ORONO – Jon Dickinson and Jared Cochran are the only University of Maine pitchers who worked more than one inning last season. The sophomores are joined this spring by a junior college transfer, a sophomore refugee from New Hampshire, a rehabilitated rookie, and six freshmen. Read More
Ten months after the spring season went by with no varsity baseball at Central Aroostook in Mars Hill, the hiatus is over. Just one year after only nine players signed up for the team, renewed interest in playing ball has resurrected the Panthers’ varsity hardball… Read More
BANGOR – Orono American Legion righthander Mike Perry spun a two-hit masterpiece in beating Brewer 5-1 on June 28. Within a couple of days, Perry began a 1 1/2-month stay at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor battling Crohn’s Disease, a chronic inflammation of the… Read More
CARRABASSETT VALLEY – Despite the departure of Vice President of Marketing and Sales Chip Carey, Sugarloaf/USA will host it’s 20th annual Sugarloaf Marathon on Sunday, May 17. The Central Maine Striders of Waterville, Sub5 Track Club of Brewer and others have banded together to keep… Read More
WATERVILLE – Colby College broke loose for seven runs in the third inning Tuesday on its way to an 11-7 baseball victory over St. Joseph’s of Standish. Bill Goldman stroked three hits and knocked in three runs for the White Mules in their home opener. Read More
Last weekend, the University of Maine softball team opened conference play like it was a new season – or it was a new team. The Bears, who were 8-12 entering the weekend, snapped a four-game losing streak, going 3-1 to tie for second in America… Read More
PORTLAND — Ignoring objections from restaurant owners, the City Council voted early Tuesday to make Portland the first municipality in Maine to restrict smoking in restaurants. By a 7-2 vote, councilors banned smoking in all restaurants except those with separate, ventilated rooms for smokers. The… Read More
BELFAST — With strong reservations about the city’s police department losing its personal touch, the City Council agreed Tuesday night to explore combining emergency dispatching with Waldo County under the E-911 system that is one to two years away from implementation. Joseph Smith, the chairman… Read More
LEWISTON — A student-faculty committee at Bates College has called for the expulsion of a male student for sexually assaulting female classmates. The Student Conduct Committee met for two days late last week before concluding that there was sufficient evidence that the student was responsible… Read More
PORTLAND — Lead-footed motorists beware: The Maine State Police has beefed up its patrols along the Maine Turnpike. Officials hope that adding nine troopers to the detail that patrols the turnpike will enhance safety. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
ALFRED — A New Hampshire man accused of stealing more than $230,000 from an elderly friend’s bank account has challenged the search warrant authorities used to gain access to his own account. Robert E. Peterson, of Greenland, N.H., is accused of withdrawing $232,809 in September… Read More
Wanted: pies, volunteers and the hungry to participate in the ninth annual free Easter dinner served by Manna Ministries from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Columbia Street Baptist Church in Bangor. “We expect to be feeding at least 500 people,” Manna director Bill… Read More
Aroostook County Superior Court Coleman Fairly, 25, Woodland, unlawful sexual contact, two years in jail, all but nine months and one day suspended, credit for time served, three years of probation; failure to appear, six months in jail, credit for time served. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
BAR HARBOR — If you already like the outdoors, nature and history, you’ll like the lastest trend in tourism. Called sustainable tourism, the idea is based on teaching tourists about an area’s environment, culture and history. Whether tourists spend the day learning about wildlife with… Read More
HOULTON — A man convicted of kidnapping after holding his family at gunpoint for several hours last May was sentenced last Friday to eight years in prison with all but three years suspended and six years probation. On May 31, 1997, Wayne F. Sanford, 48,… Read More
SEARSPORT — Dwarfed by a contraption resembling a mammoth vacuum cleaner, workers from Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. sucked up an estimated 20 cubic yards of fuel-laden muck near Stockton Harbor on Tuesday. The private firm was hired by General Alum and Chemical Corp., which… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Three years after the Department of Human Services threatened to close its Ellsworth office completely, City Manager Timothy King found himself posing for a press photo with DHS Commissioner Kevin Concannon and the requisite gold shovel at the groundbreaking ceremony of a new $1.2 million DHS… Read More
The Land Use Regulation Commission will begin conducting hearings tonight in Rangeley on a proposal that would change the extent to which some buildings close to lakes in the unorganized territories may be expanded. The proposal applies only to structures located less than 100 feet from the water’s… Read More
