OLD TOWN – As far as Matt Darres catches go, the leaping fourth-and-10, grab-and-carry with 2:30 to go in Saturday’s LTC Class B championship game was a bit routine. After all, the Belfast junior didn’t have to sprawl headlong across the Victory Field snow to… Read More
OLD TOWN – When it came to the ground game, Old Town halfbacks Peter Baker and Alger Yanush got most of the attention in Saturday’s Eastern Maine Class B title game between the Indians and defending champion Belfast. It was Lions tailback Tim Parenteau who… Read More
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PRESQUE ISLE – The University of Maine-Presque Isle won the championship game of the two-day Star City Shootout, beating the University of Maine-Machias 95-81 Sunday. In the consolation game, Thomas College of Waterville defeated Nova Scotia Agricultural College 95-81. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Maine Central Institute of Pittsfield basketball forward John Oliver has signed a National Letter of Intent with the University of West Virginia, the school has announced. The 6-foot-9, 230 pound Oliver averaged 16 points and 11 rebounds per game as a senior… Read More
ORONO – Intense cannot aptly describe the Maine hockey team’s 6-4 win over Merrimack Saturday, the night after the Bears fell 5-4. You had Maine sophomore Aaron Boone opening the scoring on the first shift of his first game this year, a veteran’s men tal… Read More
ORONO – The University of Maine women’s hockey team made its varsity debut here Saturday afternoon and it was a pair of women who played a lot of their pre-college hockey at the Alfond Arena who stole the show. Sophomore center Alison Lorenz of Brewer… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – The Husson College Braves placed four players in double figures to defeat the University of Maine-Presque Isle 72-58 in women’s basketball action to win the Star City Shootout. Husson advanced to the championship by beating the University of Maine at Machias on… Read More
BROOKLINE, Mass. – Scrambling quarterback Jim Murphy completed a 41-yard touchdown pass to wideout Dave Klemic on the final play of the game Saturday as Northeastern pulled out a 23-17 football victory against Maine at Parsons Field. Klemic got open when Black Bears cornerback Eric… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – Despite the snow, the “Ponies Express” delivered Saturday – via air mail. The top-seeded Foxcroft Academy Ponies used a big-play passing game to beat No. 2 Bucksport 26-7 on frigid, but playable, Oakes Field Saturday afternoon. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
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College AT GORHAM, 3.1 miles NCAA Div. III New England Regional Middlebury women 80, Williams 91, Bates 139, Springfield 174, Trinity 179, Brandeis 204, Colby 211, Amherst 228, USM 246, Bowdoin 275, Tufts 297, Coast Guard 308, Wellesley 312, Smith 436, Wheaton 448, Wesleyan 460,… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Lucky 7 Lanes of Brockton, Mass. defeated Leda Lanes of Nashua, N.H. 1,806-1,733 Saturday afternoon to capture the 13th World Candlepin Team Tournament. Local bowler Chip Carson of Bangor bowled a three-game total of 362 to help Lucky 7 to the… Read More
ORONO – Maybe they’re biased, but the folks who sponsor the Rossiyanka basketball team have no qualms calling national team member Yelena Nikopolskaya “Russia’s best player.” Sunday afternoon, for the first seven minutes of the second half, Klara Danes and the University of Maine defense… Read More
BLUE HILL — Hancock County Home Care has gained accreditation from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. “We made a significant investment in quality on a day-to-day basis from the top down,” according to Pat Wallstrom, Hancock County Home Care director. “We seek… Read More
SEDGWICK — A fire Saturday, which may have started in a stack of wood near a wood stove, gutted a small home on Route 175 in Sargentville. A pet cat died in the fire. Fire Chief Bruce Grindal said Sunday night that just before 2… Read More
CONCORD, N.H. — A teen-ager trying to become an Eagle Scout will get the vote of many poor families this Thanksgiving. Christian Fisher of Concord raised the money to move 50,000 pounds of potatoes from Maine to New Hampshire by soliciting donations from local businesses,… Read More
BAR HARBOR — The College of the Atlantic has received a $10,000 grant from the King and Jean Cummings Charitable Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to support the Cummings Scholarship Fund, established in 1993. The grant will support Maine students, particularly from the western mountain area, who… Read More
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LEVANT — Quick action Saturday on the part of a Levant man helped prevent a small fire on the Robichaud Road from burning out of control. The fire at a mobile home occupied by Frank Cook and Shannon Bounds began about 1 p.m. in a… Read More
MARS HILL — The official opening of a locally owned $14 million potato processing facility, Naturally Potatoes, was held Saturday morning. Naturally Potatoes, called “the dream of local potato growers” by one official, processes diced, scalloped, french fry and round potatoes. Within a year, the… Read More
RAYMOND — Bill Coppersmith says the traffic in his fish market here has never been so intense, “what with visits by curious folks and the television and newspapers.” Coppersmith, a 20-year veteran of lobster fishing off Casco Bay, looked over at his holding tanks and… Read More
