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At a time when the high school basketball tournament usually takes over the Maine sports scene, two snowmobile racing events are grabbing their share of the spotlight. This weekend, Skowhegan and Caribou will be hosting snowmobile racing at the Skowhegan State Fairgrounds and Spud Speedway,… Read More
BOSTON – They can play, but they can’t stay. For years, that’s how critics have said professional sports teams treat blacks who want to run teams, not just run for them. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
The second-seeded St. Joseph’s College Monks, along with University of Maine-Farmington and the University of New England, advanced to the semifinals of the Maine Athletic Conference tournament Tuesday. The semifinal games will be played Sunday at the Augusta Civic Center. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
ORONO – The John Bapst hockey team came into its Eastern Maine Class B semifinal game against Winslow Tuesday night as a mighty underdog. But before the Crusaders of Bangor fell 8-5 to the two-time defending state champion Raiders, they made their Class B game… Read More
High school NESN girls poll 1. Seymour, Conn., 20-0, 2. Norwood, Mass., 20-0, 3. Andover, Mass., 19-1, 4. Essex, Ver., 24-0, 5. Agawam, Mass., 19-1, 6. Minnechaug Regional, Mass., 18-2, 7. Cony, Maine, 18-0, 8. LaSalle, R.I., 17-1, 9. Fairfield, Conn., 19-1, 10. Nashua, N.H.,… Read More
While this wildlife photographer has glided through his share of miles on a snowmobile, both as operator and as passenger, the attraction that so many find in this easiest of ways to get out and enjoy the winter has never made itself very apparent. Oh sure, it’s obvious… Read More
Katie Clark, whose on-court intensity has been missed by the University of Maine women’s basketball team of late, will be sidelined the rest of the season. Clark, a sophomore from Bangor, is recuperating after undergoing surgery last week in Boston to repair a degenerative bone… Read More
CASTINE – Maine Maritime Academy athletic director William Mottola has announced that the college’s intercollegiate golf program will move from club to varsity status in the fall of 1998. Beginning in September, Maine Maritime will compete as a member of the Maine Athletic Conference. Read More
Gerry Duffy of Hermon, Vinal “Red” Russell of Fort Fairfield, and Charles “Chick” Norton of Eastport will be among the 11 inductees to the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, July 12. The induction ceremony and banquet will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the… Read More
ORONO – The Orono High School Riots were being frustrated by the Presque Isle High School Wildcats and their sophomore goalie, Ted Wright. But within eight seconds, the frustrations were gone. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
CHICAGO — Three widely used antidepressants — Paxil, Zoloft and Luvox — do not appear to cause birth defects, a study found. The findings, based on data from nine medical centers in the United States and Canada, agree with research in animals and with previous… Read More
AUGUSTA — “The government is solely to blame for failure to meet the constitutional deadline. The petitioners are blameless,” Superior Court Justice Donald Alexander wrote in a decision Tuesday, ordering the secretary of state to accept and review petitions on the question of medical use of marijuana. Read More
CAMDEN — A local nursing home has been cited for failing to prevent an elderly patient from wandering off the grounds where he was killed by a car. Investigators from the Department of Human Services determined that Windward Gardens insuffiently monitored the activities of assisted… Read More
If you followed the news in the last few months about the feud between the lobstermen of Monhegan Island and Friendship, you probably were expecting the seas to one day erupt in violence. It certainly crossed my mind a few times, considering the tension that… Read More
WELLS — The Priscilla Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star is going the way of many social organizations with aging members — it’s closing its doors. The Priscilla Chapter is merging with the Madonna Chapter in West Kennebunk to give its 18 active… Read More
AUGUSTA — The centerpieces of contrasting legislative agendas for Gov. Angus King and House Speaker Elizabeth Mitchell went before separate committees Tuesday. The independent governor is pushing for income and property tax breaks worth more than $200 to the the average family, while the House… Read More
BANGOR — Diversify, diversify, diversify. That could be the battle cry in any corporate boardroom. Instead, it serves as a clarion call for the future of Husson College, which this year celebrates its centennial. Husson’s diversification strategy is relatively new, coming on the heels of… Read More
BAILEYVILLE — A tax increment financing package offered by the town to Georgia-Pacific Corp. calls for nearly $90 million in new investment over the next five years. In return, G-P would receive $12 million in property tax credits over the next 20 years, town officials announced at a… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The Women’s Health Center is offering a “Women and Heart Disease” program, free for women of all ages. This program will include the myths, misconceptions and missed oportunities dealing with heart disease. Debbie Adams, clinical cardiac nurse clinician, will present this program… Read More
