Nine bruising weeks remain in the Atlantic 10 football season, but the University of Maine may already have played its toughest opponent. The Black Bears are prepping for Saturday’s home game against 25th-ranked James Madison after losing 34-14 to Villanova, now ranked No. 4 in… Read More
    READFIELD – Khano Smith’s unassisted goal with 15:45 left in the first half lifted the Maine Central Institute Huskies to a 1-0 schoolboy soccer win over the Maranacook Black Bears Tuesday. Sean Souza made 12 saves on 14 shots for 6-1 MCI. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
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    HAMPDEN – Christina Cangleton’s goal with 17:33 left in the game gave the Hampden Academy Broncos a 2-1 high school field hockey win over the Old Town Indians Tuesday. Rebekah Dickinson scored early to make the score 1-0 with one minute remaining in the first… Read More
    HAMPDEN – Just like she has been doing all season, Emily Morse turned around the Bangor-Hampden girls soccer game last night. With 2:27 left in the first period of sudden-death overtime, Ram wing Morse took a pass from Susan Price and tipped the ball past… Read More
    BANGOR – Corey Searles scored off a second-half penalty kick to give Northern Maine Technical College a 1-0 soccer victory over Eastern Maine Tech Tuesday. Jerry Burns scored off a Searles assist for NMTC of Presque Isle, now 3-2, in the first half. Keith Hunter… Read More
    Mt. Blue High School in Farmington went from 2-0 to 1-1 in the Pine Tree Conference football standings last week without playing a game. After discovering an ineligible player on its roster, Mt. Blue had to forfeit its 14-0 win over Lawrence of Fairfield. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    NEWPORT – Six-year-old Tommy Ray of Dixmont finished first in the peewee category in the Maine State 3-D Archery Tournament, while his father, Tom, placed second in the male bowhunter release category. The tournament took place Saturday and Sunday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
    BOSTON – The 1999 All-Star baseball game will be held at Fenway Park in Boston. The decision was made and reported earlier this summer, but never formally announced. The Red Sox have scheduled a news conference for Wednesday to make it official. Read More
    On Thursday, Bangor resident Jeff Courtney will take a plane to New York City for a four-day trip. But Courtney won’t get to see any Broadway shows, shop on Fifth Avenue, or visit the Empire State Building. In fact, he won’t be spending any time… Read More
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    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Several individuals pleaded guilty in Piscataquis County Superior Court this week to an assortment of charges. Those whose guilty pleas were accepted by Justice Andrew Mead were as follows: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
    ORONO — Children and teens who stutter will be the focus of a workshop to be held Saturday, Sept. 27, at the University of Maine, in an effort to strengthen the children’s self-esteem and their understanding of helpful ways to cope with the disability that affects about 1… Read More
    AUGUSTA — The 133d Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Heavy) will hold its second annual Retirees-Award Banquet on Nov. 7 at the Elks Club in Augusta. All retirees from the 133d are welcome. Contact SFC Preston Ward at 626-4261, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. RSVP by Oct. Read More
    ELLSWORTH — A 60-year-old Bangor man was in critical condition at Eastern Maine Medical Center on Tuesday in Bangor, after the car he was riding in rolled over on Route 1A in North Ellsworth on Monday. According to Ellsworth police, Dean Smith was heading north… Read More
    CALAIS — Maine State Police have determined that Ingrid Bareuther, 40, of Calais died as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Sgt. Mark Silk of the Calais Police Department said Tuesday. Silk said police were called to Mount Holly Subdivision Road, about 13 miles… Read More
    WASHINGTON — Government regulations are not protecting cable TV customers whose rates are increasing faster than ever, consumer groups said Tuesday. They urged federal regulators to freeze rates and come up with stronger price controls. The Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America asked… Read More
    FORT FAIRFIELD — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has confirmed that the design of a levee to protect downtown Fort Fairfield may proceed as soon as funding is confirmed. A U.S. Senate appropriation passed in July included $300,000 for the levee. The U.S. House… Read More
    WASHINGTON — The Senate edged closer to passage of a bill to speed up drug and medical device approval Tuesday after rejecting a dogged effort by Sen. Edward Kennedy to remove a provision he said would leave consumers unprotected. The Food and Drug Administration overhaul… Read More