BANGOR — Most city councilors haven’t said whether they favor regulating nudity, prohibiting it or leaving things as they are. But Tuesday’s municipal operations meeting found a group of them working toward the goal of having two options for consideration by the full council — one regulating commercial… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Maine Senate enacted and sent to Gov. Angus King Tuesday a bill that will ban the use of personal watercraft such as Jet Skis on 243 gem ponds in Maine, as well as on Tunk Lake and Donnell Pond in Hancock County and Mooselookmeguntic Lake… Read More
THOMASTON — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the conviction of embezzler Frances Hernandez, the town’s former bookkeeper. It was two years ago that Hernandez, 38, of Thomaston was convicted by a Knox County Superior Court jury of embezzling $32,000 in local excise tax… Read More
BANGOR — The Penobscot County Cooperative Extension and Bangor Beautiful will sponsor an informational meeting on how to repair trees and shrubs damaged by January’s ice storm at 6 p.m. today at the William S. Cohen School on Garland Street. During the meeting, which is… Read More
AUGUSTA — Legislators argued about how much to borrow, why to borrow, and how to borrow Tuesday. With a bill for an $85 million bond for prison construction headed to the governor’s desk, and a $50 million bond to renovate the State House and State Office Building getting… Read More
AUGUSTA — Working toward an anticipated adjournment later today, lawmakers raced through nearly 100 bills vying for about $2.8 million left on the special appropriations table. Most of the bills sailed through the House and Senate with little or no debate with quick two-thirds votes. Read More
BANGOR — Maintaining a list of registered sex offenders and notifying their immediate neighbors isn’t enough to protect the public, Police Chief Randy Harriman said Tuesday. “I feel we need to have a level of notification greater than what we’re doing now,” he told city… Read More
WASHINGTON — Bangor lawyer Sam Lanham is again preparing to go to court for Ross Perot and his fledgling Reform Party, armed with an opinion from a Federal Election Commission lawyer saying Perot was illegally excluded from the 1996 debates. Just one problem: Last month,… Read More
The newest turf wars in American cities are not being fought on grimy sidewalks and in dark alleyways by night, but on innocent playing fields in the bright sunshine. Places such as New York, Chicago and Minneaoplis, says The New York Times, have seen such… Read More
PHIPPSBURG — The crew of a Maine-built replica of a Viking ship will try again this summer to re-create Leif Ericson’s 1,000-year-old voyage of discovery to the New World. The latest preparations for sailing the Snorri from Greenland to Newfoundland got under way at Robert… Read More
PORTLAND — Two young men charged with murdering a Gorham gas station attendant during a botched $49 robbery confessed to the killing, according to an affidavit filed by police as the suspects made their first court appearance Tuesday. Shaun Libby, 18, of Standish, and Robert… Read More
ROCKLAND — It stands to reason that the Rockland Golf Club hired a Flanagan as its new golf pro. The Flanagan family is one of Maine’s best-known golfing clans with the annual golfing reunion drawing more than 100 assorted family members. Keenan Flanagan, 36, felt… Read More
WATERVILLE — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer will be the featured speaker at Colby College’s commencement exercises, the college announced. Breyer also will receive an honorary degree at the May 24 ceremony, college officials said Monday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
AUGUSTA — Gov. Angus King signed a forest management bill Tuesday that brings to a close — at least temporarily — a contentious debate over clear-cutting in the state’s 17 million acres of woodlands. King defended the new law as a serious means to establish… Read More
An item in the April 7 MaineDay section incorrectly stated that Joshua Tripp had received the 1998 MPA Principal’s Award at Searsport District High School. The MPA award went to Katrina McLaughlin. Tripp was chosen to receive the Student of the Month Award for February at Searsport District… Read More
A story in the April 3 MaineDay about promotions within the Houlton Police Department failed to note that the initial standing of Officer Troy O’Bar, compared to other officers in the department, did not include points earned for seniority. Had those points been included, O’Bar would have been… Read More
When I was in the third grade, my father accepted a teaching position at Keene State College and moved the family from our dairy farm in Winslow to New Hampshire. It almost broke my heart to leave what in my adolescent eyes was the idyllic rural life of… Read More
PORTLAND — Magda Adrien wears a tight purple shirt proudly displaying her 38DD breasts. But she was not always so proud, or so comfortable. She once considered breast-reduction surgery because traditional bras amounted to torture, the thin straps digging into her shoulders, her breasts spilling… Read More
Sometimes I think of myself as [a four-letter word that means CRAZY]. Take the situation between one of my friends and me. He and I can share a book. We can share a good laugh. We can share a bowl of soup or an apple, and get along… Read More