MACHIAS — Centre Street Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, located on Centre Street, will hold an Ash Wednesday service at 7 tonight in the church sanctuary. This will be a service of the word, the Lord’s Supper and the administration of ashes. The church… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — The protest of several members of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs against its government continued Tuesday in front of the band offices on Main Street. But behind the office doors, Micmac Chief Richard Getchell was working on a plan that may end… Read More
LIMESTONE — While the federal government decides which eight of 17 Defense Finance and Accounting Services centers should close, another measure is looking at reducing all of the centers across the board. More money is needed now for modernizing the country’s defense force, according to… Read More
PITTSFIELD — The Madison Avenue Women Investors’ Club met Tuesday to plan its first public investment seminar. Although this is no high-pressure Wall Street team, it’s no “cookie jar” investment club either. There are no elderly, white-haired ladies; this all-female group consists of nurses, teachers, manufacturers and a… Read More
AUGUSTA — The commissioner of the Maine Department of Transportation is expected next week to recommend one of two proposals to the Legislature for rebuilding Mack Point port in Searsport using $13 million of state funds. The review process has moved quickly since the Transportation… Read More
PORTLAND — The party’s over for the Greens. Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Gene Carter affirmed a ruling issued in December by a federal magistrate upholding the secretary of state’s decision to disqualify the activist-inspired party. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
MADAWASKA — Internal turmoil, employee problems and resignations have plagued the Madawaska Ambulance Service for the last three years. The most recent situation involves the firing of a 19-year veteran emergency medical technician, who has appealed the action and vowed to clear his name. Daniel… Read More
CARIBOU — City councilors on Monday instructed the Caribou Planning Board to come up with an emergency ordinance addressing confined animal feeding operations. More than a dozen neighbors of a proposed site for a piggery in Limestone listened intently as their spokesman, Brian Carlton, presented… Read More
ROCKLAND — The resentencing of convicted murderer Allen Teele, 26, of Westbrook was continued until at least May, in Knox County Superior Court on Tuesday. The original sentence of 25 years for a combination of murder, manslaughter and robbery was overturned earlier this month by the state supreme… Read More
MACHIAS — A Washington County grand jury has indicted a 25-year-old Baileyville man for armed robbery and kidnapping after he allegedly robbed a convenience store clerk at knife point. The grand jury also indicted Dean Travis Moore on burglary, criminal threatening, assault and theft charges. Read More
MACHIAS — A spokesman for the Maine Forest Service said the Washington County grand jury’s Feb. 23 indictment of 39-year-old Ricky Brown of Pembroke for alleged timber theft is one of an increasing number of such cases that are being handled in criminal court. “We’re… Read More
AUBURN — Two Auburn men who blamed each other for the beating death of their landlord at a Lewiston motel were convicted Tuesday in Androscoggin County Superior Court. Jurors deliberated three hours before convicting Brad Chesnel, 25, and Leroy Tomah, 28, of murder and robbery. Read More
“Grace and Glorie” is a play about opposites. Grace Stiles is 90 and dying. Gloria Whitmore is in her late 30s and looking for life. Grace is the country mouse, uneducated and illiterate but noble and wise. Gloria is the city mouse, hypersuccessful and enlightened but provincial in… Read More
Together with other legislators from Maine and four other states across the country, we attended a unique week-long seminar developed by the Flemming Institute. The Center for Policy Alternatives Flemming Fellows Leadership Institute, founded in 1994 and now in its third year of existence, is a bipartisan program… Read More
The U.S. House of Representatives rarely behaves in a unanimous way — even the declaration of war against Japan in 1941 had a lone dissenter — so when it does march in lockstep, something is afoot. Such as the 409-0 vote the other day supporting… Read More
I am almost 72 years old now and have fished Maine’s beautiful waters a good many of those years. I caught 4- and 5-pound bass and buckets of white perch when I was 10 years old in Spednick Lake. My father and I fished eastern Washington County lakes… Read More
If it weren’t so serious, what’s going on over at HoltraChem would be funny. If it weren’t so serious. Take the latest incident at the Orrington plant whose primary enterprise seems to be the spilling and spewing of hazardous substances. Please googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
There is nothing more exciting to me than the discovery of a recipe for good, simple and nourishing food that is traditional here in Maine. An old Maine recipe that has withstood the test of time is an heirloom that represents the best of life in the Pine… Read More
When Americans tune in to the Grammy Awards tonight, they probably won’t hear anything about Bangor’s Paul Bunyan. The song “The Ballad of Paul Bunyan,” written by Bangor songwriter Joe Pickering Jr. and Joe Terry of Alabama, was submitted for nomination for a Grammy, a… Read More
