FORT PIERCE, Fla., – Berea College of Berea, Ky., started Thomas College’s season on a sour note Thursday afternoon by sweeping a doubleheader 11-1 and 5-4. In the opener, Thomas starter Chad Boyd struggled through three innings of work, allowing 11 runs on five hits… Read More
    The Hampden Academy hockey team is no longer welcome in Brewer’s Bouchard Arena after Bouchard owner-manager Lou Janicki’s claim that the Broncos vandalized their locker room this past season. “I can’t live with the existing arrangement. They’re going to have to find another rink,” said… Read More
    SMITHFIELD – A Skowhegan ice fisherman has broken a state record by landing the largest northern pike ever caught on hook and line in Maine, state officials said. Lance Bolduc caught the 31.2 pound fish in North Pond in Smithfield, breaking the old record of… Read More
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    A year ago, a long, cold winter had canoeists preparing for the beginning of racing season while wondering if they’d be paddling or skating down the area’s rivers. All that ice meant very little runoff, which meant that while early-season racers were actually able to… Read More
    CARRABASSETT VALLEY – With his main competition on the sidelines with a broken ankle, Steve Roxberg breezed to his second national acro-skiing title Thursday despite tricky snow conditions at Sugarloaf-USA resort. Maria Guarnieri picked up her second straight women’s title, outskiing teammate Lara Rosenbaum. Guarnieri… Read More
    FORT PIERCE, Fla., – Thomas College of Waterville was held to a combined seven hits and no runs in dropping its opening games to 6-2 Millersville (Pa.), 11-0 and 12-0. In the opener, Dana Trout came a homer short of hitting for the cycle, going… Read More
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    AUGUSTA — Characterized as the most important piece of legislation since the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, the Passamaquoddy Indians fishing rights bill is expected to receive final enactment today in the Legislature. On Thursday, the state House of Representatives joined members of… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — Registration for next year’s SAD 53 kindergarten will be held Thursday and Friday, April 16-17, at the Manson Park School for children who start school in September and who live in Burnham, Detroit or Pittsfield. All children will be involved in screening activities… Read More
    CARIBOU — The state Fire Marshal’s Office was investigating a fire that destroyed a house Thursday on the Madawaska Road, according to the Caribou Fire Department. No injuries were reported, said Capt. Gary Langley of the department. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
    NEW CANADA — Twenty-one voters in New Canada took only 45 minutes Wednesday night to elect four municipal officials, approve $89,163 in expenditures and to withdraw as a member town from the Northern Aroostook Regional Airport. Elected unopposed were Frank Jalbert, selectmen for three years;… Read More
    Due to the snowstorm last weekend, Lakewood Theater has scheduled another day for auditions for its upcoming repertory. Auditions will be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at the Margaret Chase Smith School, Heselton Street, Skowhegan. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
    PALMYRA — A special town meeting is scheduled May 13 in Palmyra so town officials can proceed with plans for a long-awaited salt and sand shed. To date, the town has $30,500 set aside for the construction, but estimates range from $75,000 to $85,000 for… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — Four parties showed up Thursday morning for the auction of a house and land foreclosed on by the town of Pittsfield for nonpayment of a town-granted revolving loan. Through its foreclosure of the loan the town owns the property, and after a brief bidding war, Pittsfield… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — Two people were treated at a local hospital for injuries they received in two separate fistfights over the last 24 hours. In the first altercation, a Waverly Avenue man was beaten at his home early Wednesday morning when two house guests mistakenly thought… Read More
    One of the highlights of the Bangor Garden Show sponsored by Bangor Beautiful is its Preview Night Gala 5:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2, at the Bangor Civic Center and Auditorium. BB Vice President Sylvia Curran Smith is excited about the evening which offers attendees a… Read More
    SEARSMONT — Residents will be confronted with the option of electing municipal officers every year when they gather at Ames School on Saturday for the annual town meeting. Although the town voted to change its elected offices to three-year terms earlier in the decade, some… Read More
    WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe of Maine and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia have introduced legislation to improve state collection of child support payments, rewarding states that do a good job of collection and that improve enforcement of medical support orders. States receive a… Read More
    WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins this week helped save nearly $4.5 million in emergency supplemental spending which would benefit maple syrup producers in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York who suffered severe damages and financial losses during the ice storm. Collins spoke out on… Read More
