ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Rick Hendrick, who has had enormous success as an auto dealer and stock car team owner, pleaded guilty Thursday to mail fraud in a plea agreement in a business bribery case that should keep him out of jail. The mail fraud charge… Read More
Northeastern University went into the 1997 America East baseball tournament as the No. 5 seed. Coach Neil McPhee’s Huskies emerged with the league title and played in an NCAA Regional. There will be no such upset in the seedings next year, because the fifth-seeded team… Read More
The Brewer Falcons American Legion baseball team has a batting average of .387, but coach Dave Gonyar has spent much of the past week working on his team’s hitting. Brewer, which won its second straight state championship last week, has been swinging its bats in… Read More
HERSHEY, Pa. – Five Maine athletes ran in the Hershey’s Track & Field North American Finals Aug. 9. Over 450 athletes from around the country participated at the meet. Hampden’s Oriana Farley, making her second appearance at the nationals in three years, clocked two minutes,… Read More
ORONO – The Bangor Blue Ox pounded out 15 hits, 12 after the fourth inning, and rallied for an 11-7 Northeast League baseball victory over Allentown Thursday night at Mahaney Diamond. Bangor got a pair of home runs from Rogelio Nunez and Tim Morrow to… Read More
Two special harness racing events take place this weekend at two different Maine fair tracks – The $4,000 Walter H. Hight Memorial Pace at Skowhegan Fair on Saturday and the $15,000 Drivers Challenge at Union Fair on Sunday. The annual Hight Pace draws some of… Read More
ORONO – It wasn’t Fenway or Comiskey Park, but the well-tanned man in the black Chicago White Sox jacket seemed right at home sitting in the Mahaney Diamond press box on a rainy night. Walt Hriniak and his wife Karen came up from his native… Read More
BLUE HILL — When it comes to coordinating one of the state’s oldest agricultural fairs, Robert Eaton’s philosophy is don’t mess with success. Eaton is the new director of the annual Blue Hill Fair, a five-day event over Labor Day weekend that attracts up to… Read More
MADAWASKA — The Madawaska Board of Selectmen vowed Wednesday night to settle a 24-year-old road construction issue that includes a bill for $13,000. The two decades-long road issue involves developer Robert Lavoie of Madawaska and more than $13,000 he spent developing a section of the… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Dover-Foxcroft girl was injured shortly after noon Thursday in a freak accident at the intersection of Main and River streets. Amber Herbest, 9, had been riding her bicycle toward the center of town when she hit a parked pickup truck. The impact… Read More
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A U.S. Coast Guard official says the captain of the cruise ship that struck a bridge in the Piscataqua River may have violated federal law by operating the boat. The captain of such a ship is required to have taken a boat… Read More
AUGUSTA — The way Gov. Angus King sees it, there are two options for ridding Maine of out-of-state air pollution: Build a 50-mile-high wall along the New Hampshire line or petition the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to intervene. The petition route was, by far, the… Read More
BANGOR — Its population will rival that of Portland’s. It will have its own post office, fire and police departments, trash and recycling center, and field hospital. No indoor plumbing for the masses, however. Instead, more than 500 portable toilets will be trucked in. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — The families of the victims of a triple-fatal accident in Skowhegan last fall have filed civil lawsuits against Bryan Carrier, the driver of one of the vehicles, in Somerset County Superior Court. In June, Carrier, 19, pleaded guilty to three counts of manslaughter… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Francis H. Caverly and Edgar C. Caverly of Clinton were inducted into the Skowhegan State Fair Agricultural Hall of Fame last night in a surprise ceremony at the coliseum on the fairgrounds. The Caverlys operate Caverly Farms, a family milking operation, and have… Read More
ROCKPORT — Somehow, 27 town firefighters managed to confine a Thursday morning fire to a Route 17 sawmill and save a house less than 50 feet away. In saving the home of Michael Callaway, the Fire Department “did a first-rate job,” according to Fire Chief Bruce Woodward. Read More
PORTLAND — Portland will pay $500 to a homeless man who claimed the city’s anti-panhandling law was unconstitutional. In settling the lawsuit brought by Ronald Rudolph, the city also agreed to pay $3,000 to the homeless man’s attorney, Charles Glasser. Glasser said he will donate… Read More
CHARLESTON — Select inmates at the Charleston Correctional Facility will soon be able to pay some restitution to their victims from wages they earn in the facility’s new industries program. The new program will allow as many as 20 inmates, both men and women, to… Read More
AUBURN — Jurors began deliberations Thursday in the trial of a former college student from India accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend. During closing arguments, Nadim Haque’s lawyer, William Maselli, urged the jury to convict his client of manslaughter, rather than murder, because the fatal stabbing… Read More
HERMON — Hermon has a new town manager. Town councilors agreed Wednesday that Steve Tuckerman, city planner in Old Town for the past seven years, will replace Kathryn Ruth, who left in July to become town manager in Topsham. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
There is a lot of excitement in the Bangor home of James, Paula, and 11-year-old Shane Ahearn as the family prepares for a Saturday morning flight to Disney World in Florida, courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Maine. Accompanying Shane will be his best friend… Read More