FOR COMPLETE TEXT OF HUSSON COLLEGE, 100TH ANNIVERSARY 1898-1998, SHAPING MAINE’S FUTURE ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT, SEE LIBRARY MICROFILM. Read More
HAMPDEN — A free preschool screening for children between 3 and 4 years old as well as all 5-year-olds not yet eligible for kindergarten will be held for SAD 22 (Hampden, Newburgh and Winterport) from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, at the Earle McGraw School… Read More
BLUE HILL — A therapy group, “Living with Bipolar Illness,” will meet on alternate Wednesdays 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Blue Hill Peninsula Counseling Office. For information, call 374-5780. Read More
The Ellsworth High School Music Boosters are holding a Community Events Calendar fund-raiser. For $5, the purchaser gets to list family birthdays and an anniversary on the calendar. Students will sell the calendars through Feb. 27. To purchase one, call the school office at 667-4722. Businesses or civic… Read More
OLD TOWN — The city has been awarded a federal grant to explore the potential for locating a facility here that would use home-grown technology to capitalize on some of Maine’s underused tree species. During a special meeting Monday night, the City Council unanimously voted… Read More
The annual Ellsworth Music Night Concert will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Ellsworth Middle School. Music students in grades three through 12 will perform together in one concert. For more information, call Dean Paquette at 667-4722. Read More
PALMYRA — Two proposed ordinances got the once-over Tuesday night at hearings held by the Palmyra selectmen. An ordinance to identify and ban municipal, industrial and commercial sludge-spreading within town borders was carefully scrutinized. Without the accompanying definitions included in the ordinance, the new law… Read More
WASHINGTON — Sen. Olympia Snowe’s compromise measure on campaign finance picked up major support Tuesday from the authors of the reform bill, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russ Feingold, D-Wis., as well as President Clinton. The new support came as the Senate voted 51-48 to… Read More
MADISON — The Somerset County Republicans will hold a monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Kiwanis Hall, Weston Avenue. Legislators and candidates will speak on legislative bills. The group will check on Republican caucuses, and all town chairmen or representatives should… Read More
EAST SULLIVAN — By the year 2002, Sumner Memorial High School graduates may be required to show competency in the real world as well as the academic arena. After three years of study, a committee of faculty and school administrators has suggested expanding the graduation… Read More
NEWBURGH — Town reports will be available in the town office beginning Friday, Feb. 27. Also, the annual town meeting will be held Saturday, March 7. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
LINCOLN — This town, like a growing number of Maine communities, sees tax increment financing as a necessary tool in today’s highly competitive business environment. Although TIFs have existed in Maine law for 21 years, not many communities have used them to attract new businesses until the late… Read More
It was a dark and stormy night. Tuesday’s winds knocked out power sporadically in the Bangor area Tuesday evening and took WABI-TV Channel 5 off the air for a time. Throughout the evening, officials of Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. said they were receiving slightly more than… Read More
BANGOR — The trial of a Bangor man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl last summer was postponed Tuesday as reports and records surfaced suggesting the child may have been sexually abused by someone else in the past. Defense attorney Jeff Toothaker was granted the… Read More
WINTERPORT — The Board Of Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday night to hold a special town meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 7, at the Samuel L. Wagner School. Residents will vote on several warrants to raise a total of approximately $27,000, the bulk of which… Read More
Regarding your page A6 story, “Health services team up,” in the Feb. 12 paper, there is a reporting inaccuracy that goes to the heart of how emergency medical services in the area are dispatched and the role of MedComm in that process. Your reporter stated… Read More
Thank you for outstanding coverage (BDN, Feb. 17) of the Maine Air National Guard and the role this unit plays in world events. These guard members are the same citizen soldiers who so professionally assisted Maine citizens and communities during Ice Storm ’98. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
I just returned from taking three 11-year-old girls to Hooptown [at the Bangor Civic Center]. Congratulations to the Bangor Daily News and your Hooptown sponsors. The girls had a great time, loved the free “stuff,” and my daughter even wanted to return later in the week to show… Read More
State Sen. Peter Mills argues against the homestead exemption (BDN commentary, Feb. 11) in that it doesn’t get tax relief to those who need it most. Not true! googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
