole-in-one Thursday on the 142-yard, par-3 14th hole at Penobscot Valley Country Club. Everett used a 9-iron, and his shot was witnessed by John McCallie and Butch Furrough. Read More
On a narrow, woodsy path located on a ridge between Little and Big Squaw mountains, Scott Gould leans against his banana-yellow mountain bike, sipping water on a hot, humid day. A squirrel in a distant tree is chattering, and several birds are chirping, though hidden by a thick… Read More
Skowhegan Raceway completes its extended-meet racing tonight and Saturday night with a 7 p.m. post time and 10 dashes both nights. Then, harness racing does its annual “head-to-head” fair competition between Topsham Fair and Northern Maine Fair in Presque Isle. Add Scarborough Downs to the… Read More
BANGOR – Marc Halsted scored on a sacrifice fly by Tim Patchell in the bottom of the eighth inning as Wicks slipped by Downeast 5-4 in an Eastern Maine Amateur Baseball League game at Mansfield Stadium. Halsted singled with one out, moved to third on… Read More
The mother of a young man murdered in Baltimore four years ago said she has been attending the trial of accused murderer Raymond E. Jamison at Somerset County Superior Court in Skowhegan to prepare for what lies ahead. Yong Cha Jones of Bangor, the Korean-born… Read More
BANGOR — Calling 39-year-old Edward Loring a sexual predator with little chance of rehabilitation, Deputy District Attorney Michael Roberts called upon Justice Margaret Kravchuk to “warehouse him to protect society.” Kravchuk responded by sentencing Loring of Hampden to 34 years in prison for the sexual… Read More
BANGOR — The following scholarships and awards were presented to the Bangor High School Class of 1997 at graduation ceremonies: Charles E. French Medals — Marie Blanks, D. Zachary Shubert, Justin Warner, Jennifer Sarjeant. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
BELFAST — A diverse coalition of citizens is working behind the scenes to push major changes on City Hall. Signified by the unlikely alliance of Jay Davis and Dana Keene, the group is putting together proposed revisions to the city charter that will enable referendum… Read More
BELFAST — A diverse coalition of citizens is working behind the scenes to push major changes on City Hall. Signified by the unlikely alliance of Jay Davis and Dana Keene, the group is putting together proposed revisions to the city charter that will enable referendum… Read More
BELFAST — In response to the growing dissatisfaction with the doings within City Hall, City Councilor Jon Cheston wants to open its doors to the public. Cheston has proposed a series of rules designed “to make it easier for the people to relate to city… Read More
WASHINGTON — Consumers pay nearly $30 a year more on average for checking accounts at big banks than at small ones, and there are similar gaps in other bank charges, a survey finds. The U.S. Public Interest Research Group, which released the report Thursday, blamed… Read More
SOUTH PORTLAND — Citing “mistakes” made during the investigation, the city is dropping a court complaint alleging that a bathhouse employee gave a nude massage to a police officer. So says Police Chief Edward Googins, who reviewed the case after a city councilor publicly criticized… Read More
CALAIS — A 15-year-old Calais youth convicted of arson was acquitted Thursday of two counts of tampering with a witness. In August 1996, Carl Wakefield sent letters to two witnesses who told police they had seen him and two other boys running from the fire… Read More
AUGUSTA — Gov. Angus King and the president of Great Northern Paper formally agreed Thursday to an expansion of a conservation easement on company land along the West Branch of the Penobscot River. King said “this perpetual gift” would preserve undeveloped land for recreation for… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Celebrating its 100th anniversary Saturday, Aug. 9, the Ellsworth Public Library will be hosting a series of festivities, ranging from an art sale to a jazz band. Sponsored by the Ellsworth Rotary Club, a blueberry pancake breakfast will start the day on the… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The Next Step Domestic Violence Project has announced the addition of a weekly support group for survivors of domestic abuse. Designed for women, the group will meet for two hours in early evening at confidential locations and times. For more information, call 667-4606… Read More
AUGUSTA — Federal regulators have approved plans to build the southern leg of a pipeline to carry natural gas from Canada through Maine and to other parts of New England. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved the section of the pipeline to run… Read More
