High school EASTERN B BOYS LEAGUE AWARDS First team All-Conference: Nate Laita, Foxcroft; Corey Streams, Stearns; Aaron Gray, MDI; Mike Seltzer, Ellsworth; Nick Johnston, Ellsworth googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
For as long as they can remember — at least since they were as young as 5, maybe 6 years old — the Shorey brothers spent the better part of the day wrestling. Wrestling around on the bed, the floor, the grass, the dirt… whatever… Read More
ORONO – The University of Maine Black Bears received a goal from an unexpected source to end their Alfond Arena doldrums Friday night. Freshman defenseman Adam Tate’s first collegiate goal, coming in his 25th game, broke a 1-1 tie in the second period and sent… Read More
MAINE vs. AMHERST Time, site: 4 p.m., Saturday, Bouchard Arena, Brewer 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] googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BANGOR – For Lucas Ritchie, it was worth the long wait. After dreaming about playing in the tournament since he and fellow senior starter Andy Guy were fifth graders, Ritchie made it a reality in a big way. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
BANGOR – After all of the fuss, the floor is still dead. At least that’s what two members of the Orono girls basketball team said after the Red Riots beat Foxcroft Academy 55-32 in the opening game of the Eastern Maine Class B basketball tournament… Read More
Word is that, until recently, the wrath of Ol’ Man Winter reduced ice fishing pressure significantly on many salmonid strongholds. But now that road conditions have improved and snow cover on fishing grounds has settled, particularly in northern areas, angler activity has increased. And for the most part,… Read More
MAINE women vs. NORTHEASTERN Time, site: Saturday, 1 p.m.; Cabot Gym, Brookline, Mass. 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… Read More
AUGUSTA – Amy Bickford scored 18 points as No. 5 Erskine upset No. 4 Leavitt of Turner 52-49 in overtime in a Western Maine Class B girls basketball quarterfinal at the Augusta Civic Center Friday night. Nicole Brann added 11 points for the winners, who… Read More
AUGUSTA – Amy Bickford scored 18 points as No. 5 Erskine upset No. 4 Leavitt of Turner 52-49 in overtime in a Western Maine Class B girls basketball quarterfinal at the Augusta Civic Center Friday night. Nicole Brann added 11 points for the winners, who… Read More
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Brewer High School football coach Don Farnham has resigned to devote more time to his family’s expanding business. The family ice business, Getchell Brothers, has recently opened a plant in Sanford, leaving Farnham with less time – and the prospect of having to move to… Read More
In a story in Wednesday’s newspaper, a representative of the Limestone outfit that made the Bangor Auditorium’s new basketball floor explained the advantage of underlying the floor’s stringers with foam. It creates a better bounce, he told a BDN reporter. “No dead spots,” he said. Read More
Three companies want to join the state in building and operating a new cargo terminal at Mack Point in Searsport; only one will be chosen. How the Department of Transportation answers the “who” question is important, but just as crucial is the “how.” Two of… Read More
Doris Gray, formerly of Dixmont and Hermon, will celebrate her 90th birthday with an open house from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, at Sebasticook Valley Nursing Home, Leighton Street, Pittsfield 04967. She would appreciate hearing from old friends. For many years, she was a church treasurer… Read More
Like the attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust America into World War II, the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana sparked a string of events that dramatically altered our history and our place on the world’s stage. The explosion on that tranquil February evening… Read More
WASHINGTON — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, troubled by declining fisheries and rampant coastal development, is beginning a new effort to identify the problems that afflict America’s shoreline and marine ecosystems. “There is an urgent need to nail down the causes and extent of… Read More
TREMONT — Two days before New Year’s Eve a deputy from the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department cruised up Kelley Town Road distributing fliers to residents. The notices were simple. Under the headline “Community Notification of A Registered Sex Offender,” appeared Thomas Varnum’s police mug shot, physical description and… Read More
BANGOR — As the trident submarine USS Maine moves silently through the ocean’s depths, it carries 165 crewmen, 24 ballistic missiles — and a wealth of historical artifacts. “Our ship is almost a museum,” said Chief of the Boat Jeff Nihiser. “Everywhere I go, I… Read More