    PORTLAND — Great Britain’s fourth-largest generator of electricity has offered to buy 30 Central Maine Power Co. hydroelectric plants for an undisclosed price. London-based Energy Group PLC acknowledged Monday it has made a bid for the CMP hydro stations. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
    ALFRED — An Alfred man pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges of manslaughter and operating under the influence of drugs in a crash on the Maine Turnpike last winter that killed a Shaw’s Supermarkets trucker. Thomas Metz, 49, was arraigned in York County Superior Court in… Read More
    I abandoned an engineering career 15 years ago and became intrigued with the food business at the same time a talented young Austrian named Wolfgang Puck was making his mark on the trendy California restaurant scene. Puck had just published his first cookbook, “Modern French Cooking for the… Read More
    Students, faculty and administrators from the University of Maine at Augusta told university trustees Monday they strongly supported changing their name to The Maine State University and asked trustees to approve the change. Instead, they got a committee to study which name would be most appropriate for UMA… Read More
    “Students don’t see how history relates to their lives. Only 13 percent of students strongly agreed that social studies would be useful to them in the future.” This statement was offered as part of the rationale for the “small gain” made in social studies on the Maine Educational… Read More
    What is going on? Has the Earth tilted in such a way that all of the wonderously weird and loopy ideas that normally go to California are now raining down upon eastern Maine? Is this the first chapter of a new Stephen King novel, in which the Lord… Read More
    Doctors and pharmeceutical companies for the past several years have profited from a popular diet-pill regimen. Now it will be lawyers. But even as the lawsuits are filed and courtroom expressions of outrage are rehearsed, the pill-popping public is stuck with a larger question of what it had… Read More
    If you read last week’s food review of The Rose Garden in Bar Harbor, then you were given some misinformation about location. We know it. We got it wrong. We regret it. Believe us. So for the record, The Rose Garden is located at the Bar Harbor Hotel-Bluenose… Read More
    WESTBROOK — Federal regulators Tuesday cited the S.D. Warren Co. for alleged safety violations and proposed that the Westbrook paper mill be fined a total of $102,000. The alleged violations came to light when inspectors from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration visited the mill… Read More
    PALMYRA — The selectmen from Palmyra and Newport will hold a joint meeting at 5:30 this evening at the town hall in Palmyra. The Newport board requested the meeting after questions arose recently regarding fire coverage and other mutual issues. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
    NEWPORT — The ninth annual Newport Quilt Show will be held at the High Street Congregational Church this weekend. Organizers expect at least 100 new and antique quilts to be displayed. The event runs 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26-27, at the church… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — Whether it be teen-agers staying out past the town’s 10 p.m. curfew, young adults squealing tires while leaving Manson Park or other young people loudly cursing and yelling at each other while hanging out by the town library, the town’s ordinance committee agreed Tuesday night that… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The annual 4-H Octoberfest will take place from 9:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Dover-Foxcroft YMCA. This event gives youth and adults from Piscataquis and Penobscot counties an opportunity to take part in hands-on workshop activities. Activities such as… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — A Pittsfield man has been charged with assault in the wake of a weekend incident involving another Pittsfield man. Jason Gillis, 18, was charged Tuesday with assaulting Robert Mathews, 41, early Saturday morning. According to police, Gillis threw a bottle at Mathews, striking… Read More
    KITTERY — Authorities have recovered $233,000 stolen from the bank accounts of a retired police chief, but a new report about possible missing cash remains under investigation. The $233,000 disappeared from William H. Nelson’s accounts at Peoples Heritage Bank on Sept. 9 — the day… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — In Bangor, six people are running for election to three City Council seats. In Dexter, five people are trying to capture two positions on the Town Council. Candidates abound for public positions in Ellsworth, Hampden, Houlton and Rockland. But in Pittsfield, only those… Read More