    WHATLEY, Mass. — Yankee Candle Co., the nation’s leading maker of specialty scented candles, has been sold to the New York investment firm of Forstmann Little. In an announcement Thursday, Forstmann Little said it has acquired a 90 percent share in the privately owned candle… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Central Maine Power Co. requested a 1.78 percent rate increase Wednesday for the month of July, as well as a possible 10 percent decrease later in the year. The company filed its requests with the Maine Public Utilities Commission, which regulates utility companies’… Read More
    AUGUSTA — A child advocacy group issued a word to the wise here Thursday: Unless the state creates a safe and affordable child care system, we are destined to have children who won’t thrive, a work force that can’t compete, and adults who aren’t emotionally healthy. Read More
    Time is running out. Amnesty month ends Tuesday at the Orono Public Library. Library director Kathy Molloy encourages borrowers to return overdue materials along with a nonperishable food item to be donated to Crossroads Ministries, a local food pantry, to avoid paying a fine. It’s… Read More
    NEWPORT — The Sebasticook Valley Chamber of Commerce kicked off a new year Wednesday night by electing a slate of officers and exploring the impact of deregulating electricity. Brian Bowman of Bowman Bros. Inc., a Newport-based construction company, is the new president of the Chamber. Read More
    This season’s El Nino weather pattern in the South Pacific has been the most extreme on record and nightly newscasts are full of accounts of the devastation it has caused. Almost no one, outside of meteorologists and weather researchers, have heard of El Nino’s counterpart in the Atlantic… Read More
    If you’re anywhere over the age of majority, Rogue could easily make you feel you wasted the best years of your life. With nary a member of the four-piece rock band from Waldo County over 15 years old, the group will open for the Woodburn-Arena… Read More
    When Dan Tourtelotte helped write legislation to boost the state’s whitewater rafting industry, when he testified in its behalf before the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee, he did so as a major in the Maine Warden Service, as its acting chief. What Tourtelotte knew and… Read More
    In the March 26 Bangor Daily News editorial, “Forestry, forestalled,” there are several misconceptions that must be corrected. The first, and most damging, is that the forestry bill that is working its way through the Legislature is somehow a “do nothing” measure. That’s simply not true. The Legislature’s… Read More
    Imagine a court case in which an unnamed defendent is accused by the state of serious crimes but is found not guilty by a judge. The state then insists on keeping the name of the vindicated hidden for his own good. Sounds hard to believe, but the Legislature… Read More
    AUBURN — An 80-year-old Auburn woman was killed and her older sister was critically injured Thursday afternoon when a tractor-trailer struck their car broadside. The dead woman was identified by police as Frances Ruby, a passenger in a car driven by her sister, Adria Smith,… Read More
    BUCKSPORT — Talks regarding the role of natural gas in the town’s future are in the pipeline, although the outcome is far from certain. At a special Town Council meeting Thursday night, Town Manager Roger Raymond said that Central Maine Power Co. has approached Bucksport,… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Ever since a legislative committee voted in an additional $40 million in supplemental spending to the governor’s emergency budget late one night last week, public meetings on the package have ceased. In private meetings in committee rooms, the cafeteria, and even a heated exchange in the… Read More
    SKOWHEGAN — Accused murderer Albert P. Cochran, 60, waived his right to a bail hearing this week and is now waiting in Somerset County Jail to see whether Michaela Murphy of Skowhegan and Waterville will be his court-appointed attorney. It is likely the Attorney General’s… Read More
    AUGUSTA — In an 11th-hour vote, a legislative committee Thursday night unanimously approved a mercury-reduction bill that targets the largest emitters of the toxic metal into Maine’s air and water — municipal waste incinerators in Auburn and Portland and the HoltraChem Manufacturing Co. plant in Orrington. Read More
    ORONO — The town is holding spring cleanup from April 27 to May 8. Tree brush and limbs of at least 4 feet in length, but not longer than 8 feet, should be at curbside before May 1. Acceptable limbs will be no greater than 6 inches in… Read More
    PORTLAND — Goodwill Industries of Northern New England is holding its fifth annual Box of Goods Drive from now through April 15. Maine businesses are invited to clean their warehouses and stockrooms of excess inventory. Goodwill will pick up boxes at businesses and provide receipts for records. Read More
    EDDINGTON — Area residents who are concerned about the implications of the proposed Maritimes & Northeast natural gas pipeline will conduct an informal organizational meeting at 7 tonight at Comins Hall on Route 9 in Eddington. Read More
