As far as football coaches and officials in the Pine Tree Conference are concerned, eight isn’t enough. But eight is all they can get as the PTC will switch to an eight-game schedule over a nine-week regular season this fall. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
REDLANDS, Calif. – James Zukowski pitched six innings of one-hit ball, striking out five and walking five, as the Husson Braves cruised to their first victory of the season with a 14-2 verdict over the University of Redlands Tuesday afternoon. John Montgomery ripped four singles,… Read More
For a defenseman, Waterville hockey player Chad Hart is downright offensive. But that quality didn’t hurt his chances as one of three finalists for the Travis Roy Award, presented annually to the state’s top senior player at a Class A school. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
JENNIFER KUNZ Clinton, NY – Jennifer Kunz, a sophomore at Hamilton College gained All-American honors at the NCAA Championship Meet in swimming this past weekend at Oxford, Ohio. Kunz, a graduate of Hampden Academy, was part of the 400-yard freestyle relay, with her team finishing… Read More
ORONO – Third-year University of Maine coach Paul Kostacopoulos would have liked his Black Bears to return from their spring trip with a winning record. He also would have liked to have seen them hit better than .297, hit more than 13 homers, and steal more than seven… Read More
Vladimiro Roca – you may not have heard of him, but you will be hearing more if you are a baseball fan, or if you are following international relations between the U.S. and Cuba. Roca is Cuban, living there, and on Monday he was sentenced… Read More
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Jason Thomas of Bangor sliced almost seven seconds off of his best time in the 1000-yard freestyle to take seventh place at the Northeast division of the Speedo Junior National Swimming Championships at Erie Community College Tuesday. Thomas, who swims for Bangor… Read More
Former Bangor High School pitching star Matt Kinney has been assigned to the Minnesota Twins’ Class Double A franchise in New Britain, Conn. Kinney, whom the Twins received in a trade from the Boston Red Sox involving Greg Swindell and Orlando Merced, was 12-8 with… Read More
CARRABASSETT VALLEY – Ken and Charlene Sassi, owners of Weatherby’s, The Fisherman’s Resort of Grand Lake Stream, will host a reception for sportsmen at the Sugarloaf Inn on Saturday, April 3, 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. The show will feature displays and information about fishing and the local culture… Read More
Anna Sprague is a perfect example of what can happen to those who chase a dream with devotion, faith, and the love of a challenge. Sprague, a junior at Caribou High School, won both the freestyle and classic at the Class A Nordic state meet… Read More
SOUTHWEST HARBOR – The Olympic Star Class team comprised of skipper Cuyler Morris and crew Tom Olsen placed 6th in an International fleet of 93 boats in the 57th annual Bacardi Cup in Miami, Florida March 7-12. Cuyler Morris, 32, is the son of Yacht… Read More
Andrew Neff of the Bangor Daily News was recently named Maine Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. The honor was the result of a vote of his contemporaries throughout the state. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s top law enforcement official is seeking extra money to prosecute the state’s border war against Maine. “It appears that we will likely need to seek to have the United States Supreme Court resolve this long-disputed issue,” Attorney General Philip McLaughlin… Read More
PITTSFIELD — The feasibility study for a proposed community center is nearly complete, and committee members are preparing to draft a report for the Town Council. According to Karen Wagner, secretary of the Community Center Team, a recent meeting of community and business leaders was… Read More
Powerful winds cut across Maine on Tuesday as a late winter storm that dumped as much as 2 feet of snow exited toward the Canadian Maritimes. The storm, the second to hit the state in a 10-day period, was blamed for at least one highway fatality, caused scattered… Read More
AUGUSTA — A proposed statewide smoking ban in restaurants got off to a shaky start Tuesday after a legislative committee recommended the bill ought not pass. By a 6-5 vote, the Health and Human Services Committee voted against LD 1349, An Act to Protect Citizens from the Detrimental… Read More
WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins has introduced legislation to address problems with provisions in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 that were intended to control the growth in Medicare spending on graduate medical education. “The legislation I am proposing is critical to the survival of… Read More
