BANGOR – When Bates College junior striker Andrew Apstein pounced on a loose ball in the midfield, he looked up and liked what he saw: just one Husson College defender between him and Braves goalie Mark Cucinelli. Apstein shifted into high gear, created some space… Read More
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ASHLAND – Charles Robinson’s two goals gave him the school record for most goals in a career as Ashland defeated Fort Fairfield 5-1 in schoolboy soccer action Wednesday. Robinson’s 60 goals eclipses Andrew Sjogren’s previous record. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
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In the wake of the NBA’s ongoing lockout and on-again, off-again talks between the players’ union and management, the NHL has a golden opportunity to be the only pro game in town on the airwaves. Well, at least once the NFL season winds up in… Read More
The annual Maine moose hunt was a great success for hunters. More than 92 percent of those who were awarded a permit went home with a moose in tow. According to the preliminary figures released by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, 1,847 of… Read More
BANGOR – The first 40 minutes of Wednesday night’s Bangor-Brewer boys soccer game was a defensive struggle. In the second 40 minutes, the game turned decidedly offensive, as junior David Lisnik turned his first career hat trick to lift the Rams past the Witches 4-3… Read More
BLUE HILL – Freshman Erik Maleck scored on a header with six seconds remaining in the second overtime Wednesday, lifting Ellsworth to a 1-0 schoolboy soccer victory over previously undefeated George Stevens Academy. Maleck was assisted by Cooper Friend. Joseph Richards had six saves on… Read More
HARRISONBURG, Va. – James Madison, the nation’s 12th-ranked team, scored three goals within a five-minute span in the first half to deal the University of Maine’s field hockey team its third consecutive shutout loss, 5-0, Wednesday. JMU, which defeated top-ranked North Carolina on Oct. 9,… Read More
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After getting a taste of the big-meet atmosphere at their own Murray Keatinge Invitational last week, the University of Maine cross country teams begin the championship season in earnest Saturday. Both the men’s and women’s squads take on the region’s best in the New England… Read More
For years, Ellsworth soccer has been all about the fine Eagles boys teams, which have won Eastern Maine and state titles and had several undefeated regular seasons. But this year, while the boys are at a solid 10-4, everyone is talking about the girls. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
LTC football conference officials plan to meet within the next week to discuss what to do about league statistics, award winners, and the postseason banquet in light of John Bapst Memorial High School’s decision tfinal five games of the season. “The first thing we’re going… Read More
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe was honored Oct. 9 by the Family Planning Association of Maine for her 20 years of leadership on family planning, reproductive choice and women’s health issues. At the association’s 1998 membership and awards dinner at the Harraseeket Inn in… Read More
BANGOR — A local appearance by Filene’s chief executive officer drew hundreds of businesspeople from their beds early Wednesday. But on this chilly fall morning, reality startled most more than the brisk temperatures — they not only will have to compete with her company but fight for her… Read More
MACHIAS — A former New Hampshire woman who helped her husband hide the body of her infant daughter in the couple’s trash-ridden Calais trailer was sentenced to 11 months in prison Wednesday. Denise St. Yves, 27, has been in the Washington County Jail since Feb. Read More
AUGUSTA — The state’s campaign ethics commission has given the treasurer of the Old Town Republican Committee five days to respond to charges that the committee failed to report more than $11,000 in campaign contributions from 1996 to the present. Failure to do so will… Read More
AUGUSTA — Maine independent Gov. Angus King stood apart from three of his opponents Wednesday on tax reform as he emphasized the positive advances the state has made during his first term in office. During a candidate forum hosted by the Maine Municipal Association at… Read More
NEW YORK — International Paper, the world’s largest paper company, is paring its work force by about 1,500, or nearly 2 percent, as part of a series of cost-cutting measures. The company, which makes paper, packaging and other specialty products, reported that the measures, including… Read More
