Hole-in-One EDGAR GOLDSMITH BANGOR – Edgar Goldsmith of Bangor aced the 159-yard, par-3 16th hole at Bangor Municipal Golf Course on Sunday. He used a 7-wood, and the feat was witnessed by Robert Kendrigan, Joe Hall, and Rex Grover. Read More
This is in regards to Charles Farley’s comments in the Sounding off column (BDN, Oct. 29) concerning letting all high teams compete in the playoffs. I disagree with his contention that it is not fair to have teams who do not finish high enough in the Heal point… Read More
New Bedford’s bid for a Northeast League baseball team passed its first hurdle on Tuesday as voters in the Massachusetts city approved a stadium referendum by a 2-to-1 margin. The $4-5 million stadium, which would be built at no expense to the taxpayers, received 15,689… Read More
College MEN’S SENIOR ALL-STARS NCAA Team Maine Maritime: Jamie Leveille (midfielder), Mark Thibodeau (back), Marc Babine (back), Damon Rondeau (back), Derek Conlin (goalie), Seth Brown (midfielder); Bates: Matt Ferrigno (midfielder), William Fischer (midfielder), J.K. Werren (midfielder), Michael Drumsic (striker); Bowdoin: Jed Mettee (midfielder), Jay Lessard… Read More
High school MATT MACOMBER Bucksport High School running back Matt Macomber is the LTC Class C Player of the Week. Macomber rushed seven times for 170 yards and two touchdowns in Saturday’s 40-15 win against Rockland. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
Angelo Rizzitello rifled in a long shot midway through the second half to give the Maine Maritime Academy men’s soccer team a 3-2 victory over Husson College in the inaugural Penobscot Cup match Tuesday in Castine. Rizzitello, after taking a pass from Mohammed Molley, shot… Read More
MARANACOOK – The Maranacook Community School will host the State Cross Country Championship for the Maine USA Track and Field Association on Sunday. Races will be held for runners in Junior Olympic age groups (10 & under through age 18). Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and continues throughout… Read More
WATERVILLE – The performance of Colby College’s outside hitter Jackie Bates both throughout the season and in the State of Maine Intercollegiate Volleyball Championship has earned her the honors of State of Maine Player of the Year, Tournament MVP, All-Tournament First Team, and All-State First Team. Read More
Depending on which way a vote of the Maine Principals’ Association member schools goes, Maine could find itself back in New England Council championship competition for the first time in two decades. The MPA will hold the vote, which is open to representatives of all… Read More
BOSTON – It was a University of Maine athletics reunion of sorts Tuesday at the Fleet Center, where several present and past representatives and supporters of the program attended the America East basketball media day. UMaine’s principals included coach Joanne Palombo-McCallie and two-time league Player… Read More
Kate Cox, a senior fullback for the Mount Desert Island girls soccer team, remembers being an eighth-grader in 1993, when the Trojans last won the Eastern Maine Class B soccer championship. Her parents took her and twin sister Rachel, who is also an MDI fullback, to the game. Read More
ORONO – There is nothing fancy about the University of Maine’s power play. But the puck has been finding the back of opposing nets a whopping 46.2 percent of the time [18-for-39] and that is one of the primary reasons the Bears have gotten off… Read More
David Emrich and George Miles, who play for the Piscataquis Community boys soccer team, decided they would sit out the fall 1996 season. Emrich needed to concentrate on academics. Miles wanted to take an after-school job at a butcher’s shop. Miles missed the team but… Read More
AUGUSTA — Attorney General Andrew Ketterer announced Tuesday that his office had filed civil rights cases against five men in two separate racially motivated incidents. Four men from Rumford, including three juveniles, are alleged to have yelled racial slurs and threats at a man of… Read More
BANGOR — A Maine Driving Dynamics Course is scheduled for the Greater Bangor region in November. Classes will be held 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29, at the Driver’s Edge Driving School in Glenburn. Instructor Sally Holland said that those completing the course will receive… Read More
WASHINGTON — In the first skirmish of a trade bill war, legislation to bolster President Clinton’s negotiating authority advanced in the Senate on Tuesday. Speaker Newt Gingrich labored alongside the administration to build a majority in the House. The Senate vote was 69-31, nine more… Read More
FRENCHVILLE — Accused murderer Dean Michaud wasn’t allowed Tuesday morning to travel into Canada with a group of nearly a dozen other people — including Justice Susan Calkins who is hearing Michaud’s case. The group went across the border to view from the north shore of the St. Read More
AUGUSTA — A panel dominated by King administration officials agreed Tuesday to boost revenue projections for the current two-year budget cycle by about $145 million. That potentially frees millions of dollars for use by the governor and the Legislature in the 1998 election year. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
PORTLAND — The Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday denied an appeal by six Maine car dealerships challenging the state’s determination that a proposed sales promotion would be an illegal game of chance. Classic Oldsmobile-Cadillac-GMC Truck and other Bill Dodge dealerships proposed that anyone leasing a… Read More
