LEWISTON – Abbey DeRocker’s sacrifice fly in the 10th inning of the first game helped Bates post a doubleheader sweep of Husson in Monday softball action. The Bobcats won the opener 6-5 and the nightcap 8-4. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – The University of Maine-Presque Isle pounded out 43 hits in two games on Monday to sweep a softball doubleheader from Maine Maritime Academy. The Owls took the first game 14-6 and beat the Mariners 17-9 in the second. In the first game,… Read More
No punitive action has been taken as yet against the four University of Maine student-athletes who were charged in connection with the campus bonfire that occurred the night of April 3 in the aftermath of the Black Bears’ 3-2 victory over New Hampshire in the NCAA hockey national… Read More
CORINTH – Krystal Stevens tripled and drove in three runs to lead the Central Red Devils past Dexter, 11-5, in softball action Monday. Crystal Strout, who pitched a three-hitter, and Stephanie Partridge each had a single and two RBIs for Central. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
College BRIAN DiBELLO WATERVILLE – Colby College senior Brian DiBello has been selected as the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) baseball pitcher of the week. He ran his record to 4-2 last week with a win over Middlebury and allowed just one unearned… Read More
PORTLAND – Distance runner Byrne Decker, 29, of Yarmouth finished first in a field of more than 700 to win the 70th annual Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Portland 5-mile road race Monday in 24 minutes, 47 seconds. Rose Prest-Morrison, 36, of Limerick won… Read More
BREWER – The Penobscot Fly Fishers will hold their annual fly fishing day Saturday, April 24 at the Penobscot County Convservation Association on North Main Street in Brewer. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and classes will begin at 9. Classes will be held in entomology,… Read More
ELLSWORTH – Albert Glossian, making his first varsity start, went 3-for-4, drove in two runs, and scored the winning run in the top of the eighth inning in his first varsity sport to lift Orono past Ellsworth 10-8 Monday afternoon. Stuart Cady doubled twice, singled… Read More
ELLSWORTH – Albert Glossian, making his first varsity start, went 3-for-4, drove in two runs, and scored the winning run in the top of the eighth inning in his first varsity sport to lift Orono past Ellsworth 10-8 Monday afternoon. Stuart Cady doubled twice, singled… Read More
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CORINTH – Brock Kimball pitched a one-hitter while striking out 12 as Dexter downed Central 9-3 in baseball action Monday. Calvin Teixeira tripled to drive in two runs for the Tigers. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
BOSTON – The winner said it best. “Everybody in the world is trying to catch the Kenyans, but they can’t,” said Joseph Chebet, who should know. He became the ninth straight Kenyan champion at the Boston Marathon on Monday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
WASHBURN – James “Chico” Hernandez of Washburn recently won gold and bronze medals at the 1999 AAU Sambo Wrestling Championships held at Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Va. Hernandez won the gold medal in the 180-pound class of the masters division (ages 45-50). He then placed… Read More
AUGUSTA — When Maine strawberries are juicy and ripe and ready to send to local markets, a large grocery chain begins filling their produce shelves with Mexican strawberries. According to state Sen. John M. Nutting, D-Androscoggin, there is no way for the consumer to know… Read More
ALBION — Albion Elementary School is one of only 26 schools in North America to receive an international award this year for its methods of teaching reading and writing. Two teachers will go to San Diego next month to receive the 1999 Exemplary Reading Program… Read More
PORTLAND — The last thing Dylan Nixon remembered before being whisked away to a neighbor’s house was the police officer on the doorstep and his mother banging her head on the kitchen countertop. The next morning the 6-year-old found out the source of his mother’s… Read More
HOULTON — First it was Mother Nature, now it’s vandals. The replacement for the John Millar Multipurpose Arena in Community Park, which was demolished last January when snow and ice collapsed the roof, isn’t completed yet and already it has become the target of vandals. Read More
PORTLAND — The barndoor skate, a large flatfish that has never been worth much in the seafood industry, is in danger of extinction, according to an international group of ocean scientists. Scientists are calling for protection of the once-common bottom-dweller in the Gulf of Maine,… Read More
HEARTBREAK HILL, Mass. — In the mind’s eye, especially for the uninitiated, this misnamed slice of the Boston Marathon lurks like a monolith against a stormy sky. It’s supposed to be pure evil, a runner’s nightmare personified, the motivator during months of dark winter training. Read More
BANGOR — The title itself suggests there’s more to do. In the city to sign copies of his book “Making Peace,” former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell said he hoped the tenuous Good Friday peace accords would hold in Northern Ireland, although he conceded that there’s… Read More
PORTLAND — The Center for Grieving Children now offers a program to help children whose family members or friends face life-threatening illness. Amanda Faust’s family was one of the first to go through the six-week Tender Loving Care program after her mother, Bess Faust, was… Read More