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VEAZIE — It was already clear last July that this town of 1,600 was taking a different approach to exotic dancing than Bangor. While its sister city was embroiled in a federal lawsuit over the constitutionality of its nudity ordinance, Veazie was making favorable comparisons… Read More
WATERVILLE — State police Wednesday continued to appeal for help finding a man suspected of raping one woman and trying to abduct another after staging a pair of accidents six days ago. Detective Sgt. Jim Luce said authorities have received as many as 35 calls… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Maritimes & Northeast natural gas pipeline cleared its last significant regulatory hurdle Wednesday when the 320-mile project was approved 7-1 by the Maine Board of Environmental Protection. Kathy Littlefield of Belfast was the lone board member opposing approval. The hearing and approval… Read More
PORTLAND — A prisoner who was sexually assaulted twice by his cellmate in the Maine Correctional Center in Windham has been given $36,000 by the state to settle a lawsuit. The man spent four days in 1992 with an inmate who had been behind bars… Read More
WASHINGTON — Sen. Olympia Snowe urged federal regulators Wednesday to suspend their efforts to restrict the farming of European strains of salmon, which are being used by salmon farmers in Maine. Snowe said the regulations proposed by the National Marine Fisheries Service would be too… Read More
BANGOR — Judith Hofer is a maestro conducting a retail symphony called Filene’s Department Stores. She controls a pen as if it’s a baton, directing subordinates to follow up on this or find out about that. Walking through her newest store Wednesday at the Bangor… Read More
When Grace Chambers became pregnant with her fifth child several decades ago, her husband was a healthy young man. By the time the baby was born, he was in the hospital, too, being treated for cancer. Three months later, he was dead. “Without Social Security… Read More
MEXICO — A case in which a dog was tied to a car mirror and dragged at speeds of 20 to 50 mph has resulted in a 330-day sentence for one man, and another awaits a court hearing on an animal-cruelty charge. A lawyer for… Read More
AUGUSTA — Agriculture Commissioner Edward McLaughlin is leaving Gov. Angus King’s Cabinet at the end of the year, King said Wednesday. King credits McLaughlin for crafting a strategy to develop a quality potato inspection program and leading efforts to bring about a planned expansion of… Read More
AUGUSTA — Engineers say they need to know what exactly is under and around the state Capitol before building a $4 million pedestrian tunnel to the nearby State Office Building. Scientists are trying to take a high-tech picture of the earth near the building. The… Read More
Even the top TV creators have the occasional strikeout to go with their hits. For Steven Bochco, who gave TV viewers such classics as “Hill Street Blues” and “NYPD Blue,” there was last season’s “Public Morals” and “Total Security.” (You blinked, you missed ’em.). googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
The Toyota in the driveway with the license plate “RAGTME” is the first clue that this is the home of one of Maine’s foremost ragtime practitioners. The second indication is the piano and singing that drifts out through the open front door of the small,… Read More
On Monhegan in September, there’s always the chance of stumbling into a field full of butterflies. The island 10 miles off the Maine coast is one of the places where monarch butterflies converge during the early part of their fall migration to Mexico. “Converge” is… Read More
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BAR HARBOR — A captain of the high-speed ferry to Nova Scotia pleaded innocent Wednesday morning to charges of operating The Cat with imprudent speed. Bruce Harrigan, 39, of St. John, New Brunswick, issued the plea through an attorney in 5th District Court in Bar… Read More
CASTINE — Deer and bow-hunters have come under fire in Castine this fall. At a selectmen’s meeting Tuesday night, a handful of residents complained that the deer are destroying lawns and gardens and causing car accidents — four in the last two weeks alone. They… Read More
BANGOR — If city councilors needed a little boost to their dreams for the waterfront, they got it Wednesday. Alternative Energy Inc. President Christopher Hutchins invited the council and city officials to hold their workshop on the waterfront topic in a conference room on the fourth floor of… Read More
ROCKLAND — The city stands at a crossroads and the Nov. 3 election to fill two seats on the council will help to determine which direction is taken. The council now has a 3-2 split, with the progressive wing favoring new projects and celebrating events… Read More