It’s March 17, so there’s a very good chance you awoke this morning feeling at least a wee bit Irish. Millions of people do on St. Patrick’s Day. You might be French or Greek, Swedish or Italian, but no matter. Many of you have been… Read More
AUGUSTA — Y2K? Why bother? To answer that question posed by some small Maine businesses, Gov. Angus King has assembled a 20-member task force to raise awareness of the need to prepare for possible complications stemming from some older computer programs that may mistake the… Read More
WOOLWICH — The driver blamed for last month’s highway crash that killed him and another motorist had a blood-alcohol content three times the legal limit, according to test results. John H. West, 26, who recently moved to Wiscasset from Connecticut, strayed over the center line… Read More
NEW VINEYARD — A car-truck crash in New Vineyard has claimed the life of a Kingfield man. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Department said Willard Ackley Jr. was killed at around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday on Route 27. Police said Ackley, 31, was trying to pass a… Read More
FREEPORT — Because of flat sales in 1998, there will be no bonuses for L.L. Bean workers again this year. The company told 4,500 workers Monday that they won’t receive bonuses again this year because 1998 sales were about the same as they were in… Read More
GREENVILLE — In the midst of Monday’s blinding snowstorm, Matthew Morrell, a University of Maine student, found himself using his hands as claws and his elbows as anchors to pull himself out of the frigid waters of Moosehead Lake. Scrambling across the ice, Morrell fell… Read More
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Service Merchandise Co. plans to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the discount retailer of jewelry and home products announced Tuesday. The company’s board of directors authorized the filing Monday night after five vendors filed a petition seeking court supervision of Service Merchandise’s… Read More
AUGUSTA — The state’s unemployment compensation fund is almost broke, the state Labor Department said Tuesday. So the department offered a long-awaited list of 23 proposals to fix the fund, including ways to increase contributions by businesses. In addition, the department proposed tightening requirements for… Read More
Heavy wind blew in a window at the U.S. Post Office in Old Town Tuesday, sending one postal employee to the hospital. Daniel King, 51, of Old Town was injured when he was struck by the glass and knocked unconscious. King was conscious, however, when… Read More
TRENTON — Residents wrestled Tuesday with the question of whether they can afford the educational experience they aim to provide. During a public hearing at the Trenton Elementary School, local taxpayers debated for more than 90 minutes whether they should go it alone, without any… Read More
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are working to increase funding for veterans health care programs in fiscal year 2000, urging the chairmen of both the Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee to boost funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read More
SEARSPORT — The Friends of Stockton Harbor will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in the public meeting room of the Peoples Heritage Bank in Searsport. Topics will include updates on a grant proposal to hire local clammers and the Beals… Read More
PORTLAND — Two months after it was launched, Maine’s first needle exchange program is striving to win the trust of the Portland-area drug addicts it seeks to protect from infection by the virus that causes AIDS. Only about a dozen of the area’s estimated 500… Read More
Brits or Anglophiles hankering for a meat pie, sausage roll or Cornish pastie this St. Patrick’s Day can treat themselves to traditional British fare down Searsport way. Sean Hogan, an Englishman with Irish ties, and his American wife, Kathy, run Periwinkles, a bakery and lunch… Read More
When we reached the top of the stairs at City Slickers, a new Tex-Mex restaurant on Broad Street in the former Greenhouse Restaurant in Bangor, we knew we had dressed all wrong for the occasion. The image of a big red yahooing chili-waving a cowboy hat was the… Read More
First, we like like to make the distinction that once people learn more about “dirt,” they usually start calling it “soil.” There are lots of different kinds of soils on the Maine lanscape, and their properties affect every one of us. If you are interested in growing a… Read More
MAKING PEACE, by George Mitchell, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999. Hardback, 188 pages, $24. Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell of Maine will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House today, fittingly, St. Patrick’s Day. The award, the highest civilian honor… Read More
