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
    College AT WORCESTER, Mass. Maine men 134, Holy Cross 107 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
    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
    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
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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
    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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    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
    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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    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
    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
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    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
    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
    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
    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