In keeping company with rods and guns, you’ve probably noticed that certain sporting activities attract certain types of people. Turkey hunters, for example, tend to be solitary, but pheasant hunters are inclined to be gregarious. Likewise, deer hunters enjoy “yarding up” in back-of-beyond camps, while bird hunters and… Read More
Playoff action shifts to the top seeds in classes B and C today. No. 4 Stearns of Millinocket (6-3, 4-3) at No. 1 Foxcroft Academy (8-1, 7-0), Oakes Field, 1 p.m.: This is the latest installment in what has almost become a traditional playoff matchup… Read More
Whatever happens in the state Class D girls soccer championship this afternoon, Wisdom will always have its Eastern Maine Class D title and the reception that the town of St. Agatha gave the Pioneers when they rode in from their 2-1 victory over Greenville in the regional final. Read More
BANGOR – Three players scored in double figures to lead the University of New Brunswick to a 70-65 women’s basketball win over Husson at Newman Gym Friday. Jill LeBlanc paced UNB with 19 points. Charlene Woolaver and Shelley Ryan contributed 15 and 12 points, respectively. Read More
In University of Maine hockey history, there are many names people remember. But one name is most recognizable. One player has gone farther faster. He may as well have ascended tall buildings in a single bound. Who knows, if Disney and he ever iron out… Read More
The Husson College women’s basketball team will take on a squad from the Bangor Police Department during Sunday’s Ed Gott Charity Basketball Game. The annual event, scheduled for 5 p.m. at Newman Gym in Bangor, is named in honor of Gott, a former Braves assistant… Read More
MAINE vs. BOSTON UNIVERSITY Time, site: Saturday, 7 p.m., Alfond Arena, Orono 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; i++) { if (isMobileDevice()) { if (slot_sizes[i][0]… Read More
BOSTON – Keri Bettenhauser scored three goals to lead the Northeastern Huskies to a 5-0 rout over the Maine Black Bears in an America East semifinal field hockey game Friday. Bettenhauser, the league’s player of the year, helped the top-ranked Huskies improve to 9-0 in… Read More
BANGOR – It’s not often that Bangor’s backup tailback finishes as the Rams’ leading rusher in the game, but it was that kind of game for the Crimson-and-White on a frosty Friday night. Everything – EVERYTHING – went right for the top-seeded Rams as they… Read More
Carmel’s Randy Dunton received a unique treat on Halloween. That was when the Liberty University assistant basketball coach was told that he would be the interim head coach for this season. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
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ORONO – One was the runnerup for the Hobey Baker Award a year ago and is one of the favorites to win it this season. The other has emerged as a candidate for the award, given to college hockey’s best player. But Boston University senior… Read More
ORONO – Coach Joanne Palombo-McCallie and the University of Maine women’s basketball team didn’t know exactly what they would be facing prior to Friday night’s exhibition against Lokomotiva Bratislava of Slovakia. It wasn’t long after the opening tap the Black Bears realized they were in… Read More
Maine’s four college football teams will try to establish some positive momentum on which to build Saturday as they move into the late stages of the 1997 season. Maine (4-4) at Buffalo (2-7), 1:30 p.m., UB Stadium, Buffalo, N.Y.: It’s essentially a three-game season for… Read More
BUCKSPORT – Seventy-one yards from the end zone and four minutes from a halftime breather, Bucksport junior quarterback Cameron Giroux slowly ambled up to the line of scrimmage on second-and-one to the awaiting John Bapst defense and the sound of a barking coach. “Cameron, look… Read More
Wayne and Fern Barker of Milford will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Milford Congregational Church. The Parkman Veteran’s Memorial Committee is preparing for its 175th anniversary and plans to update its… Read More
Sprawl is one of those puzzling public-policy phenomena that usually are best understood when seen in a rear-view mirror. People can identify sprawl once it is too late to do anything about it, but they want little to do with trying to prevent it. That costs Maine plenty… Read More
As Everett McKenney of Waterville stood at his guard post, a young private in the United States Army suitably miserable in the ankle-deep mud of France, he heard the guns of November go eerily silent at precisely 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month of… Read More