WASHINGTON — A 24-hour job hot line is now open for applicants interested in applying for positions as Border Patrol agents with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. The hot line is part of a streamlined application process to help recruit nearly 1,000 new Border Patrol agents in… Read More
BANGOR — A former teller for the Katahdin Trust Co. of Patten was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to four months in prison for embezzlement. Denice A. DeLong, 31, formerly of Mars Hill also was ordered to pay restitution of $49,370.68 and faces five… Read More
PORTLAND — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday upheld the homicide convictions of two Lewiston men imprisoned for a drug-related shooting on Easter Sunday more than two years ago. The high court rejected arguments by Joseph Jackson and Jeremiah Moore that their convictions be… Read More
CASTINE — The board of trustees of Maine Maritime Academy will meet at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 16 in the Alumni Lecture Room of Leavitt Hall as part of the annual meeting of governing boards. A general session of academy progress reports will be presented by… Read More
WASHINGTON — The Maine Air National Guard Commissary located at Bangor International Airport will be kept open despite its inclusion on a list of possible commissary closures earlier this year, U.S. Rep. John Baldacci announced Thursday. The military store, which was built 10 years ago… Read More
In Oliver Goldsmith’s 224-year-old play “She Stoops to Conquer,” the practical joke rules. Mistaken identities, misinformation and a bit of drunken debauchery are the comedic tricks of Goldsmith’s 18th-century day. It’s a style of well-crafted, twisty-turny dupery-with-a-moral that still manages to make us laugh all these many years… Read More
BANGOR — Acadia Healthcare Ambulatory Services is offering a new group for people who live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The structured group, offered on an outpatient basis, will focus on ways people with OCD can better understand their disorder and learn about treatment and coping skills. Read More
Bangor District Court: Edward Libby, 28, Hudson, unlawful operating within water safety zone, $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()) {… Read More
Optical telescopes have had to contend for years with artificial light pollution from urban development that threatens to blind them. Now radio telescopes are facing aform of pollution of their own that is being caused by communication satellites. Ever since the mid-1960s when Penzias and Wilson discovered the… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, the Maine Humanities Council received a big boost in the form of a $412,400 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, according to the Maine Congressional Delegation. The funding will be used to support a variety of Council projects. Read More
This is the last of three parts on the economics of minor-league baseball and the prospect of building a stadium in Bangor. Let’s take a walk down by the Penobscot River, past the kayak and canoe rentals, past the patio of the seafood restaurant, watch… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The groom had been willing to take the plunge for years, but the bride had been hesitant. But finally, before friends and neighbors, they stood together in the big hall, she gowned in white satin, he garbed in a suit, and exchanged vows. Read More
In a July 21 op-ed commentary, Chairman R.J. Eaton of Chrysler Corp. uses scientific data taken out of context to present an incomplete and misleading view of the impact of automobiles on global warming. His industry’s response to the environmental challenges of global climate change entails high risks… Read More
After getting pounded by Congress recently for requesting another round of base closings, Defense Secretary William Cohen came back for more this week with a better idea — use communities that made the successful transition to civilian life as role models. Yes, traveling around the… Read More
The Bangor City Council faces this difficult question: Should it remain fiscally conservative or risk $525,000 on a man with a dream of building a splendid arts school downtown? In the movies, you go with the man with the dream, he succeeds and everybody lives happily ever after. Read More
GORHAM — Families searching for the right day care home for their children can use Maine Care Finders, a free day care referral service. Maine Care Finders, a service of Maine Care Services, a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, currently has 12 licensed or registered homes in Knox County, with… Read More
An article in Saturday’s MaineDay about the use of scramblers by the Houlton Police Department incorrectly attributed a quote. Mark Poole, communications supervisor for the Maine State Police, said the scrambling of radio traffic “is annoying to listen to.” A MaineCalendar listing in Thursday’s edition… Read More
