LOWELL, Mass. – University of Maine freshman goalie Mike Morrison second-guessed coach Shawn Walsh’s choice of goaltenders for Saturday night’s Governor’s Cup tournament final against Vermont. “Alfie [junior goalie Alfie Michaud] has been playing really well. I wouldn’t have put me in. But coach Walsh… Read More
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Allen Ledbetter scored a game-high 21 points, shooting 9-for-9 from the field and 3-for-4 from the foul line, to lead Maine to a 91-72 men’s basketball win over Brown on Saturday. Maine (4-1) dominated from the start, scoring the first 11 points… Read More
MAINE vs. PROVIDENCE Time, site: Monday, 7:30 p.m., Providence Civic Center (12,993), Providence, R.I. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length; i++) { if (isMobileDevice()) {… Read More
NEW YORK – Ellsworth High School distance star Louie Luchini led the Foot Locker Cross Country Northeast Regional on Saturday for the first two miles, but a cramp hampered him as Andy Powell of North Easton, Mass., went on to win the event in 15 minutes, 23 seconds. Read More
The Maine Event Under-19 field hockey team took third at the National Field Hockey Festival in West Palm Beach, Fla., after winning both its games Saturday. The Maine team, which won the tournament last year, finished 4-2-1 in the pool. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
SPARKILL, N.Y. – Antonio Simmons drained three 3-point field goals on his way to a game-high 22 points as Saint Thomas Aquinas College downed Husson 62-51 Sunday in men’s college basketball action. Shawn Hargrove added 13 points and 14 rebounds for the Spartans, who held… Read More
ORONO – Mississippi’s Tarsha Bethley played only two minutes during the first half of Saturday night’s Dead River Co. championship game against Maine. In the end, her early foul trouble may have been a blessing in disguise. The All-Southeastern Conference pick scored 10 points in… Read More
The winter months can be a burden — even to the most enduring Maine residents. We double our weight with coats, mittens, boots, scarves — everything we can imagine — to keep Jack Frost from nipping our noses. The heating bills skyrocket as do other expenses that help… Read More
Believe it or not, dragons really do exist (and not just in the overactive imaginations of 6-year-olds). They’re a big part of many people’s day-to-day lives — adults and kids alike. You might even be facing one right now. The kind of dragons we’re talking… Read More
SCARBOROUGH — Holiday travel headaches turned into migraines Sunday for thousands of travelers using the Maine Turnpike after multivehicle accidents tied up traffic for miles in both directions. The southbound lanes in Scarborough were reduced to a virtual crawl after a five-car accident occurred in… Read More
BANGOR — If it doesn’t speak, shimmy or strut, then chances are your child doesn’t want it — or so it may seem. This holiday season, children as young as 6 months are emphatically declaring their desire for toys that are not only fun to play with, but… Read More
GUILFORD — The young and old gathered Sunday in Guilford to protest the demolition of another historic building in Piscataquis County for the construction of a Rite Aid store. The demolition of the multistory brick and slate Masonic Lodge in Guilford at the intersection of… Read More
FORT KENT — They came by the hundreds, even thousands Saturday and Sunday to the University of Maine at Fort Kent gymnasium to look at the work of more than 90 craftspeople and to buy Christmas gifts and decorations for their homes. Craftspeople from all… Read More
DEXTER — A Dexter man and his two young children were left homeless Sunday after a fire destroyed their mobile home on Garland Road. Eric Gudroe and his two children, believed to be between the ages of 2 and 5, managed to escape their burning… Read More
There’s a picture-book quality to the bins of twisty, lime-green cubanelle peppers and the glossy, pine-green poblanos at A.J. Kennedy’s Fruit & Produce, one of 22 Maine-based vendors at the Portland Public Market. At Hanson Brothers Seafood, the scene is intoxicating, with pale pink slabs… Read More
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Is it a high school with a heavy emphasis on skiing, or a ski school with a heavy emphasis on academics? Welcome to the Carrabassett Valley Academy, a chalet-style edifice in the shadow of Maine’s highest ski mountain that is the training… Read More
BANGOR — It’s a quilt that seems entirely fitting for a 3-year-old girl: pink border, Care Bear figures, fluttery-winged angels. But the little girl for whom this quilt was made will never enjoy it, never be warmed by it. It and about 150 other quilt… Read More
Electric customers in northern Maine may not receive the same low-cost power benefits as other consumers when the state’s electric industry is open to retail competition in March 2000, according to two new studies that will be presented to lawmakers in December. The preliminary studies… Read More
“A Bug’s Life.” Directed by John Lasseter, written by Andrew Stanton, Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw. Running time: 94 minutes. Rated G. “Babe: Pig in the City.” Directed by George Miller, written by Judy Morris, Mark Lamprell and Miller. Running time: 96 minutes. Rated G. Read More
Methane hydrates have been a nuisance to the petroleum industry for decades because of their propensity to form icelike buildups that clog pipelines. When the hydrates were first encountered in the 1930s, geologists suspected they might also form in permafrost or beneath the sea floor… Read More
Because the American dream more often consists of a large home on a couple acres in the countryside (but not too far from town) rather than a smaller place on a smaller lot right in town, Maine’s taxpayers must pay an additonal $50 million and $75 million a… Read More
WALDOBORO — The Rev. James H. Emerson, a Baptist minister who traveled across Maine opening up abandoned churches, died Nov. 28 at a local nursing home. He was 78. Emerson, a Gardiner native, opened a dozen or more unused churches from the 1950s to the… Read More
WASHINGTON — Hospitals can’t delay or deny emergency room care just because a patient’s health insurance plan requires permission before treatment, government regulators are ready to announce this week. A 1986 law bars hospital emergency rooms from refusing to examine and stabilize patients who can’t… Read More
Dr. Jack Kevorkian says he had two goals when he went on TV to cross the line between aiding in a death and causing one: to get charged with murder and to force a debate on physician-assisted suicide. In the first he succeeded, with additional… Read More