Planning to have sex this Valentine’s Day? If the answer is yes, how would you like to have BETTER sex? googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i… Read More
The past three years have been a period of starting over for Rex Fowler. For 24 years, Fowler was half of the popular folk duo Aztec Two-Step. Then, at the end of 1994, he and Neal Shulman called it quits. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
In an odd twist of art imitating life, ABC has begun production on “Stephen King’s Storm of the Century,” an ambitious, original, motion picture epic written especially for television by the best-selling and award-winning author. Scheduled to air as a six-hour miniseries on ABC next season, the event… Read More
PORTLAND — Actress Kirstie Alley may soon be deconstructing her bank account. The financial worth of the star of Woody Allen’s “Deconstructing Harry” and television’s “Veronica’s Closet” is sure to come into play now that the Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in favor of… Read More
MILLINOCKET — Great Northern Paper Co. President Donald G. McNeil confirmed Friday that he would take a two-month leave of absence beginning Monday to organize an effort to buy the Millinocket mill from its corporate parent, Bowater Inc. McNeil, who took the helm as company… Read More
Of course a federal judge was bound to decide that Casey Martin should be able to ride a cart while competing on the Professional Golf Association tour. Of course the Americans with Disabilites Act must supercede the PGA’s sweat-stained rulebook. It was a gimme. Martin… Read More
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Reducing property taxes is the highest priority for Maine citizens. Contrary to the opinion of state Sen. Peter Mills (BDN, Feb. 11), there is a proposal on the table right now that would achieve meaningful tax relief for Maine property taxpayers. That proposal is the homstead exemption. The… Read More
PORTLAND — The sea stories that gave rise to the Hollywood blockbusters “Amistad” and “Titanic” have their rightful places in Lincoln P. Paine’s new book. But the 1839 slave ship mutiny and the luxury liner’s deadly encounter with an iceberg in 1912 are just two… Read More
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Belfast — A blessing of the animals at the Humane Society of Knox County Shelter will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14. Owners are to take their pets to the shelter in crates or on leads. Car service will be provided for large pets. Read More
ELEVEN SECONDS A Story of Tragedy, Courage, and Triumph, by Travis Roy with E.M. Swift, Warner Books, 1998, 226 pages, $20. The book “Eleven Seconds” by Yarmouth’s Travis Roy with Sports Illustrated writer E.M. Swift is a must read for anyone with compassion. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
Valentine’s Day marks the worldwide exchange of the most common flower symbolic of love, the rose. While roses for centuries have been the silent, but impressive, messenger of love, it is not the only flower related to the emotion. For ages, common garden flowers have… Read More
The Rev. Jonathan Falk stood on a Boston sidewalk shivering in his shirtsleeves last week. He had been waiting to catch a bus to Bangor from South Station when a bomb threat emptied the building. Just 24 hours before he had been standing in the bright Ugandan sunshine… Read More
SOME JEWELS OF MAINE: JEWISH MAINE PIONEERS, by Celia C. Risen, Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc., Pittsburgh, 178 pages, paperback, $14. “Some Jewels of Maine: Jewish Maine Pioneers” is Celia Risen’s second book. Her first, published in 1988, is titled “Yankee Fiddler: A Man Called Suss.”… Read More
THE BAXTERS OF MAINE, Down East Visionaries, by Neil Rolde, Tilbury House Publishers, softcover, 340 pages, $14.95. When it came to his magnificent obsession — the securing of Mount Katahdin as the centerpiece of an envisoned wilderness park for the people of Maine — Percival… Read More
In Greek mythology, Calliope was the most important of the nine muses and the patron of epic poetry. Her son Linus the musician was believed to be the inventor of melody and rhythm. During these modern times, Kalliope is a six-member band based in Washington County that blends… Read More
AUGUSTA — Nearly all of the dozens of speakers who testified before the Legislature’s Natural Resources Committee on Friday said Maine should continue its successful program requiring businesses using toxic chemicals to cut their emissions and hazardous wastes. Even most of the opponents of proposed… Read More