Paul Young had barely settled into his role as head of the Richard E. Dyke Center for Family Business when he realized he had his work cut out for him. Young was at the Blaine House Conference on Small Business this summer, manning a booth… Read More
Imagine George McGovern and Gen. George Patton joining forces to defeat a ban on nuclear testing. Or George Wallace and Martin Luther King building a coalition to crush a voting rights act. Or Dr. Ruth and Jerry Falwell working together to oppose sex education in schools. That’s what… Read More
A Penobscot County Superior Court jury ruled in favor of an Old Town couple Friday, saying they weren’t responsible when a patron of their fitness studio caught a life-threatening case of chickenpox five years ago. It took the eight-member jury only about 90 minutes to… Read More
BANGOR — One of two men accused of shooting out an electrical transformer in the Washington County town of Baileyville eight months ago did not show up for his arraignment Friday in U.S. District Court. Jason “Jake” Mallory, 23, who now lives in Arizona, was… Read More
The welcome news that the state is forecasting an additional $185 million in revenues for next year gives Maine an opportunity to think about not only what it wants to do with the money but how its tax system raises that money. Of the three… Read More
BANGOR — The Penobscot County district attorney has chosen not to go forward with criminal charges against a Bangor man who is protesting pro-life protesters by displaying signs with pictures of nude women. Deputy District Attorney Michael Roberts said the charge levied against 31-year-old Elliot… Read More
GLENBURN — A head-on collision occurs on the Lakeview Road. The mangled wreckage is discovered by a carload of high school students on their way home from a party. The teen-agers rush out to investigate, only to discover that one of the cars involved carried… Read More
BRUNSWICK — Two police officers remained on administrative leave Friday as state investigators reviewed the killing of a wheelchair-bound man by police gunfire after the officers responded to a domestic dispute. Richard A. Weymouth, 55, was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in a Brunswick apartment… Read More
CARIBOU — More than 50 people were indicted Friday by the Aroostook County grand jury: Travis J. Voisine, 25, Presque Isle, gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
BANGOR — HyperMedia, an Internet provider that had been providing services to the Blue Hill-Ellsworth area since 1994, has expanded its services into the greater Bangor area. The locally owned corporation offers Web browsers unlimited access for a year with one fixed fee of $14.95… Read More
BANGOR — The Bangor office of Day’s Travel Bureau closed Nov. 1 due to a decision by the nation’s largest airline carriers to cut commissions on all tickets sold through travel agents to a level that is below the agent’s cost of transacting business, according to President W. Read More
John Denver was a personal friend. As one of his creative collaborators, and the co-creator and executive producer of his last completed, original work in both television and music, “The Wildlife Concert” (1995) and “The Best of John Denver Live (1997),” I often heard that John’s music was… Read More
The Orono landfill will be open Tuesdays and Saturdays during November for residents to drop off leaves. The facility will not be open on Veterans Day but will be open the next day, Wednesday, Nov. 12. Read More
During my tenure as a state senator for Senate District 7, I have had the chance to study many different approaches to growing Maine’s economy and securing a more stable future for Maine’s families. I currently serve as the Senate chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Labor,… Read More
After seeing Brad Fraser’s “Unidentified Human Remains and the Nature of True Love,” which opened Thursday at the University of Maine, you can cross Edmonton, Alberta, off the list of places you might want to vacation. Evidently, Edmonton has one of the highest crime rates of all the… Read More
BANGOR — In less than a week, Maine’s nearly 20,000 Episcopalians will have a new leader. Five priests have been nominated for bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, and the election will be held on Friday the first day of a two-day convention at the Bangor Civic… Read More
Ellsworth — Buddhist meditation and study will be offered every Tuesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Meadowview Apartments dining room. Individual meditation instruction is available. Beginners are welcome. For more information, call 422-3412. Pittsfield — The Pittsfield First Baptist Church on South Main… Read More