For years, Bob Kelly has worked to preserve history. Soon, he’s going to make a little history of his own. Through his company, House Revivers, Kelly has tackled daunting restorations of historic buildings in Bangor throughout the past decade. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
ELLSWORTH — While shoppers lined up early Friday morning in Bangor, kicking off what is commonly known as the busiest shopping weekend of the year, Main Street merchants in some coastal communities reported a dip in holiday sales. In Blue Hill, Brad Emerson, manager of… Read More
The Bangor Daily News seems to relish the idea of the emasculation of the national Republican Party. While the Republican Party in Maine is presently weak, nationally it is a different story. The majority of women who voted Republican were 53 percent to 44 percent. Read More
In response to the Nov. 19 article [“From Police Files,” concerning a transient who was arrested for using a restroom]; for years, before moving back to Bangor, I worked for a man in a card and gift shop in Boston who had a very upset stomach. Many times… Read More
I wonder if there is a subliminal message in a map that appeared as part of a feature article published Nov. 21-22? The map, showing all of New Brunswick and most of Maine, had color-coded blocks to identify large tracts of forestland either recently purchased, owned or controlled… Read More
I was in attendance at the Nov. 20 meeting of the Maine Board of Pesticides Control. My primary reason for attending was to speak out against the introduction of genetically engineered corn by Monsanto. Little did I know that when I arrived I would be told Monsanto had… Read More
Heated rhetoric and extreme adversarialism are, unfortunately, commonplace in the debate over forest practices. This situation was not improved by Jonathan Carter’s recent declaration of war on the forest products industries. Had Carter followed the Greens’ Ten Key Values which condemn the use of hatred,… Read More
In reference to the current spate of hate crimes against gays, abortion providers, African Americans and others, a quote from Bishop John Shelby Spong seems appropriate: “The great danger of believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as… Read More
A Glenburn man who allegedly fired an assault rifle inside a home was arrested in Bangor early Sunday morning and taken to a local hospital for a mental health evaluation. Bangor police received a report at 4:15 a.m. that the man was headed toward Bangor… Read More
PORTLAND — For low-income Mainers who struggle to pay for housing, food and health care, computer access is often a low priority. But various people and organizations in the state are working to provide the poor with computer technology in an effort to bridge the… Read More
PORTLAND — Wilbur Hollingsworth doesn’t want to help the best students in the class. The 91-year-old retired lawyer says they already have all sorts of help — from colleges and high schools. It’s the mediocre students that need help. Ten years ago, Hollingsworth began to… Read More
Thousands of New England deer hunters were in the woods this weekend. But despite their continued best efforts, and the fact that many deer also are killed in traffic accidents, the Northeast’s hooved herds are expanding at an alarming rate. Hunters will kill at least… Read More
Some facts about Rep. Thomas W. Murphy Jr.: Born: Oct. 29, 1942, in New Haven, Conn. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length; i++) { if… Read More
As a representative of the Maine Recreation Association of the Deaf, I am writing in response to Timothy Damien’s letter of Oct. 19 regarding the admission fee. Since this was our first bi-annual Timberfest, it would have been much more helpful if Damien had come… Read More
WASHINGTON — Seven aircraft fuel depots in Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Massachusetts have received contaminated fuel from Exxon, which earlier this week issued a recall in three other East Coast states, the Federal Aviation Administration said. FAA spokesman Jim Peters said Saturday the… Read More
AUGUSTA — Hope springs eternal in the Maine Legislature about this time of year, when new faces assume leadership roles and talk of a fresh spirit of bipartisanship fills the air. House Republicans who find themselves in a familiar position — the minority — have… Read More
Vandals knocked over 26 gravestones at the Oak Grove Cemetery on Finson Road in Bangor during the weekend. The vandals likely hit Saturday evening or early Sunday morning and targeted stones in the old section in the back of the cemetery, near the Kenduskeag Stream,… Read More
SHIN POND — Two men from Rhode Island and Massachusetts were hospitalized with injuries suffered in a single car crash on Route 159, 12 miles west of Shin Pond Sunday afternoon. The driver, Chester Tillsbury, 19, of Rhode Island was taken to the Houlton Regional… Read More
WESTON — A 17-year-old Wytopitlock teen-ager died Friday night when he was ejected from his car in a single-vehicle accident, a police spokesman said Saturday. Timothy Leddy was pronounced dead at the scene of the 5:55 p.m. accident. He was eastbound on the Seldon Road… Read More
PORTLAND — The nearly 200 people who perished in the sinking of the SS Portland off Massachusetts 100 years ago were remembered at a weekend ceremony on the waterfront. A bell rang as the names of each of the 192 passengers and crew members were… Read More
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — An Arab-American civil rights group says it may forgo legal action against Palace Playland if aspects of a fun house display at the amusement park it considers offensive are removed by spring. Paul Kfoury, lawyer for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said… Read More
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Bangor District Court Anthony Dennison, 21, Brewer, possession of marijuana, $200, operating motor vehicle after suspension of driver’s license, $200. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i… Read More
DOVER, N.H. — Strafford County officials hope a program that allows inmates to remain free while awaiting trial will help cut costs and crime. The Community Correctional Program requires participants to abide by curfews, submit to drug and alcohol tests and volunteer with local organizations. Read More
CARIBOU — The National Association of Development Organizations recently recognized the Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Northern Maine Development Commission with a 1998 Innovation Award. Maine MEP and NMDC developed a program for training company representatives in a sophisticated quality improvement process known as… Read More