He may not sell as well as Stephen King, but his fans are just as enthusiastic. They know when the next book is due out before clerks in bookstores do. They argue about which plot works best, which character is most engaging and whether Cluny and his rat… Read More
MOULTONBORO, N.H. — The environmental movement has accomplished what it was created to do, and now it has to find a new role for itself, says American Skiing Co. Chairman Leslie Otten. Speaking Saturday at a meeting of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors… Read More
Here’s what you don’t want to do at a performance of klezmer music: sit. This is music for working, for dancing, for weddings and celebrations and lamentations. But not for red-carpeted concert halls where expressive movements are limited to an enthusiastic tap of the toe. Read More
Hermon High School First quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Neha Chaturvedi and Edit Szasz; honors: Michelle Bosse, Kathleen Calligan, Danika Candage, Kathryn Capetta, Ronald Charette, Laurie Chute, Jennifer Curtis, Sarah DeBoe, Brad Dobbins, Kiera Dorr, Matt Fogg, Michael Guthrie, Danielle Guyot, Meghann Hitchings, Jody… Read More
Those expecting swift and decisive action by the U.S. Department of Education on the financial aid scandal at Maine State Academy of Hair Design should not feel disappointment. They just need a clock that ticks in glacial time. Six years after DoE uncovered student loan… Read More
Whether you’re planning to sun on the shores of Maui or ski on the slopes of Zermat, it’s wise to be an informed travel shopper. To help you avoid unpleasant and costly surprises, Northeast COMBAT in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission offers these tips. Read More
The discussions between Bangor City Council and the Maine School for the Arts have arrived at the cul-de-sac of negotiating stages — they have gone as far as possible and now are going in circles. The city, properly, doesn’t want to commit money to the project to turn… Read More
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“Boogie Nights,” Bangor Cinemas, rated R (explicit sex, drug use, language, nudity and violence). Mainstream critics want to tell you that Paul Thomas Anderson’s film about the late 1970s and early ’80s adult film industry is one of the year’s best. They insist that it… Read More
WATERVILLE — Patrolman Michael Grizkewitsch walked through the door of a third-floor apartment in Waterville Friday morning and came upon an astounding scene. A woman in her mid-20s lay on a mattress on the living room floor, screaming and panting as she tried to deliver… Read More
LUBEC — Anyone who knew Hilda Bangs was not surprised that she left a hefty sum of money to the Lubec Memorial Library in her will. Members of the board of trustees will meet today to talk about the $200,000 bequest that will move the current library out… Read More
The small town of Mars Hill is very fortunate and blessed to have such a nice pharmacy owned by two brothers, Patrick and Jeffrey Robinson, who are pharmacists. They will soon be moving into their new building. They are very well-liked and respected; their wives are also pharmacy… Read More
In 1776 a group of very important men gathered and wrote what would become our Declaration of Independence. Being Christians, albeit a few deists (agnostics of sorts), it is of no great surprise that many of their Christian values were reflected in that document, however, I doubt that… Read More
I had an interesting experience recently. I had applied to be a residential ratepayer intervenor at the Maine Public Utilities Commision in the 97-580 PUC v. CMP electricity deregulation case. I fulfilled all the requirements by law to be an intervenor. And I am an experienced intervenor. Read More
An appeal to readers of the Bangor Daily News: Did you know that Maine’s community rating law does not protect seniors above the age of 65 at all when it comes to retaining individual health insurance? It allows a 560 percent premium increase to $1,500… Read More
A 55-year-old wheelchari-confined man possibly died from self-inflicted wounds. Naturally, these three gunshot wounds inflicted by police had nothing to do with his death. An elderly woman was struck broadside. A state tropper was breaking the posted speed limit but it wasn’t his fault; she… Read More
Like Joan McMurray (“Ban aerial spraying,” BDN letter, Nov. 5), I am also sick and tired of being sick and tired, but I don’t know of any blueberries close to me. Yet I spent 17 July days in bed, nauseated, vomiting, with debilitating diarrhea, cramping, sweating terribly and… Read More
Reading “Red Star Over China” and “The Long March” years ago, I somehow rooted for Mao and his army and its very survival against the Kuomintang and the corrupt Chiang Kai-shek. Seeing the movie “Seven Years in Tibet” has given me a radically different perspective:… Read More
ROCKLAND — City Councilor Patrick Reilley will go on trial Wednesday in Knox County Superior Court on charges of drunken driving and using improper influence. The jury trial could raise the possibility of Reilley’s removal from the council and a special election, if he is convicted. Read More
GRAND ISLE — What’s in a name? For some 200 residents of the village of Lille in northern Aroostook County, it’s their identity, their culture, their heritage. The village, located on the St. John River within the town of Grand Isle’s 16 square miles, has… Read More
BANGOR — Twelve-year-old Justin Vroom eyed the prized red canoe in the center of the gym floor, bit his lower lip and let his paper airplane fly. The plane glided and dipped and finally landed in the canoe and Vroom walked away with another chance… Read More