The dinner-dance last weekend to commemorate the 125th anniversary of St. Mary’s Church in Bangor culminated a year of celebrations, said the Rev. Frank Murray, pastor. Nearly 200 parishioners, young and old, native and adopted, celebrated and reminisced about the place the church holds in… Read More
NO PLACE FOR LITTLE BOYS: Civil War Letters of a Union Soldier, edited by Melissa MacCrae and Maureen Bradford, illustrated by David J. Priesing, Goddess Publications, 120 pages, $14.95. “Between the muster in Bangor, August 21, 1862, and the last gun at Appomattox, April 9,… Read More
A BRACELET FOR LILY by Dick Goodie, Irving Books, Portland, paperback, 210 pages, $12.95. The scene is occupied Belgium during the summer and fall of 1944. A young pilot from Maine has his P-47 Thunderbolt shot out from under him while on a support mission… Read More
Editor’s Note: Each month, the children’s librarians at Bangor Public Library offer a selection of classics and new favorites designed to encourage reading and provoke thought in young readers. The books may be purchased at local bookstores or found at your local library. THE SUBTLE… Read More
THE FIRST MAINE CAVALRY, by Mary Calvert, published by Monmouth Press, Monmouth, 325 pages, $25 hardcover. In April 1861, when newly elected president Abraham Lincoln called for men throughout the North to join forces to protect the property and interests of the United States, thousands… Read More
With the bounty of fall’s harvest dwindling or preserved, it was off to a local farm last weekend to load up on squashes and pumpkins. A few fine-looking Delicata, Buttercup and Butternut squashes, along with some hefty pumpkins, will make superb and wholesome meals. Although… Read More
The Oronoka was rockin’ and rollin’. The seven-member band Strange Pleasures was on a 20-minute jam. Young women danced in front of the stage, their hair changing hues with the pulsing colored lights. “Hang on Sloopy” flowed into “Brown-Eyed Girl” which ignited “Johnny B. Goode” and lured even… Read More
Ellsworth District Court: Jeffrey C. Gove, 24, Stonington, operating motorboat without valid sticker, $50. 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; i++) { if (isMobileDevice()) {… Read More
BATH — Thanks to a federal grant and help from a conservation organization, an uninhabited island in the Kennebec River will forever be protected from development. The state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has taken ownership of Lines Island, preserving its forests and wetlands… Read More
BREWER — Croft Hobbies of Bangor is sponsoring a series of 1/10th-scale radio-controlled car races starting Sunday, Nov. 9, at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer. Store owner Robert Croft said the series will take place “almost every Sunday until March,” depending on the availability of the facility. Doors open… Read More
BREWER — James Longley Jr. will speak at the Penobscot County Republican Committee’s Hannibal Hamlin Dinner at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Brewer IGA Coffee Shop banquet room. For information, call Bill Pearson at 278-222, or Margaret Brown at 825-3178. Read More
TOGUS — VA Medical and Regional Office Center Director John H. Sims Jr. and Maine Veterans’ Coordinating Committee Chairman Richard Blouin will speak at Veterans Day ceremonies at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at the center. The observance will be at the Flagpole Commons at… Read More
Lisa Ornstein of the University of Maine at Fort Kent spent part of October performing in concert at the Celtic Colours International Festival with Celtic music superstars such as The Chieftains, Ashley MacIssaac, Capercallie and The Barra MacNeils. She is director of the Acadian Archives at UMFK, and… Read More
WESTFIELD — Aroostook County and the Maine potato industry has lost one of its best-known and most loved spokesmen. John M. Logan, a former television personality who fashioned a career out of his passion for the outdoors and his interest in potato farming, died at his home in… Read More
BLUE HILL — A benefit dinner for Club Liberty, a Liberty School-sponsored teen arts and recreation center, will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Firepond Restaurant in Blue Hill. The evening will include a five-course menu and student entertainment. The suggested… Read More
BAR HARBOR — The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory is in line to receive a $185,000 grant from the National Science Foundation if it can come up with matching funds by September 1999. The Salsbury Cove marine research lab plans to use the grants to… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Action Opportunities Inc. recently received the Family Friendly Workplace award from the Maine Child Care Directors’ Association for demonstrating that it values its employees and their families. In addition to providing such widespread employee benefits as health insurance, flex time and training vouchers,… Read More
