Bangor East and Machias both advanced from the losers’ bracket with victories in the District 3 Little League all-star tourney for ages 9-10 Friday in Millinocket. Machias eliminated Brewer 14-11 while Bangor East ousted Holbrook of Holden 7-3. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
After a 10-hour drive from their dens in New Jersey, Jim Rikhoff, president of the National Sporting Fraternity, Drew Holl, a sporting-art dealer and Lamar Underwood, editor of Harris Publications of New York, winced in unison when I greeted them with: “High water and hard fishing.” Stan Bogdan,… Read More
Much has changed for Maine boxing standout Joey Gamache since he was stopped by legendary Julio Cesar Chavez in October of 1996. Gamache has remarried and has a different approach to training. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
Like most golfers, Ralph Michaud doesn’t do much talking when he’s playing, but Friday was different after he was named the girls varsity soccer coach at Presque Isle High School. Michaud replaces Chris Casavant, who has left the school after one year. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
ORONO – Mainers are invited to join the 1,000 athletes already registered for the USA Track & Field National Masters Championships, which will be held at the University of Maine from July 30-Aug. 2. In an attempt to increase the participation of Maine residents, the… Read More
CARRABASSET VALLEY – After two days of golf Pennie Cummings from the Springbrook Country Club in Leeds finished with a score of 160 winning the 12th annual Women’s Senior Golf Tournament. Cummings and Martha White from the Bangor Municiple Golf Club, both former Maine State… Read More
SKOWHEGAN – Jesse Lecasse had two home runs, including a grand slam, for five RBIs to lead Skowhegan to a 6-2 American Legion baseball win Friday night. Chad Strout added two singles while pitching seven innings of five-hit ball. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
Trevor Hold fully understands the frustrations of being a race car driver. When he began his career at Speedway 95 at the tail end of the 1995 season, four motors blew in a half-dozen or so races. At the outset of the 1996 season, which… Read More
First of two parts. The easiest part of Nate Neville’s day may be his work as a dock hand at the Wayfarer Marina in Camden. Neville spends 40 hours a week in the sun coiling ropes, moving rowboats, pumping gas, climbing planks, weeding, cleaning, painting. Read More
HOULTON — State police and Loring Development Authority officials in Limestone are gearing up for next month’s concert by the band Phish. At least 70,000 fans are expected to flock to the region for the band’s Lemonwheel concert, its final performance of the season. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BANGOR — A Penobscot County Superior Court judge has refused to halt construction of a controversial restaurant and campground in Hermon while residents fight a zoning board decision in court. Though he declined to grant a stay to a group of 25 residents who are… Read More
PORTLAND — A heroin addict who jammed a pellet gun into the face of a clerk while stealing $278,000 in diamonds from a Brunswick jewelry store has been handed a 12-year prison sentence. Richard J. Maynard, 29, of Lowell, Mass., was arrested within a half-hour… Read More
BANGOR — The Bangor Veterans Center has welcomed countless servicemen and women from all eras in recent years, but Friday was kind of special. “It was great,” Joe DeGrasse said as he and staffers served up chicken and hot dogs for a small reunion of… Read More
BANGOR — Hogs are converging on the Queen City this weekend — the wheeled, not four-legged, variety. More than 500 Harley-Davidson owners from across the state are expected to be in Bangor this weekend for the third annual Maine State Rally. A few participants have… Read More
AUGUSTA — The teen-age girl found slain near a cemetery this week had been strangled and beaten to death, according to autopsy results released Friday. State police found the half-naked body of Kristen Smith, 16, of Vassalboro, in a shallow grave beside St. Mary’s Cemetery… Read More
HOULTON — It was hot, it was humid, there were snakes and falling trees, but the people were great. Though they didn’t get a chance to battle any of the massive, rolling fires that scorched more than 100,000 acres in Florida for the past two… Read More
PORTLAND — A judge imposed an eight-year prison sentence on a man accused of getting a homeless 17-year-old girl drunk and then raping her near Sebago Lake. Ali Hussain Almurshidy deserved a harsh sentence because he took advantage of someone who was vulnerable because of… Read More