    Municipal elections are just around the corner for voters in Lincoln and Millinocket who will go to the polls Nov. 4. In Lincoln, voters will have plenty of choices as 12 people are running for seven open seats on four different boards. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
    Mainers generally, and genuinely, hold a special concern for their denizens of the woods, yet there is one more thing some of us can do to help assure the healthiest wildlife populations anywhere. Wildlife scientists have been expanding the trapping seasons on furbearers for many… Read More
    I was very disturbed to read in the Bangor Daily News on Aug. 30-31 that the Bangor Theological Seminary has hired a professor, David Trobisch, who believes our Christian Bible is a book of fiction; [he] especially mentioned the book of Mathew. From time to time I have… Read More
    In response to the letter from Debra Trice (BDN, Sept. 17), I needed to say this to support her letter: She is exactly right. What has this world come to? Dr. Robertson was one of my mother’s doctors until her death at age 79 in 1991. This is… Read More
    In the Sept. 17 issue of the Bangor Daily News a letter from Cindy Sanborn waves words like “censorship” and “banning” around. Why is she doing this? Because the owners of certain stores have decided what they are going to sell, and what they aren’t. Read More
    It was with a great deal of sadness that many opened last Friday morning’s Bangor Daily News to the lead headline, “Petitioners put stop to gay-rights law.” That Friday was the day that the anti-discrimination law, known as the gay-rights law, was to go into effect. Read More
    “A laugh is where you find it…” The weekend edition of the Bangor Daily News (Sept. 13-14) gave me hearty mirth in appraising one of the colored “block” cartoons. The irate housewife berating her husband for dropping a tree squarely across their home reminds me… Read More
    Allow me to set the record straight for your readers and correct a misapprehension of one of your readers: I am no longer a member of the board of trustees of the University of Maine System as my term has expired. I have not attended a board meeting… Read More
    Rockland District Court: Operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor: Frank A. Dennison, 40, residence not listed, $1,300, 50 days in jail, license supended four years; Robert P. Estes, 48, St. George, $400, license suspended 90 days; Ellis M. Reid, 48, Rockland, $500,… Read More
    FARMINGTON — A 25-year-old man charged with an accomplice in the beating death of an older man faces a maximum of 20 years in prison under a plea bargain with the state. Brett White of Wilton, who faced murder charges in Douglas Cochran’s death, pleaded… Read More
    HERMON — Power was knocked out for a little over an hour in several area towns around 6 a.m. Tuesday when a Bangor Daily News newspaper delivery boy on his way home fell asleep at the wheel and hit a utility pole across from the railroad tracks on… Read More
    We hope for a good turnout at the Battered Women’s Project of Aroostook County’s third annual Moving Against Domestic Violence 5-Kilometer walk-run Saturday in Presque Isle. Just as needs for the project’s services are expanding, funding sources are decreasing. That is why every $5 donation… Read More
    BANGOR — Members of the public will be able to comment on a variety of trucking issues during a meeting at 7 tonight in council chambers on the third floor of City Hall. The meeting is sponsored by Bangor Area Comprehensive Transportation System, a regional… Read More
    A short take in Tuesday’s paper gave the wrong toll-free number for the National Down Syndrome Society. The correct number is 1-800-221-4602. A story in Tuesday’s paper erroneously listed the Bangor Wal-Mart as one of several stores continuing to charge the repealed state disposal tax… Read More
    BANGOR — Children soon will get a chance to see firefighters and equipment up close when the Bangor Fire Department visits Bangor elementary schools for Fire Prevention Week. Lt. Pete Metcalf of the Fire Prevention Bureau said that fire prevention efforts should not be limited… Read More
    BREWER — The city pushed forward into the computer age Tuesday night with the approval of a $54,000 expenditure for computers, printers and other high-tech equipment. Some of the money will be used to make the city’s existing computer network more uniform. Other funds will… Read More
    BANGOR — Eastern Maine Medical Center will hold the next Respiratory Support Group meeting from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, in Main 2B Conference Room. The speaker will be a representative from a home care company who will update participants on proposed Medicare… Read More
    A man remained behind bars Tuesday after he allegedly assaulted an Orono police officer and fled from police early Sunday morning. Shawn M. Currier, 21, had been stopped for erratic driving at 12:30 a.m. Sunday and was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under… Read More