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    EAST MILLINOCKET – Schenck outscored Dexter 23-11 in the fourth quarter as the Wolverines won 51-38 Saturday in girls high school basketball action. Rachel Titus scored 19 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for Schenck. Erin Johnston added 14 points. Erica Franck hauled down 13 rebounds. Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT – Billy Keyte scored 12 points to help get his visiting Dexter Tigers a 43-39 boys basketball win over Foxcroft Academy in this matchup of traditional rivals Saturday afternoon. The low-scoring affair was affected by Dexter’s 1-3-1 zone defense and poor shooting by Foxcroft… Read More
    At Fort Fairfield, Lucas Ritchie scored 24 points to lead the unbeaten Shiretowners to their sixth win of the season. Andy Guy and Shane Lee scored 21 and 17 points, respectively, and the Shiretowners hit 15 of 16 free throws in the fourth quarter to… Read More
    BUCKSPORT – Scott Smith hit four 3-pointers en route to scoring 21 points and Chris Gray scored 23 points to power Hermon to a 73-68 overtime boys basketball over Bucksport Saturday afternoon. It was Hermon’s third overtime victory in its last three games. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
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    A most wonderful gift has been given six area communities this holiday season and, as soon as they are actually made and delivered, residents of Brewer, Bucksport, Dover-Foxcroft, Hermon, Lincoln and Presque Isle can sleep a little easier knowing their fire departments all possess at least one thermal-imaging… Read More
    The best thing about an advisory panel’s plan to overhaul Maine’s prison system is that it will serve as an example of how not to do it next time. We say next time because there must be one. This $160 million turkey just won’t fly. Read More
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    Of all the enduring rumors at the American University in Bulgaria, the one about Central Maine Power Co. is the most curious, not only because it concerns a Maine business but because CMP readily admits that it is true — at least a small portion of it. Read More
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    Now that Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen has been properly honored by having a school named after him, Bangor residents should thank some of their neighbors for making it happen. Their work sets a positive example for the entire city. The Bangor School Committee’s… Read More
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    While reading my paper (on Dec. 16), I noticed an article titled, “Ernie doll making big profits on resale.” When will people realize that toys are made to make children happy, not made consumers greedy? About 10 years ago it was the Cabbage Patch craze. Read More
    I read with interest the the column, “Medicine not to be bought, sold” (BDN, Dec. 16), by Dr. Erik Steele. He is correct and the Norumbega system is set up and planned so patients come in every six months — needed or not — to have this or… Read More
    While the article on restoratice justice (BDN, Dec. 13-14) was a well-written treatment of the subject, it was misleading in its suggestion that the concept is “new.” To the contrary, the idea of restorative justice is actually an ancient one, having arisen in numerous indigenous societies throughout the… Read More
    (On Dec. 15), I read in your newspaper a film review by a critic who will forever be tainted in my eyes as someone who doesn’t have a clue about films. The film was “Scream 2” and the critic was Jessica Lee. The concept of… Read More
    In regard to the letter, “Plow complaint” (BDN, Dec. 15): I can’t believe and her complaints. As a retired snowplow driver, I would like to clue her in on a few things. Most of our drivers for the Department of Transportation are the best in… Read More
    BANGOR — The City Council may feel like a real estate company tonight when it comes time to act on a half-dozen George Tsoulas properties. Three are due to be taken by the city on matured tax liens, and three others are set to be… Read More
    A 17-year-old motorist led a Penobscot County sheriff’s deputy on a high-speed chase through sections of Stetson, Newport and Corinna late Friday night. Speeds averaged 90 to 95 mph along Route 222, reported Deputy William Birch. The deputy said he curtailed the pursuit after seven… Read More
    When Annie Paradise applied for a teaching job at the American University in Bulgaria, she was warned that it would be hard to get fresh vegetables in the winter, that hot water would sometimes be scarce and that there wasn’t a McDonald’s nearby. Big deal,… Read More
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    Editor’s Note: NEWS education reporter Susan Young and editorial page editor Todd Benoit spent the last week in November at the American University in Bulgaria, which was founded by the University of Maine six years ago. This is the second of two stories on the Bulgarian campus’ troubled… Read More
    WATERVILLE — Waterville voters defeated a referendum Friday to sell city-owned land at Head of Falls on the Kennebec River by a mere 11 votes and the proposed developer of the property vowed to leave Waterville and look for land elsewhere. Less than 3,000 of… Read More
    HOULTON — All Eileen Ivey has to do to get from her residence to her business is go from one side of the house to the other. Since they share the same building, she thought trash from her family and business could share the same trash collector. Not… Read More
    CASTINE — No English or history majors for these graduates. Instead, Maine Maritime Academy graduates walked off the stage Saturday night with diplomas in heady, polysyllabic subjects like power engineering technology and marine systems engineering as hundreds of friends and family members whooped and applauded. Read More
    LEWISTON — It’s been almost a week since three Lewiston-area teen-agers spent an unscheduled night in the Mahoosuc Mountains, but the experience remains more than a distant memory. Evan Hutchinson, 18, of Auburn still is hospitalized with severe frostbite on his right foot. Doctors hope… Read More
    The Santa’s Helper Fund’s $35,000 goal is within sight and can be achieved over the next few days if everyone does a little to help. We’re hoping the final report at the beginning of 1998 shows that we met our goal. Remember, “Think 35!” Recent… Read More
    BARING — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold a cross-country ski tour 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Jan. 3, at Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters, Charlotte Road. The guided ski tour will show off the refuge in winter to those who have their own equipment… Read More
    BARING — Bob Peyton, formerly of Riverdale, N.D., where he was a fisheries biologist at Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery, is the new deputy refuge manager for Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge. Peyton holds a bachelor’s degree in wildlife and fisheries management from New Mexico State… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Efforts to lower the alcohol limit for young adults who drink and drive have stalled. The Task Force on Young Drivers, a group set up by Secretary of State Dan Gwadosky, had considered recommending a .04 limit for adults 21 to 24 because… Read More
    BANGOR — This weekend in Bangor, as everywhere, almost everyone shopped, but choices about where to do it led to two different worlds. Downtown, the job of filling stockings looked like fun. Shoppers may have been stressed, but they hid it well. There was time… Read More