BANGOR — Let’s pick up a pizza on the way home from work, or order in some Chinese. No, let’s go out and have a sit-down meal. You don’t need a formal study to learn that more than ever before, people are eating meals prepared… Read More
In a world of ever-expanding investment opportunities, the number of experts looking to offer that perfect financial advice is bound to grow. Bangor is no different than the rest of the country. People here have been pouring money into the stock market at a record… Read More
RANGELEY — In what is seen as the first test of Maine’s new plan to protect Atlantic salmon, the Land Use Regulation Commission gave the state’s largest blueberry grower a permit to draw irrigation water from three Down East salmon rivers. Cherryfield Foods Inc. applied… Read More
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Friday affirmed a jury verdict in a libel case against the Bangor Publishing Co. that resulted in an award of $125,000 to a Machias selectman. In a July 17 decision, the six-member Law Court backed a Washington County jury… Read More
President Clinton, in his first speech on the simmering computer crisis set to boil over in the year 2000, urged businesses to hurry up and fix the glitch before it’s too late. Too late, of course, would be when Dec. 31, 1999, rolls over into… Read More
WAITE — By noon Friday, search crews looking for a missing Rhode Island man were so hot, sweaty and exhausted from combing the dusty, thick woods in this town that the Maine Warden Service made them take three hours off. There are not enough rescuers… Read More
SEARSPORT — A permanent ban on parking along Route 1 will be the subject of a public hearing during the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday night. Jerry Story, the town manager, has recommended an amendment be added to the town’s traffic ordinance to restrict the parking. Story… Read More
Zonta Club of Hancock County is “the new kid on the block.” This youngest Maine member of Zonta International has been working just 10 years fulfilling the Zonta mission of promoting the status of women to reflect the United Nations’ emphasis, and serving the needs… Read More
PORTLAND — Sen. Olympia Snowe wants parties involved in restoring passenger rail service between Portland and Boston to amend their agreement to allow trains to travel at faster speeds. Snowe said Thursday it was her understanding that when $11.6 million in funding was awarded last… Read More
Walter Corson knew he was going to die. Throughout his 14 months in Vietnam, the knowledge of his impending death was a black cloud that enveloped his life. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
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In theater, sound effects that take place offstage are called “noises off.” They serve as embellishment or complement to the action onstage. In “Noises Off,” Michael Frayn’s 1982 parody of life backstage in a London theater, the term applies to the squiggles and squabbles at the very center… Read More
Bertha Harris will celebrate her 91st birthday with an open house 2-6 p.m. Saturday, July 25, at the Hermon Rescue Building, Billings Road. A supper will be served 4-5 p.m. Friends of Donald and Kathleen Moore, Lamoine, will celebrate the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary with… Read More
John Marin is one of those artists we associate with Maine, like Marsden Hartley and Rockwell Kent and good old Winslow Homer. With that link come certain expectations about Marin’s art. The sea will play a part for sure, rocks as well, and boats. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
One of my favorite “Shoe” comic strips by the syndicated cartoonist Jeff MacNelly has the old bird of a newspaper columnist in the tweed jacket with the patched elbows addressing Shoe, his gruff, cigar-chomping editor. “Sometimes my work blurs the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, don’t you think?”… Read More
Three basic camps have locked horns in a dispute over the proposed new management plan for the Allagash. It is quite a paradox, as some feel a wilderness can be created by regulation and legislation while others fear any new laws will threaten their heritage. Read More
Maine Sen. Susan Collins is a member of the U.S. Senate Health Care Task Force. In a story Friday on Page B1, the NEWS incorrectly reported that Sen. Olympia Snowe was a member of the task force. —- A story in Friday’s MaineDay about a… Read More
As a Bowdoin undergraduate, Bill Cohen majored in Latin and immersed himself in the Greek and Roman classics, which mostly evolve around colorful fables about the Olympian gods playing tricks with the fates of men. That helps the defense secretary, I suspect, appreciate the irony… Read More