When people in Maine talk, for good or for ill, about the industrial forests of the state, it is almost always generally. This is not because the practices of the large landowners are interchangable but because legal restrictions prevent the state from releasing information about specific landowners. An… Read More
WASHINGTON — U.S. Reps. John Baldacci and Tom Allen announced Monday Maine’s participation in “An Artistic Discovery: A Congressional Art Competition.” Two pieces of artwork — one from each of Maine’s congressional districts — will be selected to represent the state of Maine. They will… Read More
China stole this country’s most precious nuclear secrets. The Chinese prime minister comes to Washington next month. The White House and Congress had better get busy. This is no time for fixing blame. The theft of multiple warhead technology from the Los Alamos national laboratory… Read More
BELFAST — A local man charged with stealing an ice cream bar costing a quarter has been found not guilty. Michael Digioia, 54, of Belfast was exonerated by a Waldo County Superior Court jury Tuesday following about one hour of deliberations. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
AUGUSTA — Bad roads cost the average driver about $84 a year in vehicle wear and tear, supporters of a higher gas tax said Tuesday. In a new study, The Road Information Program, a research organization based in Washington, D.C., concludes that Maine will face… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — In a highly emotional hearing, a local teen-ager was ordered Tuesday to the Maine Youth Center for the stabbing death of a Presque Isle High School classmate two years ago. As the tears of spectators flowed, sometimes uncontrollably, Maine District Court Judge… Read More
AUGUSTA — Give us the opportunity to nurture our kids. That was the collective plea from a parade of fathers who came before the Judiciary Committee Tuesday in support of a group of bills that would enable them to spend more time with their children. Read More
Snowstorms like the one that swept through Maine this week often result in injuries that are completely unrelated to road conditions. Dr. Erik Steele of Bangor said that most storm-related injuries occur after the snowfall stops, when people begin the process of digging out and… Read More
AUGUSTA — Maine’s education funding formula isn’t perfect but proposed changes would make it even worse by adding to the unfair burden already borne by some taxpayers, southern Maine leaders told a legislative committee on Tuesday. A leader of the Coalition for Equitable School Funding… Read More
Staff, volunteers and friends of the Mayo Regional Hospital Substance Abuse Treatment Program in Dover-Foxcroft have undertaken a new project that is most commendable. Adolescent youth service coordinator Brian Parkman reports the hospital is believed to be the first in Maine to participate in a… Read More
AUGUSTA — Attorney General Andrew Ketterer announced Tuesday his office had reached an assurance under the Unfair Trade Practices Act with Webber Oil Co. regarding an advertisement for oil and gas boilers. Webber placed advertisements in November and December in five Maine newspapers (Lewiston Sun… Read More
SEARSPORT — The Searsport District High School will host a turkey supper with all the fixings to raise money for its Project Graduation trip to New Jersey. The event will be held at 5 p.m. Friday, March 19, at the Searsport Lions Club on Prospect… Read More
BUCKSPORT — Champion International Corp. announced Tuesday that it will shut down two papermaking machines at its Bucksport mill for a week at the end of this month, putting about 150 employees out of work. Champion will shut down the Nos. 1 and 2 paper… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Town councilors Tuesday night approved changing the assistant town manager’s position, held by Sylvia Hudson, to include a wide variety of personnel administration. After reading the long list of duties, Councilor Tim Nichols said, “This is a $120,000 a year job, from the… Read More
CALAIS — Two more young adults have been charged in connection with a series of February break-ins at four Main Street businesses. John Braughton, 19, of Calais was charged with receiving stolen property. Also charged with receiving stolen property in connection to the break-ins was… Read More
ST. ALBANS — Dwindling sand piles in many Maine towns have municipal officials crossing their fingers that Monday’s storm is winter’s last blast. Four thousand yards of salt and sand wasn’t quite enough for St. Albans’ roads this winter. With town trucks plowing and sanding… Read More
ROCKLAND — The city’s waste-water treatment plant was in limited operation Tuesday after an explosion and fire damaged electrical components Monday night. Assistant Fire Chief Darren Davis said a plant employee who entered the waterfront building at 40 Tillson Ave. on Monday night to prepare… Read More