HoltraChem has done it again. This time it’s an estimated 10,000 gallons of liquid contaminated with mercury spilled into the Penobscot River. So what else is new? Given the history of this particular plant operator, should we expect anything different? The plant manager, Glen Carr,… Read More
We were pleased to read that Tom Weber’s column will again be featured regularly in the Bangor Daily News, and particularly enjoyed his column, “Post-ice storm era caveman dreams of sun,” which appeared in Saturday’s edition. After the kind of January Mainers endured we can most certainly relate… Read More
TRENTON — Six people ventured out in the rain Tuesday night for a special town meeting held to revise the town’s land use ordinance to include “forested wetlands” among the categories of land defined as wetlands. All six — three residents and the three members… Read More
WASHINGTON — American high school seniors scored below students from most other countries in an international test of math and science, according to results released Tuesday. Even those Americans who took tough physics and advanced math courses performed worse than most students taking equally rigorous… Read More
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HOULTON — The issue of posted weight restrictions on Route 11 was clarified Tuesday after some confusion Monday about when truck drivers could actually use the road without fear of enforcement action being taken against them by state police. State law allows that as long… Read More
Proposed changes in Maine’s adoption law would allow birth parents to maintain contact with children they have given up for adoption as long as the adoptive parents and the courts agree that a continuing relationship is in the best interests of the child. A public… Read More
GREENVILLE — Issues that have an impact on the daily lives of women will be the focus of a series of presentations in March at the Charles A. Dean Memorial Hospital in Greenville. The Moosehead Women’s Health Education Forum will delve into the benefits of… Read More
ROCKLAND — The anguished pleas of his wife, Deanna, may have saved David Knowlton from a lengthy prison term. When Knowlton, 35, of Camden came before Knox County Superior Court Justice Francis Marsano this week to be sentenced on charges of fondling the breasts of… Read More
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BAILEYVILLE — As of April 1, no one in Washington County will live in Woodland? Is this a bad April Fools’ Day joke? For years, residents of the Washington County municipality of Baileyville have called their town Woodland, even though it’s only a village within… Read More
BAR HARBOR — The Mount Desert Island and Ellsworth housing authorities are sponsoring the American Association of Retired Person’s “55 Alive Mature Driving Course,” 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. March 17-18 at the Malvern Belmont Estates, Bar Harbor. AARP developed this eight-hour classroom refresher to help drivers… Read More
Back in February 1965, the city of Bangor was undergoing a great change. Dow Air Force Base was closing and everyone was concerned with what the future would bring. Many people, businesses and organizations accepted the challenge of helping the community prepare for life after… Read More
AUGUSTA — The King administration Tuesday unveiled a phased-in program to finance a $180 million overhaul of the Maine prison system that would combine spending cash in hand with long-term borrowing. The package also envisions a lease-purchase type of financing mechanism that prompted one lawmaker… Read More
PARIS — A rabid bat that was found flying through a hallway at the Maine Veterans Home on Friday the 13th brought bad luck to dozens of its residents. None of the home’s 88 residents was believed to have been bitten, but about 40 of… Read More
BAR HARBOR — For more than a decade the once-stately Bar Harbor Club where the wealthy summer elite played tennis and swam laps has slipped silently into a state of disrepair. Recently residents here have taken to calling the building an “embarrassing eyesore.” But perhaps… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Like other Maine communities, Dover-Foxcroft may be required to help fund the cleanup of a waste oil site that contaminated ground water in Plymouth. Town officials received notification this week from the Environmental Protection Agency that Dover-Foxcroft had contributed waste oil to the… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Councilor Bob Crosthwaite says the city needs to bring God back into government. At Monday night’s council meeting, he suggested hiring a chaplain to counsel employees and to open each city meeting with a prayer and the pledge of allegiance. “The separation of… Read More
BLUE HILL — As part of Blue Hill Memorial Hospital’s expansion, its Health Education Center is moving to bigger quarters that will include the facility’s first consumer library. Home of the hospital’s education and prevention programs, the center is moving to what was formerly known… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Class started a month ago, but Ellsworth High School senior Bryan McQuade still hasn’t met his computer programming teacher, nor laid eyes on most of his classmates. Since his teacher works at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone, that’s not… Read More
HERMON — Fire heavily damaged Quinn’s Auto Repair in Hermon Village on Tuesday, after a spark from a tool apparently ignited gasoline in the fuel tank of a car which was being repaired. Hermon Fire Chief Larry Willis said the mechanic, who was attempting to… Read More