In the four years since Congress rejected President Clinton’s health-care reform, the number of uninsured Americans has increased by 5 million to 43 million, the number of restrictions on those lucky enough to be covered has increased and the cost of health care has again headed skyward. Yet… Read More
The Sportman’s Alliance of Maine has come out very strongly against restricted access in the Allagash. SAM actually held a seat on the Allagash Advisory Committee during the two years that the committee existed. In all that time, SAM’s representative, Jim Gorman, attented only two meetings. Read More
Jacob Eisenhardt didn’t have to scramble for scholarship money this spring. Even before the recent West Springfield (Va.) High School graduate applied to Washington College last winter, he knew he had a hefty scholarship waiting for him there. Simply by being a member of his… Read More
Susan MacArthur, a psychiatric nurse in Blue Hill, thought Bangor psychiatrist Dr. Nanci-Ames Curtis had lost her mind. Practice medicine by teleconference? How can you have a psychiatric relationship over the phone? Very effectively, MacArthur found out. For more than a year, she has used… Read More
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BANGOR — Participating Christian Science Reading Rooms in Maine will be hosts of a booth featuring Mary Baker Eddy’s book, “Science & Health With Key to the Scriptures” at the Full Circle Summer Fair in Union, July 18-19. The booth, No. B19, will be located in the Book… Read More
When Dr. Noah Nesin arrived in Israel last month, like most tourists, he visited the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. The only remains of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, the Western or Wailing Wall is a place of prayer and pilgrimage sacred to the Jewish… Read More
BUCKSPORT — Nomination papers are available at the town office for citizens of Bucksport interested in positions on the school board and town council. The deadline for filing the papers is Aug. 31. Elections will be held Nov. 3 at the Bucksport High School gymnasium. Read More
OTIS — With a growing number of high school students and their corresponding tuition costs already straining next year’s school budget, Tricia Dyer realized last month that this wasn’t the best year to suggest financing a new baseball diamond. The tiny hill towns of Otis… Read More
ROCKLAND — The 51st annual Maine Lobster Festival will be held at Rockland’s Harbor Park from July 29 through Aug. 2. The fine arts tent will showcase local artists portraying the attractions of midcoast Maine. The tent also has attracted other artists from the New… Read More
BROOKS — The Marsh River Theater will present Fascinatin’ Rhythm jazz and swing quartet at 8 p.m. Saturday at the theater on Route 139. The Marsh River Art Gallery, upstairs at the theater, will feature the works of Jim Toothaker of Hampden. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
Marine Lance Cpl. Eric J. Cowan, a 1996 graduate of Hermon High School, has completed a six-month deployment to Iwankuni, Japan, with Marine Attack Squadron 311. Cowan’s squadron flies the F/A-18C Hornet, a twin-engine supersonic strike fighter which features an all-weather intercept, identify, destroy and… Read More
FORT KENT — The Northern Maine Medical Center Guild recently awarded two $200 scholarships to area students. Amy Saucier, daughter of Dean and Vera Saucier, received one of the scholarships and is attending Husson College. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The board of directors of the James Russell Wiggins Downeast Family YMCA has formed a search committee to find a new chief executive officer for the facility. The committee hopes to recommend a candidate to the full board by Sept. 15. For more information call Lionel… Read More
SINCLAIR — The annual meeting of the Fish River Lakes Water Quality Association will be held at 6 p.m. July 30 at the Sinclair Senior Citizen’s Center. The featured speaker will be Jean Louis Daigle from the Eastern Canada Soil and Water Conservation Center. For… Read More
BAR HARBOR — St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church has announced the church will host the first of three concerts by a vocal quintet from Trinity College of Cambridge, England. The program will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The group will perform the works of Bach,… Read More