STANDISH — An organization that accredits high schools will vote next month on whether to place Bonny Eagle High School on probation for failing to meet basic standards. Probation is rare for high schools. Of the more than 700 high schools in New England, 22… Read More
AUGUSTA — A lot of people haven’t heard about it. Many of those who have don’t like it. But as a task force finished a year’s worth of work, members signed up for another six months, this time to campaign for their proposal to make county government more… Read More
ORONO — A 60-year-old woman died Friday evening after being struck by a motor vehicle while she was crossing College Avenue. The woman, who was not identified pending notification of her family, was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where she was pronounced… Read More
High school PVC Boys All-Stars Class A first team: Bangor – Griffin McManus, Matt Soucie, Josh Hunter, Phu Thai; Brewer – Jamie Lambert; Hampden – Gabe Brooks, Nate Drummond, Jason Boucher, Jeff Meinhart, Scott Tardiff; Nokomis – Nick Wallace, Gus Demos googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
I have just read Terence Hughes’ sadly on-target column (BDN, Nov. 4) on the anti-religious color of the pro-abortion (“pro-choice,” if you must) movement, and the uncritical reception its “propaganda” received at the University of Maine. With all due respect, I wonder where Hughes has… Read More
On Oct. 24 my grandson started to deliver the Bangor Daily News. Within 20 minutes, at 5 a.m. on Grove Street, somebody stole his bike — on his very first day. I am very upset, so please return his bike to Billy Baker, 203 Maple St., Bangor. Cecile… Read More
This serves as a public announcement to alert ratepayers. The deregulation of the electricity industry, case 97-580, PUC vs. CMP, is set to start. The proceedings are not lawful; household electricity ratepayers are at risk. Residential ratepayers in Maine subsidize the Public Utilities Commission, the… Read More
I’ve been wondering what possible reason the Bangor Daily News may have had for publishing the article (Oct. 29) about the so-called Abundant Life Christian Center’s Hell House kit. The kit includes a “270-page manual on how to scare visitors straight to heaven by frightening them with images… Read More
To the 2 million women and the 68 million men who own guns — if you don’t realize what the gun grabbers in our government who support our gun-grabbing president are trying to do, then eventually you won’t have the freedom to own guns or the other freedoms… Read More
Who does this character [Donald] Sussman think he is, resorting to a direct personal attack on our governor, questioning his integrity and motives and suggesting that he will personally benefit financially for taking a position on a matter which is of public concern? That letter is a personal… Read More
WASHINGTON — The Senate approved a bill Friday designed to save Amtrak from bankruptcy and to put the nation’s long-struggling subsidized rail passenger service on the track toward financial independence. The voice-vote passage of a bipartisan compromise came after months of difficult negotiation. “Without the… Read More
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe and Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., have introduced legislation to pro-rate Social Security benefits after the death of the beneficiary. Snowe offered similar legislation in the last Congress. “We owe a bit of fairness to seniors whose spouses have… Read More
BELFAST — The Women Entrepreneurs of Belfast and the Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a breakfast workshop, “Continuing Education and the Governor’s Training Initiative: What’s In It For You?” from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12. The workshop — jointly offered by… Read More
CARIBOU — Tension broke through the surface Friday at the murder trial of a young Canadian man charged in the beating and drowning death of a fellow college student 14 months ago. Outside the Aroostook County courtroom, the frustrated crying and mourning turned ugly when… Read More
BANGOR — Talbots, a women’s clothing store and cataloger, is set to open its first store in Bangor at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 14, according to Arnold B. Zetcher, president and chief executive officer. The 4,820-square-foot store on Stillwater Avenue will offer a collection of… Read More
BAILEYVILLE — For the fourth time in 10 months, the 70 employees at Georgia-Pacific Corp.’s Oriented Strand Board mill have been laid off temporarily. The latest shutdown is being blamed on an insufficient supply of the aspen the mill uses to make composite board for the building industry. Read More