While I was delighted to have such large audiences for my talks at the Bangor Garden Show, I must correct the comment falsely attributed to me regarding Maine’s Department of Agriculture. Although I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting Edward McLaughlin, Maine’s commissioner… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Barbara Golder lives on the corner of Pleasant Street and Stinson Avenue, just seven feet from Maine Central Institute — a private boarding school and the area’s high school. Golder’s front yard is called “the smoking corner” by nearly every teen-ager in town. Read More
Wanted by Kennebec County authorities on three warrants, Ronald D. Salutes, 29, fled from Old Town police Sunday night when they went to the Bennoch Road residence where he had been staying. The second time police went to the residence, Salutes didn’t run away. They… Read More
Names can tell us a lot. Take the name “Raymond,” for example. Raymond means counselor-protector. It is appropriate, therefore, that townspeople from Raymond, Maine, have filed a lawsuit that will not only provide the nation with legal counsel on an issue of vital importance — educational choice —… Read More
Jeff Toorish is the new president of the Maine Pulp and Paper Association. Why would the association hire someone with loads of television experience but a total lack of understanding of forestry or the pulp and paper industry? Because it wanted a PR spindoctor perhaps?… Read More
In Washington’s lull between the farewell party for Paula Jones and the denouement of the Monica Lewinsky Story of the Century, some lawmakers are trying to sneak in a debate about reforming Social Security. With a little encouragement from the public, they might produce something of substance. Read More
This letter is in response to “Why not Baileyville?” (BDN, letters, March 19) A change in zip code from Woodland to Baileyville is not necessary. Let’s keep in mind that we are talking about a mailing address and not a town name. The post office… Read More
We are very appreciative of the wonderful feature article on our program’s 30th anniversary.(BDN, March 31) I would like to say, though, that the numbers reported in the article for supervised visitation represent the number of clients, not visits. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
The lack of citizens at the March 26 Regional Transportation Advisory Committee meeting concerning Route 1 is not a sign of indifference to the condition of all roads in the St. John Valley. There was inadequate notice of the meeting as well as the known foregone conclusion that… Read More
The town of Hampden is once again facing an expansion of the privately owned and operated landfill, SERF. Trash is a multi-million dollar business in Maine. The Bangor Daily News (Jan. 17) reports that SERF officials claim their current capacity is 450,000 cubic yards. The… Read More
EDMUNDSTON, New Brunswick — The present mayor of the town of St. Basile, New Brunswick, was elected the first mayor of the “super city” of Edmundston Monday. Jacques P. Martin received 4,724 votes, 50.6 percent of the 9,334 votes cast. Opposing Martin for the position… Read More
Well, unfortunately, it looks as if the Homestead Exemption will soon become reality. This program, where the state takes responsibility for lowering local property taxes, sounds great (and I supported it at first) but will prove to be a complete dud. Of course we’re promised that there will… Read More
A free guide available to businesses shows how to earn a federal income tax deduction by donating overstock or slow-selling inventory to a qualified charity. Included in the guide are step-by-step instructions on the donation process, as well as a formula for calculating your company’s… Read More
AUGUSTA — Economic Forum No. 6, sponsored by People of the Kennebec, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Jewett Hall on the University of Maine at Augusta campus. People of the Kennebec is a collaborative effort of business, government and academic leaders to improve… Read More
PORTLAND — Two Maine-based corporations — insurer UNUM Corp. and food retailer Hannaford Bros. Co. — made the latest Fortune 500 list of the country’s largest publicly held companies. UNUM, with headquarters in Portland, dropped 26 places on Fortune magazine’s annual list, from 337 to… Read More
WATERVILLE — Two breakfast seminars on business and the Internet, sponsored by the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce, are scheduled for Tuesday, April 21, at the Mid-Maine Technical Center. Introduction to the Internet will begin at 7:30 a.m. with registration and a continental breakfast. From 8… Read More
HERMON — S.W. Cole Engineering Inc. has opened a new office and construction materials testing laboratory in Londonderry, N.H. Geotechnical engineer Michael W. Koppang, formerly of the firm’s Gray office, will manage the new office. Koppang graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell with a bachelor’s degree… Read More
The Maine Department of Labor recently awarded nearly $25,000 to Maine organizations to develop and conduct programs on workplace health and safety. “We have awarded two grants to reduce occupational illnesses among Maine’s public sector workers: specifically, fire department and public school personnel,” said Labor… Read More