BAR HARBOR — Lucy Bella Ndzana will offer an African dance workshop and performance from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 25, above the Eden Rising Store on Cottage Street. There will be dancing, drumming and traditional African foods. Donations will be accepted to benefit… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The Hancock County Democratic Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Ellsworth Unitarian Universalist Church on Court Street. Campaign updates, office plans and the Blue Hill Fair will be discussed. For information contact Cindy Blake at 374-5282. Read More
ROCKLAND — The U.S. Coast Guard awarded a $420,000 contract to Atlantic Coast Contractors of Portland on July 2 to construct support facilities for the new Coast Guard Cutter Abbie Burgess, a coastal buoy tender home-ported at the Coast Guard Station in Rockland. The Coast… Read More
ROCKLAND — There will be a contested race for House District 62 after all. After Republican Charles Jordan announced for the seat, then stepped down, there was some fear in GOP circles that Rockland Mayor Robert Peabody, a Democrat, might walk in unopposed. Democratic incumbent… Read More
SURRY — The Center for Compassionate Living will hold a free mini-workshop to introduce people to the center’s activities. The workshop will offer a variety of exercises designed to help each person examine and determine his or her own goals for living a compassionate life. Read More
ROCKLAND — The Sexual Assault Crisis and Support Center will provide advocate training this fall. The training begins Sept. 9, with sessions held from 6 to 9 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays as well as one Saturday session from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
THOMASTON — A variety of courses will be offered at the University of Maine System’s Thomaston Center. One class will look at problems the media face when representing the Holocaust. A course on Women in the Ancient World will investigate the social and literary context… Read More
Gov. Angus King, speaking about the natural gas pipelines proposed in Maine, said, “Manufacturers, especially paper mills, will be able to burn gas rather than expensive, polluting heating oil” (Wall Street Journal, June 11). At a recent forum in Bangor, covered by your paper, Arthur… Read More
Your July 1 editorial, “Patients’ bill of rights,” noting that the proposed federal legislation moves the managed care debate in the right direction, was itself right on point. You are correct in noting that the proposed legislation would put patients and doctors ahead of lawyers and accountants when… Read More
This is to recognize someone whose influence on the Maine Truck Driving Championships was not mentioned at the podium when the awards were handed out May 16 at the banquet, and I feel the need to remedy this oversight. Ken White, formally of Hartt Transportation,… Read More
This is in response to the letter (BDN, July 11-12) by teacher Jo-Marie E. Taepper. It’s disgraceful how this woman can defend a child abuser. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
I read in the Bangor Daily News on July 14 that Sen. Olympia Snowe is to hold seminars around the state for small business on the Y2K computer problem. She should direct her attention to the impact this Y2K computer problem is to have on every individual in… Read More
BANGOR — A probation revocation hearing for the East Corinth woman who snatched a newborn baby from his mother’s hospital room in November 1996 was delayed Friday in Penobscot County Superior Court. Justice Kirk Studstrup continued the hearing to August to give Nicole Yablonka’s court-appointed… Read More
BANGOR — The Maine Arts Commmission will hold a public meeting from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday at the Bangor Opera House. The commission will introduce the 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Partnership Plan. The Penobscot Theatre Company is the host and will include… Read More
BOOTHBAY HARBOR — A man who relied on a wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis failed to escape his apartment after calling to report that his bed was on fire, authorities said Friday. Richard Poulin, 48, was found dead in his bedroom after firefighters managed to… Read More
MADISON — Four days of fun and festivities continue today as part of the 22nd annual Madison-Anson Days, a festival celebrating the closeness of the neighboring Somerset County towns. Today’s highlights include a parade, fishing derby, music, food and fireworks. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
AUGUSTA — In the wake of two recent child drownings, the Department of Human Services warned parents Friday that they “can’t take their eyes off their kids” near the water. “People have to be so watchful, they have to realize how easily children can drown,… Read More