Albert C. Severance of LaGrange is now a member of the Maine Army National Guard’s Detachment 1, Company A 133d Engineer Battalion in Skowhegan. He will serve as a carpenter-mason with the unit and will attend basic training in November at Fort Jackson, S.C. Severance is the son… Read More
CARIBOU — The former property-tax collector for the town of St. Francis was indicted Friday on charges stemming from the alleged theft of about $18,000 from the town. Belinda Michaud, 45, has been charged with theft, theft by misapplication and aggravated forgery. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
PORTLAND — U.S. Attorney Jay P. Mcloskey said Thursday that Kirk A. Henson, 45, of Lewiston was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 21 years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Read More
AUGUSTA — Mainers who felt last Wednesday’s earthquake are being asked to fill out a questionnaire to describe their experiences. The Maine Geological Survey wants to use the information to understand how seismic waves travel through the state’s bedrock. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
BANGOR — An attorney for a Waterville man who won a lawsuit in federal court this week against his former Kennebec County employer said his client felt “vindicated” by the jury verdict despite the fact he will be awarded about a fifth of the amount originally requested. Read More
Military reserve units in Maine have not been issued any alerts to increase readiness because of the Iraqi threats, according to Maj. Gen. Earl L. Adams, the state’s adjutant general and commissioner of the Maine Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management. Such a call… Read More
WASHINGTON — President Clinton’s plan to test students nationwide on their reading and math skills “is dead for a year” under a major concession by the White House to House Republicans. On a 352-65 vote Friday night, the House passed an $80.2 billion spending bill… Read More
ROCKLAND — A Superior Court judge Friday rejected a district attorney’s plea for a stiff prison term to “send the public a message” on white-collar crime. Justice Andrew Mead sentenced Robert Calderwood, 49, of South Thomaston to a nine-month jail term for embezzling at least… Read More
WASHINGTON — In testimony before the Senate Finance Committee this week, U.S. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe called for enactment of legislation ending “drive-thru” mastectomies and providing women with breast cancer basic protections under law. The law also protects other Americans who suffer from cancer. Snowe… Read More
ORONO — The Maine Democratic Party is sponsoring an all-day statewide conference for high school and college Democrats on Saturday, Nov. 15, at the University of Maine. Registration will open at 9 a.m. at the Donald P. Corbett Building. Speakers at the conference will include… Read More
Maine Adaptive Sports and Recreation, in keeping with its mission to help provide transportation for people with disabilities, is sponsoring a raffle to purchase a wheelchair-lift van for the family of 5-year-old Ryan Turbyfill of Cherryfield. Ryan has cerebral palsy. His parents, R.C. and Mary… Read More
CARIBOU — Justice Susan Calkins will take the Veterans Day weekend to decide whether Dean Michaud of Clair, New Brunswick, is either guilty of murder or manslaughter or not guilty in the death of a college classmate last year. Calkins announced early Friday afternoon that… Read More
HOULTON — Supporters of Wayne Pierce of Hodgdon were back at the 2nd District Court building Friday to offer encouragement to the man who they say has been falsely accused of sexually abusing his 10-year-old son. About 50 people, including a group of children from… Read More
DOLE BROOK TOWNSHIP — One of two brothers from Quebec involved in a hunting accident early Thursday morning remained in intensive care at a Canadian hospital Friday night. Both brothers might face charges from the shooting, said V. Paul Reynolds, spokesman for the Department of… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — At least one member of the Somerset County Budget Committee criticized Somerset County commissioners Thursday night for asking for $25,000 to repair the jail roof when a $5,000 survey of jail needs was never completed. “This isn’t the only time we have requested… Read More
It turns out Einstein was right again. Scientists believe they have confirmed his 1915 Theory of General Relativity, which predicted that gravity from large objects can disrupt the time-space continuum, and perhaps bring time to a standstill. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More