Look for the environment to occupy much of the Clinton administration’s attention over the next few months. Even as the government gears up to avoid a greenhouse gas cap being placed on U.S. industry at a United Nations global warming conferencein December, Congress is preparing to do battle… Read More
BANGOR — It was a blow to organizers of the proposed Maine School for the Arts when the City Council declined to commit to a $525,000 contingency loan Monday evening. What happens next is up in the air. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — From atop the North Ridge Trail to Cadillac Mountain, Dana Gross looked across the park and reflected with a smile on his last 10 weeks of working in Acadia. “You wake up on Monday mornings and you think, `I don’t want… Read More
While many of the estimated 50,000 people expected at this weekend’s Phish festival are students at the University of Maine, several university faculty and staff are set to join them, performing with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. “I don’t think any classical musician, except for Pavarotti… Read More
For me, it started last Wednesday. I was sitting at the Bangor airport waiting for a flight to arrive from Boston — as I have done a million ordinary times on a million ordinary days. At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn’t. Something evil had taken… Read More
“Step, ball, change. Step, ball, change,” Jane Bragg instructs her charges. Feet clatter against the wooden floor in one of the studios at Thomas School of Dance. A troupe of teen-age girls, their toes buckled into identical white, heeled tap shoes, follow Bragg from one… Read More
The great C word of marriage has always been compromise. As of today, in Louisiana at least, the C word becomes covenant. Aug. 15 marks the beginning of an experiment there in preserving marriages by making divorces harder to obtain, but the law may be looking at the… Read More
Democratic leaders in Maine had to wait 16 years for their chance to propose a jurist at the federal level. When their opportunity came early this year, they did the right thing by suggesting two remarkably talented people. President Clinton, who decided after seven months which would be… Read More
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND — The 22nd annual DIRECTIONS: Maine Crafts Guild Show will feature 90 of Maine’s leading artisans at the Mount Desert Island High School. Opening night is Friday, Aug. 15, 5-9 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 16 and 17, the show is… Read More
India became the world’s largest democracy 50 years ago at midnight on Aug. 15 when Jawaharlal Nehru took his oath of allegiance as the prime minister of India administered by Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India representing the crown of England. Nehru’s announcement of India’s freedom… Read More
I want to clarify the recent opposition to Bangor Hydro’s initial proposal for putting equipment on the Zoidis lot on Central Street: If one only gets their information from the Bangor Daily, one might think a few merchants wanted to save a small, cute, undesignated… Read More
CARIBOU — A local woman, whose husband was killed last year when he was hit by a car, has sued the driver of the car in Aroostook County Superior Court. Carol Soucie of Caribou claims in her suit, filed last month, that Neal J. Sleeper… Read More
PORTLAND — Government regulations and declining fish stocks sank the financial haul for fishermen along the Eastern Seaboard last year, federal officials said Thursday. Revenues from commercial fisheries from Maine to Virginia last year totaled $939.9 million, down 4 percent, or $43 million, compared with… Read More
MADAWASKA — The Madawaska Board of Selectmen decided Wednesday night to get tough with a Canadian company that has made overtures about opening a facility in Madawaska. At least three Madawaska selectmen will travel to Montreal next Monday to meet with officials of Tye-Sil Corp.,… Read More
Randy Wadleigh’s sentiments [BDN letter, Aug. 11] and mine are exactly the same. I have both talked with and written to Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. about this [i.e., a proposed 15.58 percent rate increase]. I also wrote to the Public Utilities Commission but they chose not to answer. Not… Read More
Bangor is in the process of deciding what to do with the closed railroad yard by the river. Some thought it should be put into creating a historic area within the park that is planned there. Bangor has a rich history of lumbering, log drives and the men… Read More
In response to Claudette McGeorge’s wish (BDN letter, Aug 9-10) that people around the state take up the cause of cemetery improvement, I proudly reply; yes, Claudette, there are Cemetery Angels and they are organized and active at Mount Pleasant Catholic Cemetery in Bangor. The… Read More
This letter states my own personal feelings. I am not a spokesperson for the family. Greg Baker was my nephew. 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
All of the teamsters of Local 340 would like to thank this wonderful community for their support in our unfair labor practice strike against United Parcel Service. Members of the House of Representatives, senators, area businesses and total strangers have brought us food, donations, and even back-to-school supplies… Read More
LAMOINE — Residents will pay 9 percent less in property taxes this year, thanks to a jump in the town’s property valuation, according to town administrator Stuart Marckroon. At a selectmen’s meeting Thursday night, Marckroon announced that Lamoine’s tax levy is $9.10 per $1,000 valuation,… Read More
HAMPDEN — A Bangor woman was killed and another woman severely injured Thursday when the car they were in ran off the road and struck a tree. The names of both women were still not being released as of 12:30 a.m. Friday pending notification of… Read More
For the last 50 years of his life, James Vickery’s quest was to rescue as many scattered pieces of Maine’s past as he could find and to squirrel them away for the future. In his rumpled tweed jackets and Hush Puppies, he shuffled through decades… Read More