Jim Layton lives in Cherryfield in Washington County, but come next fall his two daughters will attend school in Bangor. Because the state representative said he doesn’t feel the girls can get a good education at the local public high school, his wife will rent… Read More
A Stetson logger killed in Exeter Wednesday morning died from internal bleeding, the result of being struck by a tree he had cut down, state investigators concluded Thursday. A state medical examiner’s autopsy showed that Shad T. Beem, 23, died from internal hemorrhaging after both… Read More
AUGUSTA — Advance tickets to the 1997 Common Ground Country Fair go on sale today at ticket outlets througout the state. The fair will take place Sept. 19-21 at the Windsor Fairgrounds. About 60,000 visitors are expected to attend the three day fair. To help… Read More
BANGOR — The Bangor Historical Society has organized a one-day outing to the Norlands Living History Center in Livermore Falls. The Aug. 16 trip will depart from the society’s 159 Union St. house at 9 a.m. The history center is the home of the famous… Read More
BANGOR — Revealing a tale that bordered on the bizarre, the co-defendant in the securities fraud trial of local pastor Sherwood Craig finished testifying Thursday. Bradley T. Gullett, 45, of Florida, faced the scrutiny of Securities and Exchange Commission attorney David Marder of Boston, who… Read More
BANGOR — The attorney for a 22-year-old Brewer man whose conviction for killing his neighbor was overturned by Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court asked a judge Thursday to dismiss the murder indictment that is still in effect against his client. Contending that the indictment should be… Read More
AUGUSTA — Some members of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency advisory board couldn’t be blamed if they felt a sense of deja vu Thursday. For the second time in three days, the panel that oversees the 30-agent force had to vote on a new MDEA… Read More
BANGOR — A judge agreed Thursday to release murder suspect George Lizotte from jail on an unsecured bond, if his attorney can find a nursing home that would agree to take him. Attorney David Gray said he was in a quandary as to how to… Read More
UNION — The schedule of events for the 124th Union Fair has been announced. The first annual Maine Wild Blueberry Run, a Union Fair highlight, will kick off the fair’s events Sunday, Aug. 17. The two-part race will begin with a one-mile fun run at 8:30 a.m., followed… Read More
A Bangor woman who called for a taxi cab early Thursday morning to take her from a bar to her home promptly vomited in the back of the cab. When she got home, she hopped out of the cab, got into her mobile home, and closed the door,… Read More
BANGOR — Jean Emerson needs to move out of a house on 160 Wilson St. because it has become a “real and present danger” to the community, a Penobscot County Superior Court justice ruled Thursday. In the most decisive ruling yet in Emerson’s seven-month legal… Read More
“I Oughta Be in Pictures” is not Neil Simon’s funniest play. Written in 1980, it is the story of a young woman’s reconciliation with her father, who abandoned his family when she was only three. However, it is the play which marks Simon’s transition from raucous comedies such… Read More
I can sympathize with Sidney Quarrier of Appleton in that I too am allergic to the pesticides being sprayed on fields and lawns. One sunny, cool Saturday in June, I was looking forward to spending the day cleaning the car, weeding the garden and just generally enjoying the… Read More
I am writing in response to an article in the July 28 Bangor Daily News edition titled, “Veterans fighting for service at Togus.” It concerned the recent cutbacks at the Veterans Administration hospital and contained a comment from Mitchell of Cushing who complained about the mix-up of some… Read More
I witnessed every bicyclist’s nightmare as I was driving into Bar Harbor. Looking up Route 3, I saw four of my friends biking down the hill at about 25 mph; for a brief moment I was envious that I wasn’t riding with them. Suddenly a car 100 yards… Read More
Three things: First, lately it seems as though the errors in your paper have been increasing. It is so sad to see the NEWS continue its downward spiral. When will you hire skilled copywriters to catch these annoying errors? My family and I are hoping… Read More
AUGUSTA — Three men have been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries in four Maine counties during the past three months, and more arrests were expected, state police said Thursday. The break-ins occurred in homes and camps in Somerset, Kennebec, Franklin and Sagadahoc… Read More
PORTLAND — A decline in the quality of public schools is fueling the creation of experimental charter schools and voucher programs that allow students to enroll at private schools, according to the chairman of the Massachusetts State Board of Education. John Silber, who is also… Read More