Far fewer people showed up at the polls to collect signatures on petitions Tuesday than had been expected. Although nine petitions were approved for circulation by the Secretary of State’s office, only three were seen at polling places in northern and eastern Maine. Signatures were… Read More
PORTLAND — Maine’s highest court Tuesday upheld the conviction of a pro-marijuana activist who gave out pot-laced brownies on the steps of the Somerset County Courthouse to build support for legalization of the drug. The Supreme Judicial Court brushed aside Donald Christen’s argument that the… Read More
HOWLAND — Saying the town’s 11-year-old timber harvesting ordinance is much stricter than the Compact for Maine’s Forests, the manager of this small northern Penobscot County town voted Tuesday against the statewide forestry initiative. “I would not want the state regulating timber harvesting in my… Read More
AUGUSTA — Some cigarette smokers are starting to roll their own or buy cheaper brands. Others are fuming and grumbling. But dealers said Monday that most smokers are just digging deeper and quietly coughing up the extra 37 cents per pack in taxes. “They’re ugly,… Read More
BANGOR — Planes are clean-burning, efficient machines, but because their numbers are steadily increasing, scientists worry that their exhaust could ultimately contribute to global warming. That’s why NASA scientists have enlisted the help of Bangor International Airport for a project which they hope will advance… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Womancare-Aegis Association, the local domestic violence prevention project, is offering six days of hot-line training. This 36-hour training will be presented 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Wednesday through Friday, Nov. 12-14 and Nov. 19-21 at 2 Winter St. There is a continuing need for assistance… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A free quit-smoking class will be offered to the public by Mayo Regional Hospital 2-3 p.m. Thursdays, Nov. 6, 13, 20 and 27 at the Piscataquis Regional YMCA. The classes will be in lecture form with free educational materials provided to participants. To… Read More
PROSPECT HARBOR — A local resident has until Thursday to move his junked 1955 pickup off his neighbor’s front lawn. The truck, plus piles of lumber and tires, has been sitting on Nellie Blance’s property since early September, when Austin Alley moved them there as the latest skirmish… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The State Planning Office has committed $15,000 to help spark economic growth in Piscataquis County. The financial commitment was a direct result of a visit last Wednesday by 12 members of the Piscataquis County Economic Development Committee with state planning officials. The group,… Read More
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — An elderly man was struck by a car backing up in the post office parking lot here Monday and was taken to Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, according to police. The pedestrian, Edward Devon Pardoe, 67, of Southwest Harbor, was treated… Read More
AUGUSTA — New traffic signals will go into operation on today and Thursday in Hampden and Brewer, a spokesman for the Maine Department of Transportation said Tuesday. DOT engineers urge motorists to be especially cautious for the next few weeks as drivers become used to… Read More
BANGOR — For nearly three years, Daniel Hannagan called his ex-wife regularly in Maine to tell her he wanted to kill her and the daughter they had together. In more than 60 telephone calls from his former home in Winter Park, Fla., Hannagan also threatened… Read More
For years, Terence Hughes and his ardent band of anti-abortion protesters have picketed health clinics and hospitals carrying photos of bloody fetuses, a pro-life message with death as an exclamation point. Disturbed by the gory display, Elliot Scott lined up beside Hughes Saturday at two… Read More
Bangor District Court: Douglas J. Jewers, 47, Bangor, operating motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating liquor, two days jail, license suspended 90 days, $500. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
Bangor High School Project Graduation will sponsor the Great Paper Airplane Fly-In from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at Mary Snow School in Bangor. An incorrect date was listed in Tuesday’s MaineDay. Read More
One of the healthiest debates beginning in the United States these days is about dying: How and under what conditions the terminally ill will end their lives. A bill recently introduced in Congress gives Medicare and Medicaid recipients more information in this debate and deserves support. Read More
Go for a Sunday drive down to Jonesport. Take in the sparkling waters of the Moosabec Reach. Cross the bridge to Beals Island, where small, family owned fishing wharves flank the rocky shore. Hike through the moss-carpeted fir and spruce forests broken by granite ledges on Great Wass… Read More
BELFAST — The mention of New Year’s Eve often conjures up images of heavy drinking or protracted nights of insipid television programming. But come the last night of this year, a group of Belfast residents is hoping to permanently change that perception in mid-Maine with… Read More