WILTON — The owner of the closing Bass shoe company has agreed to transfer the plant back to the Wilton community, Sen. Olympia Snowe announced Friday. The G.H. Bass & Co. is expected to close its doors this summer, leaving 350 people without work. Instead… Read More
HARTLAND — Massage parlors and tattoo shops will be tightly regulated in Hartland if voters approve a new ordinance at a special town meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17. The meeting was scheduled to clean up leftover business from 1997, according to Town Manager… Read More
AUGUSTA — Petitions bearing about 3,200 signatures reached Portland City Hall, and a group trying to legalize medicinal use of marijuana was about 2,400 signatures short for a Feb. 2 deadline to get the question on the November ballot. A Kennebec County Superior Court judge… Read More
LAMOINE — Lamoine Republicans will hold a caucus at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Lamoine Town Hall. The group will elect delegates and alternates to the 1998 Republican State Convention held May 29 and 30 at the Augusta Civic Center. Organization of the… Read More
OLD TOWN — The Old Town Public Library will be closed to the public beginning Monday, Feb. 16, while roof and interior damage from the recent ice storm is being repaired. Librarian Valerie Osborne said the library will reopen no later than Monday, March 2. Read More
NEWPORT — Arthur Ellingwood’s term as Newport town manager soon will come to an end. Ellingwood has been on sick leave since the summer of 1997 when he was stricken with a rare illness. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
HOULTON — Cleanup crews were back at work Friday, after rain Thursday all but stopped efforts to clean up a 10,000-gallon diesel oil spill at the Irving Oil Co. bulk plant. Between 1,200 and 1,500 gallons of the fuel entered the town’s sewer system through… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Sebasticook Valley Hospital will provide free blood pressure screenings at Pittsfield and Corinna in March. The first screening will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 3, at Peoples Heritage Bank, Pittsfield. The second will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Read More
BUCKSPORT — The Bucksport Republican Committee will hold a caucus at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the municipal building, Main Street. Republican voters will elect delegates and alternates to represent Bucksport at the 1998 state convention May 29 and 30 at the Augusta Civic… Read More
LIMESTONE — The Bucksport agency running the Loring Job Corps Center has been awarded a contract to operate the facility for a third year, the regional director for the federal Job Corps program said Friday. But Training and Development Corp. could have lost the contract,… Read More
BANGOR — The two men accused of robbing a downtown branch of Bangor Savings Bank in a midday crime that shocked the city pleaded not guilty Friday to armed bank robbery and conspiracy charges. Escorted to U.S. District Court in handcuffs, Michael Kenneth Morgenstern, 20,… Read More
I am a little dismayed about the article in your Feb. 5 edition that the governor of the board of directors did not list Bangor for a potential site for the Maine Criminal Justice Academy. What about the former location of the University of Maine… Read More
Thank you for your Feb. 5 cartoon and editorial, “Surplus mania,” that exposed the scam of our national politicians — of both parties — ripping off the Social Security trust fund to cover other spending. I find few bright spots for our future when the American people are… Read More
My wife and I have to see doctors in Bangor two or three times a month. We always look both ways at crossroads even if the light is in our favor to be on the safe side. If we make a mistake or we don’t fly when the… Read More
Last May, while attending a commencement luncheon at the University of Maine, my partner Robin and I were seated at a table with three of the state legislators who had just passed the gay rights bill. There was a glow of self-satisfaction around them. By passing a law… Read More
Why didn’t the state ask for a waiver or reduction of the state share to 10 percent for the storm-related emergency equipment as suggested by Rep. Tom Allen? As for the $1 million estimated state cost as stated by Human Services Commissioner Kevin Concannon; state… Read More
Despair not, Maine Democrats. Sure, it’s tough picking up the paper every morning to read stories portraying the most successful Democratic president since Franklin Roosevelt as the mayor of Sodom and Gomorrah. And, God knows, a lot of you are mad at the White House… Read More
George Sincerbeaux, principal at Penquis Valley High School, has been named chairman of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges visiting committee, which will evaluate Raymond High School in Raymond, N.H., March 22-25. The association is a voluntary organization of more than 1,700 public… Read More