AUGUSTA — Federal disaster assistance for those affected by storms and floods from June 13 to July 1 is available only to municipalities, state agencies and eligible nonprofit organizations, according to officials from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Officials said that particular… Read More
BREWER — City Hall will be closed Wednesday to allow city staff to participate in mandatory safety training, according to City Manager James Kotredes. The manager said the annual safety day program includes training in the morning on workplace safety issues and a safety appreciation… Read More
ALFRED — The York County Jail is trying to overcome a shortage of guards, but a strong economy with plenty of job alternatives has hindered recruiting efforts. The crowded jail operates with two-thirds of the officers it needs. If the shortage continues, the county may… Read More
BANGOR — A Bangor man who earlier this month hopped a train to elude pursuing police was arrested and arraigned Friday. Wanted on six warrants from four counties and with other charges pending against him, Kerston E. Lane, 21, pleaded innocent at his arraignment, during… Read More
HAMPDEN — The second referendum on the proposed 1998-1999 SAD 22 budget will be held Thursday, July 23, with polls open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in Hampden, Newburgh and Winterport. The proposed $14.6 million budget, which is 5.95 percent or $822,232 more than… Read More
Bangor police went to an Essex Street home about 12:30 a.m. Friday and heard a woman inside a third-floor apartment crying and asking a man not to beat her. When police arrived, they heard a man and a woman yelling, the man telling the woman… Read More
Just before Christmas 1996, Valerie Emerson posed for a portrait with her children. The photograph captures 5-year-old Zakary smirking, 8-month-old Jakob laughing, 2-year-old Nikolas lifting his chin in a half-grin. Tia, weeks shy of 4, simply stares, unsmiling, into the camera. In her face is… Read More
It wasn’t a concert held Friday night at the Bangor Auditorium. It was a tent meeting. By the thousands the faithful came, packing the steamy temple ’til it could hold no more. They had come to hear the gospel according to Lynyrd Skynyrd. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
ALFRED — The York County Jail is trying to overcome a shortage of guards, but a strong economy with plenty of job alternatives has hindered recruiting efforts. The crowded jail operates with two-thirds of the officers it needs. If the shortage continues, the county may… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Selectmen gave their approval this week to using part of a $20,000 downtown revitalization grant to hire a consultant. “We need to build some kind of plan,” said Town Manager Pat Dickey on Friday. “We have all kinds of ideas and visions, but… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Town Manager D. Dwight Dogherty on Friday announced the 1998 tax rate: 1.1 mills higher than last year. The increase brings Pittsfield’s tax rate to $23.70 per $1,000 of valuation. Owning a $75,000 home in Pittsfield would result in a tax bill about… Read More
BEAVER COVE — A proposal by a Maine guide to construct four bunkhouses in a residential zone on Moosehead Lake in Beaver Cove will be presented at a public hearing later this month. Several of Paul Behring’s neighbors stand opposed to his proposal to construct… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A consultant retained by SAD 68 directors was asked Wednesday to provide a cost estimate for each of the needed improvements that were identified in an audit of the district’s facilities. Like other school districts, SAD 68 has done an audit of its… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Somerset County commissioners will deal with issues in the unorganized townships of Concord and Rockwood at their regular meeting Wednesday. Bid proposals will be opened for the grooming of the Rockwood Area Snowmobile Trail, and a discussion will be held regarding the proposed… Read More
Allison Bankston is the new morning news anchor-field reporter at WQCB-FM (Q106.5). She will join morning personalities Bob Duchesne and Paul Dupuis from 5 to 10 a.m. Bankston worked for the Pine Tree Chapter, American Red Cross, as emergency and volunteer services director. She also worked for area… Read More
PITTSFIELD — After more than two years of work by hundreds of residents, and after a state review that declared the town’s comprehensive plan a fine piece of work, the plan will be formally adopted Tuesday by the Town Council. The plan, a hefty document… Read More