BANGOR — Nobody objected when the Bangor Fire Department burned down the dilapidated building at the corner of Union and Sixteenth streets last summer. Later, the half-acre parcel was sold to Thomas Emero, who set about cleaning up the site. But Emero’s plan to build… Read More
ROCKLAND — The Penobscot School will celebrate Easter Polish-style with a potluck dinner at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 28. Polish friends, students and the public are invited. Those attending should bring a dish of their favorite Polish (or American) food to share. A $2 donation… Read More
ROCKLAND — Officials from the U.S. Postal Service will sell special-issue World War II stamp reproductions in the Farnsworth Art Museum’s Wyeth Center, 44 Union Street, Rockland, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, March 19. At noon the same day, area schoolchildren, Farnsworth officials… Read More
WASHINGTON — The Washington Conservation Committee will hold an Aquifer Education night at 7 o’clock Thursday, March 18, in the Bryant Room of the Gibbs Library. Guest speaker will be State Geologist John Hopeck. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
ROCKLAND — High school seniors from Rockland are being encouraged to apply for scholarships from the Rockland Cooperative History Project. The scholarships are available at Rockland District High School. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
BELFAST — The days of Robert Temple exerting his authority over city building codes have ended. Temple resigned his position as code enforcement officer and plumbing inspector Tuesday afternoon, a few hours before the City Council was scheduled to consider the reappointment of the controversial… Read More
BELFAST — Applications for the Waldo County Extension Homemakers’ Council Scholarship are available. The scholarship is presented annually to a Waldo County resident who is a senior who will graduate from high school. The scholarship can be applied to any course of study in a… Read More
UNITY — An MBNA grants program recently awarded Unity College $1,457 for the America Reads tutoring program. The grant pays for a tutorial program in reading that uses Unity College students in three SAD 3 elementary schools: Troy, Unity and Mount View. Children in prekindergarten… Read More
THOMASTON — The Humane Society of Knox County will hold a rabies clinic from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 21, at the shelter on the end of Dexter Street. The clinic was originally scheduled for March 7, but was canceled because of snow. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
OWLS HEAD — “Birds That Fish” will be the subject of a free public presentation by Deborah Staber to the Mid-Coast Audubon Society’s monthly meeting at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 21, at the Owls Head Transportation Museum. Staber, director of the L.C. Bates Museum in… Read More
SEARSPORT — The Friends of Stockton Harbor will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in the public meeting room of the Peoples Heritage Bank in Searsport. Topics will include updates on a grant proposal to hire local clammers and the Beals… Read More
VINALHAVEN — Islanders elected two selectmen and two SAD 8 school board members Tuesday at the polls. Voters will gather Friday, March 19, to consider a $1.1 million budget at the annual town meeting. Newcomer Barbara Davidson garnered the most support, with 101 votes, for… Read More
Russell D. Bowden (BDN, March 6-7) states he wants the same rights of all Americans. I believe he has those rights already. Many people may not know that some major insurance companies are offering benefits and full coverage to homosexual partners. But the same insurance companies do not… Read More
I would like to commend Sharon Mack on her coverage in the March 12 BDN titled, “Milk-pricing bill meets with confusion.” Milk pricing in Maine, as stated by Ms. Mack, is “… a complicated labyrinth of a system…” and leads one to ask the question: Do we need… Read More
This letter is in support of acquiring public lands with state funds. Not that Maine needs to approach the levels of public ownership of other states, but we do need to protect what benefits Maine people. To stress the urgency of buying what we can now, consider the… Read More
I was disappointed but not at all surprised by Gov. King’s support of an east-west high-speed highway across northern Maine. Such a highway would be of little benefit to the people of Maine and out of character with the North Maine Woods, woods many of us have grown… Read More
BANGOR — City officials think Adelphia Communications — the company that purchased FrontierVision shortly after many area communities approved new franchise agreements with the cable TV company — has more on its mind than cable. The purchase, which in Bangor cost Adelphia $3,000 for each… Read More
OWLS HEAD — “Birds That Fish” will be the subject of a free public presentation by Deborah Staber to the Mid-Coast Audubon Society’s monthly meeting at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 21, at the Owls Head Transportation Museum. Staber, director of the L.C. Bates Museum in… Read More