BANGOR — A Newburgh man jailed since last November on a weapons violation after he was linked to an alleged murder-for-hire plot pleaded guilty Wednesday to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Anthony David Dorothy, 27, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — With students who will benefit from the program looking on, a groundbreaking agreement between Kennebec Valley Technical College, Madison Area Memorial High School and Redington-Fairview General Hospital was signed Tuesday afternoon in the hospital lobby. The program — which is the only one… Read More
AUGUSTA — The state ethics commission voted unanimously Wednesday morning to dismiss a complaint against Somerset County Sheriff Barry DeLong that he used a departmental newsletter as political propaganda. Rene Guay of Dennistown filed the complaint, charging that the newsletter was a bid for re-election… Read More
BELFAST — A preliminary investigation into the car accident that killed Katherine M. Benjamin, 17, of Stockton Springs on Tuesday night indicated that excessive speed was a contributing factor. Benjamin was the driver of a 1990 Mazda Protege that failed to negotiate a corner on… Read More
ORLAND — A 31-year-old man from Northeast Harbor has been arrested in connection with an alleged assault upon a 13-year-old girl in Orland. The girl’s father reported Sunday to police that his daughter was assaulted on the evening of Oct. 9. Keovilaisack Sayasane is in… Read More
The state Attorney General’s Office on Wednesday announced it had settled a lawsuit against a Maine-based company and its president for unlawful fund-raising practices. Sara-Mar Inc., which until recently had operated from offices in Lewiston, Waterville and Bangor, and its president, Reginald Armor III of… Read More
NEWPORT — The inequities of state educational funding, lack of focus on traffic violations, state investment for the future, and the availability of grant funds were but a few of the topics covered by five candidates for public office who spoke to Newport voters Wednesday night. Read More
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State Sen. Susan Longley says she was “like a small dog nipping at their heels.” A major state official for economic development was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as calling her a “bloodhound.” Whatever the breed, credit the Waldo County lawmaker with proving that in dealing with… Read More
It is interesting to note that Plum Creek intends to keep its options open regarding real estate development of the SAPPI land. This is an ominous message for those to value access to land. Indeed, this is the warning that the Forest Ecology Network has made for years. Read More
Maine’s home-grown bias industry has entered the final quarter of 1998 in great shape to rack up another annual production record. But it’s a state-subsidized industry that Maine people will surely decide they can live without when they understand the extent to which it has polluted the social… Read More
The state of controversy in Washington desperately cries for clarification. We know that in at least half of all marriages, there is infidelity. We know that over a dozen presidents have had affairs while in the White House. It seems obvious that any man who would not lie… Read More
I would like to respond to a letter written by Warren Myrick of Guilford. I appreciate his very mannered letter regarding the Senate race in District 8. However, I am a little concerned that he left out some important information. I am also an educator and in the… Read More
Now I understand why we Mainers are required to register a truck camper, why we pay a $38 fee for a fishing/hunting license, or why we have to pay back excise tax on a boat we have not used in years. It’s so the state will have plenty… Read More
I agree with Marty Dickson’s letter of Sept. 30. You bet the Democrats will go to the polls in November and that’s why I want to let the people of Southern Hancock County and Washington County know about Eddie Dugay, who is running for House Seat 131 on… Read More
FORT KENT — The Fort Kent Town Council agreed Tuesday night to allow its town manager to oversee the day-to-day activities of the Fort Kent Utility District, which has been without a supervisor for the last two weeks. Utility District Superintendent Gilles Daigle has been… Read More
PORTLAND — The torrential downpour over the Columbus Day weekend did little to deter tourists from getting their last peek at the fall foliage, tourism officials said. “With the rain, I wasn’t expecting the numbers to be that good, but I am quite pleased,” said… Read More
