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
Denise Betz is no stranger to rural beauty. There is no shortage of postcard-like scenery in her native Colorado. 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
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
BRUNSWICK — Authorities say a fire that gutted a senior citizen center could have been less devastating had firefighters been notified sooner. The fire blazed through the attic of the Evergreen Senior Citizens clubhouse Sunday just minutes after about 70 bingo players left the building. Read More
BLUE HILL — Having skewered the competition, “The Stud” stands smugly victorious, ready to take on all comers. Modeled after the grandfatherly curmudgeon featured in commercials for Ellsworth Building Supply, the stuffed likeness has plunged a pitchfork into his Home Depot counterpart, who lies headless… 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
PORTLAND — A Coast Guard cutter that routinely enforces fishing restrictions in the Gulf of Maine returned home last week after a two-month stint of drug patrols in the Caribbean. The Jefferson Island and its 17-member crew boarded more than 100 ships and boats during… 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
One has been coming to Maine every June, July and August for 50 years. One has never been here. Their speaking voices carry Southern accents, one a Kentucky flavor, one an acquaintance with the lower Mississippi River watershed. Both writers, one is better known as a critic, one… Read More
Robert Hitt’s recent production of “Death of a Salesman,” which opened last weekend at the Belfast Maskers Railroad Theater, will make you nervous. It will make you cringe and worry and grieve. And it should. Willy Loman is a frightening man. That’s not because he… 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
BAR HARBOR — “At night, you could look at the land and see the fire. The flames lit up the water and islands … .” That’s how Capt. William Berry remembers the night of Oct. 23, 1947, when a gale stirred the Bar Harbor fire… 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
BAR HARBOR — Tristam Colket Jr. was a child when fire ripped through the town where his family had summered for all of his young life. As the privileged grandson of the former president of the Campbell’s Soup company, Colket’s earliest memories of Bar Harbor included stately mansions,… 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
BANGOR — It’s crunch time for the Bangor Blue Ox and their hopes for a multipurpose stadium. Ox officials already have announced plans to sit out the 1998 season, and what the city does next will determine whether the two-year-old team ever plays in Bangor. 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
EASTPORT — The state medical examiner ruled Monday that a 30-year-old New Brunswick Community College student accidentally drowned Saturday after the boat he was sailing capsized. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman said his agency did not suspect foul play. The body of Joseph Gervais,… 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
PORTLAND — This fall’s bountiful acorn crop could mean many oak trees in southern and northern Maine are dying. Foresters and arborists say this season’s large acorn drop is the result of “stressed” trees reacting to a variety of factors that have sent them into… Read More
In the first official partisan move on the controversial Compact for Maine’s Forests, the Maine Republican State Committee on Saturday overwhelmingly opposed the measure as an unreasonable government intrusion on the rights of small landowners. During the group’s regular monthly meeting in Hallowell, all but… 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
PORTLAND — A Peruvian woman who has never traveled beyond her mountain village in one of the world’s most primitive regions has arrived in Portland to undergo reconstructive surgery for disfiguring facial burns. Rosa Cordova Aguilar, who suffers from epilepsy, recently sustained serious burns to… Read More
The Princeton Book Award of Maine Committee has selected 10 outstanding high school students as 1997 recipients of its annual award. The committee, composed of eight Princeton University alumni, assembled to recognize students who demonstrate strength of character, exceptional leadership, and excel in both academic and extracurricular pursuits. Read More
BANGOR — City councilors meeting Wednesday will have a couple of options to consider if they decide to change how police and fire personnel are dispatched. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall. Under unfinished business, a resolution that has been tabled… 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