Bar Harbor resident Sal Clouse bowled a 300 during a league night at the Family Fun Bowling Center in Bangor Monday night. “I can’t tell you how it happened,” said Clouse, 33, who usually bowls a 200. “It’s just pure luck, I guess. I’ve been… Read More
    I know that when this staff of starters breaks up, I’ll never have a chance to work with as quality a group again,” so says Leo Mazzone, Atlanta Braves pitching coach, about his extended family, the Atlanta pitching staff. Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE – Goalies Gene Cronin and Jamie Brewer combined to stop three of four shots to preserve Presque Isle’s 4-0 schoolboy soccer win over Brewer Monday afternoon. Ryan Saucier, Jeremy Fischer, Jon Blanchard and Jared Keegan tallied goals for 9-3-1 Presque Isle, while Joel… Read More
    College MICKEY FEIN University of Maine quarterback Mickey Fein was chosen the Atlantic 10 Offensive Player of the Week after leading Maine to a 49-47 triple-overtime win against Connecticut. Fein completed 38 of 62 attempts for 522 yards and five touchdowns. He was also named… Read More
    ORONO – Mike Hangge scored two goals and Ryan Conley made seven saves as Ellsworth remained undefeated with a 3-0 schoolboy soccer win over Orono on Monday. Josh Jordan scored the other goal for 12-0 Ellsworth, with Darby Higgins assisting on Hangge’s first goal on… Read More
    ORONO – Mike Hangge scored two goals and Ryan Conley made seven saves as Ellsworth remained undefeated with a 3-0 schoolboy soccer win over Orono on Monday. Josh Jordan scored the other goal for 12-0 Ellsworth, with Darby Higgins assisting on Hangge’s first goal on… Read More
    ORONO – Karen Hebert scored two goals to lead Maine to a 3-1 victory over Bucknell in college field hockey action Monday. Deb Akerley scored a goal and Cindy Botett stopped eight of 12 shots for the 7-5 Black Bears. Brianna Banks and Heidi Spurling… Read More
    Hole-in-one ARTHUR KNAPP HERMON – Arthur Knapp aced the 160-yard twelfth hole at Hermon Meadow Monday. Knapp used a 3-iron and was witnessed by Bob Keane, Pic Doucette and Casper Lebretton. Read More
    Mickey Fein sparkled Saturday, establishing school and national passing records while quarterbacking the University of Maine to a 49-47, triple-overtime victory over Connecticut. Fein completed 38 of 62 passes (61 percent accuracy) for 522 yards, going 32-for-46 in the second half as the Black Bears… Read More
    WORCESTER, Mass. – Two Mainers and a former Mainer won titles Monday at the National One-Hour Racewalk Championships. Peter Brown, a 16-year-old from Wilton, covered 9,876 meters to win the junior men’s championship. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
    High school Coaches X-C Poll (First place votes in parenthesis) Girls 1. Brewer (7) 70 2. Marshwood 48 3. Westbrook 42 4. Belfast 41 5. Mattanawcook 40 6. Presque Isle 35 7. Scarborough 28 8. Maranacook 27 9. Portland 23 10. Hampden 20 Boys 1. Read More
    In voting not to open their season on Jan. 1, Monhegan lobstermen are taking a gamble to save the resource. Although the Legislature won’t convene until shortly after that, lawmakers and state officials should step up now to assure the islanders the wager of their lives will pay… Read More
    AUGUSTA — A state appeals board has thrown out a contract Maine signed with a firm to let Medicaid clients call a toll-free number for medical advice. The three-member board took the action after two Maine companies that also submitted bids challenged the way the… Read More
    Throughout the months of discussion, public opinion sampling, letters to the editor, city council meetings and coffee-klatch conversations about the proposed construction of a baseball stadium in Bangor, I ha ve had a difficult task to keep silent. I did not want to appear to question the motives… Read More
    MILLINOCKET — Police are investigating the reported armed robbery of a video store here Sunday night. An employee of the Front Row Video store on Central Street told police that shortly after 10 p.m. on Sunday, a man entered the store and threatened him with… Read More
    ELLSWORTH — Discussion on the development of the new Hancock County jail and how it will affect the Ellsworth area is scheduled from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the Holiday Inn in Ellsworth. The guest speaker is Hancock County Sheriff William… Read More
    BELMONT — Fire destroyed a split-level home and garage near Belmont village late Sunday night, displacing a family of five. No one was injured. According to Carl Hodges, chief of the Belmont Fire Department, a faulty chimney at the home of David Potvin on Route… Read More
    BREWER — The Brewer City Council tonight will look at two recommendations for spending $28 million in surplus state revenue. One resolve says the state should return the money to taxpayers. A competing resolve says the money should go toward local education efforts. The use… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — Town officials from throughout Maine will gather with about 150 state lawmakers Thursday and Friday, Oct. 30 and 31, at College of the Atlantic to discuss “The Paradox of the Sprawl.” Included in the meeting will be town planners and planning board… Read More