ABBOT — Despite the snowstorm that kept most Abbot residents confined to their homes Monday evening, the annual town meeting was held as planned. Approximately 25 people attended the meeting, during which residents voted not to provide winter maintenance to any part of the discontinued… Read More
DEXTER — SAD 46 directors will hold a special meeting at 7 p.m. March 17, in the Dexter Regional High School Cafetorium, to act on extracurricular appointments and committee assignments. Read More
CORINNA — A Children’s Health Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 1, at Corinna Elementary School. Kid Care I.D. Photos and healthy giveaways will be available. For information, call 487-3890. Read More
WASHINGTON — A percentage of all sales from a designated cash register at Barnes & Noble’s Augusta store will be donated to the Gibbs Library in the town of Washington for three hours this weekend. The sales recorded from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March… Read More
GUILFORD — The Guilford annual town meeting, which was scheduled for March 15, has been postponed to Monday, March 22. The town meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Piscataquis Community Middle School. Read More
ELLSWORTH — The Hancock County Domestic Violence Task Force wants to put cell phones into the hands of people who have been abused. That will be the first project for the newly formed task force that held its first meeting earlier this month, and task… Read More
Calais District Court Dyland Francis, 17, Perry, transportation of drugs by minor, license suspended 30 days. 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
PORTLAND — Maine’s highest court gave short shrift Monday to convicted kidnapper Norman Dickinson’s bid to receive sexually explicit materials while in prison. Dickinson, 28, who has described himself as a “ticking time bomb,” was barred from filing a complaint against Warden Jeffrey Merrill of… Read More
Here’s a partial answer to Ruth Marshall’s question (BDN, March 10), “Where are all the good potatoes going?” To the U.S. Naval Commission in Naples, Italy — Desert Storm 1991. Having eaten for five straight weeks the wonderfully fresh pasta of southern Italy, I craved a meat-and-potatoes meal. Read More
CALAIS — Do city water users have the right to know the names of those who have failed to pay their water bills? The Bangor Daily News posed that question to city officials after city councilors learned Thursday that the town’s finance office intended to… Read More
ROCKLAND — An architect working with Knox County commissioners has estimated the amount of space needed for the new dispatching wing of the law enforcement complex on Park Street — easing cost pressures on the planners. At the board’s meeting Tuesday, Commissioner Bob Duke said… Read More
OWLS HEAD — A late winter storm Monday didn’t hamper voters from attending a special town meeting at which a sewer proposal was given a nod of approval and two articles for developing an industrial park were defeated. Town Clerk Laurie Pierce reported Tuesday that… Read More
BANGOR — The former W.T. Grant department store building at 6 Central St. could have another tenant if the city is willing to invest in rehabilitating part of the building. The Maine Department of Corrections is interested in locating offices for its youth services in… Read More
MACHIAS — Despite a pending lawsuit, Lubec selectmen have again denied a local junkyard owner a permit for his North Lubec Road business. Bernard Scoville, chairman of the Lubec selectmen, said Leonard Polk’s 1999 junkyard permit application was turned down because he does not meet… Read More
BAR HARBOR — A District Court judge Tuesday dismissed a takeout restaurant owner’s request for a protection-from-harassment order against the editor of The Bar Harbor Times. Stephen Smith, owner of the recently displaced Seaside Takeout restaurant, had alleged that Earl Brechlin, editor of the weekly… Read More
BANGOR — Amnesty International “prisoner of conscience” Zafaryab Ahmed will speak on “The Struggle for Human Rights” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 18, at the office of Peace through Interamerican Community Action at 170 Park St. A former political prisoner, journalist and child labor activist,… Read More
HOULTON — Residents voted 515-147 Tuesday to authorize town officials to take just over $320,000 from surplus to complete the town’s multipurpose arena now under construction. The total number of votes represented only about 16 percent of the town’s registered voters. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
BANGOR — The Bangor School Department will have a regular student day of school Friday, March 19. The planned teacher inservice day has been postponed to a later date. Read More