While I was pleased to see the memory of Penobscot Indian Louis Sockalexis recalled in a BDN editorial (Oct. 22), it was disheartening to also see several examples from the plethora of misinformation about the great baseball player further perpetuated, some of which have attended this legendary story… Read More
Twenty-five years asgo, domestic violence was unrecognized as a significant social problem. Although police officers, health care providers, social workers and members of the clergy must have known something of its dimensions, silence on the topic was as prevalent among the professors as among the families for whom… Read More
A longtime debate among state and federal regulators over whether there is a crisis in the region’s $242 million lobster fishery may come to a head with the regulators’ rejection last month of an interstate lobster management plan that was close to being adopted by Eastern states. Read More
BIDDEFORD — A Biddeford teen-ager who assaulted a science teacher during a high school class last June was sentenced Tuesday in District Court to 45 days in jail. Shelly Cushenberry, 18, who pleaded guilty last month, expressed remorse for the attack, telling Judge Thomas Humphrey… Read More
LIMESTONE — The grand opening of the Loring Rebuild Facility, Center of Excellence, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at Building 7500, Loring Commerce Centre. Activities for the opening include tours of the facility, 12-2 p.m.; brief remarks by Maj. General Earl… Read More
Houlton District Court: Eric N. Allard, 20, Edmundston, New Brunswick, operating a motor vehicle after license suspension, $150. Read More
BANGOR — An 83-year-old Brewer man died Tuesday afternoon after the car he was driving struck another vehicle on State Street. After the 2 p.m. accident, Roger E. Lindsey was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center, where he died from his injuries. His wife, Elizabeth… Read More
FORT KENT — The GEAR Parent Network offers monthly support meetings throughout northern Aroostook County for parents of children with special needs. Meeting times are as follows: Fort Kent, 6:30 p.m. the first Thursday of the month, Caribou High School library. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
BANGOR — Unofficial results from Tuesday’s balloting had Maine voters giving overwhelming approval to an initiative that will widen the Maine Turnpike. With 93 percent of all precincts reporting, those favoring the expansion of the turnpike were leading 60.5 percent to 39.5 percent. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
FORT KENT — Prisons in America is the focus of a round table discussion at 6 p.m. tonight in the Grindle Conference Room, Cyr Hall, University of Maine at Fort Kent. The session is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the UMFK Honors… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Three councilors, a ward clerk, an election warden and a school board member were elected in Tuesday’s local election. Ronald E. McPherson picked up 1,263 votes for a four-year seat on the City Council, beating out Victoria Brown, who had 814 votes. Read More
Students in my Women and Aging class at the University of Maine discussed the article in the Bangor Daily News, Oct. 22, about the death of 65-year-old Dorothy Applebee of Ellsworth and the district attorney’s decision not to file charges against the trooper who was speeding when his… Read More
ROCKLAND — The third time never fails. On Tuesday night, Rockland voters approved an $8.5 million plan to make drastic improvements at their waterfront sewage treatment plant, after two previous rejections. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
BELFAST — Voters from the six towns within SAD 34 overwhelmingly approved a $2 million bond issue for improvements to Belfast Area High School. Orene Nesin, chairwoman of the SAD 34 board, said she was not surprised that the referendum was passed so handily by… Read More
Everyone should have the right to vote, right? Well, maybe not, Maine voters said Tuesday. It might only affect between 50 and 100 people, the small minority of mentally ill people in the state who are under guardianship. Maybe that’s why voters rejected the ballot… Read More
Since a recent poll reported that more than three-quarters of people planning to vote were optimistic or very optimistic about the economy in Maine, maybe it’s not surprising that voters approved the three bond issues on the ballot. According to unofficial results, voters endorsed the… Read More
WINTERPORT — A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a rash of burglaries in Hampden and Winterport. Jason Coolidge of Winterport was arrested Monday and released on bail Tuesday from the Waldo County Jail, according to the Waldo County Sheriff’s Department. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
STONINGTON — Voters here rejected a measure that could have led to dissolution of the Deer Isle-Stonington Consolidated School District. Although 225 people voted for the measure and 223 voted against it, the question still failed because it needed a two-thirds majority to pass. Voter… Read More
Maine voters handed Gov. Angus King and the controversial Compact for Maine’s Forests a clear defeat Tuesday, with 52.6 percent opposing the move to revamp state rules governing clear-cutting. With 93 percent of precincts reporting statewide, 172,883 voters opposed the measure while 156,161 supported it. Read More
Two letters (Nov. 3, 4) concerning the shooting of a Clifton store owner misspelled the owner’s name. He is James Hodgins. Read More