    BATH — Casco Cable customers in Bath, Brunswick, Topsham and surrounding towns may be entitled to a refund. The Federal Communications Commission said the company overcharged customers during the past four years. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
    Matti Aalto, one of a trio of burglars, wants to apologize to the George Hardesty family (BDN, Oct. 10). Aalto didn’t know Hardesty and wasnt’ at this home on the afternoon of Oct. 3, 1996. His two buddies, Charles Jones Jr. and Douglas Burr, were. When Hardesty re-entered… Read More
    Presque Isle District Court: Garold D. Doak Sr., no age given, Presque Isle, OUI, license suspended 90 days, $400. 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;… Read More
    OLD ORCHARD BEACH — A man who delighted three generations of tourists as Dave the Guesser was buried Monday in his native Portland. David Glovsky died Thursday of advanced heart disease. He was 88. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
    Students crowd each other on the granite steps of John Bapst High School. Boys sporting black leather jackets jostle each other. With cigarettes tucked behind their ears, they pose like tough guys ready to rumble. The girls feign disgust. Their crinoline petticoats rustle invitingly under… Read More
    Even as President Clinton wrestles with the question of how much of the recent climate change is due to manmade sources and how much to natural climatic variation, new reports about technological abilities to reduce greenhouse producing pollutants without going broke show an encouraging trend. It is the… Read More
    A front-page story Monday on the dedication of the World War II Memorial at the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor listed the attendance at 1,500. Museum officials place the attendance at 3,500. Read More
    Q. I have some scrap building materials around and I want to build several low-cost solar collectors. I want two of them for heating our water and our house and one for the swimming pool. What design is best? — S.C. A. Although slightly more… Read More
    Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” Never one to underestimate his own salesmanship, President Clinton is now shamelessly asking Congress to grant him “fast track” authority for another round of trade negotiations with Chile and other nations. Fast track… Read More
    Maine Association of Math Leagues Eastern Maine Math League Southern Division Meet #1 FOR LISTING OF RESULTS, SEE LIBRARY MICROFILM. Read More
    Bangor District Court: Steven Francini, 24, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, $400, license suspended for 90 days. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i =… Read More
    Gov. King will turn us all into cynics. On Oct. 9 he told us he plans to run for re-election and that the centerpiece of his second term would be the development of “world-class” status for the Maine state university system. Sounds good, but does… Read More
    EAST ORLAND — The staff of Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery and the Friends of Craig Brook welcome the public to the third annual Spawning Spectacular and the grand opening of the Atlantic Salmon Museum from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. Tours of… Read More
    An out-of-control car slammed into a tractor-trailer Monday afternoon in Bangor. The car’s driver walked away, in police custody on a charge of drunken driving. Witnesses said the late-model white Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was going north too fast for the corner on Main Street near… Read More
    Dorothy Warriner, wife of Dr. Arthur Cloudman, a pathologist at Jackson Lab, recalled her husband bringing home from the ruins a box of slides that had melted into a two-foot long mass. Their daughter still uses it as a paperweight. Sylvia Haredan, 98, had already… Read More
    CENTERVILLE — “Sparks was flyin’ right through the trees, and it seemed as though they was as big round as your little finger. All around it was lit up,” Jonesboro resident Carroll Look told a Boston Daily Globe reporter in 1947, as he recounted the long hours he… Read More
    Things being rather dull on the government conspiracy front these days, people have jumped on the bandwagon of the most ridiculous (yet controversial) cause in the news: the effort to stop the launch of NASA’s Cassini probe. Largely Internet based (and also largely devoid of facts), this group… Read More
    Your recent columns on campaign finance reform are right on the mark. I applaud your focusing on this important work. Perhaps more Maine people will be energized to put additional pressure on Congress to begin to improve campaign finance laws. Wilfred Lord Hampden… Read More
    ORONO — Food and nutrition professionals are invited to attend a one-hour teleconference on food allergens at the University of Maine from 7 to 9 p.m. today. No registration fee or preregistration is required for the meeting which is being held in the Soderberg Distance Education Center in… Read More
    I would like to express my support for Question 1, the Compact for Maine’s Forests. It will put a stop to liquidation harvesting, which most Mainers don’t agree with. It will also set new strict limits on clear-cutting statewide. Question 1 will require paper companies… Read More