BREWER — The scene Thursday outside Brewer’s United Parcel Service facility hardly reflected the tension between labor and management one would expect on the 11th day of a nationwide strike: Two picketers pitched horseshoes, several employees ate lunch, and a black shepherd dog named Harley… Read More
A two-car, one-motorcycle accident in Bangor sent no one to the hospital but one person to jail. According to police, Shawn M. Cox, 23, of Bangor, was in a white Pontiac Granada when shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday he struck a motorcycle that reportedly was… Read More
BUCKSPORT — The Town Council voted Thursday night to spend $12,500 in hopes of winning $400,000. By unanimous vote, councilors approved spending the smaller sum to hire Rothe and Associates to devise a downtown revitalization plan in preparation for pursuing a Community Development Block Grant… Read More
ELLSWORTH — A giant yard sale to raise funds for the new tennis courts will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Ellsworth Middle School. Items will include used computers and typewriters, counter tops, wooden and metal doors, a bandsaw, a wood… Read More
WASHINGTON — Bell Atlantic and NYNEX on Thursday completed their merger after federal regulators approved the deal, creating a local telephone colossus with 39 million phone lines from Maine to Virginia. Approval by the Federal Communications Commission had been a foregone conclusion since the two… Read More
VAN BUREN — The Maine Tourism Commission was on the road in Aroostook County Thursday to learn about the concerns of Maine’s northernmost county and the efforts of its residents to develop a tourism industry. Six of Aroostook County’s seven chambers of commerce gave tourism… Read More
FORT KENT — The University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Division of Nursing is ready to go for the new academic year with renewed accreditation and additional funds. Based on a two-day site visit from the Maine State Board of Nursing, the awarded accreditation will… Read More
Hermon High School Fourth quarter honor roll Seniors: high honors: Kristina Duran, Corey Reynolds and Megan Smist; honors: Christina Barnett, Melissa Buchanan, Aaron Clark, Shawna Gross, Jeffrey Hand, Clarence Homsted, Melissa Hunsinger, Kenneth Luce, Theresa Mayhew, Amanda Pearson, Erin Ramisch, Tanya Redman, Christina Robbins, Kristy… Read More
PORTLAND — A $75,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Federation will help The Nature Conservancy acquire a 721-acre peninsula from the Dennys River Watershed Protection Project, U.S. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe announced Wednesday. Acquisition of the property known as Hog’s Neck will protect… Read More
PORTLAND — The Tennessee man accused of fatally beating Virginia Jackson so he could steal her red pickup truck pleaded innocent Thursday to five counts, including murder and kidnapping. Leslie Lynds, 22, entered his plea in Cumberland County Superior Court. He is being held at… Read More
PITTSFIELD — When students and teachers must be on the south side of Warsaw Middle School, they either “roast or freeze,” depending on the season, Superintendent Terry McCannell said this week. A wall of windows either lets the sun stream in on hot spring and… Read More
PORTLAND — The 17-year-old Portland boy accused of killing a 12-year-old showed no remorse after the incident and went out and shot pool later that evening, police said Thursday. Sochean Ung was arrested Wednesday night at a Portland pool hall, just hours after he allegedly… Read More
GUILFORD — Even though district funds will be needed to help operate an after-school program, SAD 4 directors approved its continuation until January. Superintendent Norman Higgins recommended Tuesday that the program be discontinued because it had not generated the level of anticipated support needed to… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Student registration will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 20-21, at Weymouth Hall, Maine Central Institute. The bookstore will be open during registration on a first-come, first-served basis. For information, call 487-4453. Read More
HARRINGTON — SAD 37 schools will open Tuesday, Sept. 2, for a half-day of kindergarten and a full day for grades one through eight. Narraguagus High School freshmen will have a half-day orientation the same day. All students will attend a full day of classes… Read More
NEWPORT — New student registrations will be held 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18, and 8 a.m.-noon Tuesday, Aug. 19, at Nokomis Regional High School. Schedule changes also may be done during registration hours. For information or to make appointments, call 368-4376. Read More
MILO — New SAD 41 pupils must register from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. by Friday, Aug. 22, to attend district schools. For appointments call 943-7346 at Penquis Valley High School; 943-7348, Penquis Valley Middle School; 943-2122, Milo Elementary School; 943-8184, Brownville Elementary School; or 943-2196, Marion C. Read More
AUGUSTA — People from 15 to 24 years of age are victims in nearly a quarter of the fatal highway accidents in Maine, and a newly created panel set out Thursday to drive that disproportionately high figure down. Secretary of State Dan Gwadosky said solutions… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Anyone interested in serving on the Presque Isle City Council should let his or her wishes be known. Local officials are looking for two people to serve on the council until the November election, when two candidates will be elected to fill… Read More
LUDLOW — Two Phish fans from New Hampshire escaped serious injury Thursday morning when their car left the road and rolled over twice on Interstate 95, according to state police. The accident was the first reported of what police expect will be numerous incidents as… Read More
High ozone pollution levels often accompany hot and humid weather, but a state meteorologist says this has been a typical summer despite the abundance of sunny days. Ozone pollution has reached unhealthy levels 19 times so far this summer. And although that may sound bad,… Read More