Under present laws any child born in America is automatically a U.S. citizen. For this reason, thousands of illegal aliens enter this country every year just for the purpose of bearing a child here, knowing that child will then be eligible for all social services benefits and public… Read More
In a recent newspaper article (BDN, Oct. 28) the Rev. Marvin Ellison was quoted as saying he is gay and that he is directly affected by the Human Rights Act. Aren’t we all affected one way or the other by the Maine Human Rights Act?… Read More
On Saturday, Oct. 18, we were saddened to discover that in the night someone had stolen bicycles from our front yard that belonged to two of our girls. The girls were getting ready to join the Girl Scouts and Brownies in a bike-a-thon fund-raiser which they had been… Read More
ELLSWORTH — About 40 percent of Ellsworth’s voters turned out Tuesday to elect Jonathan Mahon, a state police sergeant, and Bob Crosthwaite, a local church pastor, to the City Council. School board Chairwoman Phyllis Harmon was resoundingly re-elected with 1,204 votes, but fellow school board member Laurence Fernald… Read More
SOUTH PORTLAND — Maine Farm Bureau Association, the state’s largest farm organization with 5,000 members, is holding its 46th annual meeting at the Sheraton Tara Hotel in South Portland Nov. 9-10. Young farmers ages 18 to 35 compete in the discussion meet and for the… Read More
How many of us got the “summer flu” again this year? How many, like myself, noticed it coincided with the aerial spraying of pesticides, late May and the third week of July here? What can we do about it? Another referendum? Correct. It is our constitutional right to… Read More
I retired from the Marine Corps on June 30. I have paid my child support faithfully. Yet, every time I came home my ex-wife would not let me see my daughters. I decided that since the state of Maine will not help me, I chose… Read More
ORONO — The University of Maine’s nationally recognized advanced engineering wood composites program will benefit from a $100,000 gift from the Davis Family Foundation of Falmouth. The gift supports construction of a new composites engineering center for research and teaching. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
When Don Kimball of Bangor got the pitch about a “low risk” investment that could at best double his money and at worst earn him 18 percent interest, he bit. Kimball went for the offer in part because the pitch came in the Brewer office… Read More
MACHIAS — Construction of Jerrold’s Place, a 16-unit family housing project, began last week with groundbreaking and will be completed within eight months, builders say. The development is financed by the Department of Agriculture — Rural Development, which provides $868,000 in mortgage financing and rental… Read More
AUGUSTA — With Christmas wreath season approaching, forest rangers from the state Department of Conservation urge those planning to harvest wreath tips or boughs first to obtain written landowner permission. Rangers say that more than 14 million wreaths were produced last year in Maine alone, which equates to… Read More
BREWER — With the widest field of candidates in more than a decade, the school committee election was supposed to be the one to watch this year. However, after a dramatic finish Tuesday, the real shocker was Mayor Janet Cobb’s narrow survival in the City… Read More
HERMON — Residents approved, 483 to 456, a $2.4 million bond issue Tuesday that will expand public water and sewer services to the Coldbrook-Odlin roads area. Town Clerk Carol Davis called the voter turnout “heavy,” with 948 residents casting ballots. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
BANGOR — The city’s rookie councilor, elected last February to fill an unexpired term, obviously made an impression on the voters. Nichi Farnham easily topped a field of six candidates in Tuesday’s City Council election with 4,628 votes. Taking the other two council seats were… Read More
HAMPDEN — Voters on Tuesday returned to office three incumbent town councilors and two incumbent school board members, and welcomed political newcomers to each body. Town Clerk Paula Newcomb called voter turnout “higher than expected,” with approximately 1,900 of 4,500 registered voters going to the… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Hancock County residents voted Tuesday to authorize a $9.5 million bond to build a new jail and renovate the courthouse. Overall, the jail bond won by 57.8 percent, or 8,928 to 6,503. Penobscot, Stonington, Waltham, Eastbrook and Mariaville were the only towns to… Read More
Call it civic duty, call it Yankee self-determination. Whatever the reason, Mainers vote and this election was no exception. While polling places were not overrun Tuesday, town clerks and election wardens were pleasantly surprised by the number of people who streamed through voting booths across… Read More
ELLSWORTH — A judge has ruled that the Rev. Francis Cormier may continue to operate a granite quarry at his Stonington church, but that he must pay $10,000 in penalties for violating a local noise ordinance and disturbing a nearby neighbor. Lawsuits were brought by… Read More