MADAWASKA — Madawaska’s second-largest employer is working to refinance the business after a disastrous year caused the company to lose half of its net worth. Northern Trading Co., a contract manufacturer and packager of cosmetics with a 35-year history in Madawaska, is waiting for word… Read More
BANGOR — The Republican City Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16, at Bair’s Driving School, Washington Street. Planning for the coming year will be done. Contact Arvilla Verceles at 945-5138 for information. Read More
BANGOR — Faster ambulance response times have resulted from the Bangor Fire Department moving two of three ambulance-rescue units to fire stations on Hogan and Griffin roads, according to the Fire Department. “We’ve only had the ambulances at the outside stations since mid-November and already… Read More
BANGOR — Free and anonymous eating disorders screenings will be held to mark National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Feb. 23-28, at Acadia Hospital and the University of Maine. Acadia is offering the program at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. Preregistration is necessary, so call the… Read More
PORTLAND — Don’t go away. We want you to stay in Maine. That was the message shared by hundreds of minority students, business owners and community leaders who gathered in Portland last week at the third annual conference of ALANA, an organization that works to… Read More
BANGOR — The competition to link homes and businesses to a proposed natural gas pipeline heated up Friday with the unveiling of Central Maine Power Co.’s plans for a Bangor gas distribution system. CMP is going head-to-head with Bangor Hydro-Electric Co., which already has a… Read More
GREENVILLE — Warden Sgt. Tom Ward shifted his weight from one foot to the other, trying to keep warm as he waited for snowmobilers along the interconnecting trail system. Bright sunshine produced little heat to offset the numbing cold on this particular Sunday in January. Read More
Linda Morin, director of social services at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth for the past 22 years, has received her profession’s highest award — Maine’s 1997 Health Care Social Work Administrator of the Year award. The Maine chapter of the Society for Social Work Administrators in Health… Read More
Kindergarten registration for the 1998-99 school year is being held at the following schools. State law requires that a child must be 5 years old on or before Oct. 15 in order to enter kindergarten in the fall of 1998. Maine law also requires that… Read More
Belfast District Court Driving to endanger: Warren H. Ard, 18, Liberty, six months in jail, all but 15 days suspended, one year probation, license suspended 120 days; Jason Cunningham, 21, Freedom, $500, two days in jail, license suspended 30 days. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
CALAIS — The city needs an improved water source for its municipal water system, and Thursday night city councilors considered options that included buying water from neighboring Baileyville or developing the city’s own water source at the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge. Calais now gets its… Read More
Bangor police arrived at the Hammond-Ohio Street Variety store Thursday night to find two disheveled clerks outside the store and a would-be shoplifter inside. “This one’s a feisty one,” a clerk told Officer Brian Nichols, referring to the man inside. When police arrived, Nichols said… Read More
HODGDON — School boards in two districts this week unanimously voted to extend contracts for administrators. In SAD 70 in Hodgdon, the contracts of Steve Fitzpatrick, principal at Hodgdon High School; Ken Goodale, principal at the elementary school; and Scott Richardson, director of special services,… Read More
BANGOR — Call it nudity. Call it adult entertainment. By any name, the City Council has decided to consider ordinances on the topic, and will do so during the community and economic development meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall. The measures up for… Read More
BANGOR — For weeks, it looked as though there would be only one candidate for the special City Council election April 14. Gerry G.M. Palmer Jr., who came in fourth in last November’s council election, had taken out nomination papers early and returned them several… Read More
Anyone looking for a success story about young people helping themselves need search no farther than Dexter, where its Totally Teens Club is going strong. Thanks to their continued interest, the help of a committed adult advisory board, and support of the town and its… Read More