HAMPDEN — While the state offers plenty of economic incentives to large companies that want to move to Maine, small businesses here that seek to expand are left to fend for themselves. That’s what David Nealley, president of Snow & Nealley, said this week, after… Read More
NEWPORT — The SAD 48 board of directors normally elects new officers during its annual meeting. But on Tuesday night, no one was elected. A tie vote will delay the board’s choice of a new chairman until the next regular meeting when it is hoped… Read More
BANGOR — Defense attorneys for two men accused of killing a Bradley man 18 months ago spent Tuesday afternoon trying to poke holes in the testimony of a Portland man who is testifying as the state’s key witness. Matti Aalto spent the entire day on… Read More
EDDINGTON — Representatives from the Maritimes & Northeast natural gas pipeline fielded dozens of questions and heard a long list of concerns during a selectmen’s meeting Tuesday night, including concern that the pipeline would be built over a fault line. At issue is the company’s… Read More
BANGOR — To survive the past decade’s onslaught of managed health-care programs, fire departments nationwide are rethinking their roles and responsibilities to their communities, according to Gary Ludwig, a guest speaker at a City Council workshop Tuesday night. And Bangor’s Fire Department is no exception. Read More
EAST MACHIAS — Today marks the first time the East Machias Town Office is open for business since last week’s sudden resignation of longtime town clerk Donna-Jean Metta. Metta was re-elected as town clerk on March 30. Last Friday, she called two selectmen to the… Read More
GREENVILLE — In an unusual move Monday, the Greenville Education Association requested that three of their grievances filed against the Greenville School System be discussed in open session. The grievances, presented by Norm Pelletier, a teacher and chief negotiator for GEA, centered on alleged contract… Read More
HOULTON — The town planning board Monday night gave developers of a 34-lot subdivision until July 1 to complete their application for the project. Jon McLaughlin and Chris Anderson have been working on behalf of Wayne Farrar to develop 365 acres of land near Reservoir… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — Two men, each claiming to be the chief of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs, are leaving it up to the federal government to decide who is the real leader of the tribe. During a meeting of Micmacs over the weekend, Richard Getchell… Read More
MILLINOCKET — In contrast to the bitter battles of the past, the school board and members of the Millinocket Education Association ratified a new three-year contract in record time. It took less than two days for negotiators on both sides to come up with a… Read More
Marine Cpl. Timothy T. Myers, a 1995 graduate of Orono High School, recently participated in a training exercise in the Arabian Desert while on a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. He is the son of James Myers Sr. of Orono and… Read More
BANGOR — An Old Town man remained in fair condition at a Bangor hospital Tuesday where a Navy helicopter had flown him Monday night following an all-terrain vehicle accident in the woods of Hancock County. R. Todd Dennison, 35, suffered head and internal injuries and… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The continuation of a successful batterer’s intervention program was approved Tuesday by Piscataquis County commissioners. The program called EMERGE diverts men who have committed domestic abuse from incarceration, according to Richard Brown, chief executive officer of the Charlotte White Counseling Services. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
BANGOR — Developers of a new Rite Aid pharmacy got the recommendation they wanted Tuesday on a rezoning of land on Union, Hammond and Ohio streets — but only by a 3-2 vote, and only after promising not to put a driveway onto Ohio Street. Read More
PLEASANT POINT — With drums used by their ancestors pounding rhythmically in the background, youngsters at the Beatrice Rafferty Elementary School will observe Vision Day on Wednesday to celebrate their heritage and the future of Sipayik, the reservation they call home. Grace Davis, bilingual teacher… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A public hearing scheduled for May 13 by the Land Use Regulation Commission on a proposal for a subdivision on Schoodic Lake has raised concern among camp owners and Piscataquis County officials. The 6 p.m. hearing on the proposed 28-lot subdivision in Lakeview… Read More
ROCKWOOD — The Somerset County commissioners are notifying the Rockwood Fire Department today that its 13 or so members can no longer respond to fires or other emergency calls because they are inadequately trained. “Liability is what we are most concerned about,” said County Commissioner… Read More
CORINNA — The Maine Emergency Management Agency dropped a new problem on beleaguered Corinna last week. It isn’t enough that the town’s major industry — Eastland Woolen Mill — closed, that jobs were lost, that the town was forced to take possession of the antiquated,… Read More
MACHIAS — Town officials were flying high Tuesday after learning the Department of Economic and Community Development reversed an earlier decision and will award Machias a $400,000 Community Development Block Grant. The state decision to move forward with the grant followed a meeting Friday in… Read More