BANGOR — The lettering on the newspaper advertisement from 1942 was large and to the point: “Young Men Wanted To Join the Bangor Platoon U.S. Navy.” Fifty-seven young men from throughout eastern and northern Maine responded, most of them age 17, but at least one… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Patti Crooks, the general manager of the 4-year-old Aroostook Centre Mall, has resigned and a new manager was hired to manage the 38-store complex. John Dickey of Pittsburgh, Pa., started work this week. Crooks sent out letters to each of the mall’s… Read More
BAR HARBOR — Voters here emphatically supported a change in zoning to allow museums to be located within the downtown residential zone. The issue affects the immediate future of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, which would like to move its collection into a roomier building located in a… Read More
BUCKSPORT — Two incumbents and a challenger were elected to the Town Council at Tuesday’s election. Town Clerk Kathy Downes said turnout was at about 40 percent of registered voters. Incumbent Town Councilors Lisa Whitney and Joel Wardwell were re-elected with vote totals of 794… Read More
CARIBOU — Caribou voters elected two city councilors, two members of the Board of Education and a member of the Jefferson Cary Hospital Fund, and they agreed to increase the City Council’s spending power in Tuesday’s election. Incumbent Philip R. Bennett Jr. was re-elected to… Read More
DEXTER — Dean Thompson and Ronald Goldstone emerged Tuesday as victors in the race for the two seats on the Dexter Town Council. The votes were: Thompson, 617; Goldstone, 509; Michael Blake, 356; Nancy Pinchette, 320; and Paula Taylor, 182. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
MILLINOCKET — Voters favored incumbents in the Town Council race, but endorsed a newcomer for the school board in Tuesday’s election. Residents elected Herbert E. Clark and Charles Sanders to three-year terms on the council. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
DEXTER — SAD 46 voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a referendum question that would allow the issuance of bonds of up to $400,000 to make repairs and improvements to district school buildings. The districtwide vote was 1,183 yes and 670 no. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
AUGUSTA — Voters choosing a new delegate to the state House of Representatives from four western Maine towns Tuesday selected a Democratic union leader in a three-way contest forced by the death of the incumbent, according to unofficial returns. Figures compiled by the House clerk’s… Read More
OLD TOWN — Two councilors were returned to their seats and two new school board members were elected during local elections here on Tuesday. Robert Fiske and Paul Boucher were unchallenged for re-election to their three-year seats on the City Council. Fiske received 1,537 votes,… Read More
BANGOR — The Atlanta-based building supply discount warehouse chain Home Depot has designs on further expansion in Maine. With its second store in the state ready to open in Bangor on Dec. 11, Home Depot’s goal of expanding its market presence to 1,000 stores across… Read More
VEAZIE — Robert Kelly was elected to an unexpired term on the Town Council in a three-way race settled by Veazie voters on Tuesday. Kelly nabbed the most votes in a special local election, with 179 ballots cast in his favor. Bruce Littlefield and Gail… Read More
ROCKLAND — With 14 of Knox County’s 18 communities reporting, it appears that the plan to increase the size of the county commission from three to five members is heading for defeat. Polling results from those towns, including the county seat of Rockland, recorded 3,253… Read More
NEWPORT — Voters here soundly approved a local zoning amendment that will change several lots on Route 7 from a rural to a commercial zone. The zoning amendment was the only local question on Newport ballots Tuesday. The final vote was 395 in favor of… Read More
LAMOINE — To own or not to own. That was one of the questions facing Lamoine voters Tuesday. But when the results of a straw poll on whether the town should buy its own school buses or continue to contract services with a transportation provider… Read More
CASTINE — The town will have a new selectman, as challenger Tim Sampson defeated incumbent Jeff Colquhoun Tuesday by a vote of 270-148. In the school board race, for which no candidate filed papers, Jane Warker was elected as a write-in with 154 votes. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BANGOR — An internal investigation into a firearm missing from the Bangor Police Department has revealed that eight guns are actually missing from the department’s firearms cabinet. The serial numbers, makes and models of the guns were posted on the National Crime Information Center’s network… Read More
November is a very important month for those who turn to the Greater Bangor Area Shelter in time of need. This is the month GBAS conducts its annual appeal, which has become increasingly important in this era of ever-declining funding. GBAS Executive Director Dennis Marble… Read More
State and Bangor law enforcement officials are investigating a trailer fire early Tuesday morning which they say was intentionally set. Few details were available late Tuesday, although the investigators said they already have a suspect, a woman associated with the fire-damaged trailer at the Rainbow Trailer Park in… Read More
PATTEN — Just 10 months ago, organizers of an effort to have Route 11 improved so the road would no longer have to be posted with weight restrictions were told that the task was too expensive and couldn’t be done. Monday night, those same people… Read More