    Question 6, the turnpike widening question, reads: “Do you favor adding one travel lane in each direction to the southern end of the Maine Turnpike, paid for by turnpike tolls, to reduce accidents and congestion?” I am angered by the inclusion of the phrase “to reduce accidents and… Read More
    The op-ed piece titled, “Managing medication,” by Diana Schetky, M.D., that ran on Oct. 1, leaves readers with significant misconceptions about PCS Health Systems and our programs. As the nation’s leading pharmaceutical management company, PCS uses its information and clinical expertise, first and foremost, to help our health… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — The Jackson Laboratory was honored by the Maine Committee of the Newcomen Society for its accomplishments in the field of genetic research. Jackson Lab was recognized for its growth in annual revenues to $50 million; for an 81 percent increase in grant… Read More
    ORONO — The 1997 version of “The Development Report Card for the States,” created by the Washington D.C.-based Corporation for Enterprise Development, will be made public for the first time today at the University of Maine. Brian Dabson, the corporation’s president, will discuss the report… Read More
    BETHEL — A group of adventure travel companies, Maine Waters, are hosting eight European tour operators on Oct. 19 and 20. In addition to shopping and dining out, the tour operators from Great Britian, Germany, and Switzerland will tour Rockland and Camden harbors on a windjammer. A wildlife… Read More
    For some people, the words media and hoax are synonymous. Why else would millions of supposedly educated Americans purchase supermarket tabloids that feature stories claiming that Hitler’s brain is being kept alive in a bottle in South America, space aliens have taken over Congress and… Read More
    AMITY — The death Sunday in California of folk singer John Denver touched many music lovers in Maine, certainly no one more than Arthur Howell Jr. of Amity. A lifelong fan of Denver, Howell, who operates a wildlife refuge, learned of the singer’s death from… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Maine’s 36,000 uninsured children will have a chance at health coverage in the coming months, and the working poor may be the first to benefit from the federal windfall. Plans and federal funds for the children’s health program are rapidly firming up —… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Jackson Brook Institute, embroiled in a heated financial dispute with state health officials, has filed a lawsuit challenging Maine’s hospital tax system. The South Portland psychiatric hospital, which says it has paid more than $6 million in hospital taxes to the state since… Read More
    GLENBURN — Public comments gleaned from Wednesday’s Union 34 reorganization committee meeting are sure to play an integral role in determining if the group will recommend withdrawal from the union, according to Barbara Halloran, committee member and chairman of the Glenburn School Board. “Withdrawing from… Read More
    BATH — No one is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Greenblatts’ Inc. Instead, the small store that sold everything from wallpaper to televisions is going out of business. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
    ROCKPORT — Maine Coast Artists gallery and the town zoning appeals board have won a legal battle over handicapped access, property lines and a controversial renovation project. Chief Justice for the Superior Court Margaret Kravchuk ruled against neighbors and for the gallery and zoning board in an opinion… Read More
    The highest honor of Scottish Rite Freemasonry was conferred on a group of Maine Freemasons on Sept. 23 in Devos Hall of the Grand Center Convention Complex in Grand Rapids, Mich. The 33rd Degree is awarded for “outstanding service to Freemasonry or for significant contributions to humanity, reflecting… Read More
    MECHANIC FALLS — A Portland woman died and three others were injured Sunday in a single-vehicle crash. Police say Joann Crockett, 56, was a passenger in a car that skidded across Route 26 Sunday morning and struck a tree. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
    MADISON — A 4-year-old girl who spent 10 minutes submerged in a Madison cemetery pond has died. Sydney Tibbetts of Waterville had been hospitalized since Oct. 6, when she fell into the shallow pond during a family gathering. Authorities said she died Saturday at Eastern… Read More
    BANGOR — The Interfaith Healthcare Project of St. Joseph Healthcare will hold flu immunizations at several area locations. The cost is $5, but those with Medicare will receive free immunizations by showing their cards. Clinics are: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
    Area businesses and individuals will be receiving a letter from members of the Carmel Parent-Teacher Association and its Carmel Afterschool Program Committee. We hope all contacted read that letter slowly and carefully, and respond appropriately and immediately by digging deep into their pockets and supporting… Read More