BANGOR — The spirit was alive Sunday among Maine’s Catholic youths who converged on Bangor for their first statewide gathering since 1990. An estimated 1,200 youngsters in grades six through nine and their adult leaders took part in the daylong event, which featured worship, workshops,… Read More
J.D. Irving Ltd. has run into a feisty adversary in the woods of Nova Scotia: a tiny order of Catholic monks battling to prevent the buzz of chain saws from disrupting their silent meditation. Several times a week, members of the order rise by 3… Read More
Bangor police are investigating an attempted armed robbery at Motel 6 Sunday evening. Shortly before 7 p.m., a clerk at the Hammond Street motel reported to police that a man had tried to rob her and that he had displayed a handgun, police reported. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BANGOR — Members of Abundant Life Church hope to break ground in a few weeks for their new building on outer Broadway. Plans concerning location and site development will be up for approval Tuesday when the planning board meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall. Read More
I am writing regarding the article about the teens convicted of only misdemeanors in the Fairfield, Iowa, cat slayings. I have been following the case since the attack first happened and I am outraged by the decision. What those boys did was not merely “a stupid childish mistake,”… Read More
SEARSPORT — For many Mainers, the weekend snowfall was a grim reminder of what’s ahead. But for Wendy Smith, it was a good omen as she set out on a fund-raising dog-sled trek bound for Alaska. Smith of Hereford, England, was rooted on by about… Read More
WASHINGTON — About $2 million has been included in a federal appropriations bill for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Portland, according to U.S. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe. The money is part of funding for the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor and Health and Human Services. Read More
WISCASSET — The day local taxpayers dreaded is fast approaching. Property taxes are going to rise as a result of the Maine Yankee shutdown. Almost 2,000 properties are expected to be reassessed over the next year as the town struggles to make up tax revenue… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Jim Richmond of Pittsfield sat in the back of the room recently at a gathering of hundreds of Maine dairy farmers in Waterville. When Rep. John Baldacci told the farmers that the only bright light he has seen in the Maine dairy business is the growth… Read More
BANGOR — Shoppers said to heck with tradition over the weekend as they flocked to the newly renovated Bangor Mall for a jump start on the holiday shopping season. “I don’t wait until the day after Thanksgiving to begin shopping,” said Doreen Vaillancourt of Old… Read More
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and John Breaux of Louisiana have introduced the Harmful Algal Bloom Research and Control Act of 1997 authorizing increased funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and providing a “focused and appropriate” response to harmful algal blooms in the United States. Read More
BANGOR — U.S. Sen. Susan M. Collins will speak at the annual meeting of the Eastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Bangor Banquet and Conference Center, Hogan Road. Collins will speak about the importance of volunteering and provide an update… Read More
HAMPDEN — The Arthritis Foundation Aquatic Program will begin its six-week course Monday. The recreational program, conducted by Kathy Strout in the Lura E. Hoit Memorial Pool in Hampden, is designed to teach participants exercises that — with the aid of the water’s buoyance and… Read More
PORTLAND — Maine’s largest primary-care medical practice has been sold to a Nashville, Tenn.-based firm, amid questions about whether the bottom line will become an overriding issue in providing medical care in the state. UniPhy HealthCare, an investor-backed management firm, plans to spend at least… Read More
BOONSBORO, Md. — Benton Mackaye envisioned the Appalachian Trail in 1921 as a solitary experience, a footpath “wide enough for a fat man to go through and no more.” The Massachusetts forester who first proposed the trail never dreamed of the JFK 50 Ultramarathon, an… Read More
LIMESTONE — The experiences of the former Loring and Pease Air Force bases are expected to be crucial as the Pentagon argues for more base closings. Despite resistance from Congress, Defense Secretary William Cohen last week called for two more rounds of military base closings,… Read More
AUGUSTA — Tom Vallee never met the man whose life he may save, but that didn’t stop him from letting doctors extract 3 pints of marrow from his pelvic bone. “A lot of people thought I was crazy,” Vallee said after returning from the hospital… Read More
PORTLAND — Podiatrists throughout Maine will offer free foot screenings during National Diabetes Month in November. Sponsor of the clinics is the Foot Health Foundation of America. Diabetes symptoms may be detected during foot examinations, and members of the APMA will search for warning signs. Read More
CLAREMONT, N.H. — The Flying Yankee, a steam-powered train that logged almost 3 million miles before being retired in 1957, is on the road to restoration. For 22 years, the Flying Yankee rode the rails from Bangor to Boston. Since she was retired, she has… Read More