Public support for a $20 million research and development bond issue is growing, according to a poll that will be released today. In the omnibus survey conducted last week by Strategic Marketing Services of Portland, about 65 percent of those asked said they would vote… Read More
PORTLAND — Police who arrested two men Wednesday on charges of distributing child pornography over the Internet discovered startling images of abuse on the men’s computers. Investigators found 975 pornographic images involving children, including the gruesome image of the anal rape of an 18-month-old baby,… Read More
Two brothers were arrested in Bangor early Wednesday morning after one allegedly assaulted his live-in girlfriend and the other interceded when police went to arrest him. Police charged Shawn Bradford, 23, with domestic assault, failure to submit to an arrest and with endangering the welfare… Read More
Good news for those of you needing flu shots comes this morning from Donna Guppy, R.N., the clinic coordinator for the City of Bangor Health Department Immunization Program. Guppy called Wednesday morning to report that “the word is, the city of Bangor has plenty of… Read More
BANGOR — The City Council voted Wednesday evening to table a measure that would have amended the city map by drawing in a “parallel service road” behind Stillwater Avenue. The order would have created a right of way, reserving the path for future construction of… Read More
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HOULTON — Candidates for seats on the Town Council will have the opportunity next week to tell voters why they feel they should be elected. The Greater Houlton Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a candidates forum at 7 p.m. Oct. 20 at the town office. Read More
CARIBOU — A Presque Isle man pleaded not guilty to charges of burglarizing an elderly woman’s home, tying her up and stealing her car Tuesday. John K. Vaillancourt, 33, was arraigned in Aroostook County Superior Court in Caribou before Justice Paul T. Pierson. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
I am writing this letter in response to a recent news story that Oct. 8 was National Depression Screening Day. It appears to me that there is something dangerous going on here. Screening day started in 1991 with 90 test sites. By last year there… Read More
HOULTON — Proponents of Maine’s east-west highway will get a chance to make their case publicly next week before the Town Council decides its formal position on the issue. Rick Bronson of the Maine East-West Highway Association will be on hand at 7 p.m. Monday,… Read More
HOULTON — The Town Council on Tuesday night approved the use of money in the town’s undesignated fund balance account to complete the next phase of work on the John Millar Arena. The original 24-year-old arena collapsed in January from snow and ice that had… Read More
Republican Kevin L. Shorey Age: 40 Birthplace: Lincoln Address: Route 1 Box 134, Calais Education: The Choate School; Columbia University, New York; Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Occupation: Self employed, Quoddy Wigwam Gift Shop, Quoddy Trail Moccasin Company, Printing industry consultant. Read More
MACHIAS — A former Calais travel agent who left the state after allegedly embezzling more than $70,000 from his clients and the agency’s former owners returned to Maine and turned himself in Wednesday. William Tracy, 43, of Englewood, Fla., appeared before Washington County Superior Court… Read More
Democrat Joseph D. Driscoll Age: 66 Birthplace: St. Stephen, New Brunswick Address: 45 Spring St. Calais Education: St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia; University of Southern Maine, University of Maine at Machias, Northern Conservatory of Music. Occupation: Retired educator Experience: Three terms in Maine… Read More
AUGUSTA — Children will come first in a Wednesday, Oct. 21, debate between congressional candidates Tom Allen and Ross Connelly at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland. Sponsored by the Maine Children’s Alliance, the debate is part of the organization’s fourth annual Champions for Children Conference,… Read More
ROCKLAND — The Saracens Motorcycle Club has as much right to meet as any other club, a District Court judge has ruled. In dismissing a complaint filed by the city, Judge Bernard Staples said in a decision released Wednesday that the motorcycle club had as… Read More
CARIBOU — A University of Maine researcher is meeting today with Aroostook County’s district attorney and sheriff regarding a survey on domestic violence in the County. At 3 p.m. at the District Attorney’s Office, District Attorney Neale T. Adams and County Sheriff Ted St. Pierre… Read More