OLD TOWN — The Old Town Fire Department will conduct an emergency medical drill Aug. 11 in the Pushaw Lake-Mud Pond area. Lasting about eight hours, the drill will incorporate the services of the Old Town Forestry Helicopter, Orono Fire Department, Milford Fire Department and Old Town Police. Read More
EAST SULLIVAN — A Sullivan man was issued a court summons Wednesday after he allegedly shot and injured a bald eagle, according to wildlife wardens. Alvah L. Carter, 19, was charged by state wardens on Thursday with shooting a protected species and hunting without a… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — The mother of accused murderer Raymond E. Jamison saw a picture of her son’s victim for the first time two days ago. Taking the witness stand Thursday during her son’s trial, Rita Lucy of Clarksville, Tenn., described seeing the picture of Estelle Parker-Martens. Read More
LEVANT — The recent resignation of Al Willette has created an opening on the town’s Board of Selectmen. Nomination papers for the one-year post will be available Tuesday; deadline to file is Aug. 15. Absentee ballots will be available Aug. 19; the election will be held Aug. 29. Read More
NORRIDGEWOCK — Police are not releasing the name of a man who was stabbed seven times in the back early Thursday at a Norridgewock residence, nor are they saying who stabbed him. Chief Deputy Paul Davis of the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department said the district… Read More
The Penobscot Area Trekkers and Hikers (PATH) Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 11 at the Wadleigh residence at 1299 Chase Road in Veazie. After the meeting, there will be a tour of the gardens and wild menagerie. Contact Margaret Colman at 989-6538 to RSVP. Read More
Forest rangers and volunteer firefighters were kept busy Wednesday afternoon controlling nine forest fires along the Springfield Terminal railroad tracks in Yarmouth that consumed three acres of forests and wild lands. Fires were also reported in Brooks, Nashville Plantation and near Matagamon Lake, northeast of… Read More
Responding to Robert H. Newall’s letter (BDN, July 24) which, in turn, was responding to Mary Lou Colbath’s op-ed piece, (July 19-20) — all to the defense of the National Endowment for the Arts. I do not know how you measure a “pittance,” using your… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Harvey Burgess, 27, of Carmel voluntarily surrendered to Department of Corrections personnel Thursday afternoon at his father’s residence in Carmel. Burgess escaped in South Portland a week ago where he was on a work detail picking up supplies at a hardware store. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BARING — Only one bushel per family is allowed, but the natural blueberry crop at Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge has been opened to the public. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has opened up the field near the refuge headquarters to individuals and families during daylight hours. Read More
HOULTON — Lightning from a storm that passed through parts of northern Maine on Monday has been blamed for a forest fire Wednesday near Baxter State Park that burned three acres. The fire was located in a previously cut area in Township 6 Range 8… Read More
LITTLETON — A 95-year-old man was listed in critical condition Thursday afternoon after being struck by a car on Route 1. Vaughn Kilpatrick suffered multiple fractures, including a broken leg and arm, in the 11 a.m. mishap, according to Maine State Police Trooper Glenn Strange. Read More
ROCKLAND — Rockland District Middle School teacher Joseph Keller was run down by an out-of-control vehicle while parking cars at the Maine Lobster Festival. According to Patrolman James Jillson, Keller, 49, of Old County Road suffered a leg injury and broken ribs. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — The 10-day lineup of events for the 179th annual Skowhegan State Fair was unveiled Thursday, and fair President Fred Lunt promised “fun-tastic fun for all ages.” Headliners include country singer Ty Herndon, 1993 Texas Entertainer of the Year, and Tim Chitwood, 30-year veteran… Read More
AUGUSTA — The state’s unemployment rate slipped by 0.1 percentage point in June, thanks to increases in jobs in services, construction and government, the state Labor Depoartment said. June’s rate, adjusted for seasonal changes in the job market, was 4.7 percent, lower than the 4.8… Read More
AUGUSTA — The King administration Thursday declared a revenue surplus of $59.6 million for the recently completed fiscal year 1997, thereby boosting a pool of money available for some kind of tax relief by $28.4 million. Gov. Angus King, saying he had not settled on… Read More