    AUGUSTA — House Speaker Elizabeth Mitchell withdrew her ambitious college scholarship aid program Thursday from legislative consideration, replacing it with a drastically scaled-back plan aimed at winning more support. Instead of a free first year of college, which would have cost the state $14 million,… Read More
    Belfast Area High School Second quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Benjamin Beverly and Morgan Walton; honors: Clarissa Belden, Nathan Beverly, Jennifer Bunker, Lynn T. Clements, Ryan W. Cowan, Jared G. Desimio, Jessica Faulkingham, Leah S. Fein, Woodruff A. Gaul, Heidi Gibbs, Arian M. Gregory,… Read More
    It’s tiring to open the paper and see so much attention paid to changing the name of the Woodland Post Office to Baileyville. I don’t blame the people in Woodland, which it has been for years, not to want the office name changed at this… Read More
    Many of us have seen the name Columbia Healthcare Corp. and its misdeeds. Top management has been indicted. FBI seized documents in six cities as part of a criminal investigation of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Thomas H. Frist Jr., son of the founder and his… Read More
    On March 17, Leaders Encouraging Aroostook Development held its 11th annual meeting at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. It is customary for LEAD to present, at its annual meeting, an award to an organization or business that has promoted or enhanced the economic development of Aroostook… Read More
    Lock up sexual predators? I disagree with that. Why should we pay for these idiots to have better provisions than you and I? I have to pay good money in a motel to get what these people receive; meals prepared and served to me on a daily basis,… Read More
    No, absolutely not! Regarding Cheri Walton’s March 10 letter about paying first-year college tuition for students just getting out of high school. This idea to use tax money to send young people to college for their first year is foolish. Have you ever seen colleges… Read More
    JONESPORT — A 19-year-old student at the University of Maine at Machias was taken to Down East Community Hospital on Thursday morning after he lost control of his pickup truck on Route 187. Sgt. Michael Riggs of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department said Jarod Magun… Read More
    ALFRED — A judge has sent a Biddeford man accused of stabbing his wife to death to jail while he decides whether the man should stay there for violating a key bail condition. Samuel Collins is accused of stabbing his wife 13 times on July… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Maine residents who want to reserve their current license plate number for their new chickadee plate, will have that opportunity in July, reports Rep. Joseph E. Clark, D-Millinocket. “I am getting a steady stream of questions relating to the new license plates,” Clark… Read More
    FAIRFIELD — Paul L. Tessier of Fairfield has announced his candidacy for re-election to the District 101 seat in the state House of Representa- tives. In November 1996, Tessier was elected to the House position when Secretary of State Dan Gwadosky was prevented from seeking… Read More
    WASHINGTON — Two Maine agriculture experts have been appointed to the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade in Fruits and Vegetables, according to a press release from U.S. Rep. John Baldacci. First-time appointee Vernon Delong of Presque Isle oversees the Agriculture Bargaining Council which negotiates… Read More
    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $2.8 million to Maine for construction and improvement projects at schools and to implement special academic programs, according to U.S. Reps. John Baldacci and Tom Allen. The funds were included in the 1997 Taxpayer Relief Act… Read More
    The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously approved the nomination of Maine Supreme Judicial Court Justice Kermit Lipez to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. The nomination now goes to the full Senate, where Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins pledged to work… Read More
    WISCASSET — Maine Yankee allegedly dumped low-level radioactive waste in the town landfill, but a federal agency said it has found no measurable radiation in one of the six wells tested so far. The tests were ordered after Pat Dostie, a state nuclear inspector and… Read More
    When the Northeast Interstate Dairy Farm Compact pricing system took effect last July, supporters said it was the savior for many small, family farms throughout New England struggling to stay solvent. A summit meeting was held Tuesday in Lancaster, Mass., to dispel fears that the… Read More
    Bangor District Court Shannon M. Davis, 23, Bangor, negotiating worthless instrument, jail 45 days, all but three days suspended, probation one year, $10 a month supervision fee, $667 restitution to District Attorney’s Office. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
    LINCOLN — The body of a Lincoln woman missing since Sunday was found Wednesday morning and her death determined to be an accident. A hunter found the body of 50-year-old Doris Dicker on a woods road off Route 116 in Chester about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday,… Read More
    Two men were summoned for assault after they allegedly groped a waitress at a Bangor restaurant earlier this month. Bangor police issued summonses for John Vickery Jr., 29, of Hampden and Peter Sendrowski, 35, of Orrington after the March 3 incident. Both were served the… Read More