EASTPORT — The Raye family has been grinding mustard in the same location since 1903, and the Bartletts opened the state’s first commercial winery in Gouldsboro in 1984. Today, the mustard family of old and the vintners of new have produced two new spirited mustard… Read More
RUTLAND, Vt. — At the end of the two-day trial, the judge told the Indian construction workers who filed a lawsuit against an American Skiing Co. resort that he respects their position. “No matter what the outcome of this case is, I certainly respect your… Read More
Dear Jim: My allergist recommended a super-powerful central vacuum cleaner and I like how quiet they are. Do the powerful motors use a lot of extra electricity and can I install one myself to save a few bucks? — Mike H. Dear Mike: For deep… Read More
AUGUSTA — A Wayne lawmaker who’s been scrutinizing the “people’s house” can explain the relative lack of public interest inside the Capitol with one word: “intimidation.” “If you were like me, the first time you came to testify or lobby here, the experience was intimidating,”… Read More
I remember the start of World War II. I was born in 1933, so that at the age of 10 and 11, I remember the agony of the Jewish people trapped in Europe, specifically Germany, who were targeted by the German Fascist police as unwanted human beings. People… Read More
The real reason Marie Antoinette got it in the neck is that when asked to do something about the high cost of prescription drugs facing the French peasants she scornfully replied, “Let them eat Prozac.” Things have not changed much since then. Despite the involvement… Read More
What better way to end the millennium than with the discovery announced last week of the first solar system besides our own. For astronomers, the discovery creates all manner of questions related to planets and their motion. The rest of us can take comfort in knowing that the… Read More
ORONO — The Downeast Society for Classical Guitar will celebrate its 10th anniversary this weekend with a concert of solos and duets, and its annual classical guitar competition for Maine high school students. The 10th annual classical guitar competition gets under way at 1 p.m. Read More
Critics of the bill to exempt retirement income from the Maine income tax says it was merely a feel-good proposal, a political ploy with no chance of becoming law, a shameless bit of late-session grandstanding. The critics are being kind. Maybe the wave of support… Read More
WASHINGTON — The government and the world’s leading manufacturer of personal watercraft asked the industry Monday to limit the speed of so-called “Jet Skis” to 65 mph. Bombardier Recreational Products, maker of Sea Doo models, took the lead by announcing voluntary compliance with the limit… Read More
BRUNSWICK — A Brunswick-based patrol squadron has been deployed to Sicily to participate in the NATO war effort in the Balkans, officials at the Brunswick Naval Air Station said Monday. Patrol Squadron 10, with 350 members and nine aircraft, is flying continuous missions in support… Read More
NORWAY — A Woodstock woman recovering from a car crash that killed a Gorham man Friday remained in stable condition at a hospital Monday. April Daye, 28, suffered a broken leg and other injuries in the crash on Route 26 in West Paris. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
PORTLAND — In the years when students are not participating in the Maine Educational Assessment exams, teachers will be able to assess students’ skills using a new Internet testing program. The program, called Schools and Technology for Assessment and Reflection, or STAR, is designed to… Read More
SOLON — A local man was arrested over the weekend for possessing more than a quarter-pound of high-grade marijuana, according to the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department. Kenneth Ouellette, 40, was charged with furnishing a Schedule Z drug after a search of his home on Route… Read More
OLD TOWN — A free preschool screening for all Old Town area children, 3 and 4 years old, and for 5-year-olds not yet eligible for kindergarten, will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 29, at the Old Town YMCA. The free service is sponsored… Read More
ROCKLAND — Police are still investigating the theft of a pickup truck reported stolen Monday afternoon. The truck was taken from Maverick Street, police said, and had not been recovered as of Monday evening. The vehicle, a 1986 two-tone brown Ford, is registered to Daniel… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Sandy Blitz, executive director of the East/West Highway Association, will be the featured speaker at the Southern Piscataquis County Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, which will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, at the Piscataquis Regional YMCA in Dover-Foxcroft. Blitz will… Read More
LEVANT — The town office will be closed froom 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, for employee training. Read More
LEVANT — A public hearing will be held 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, at the Levant town office on the proposed discontinuance of a portion of the Forest Hills Drive cul de sac. Another public hearing will be held 7:15 p.m. April 28, at the town office, to… Read More
BANGOR — The Bangor Theological Seminary Choir and members of the University of Maine Singers will perform a service of hymns and spirituals in the Seminary’s Nelson Beach Chapel at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 22. The public is invited. Read More
ORONO — The Maine Forest and Logging Museum opens its 1999 season on Sunday, April 25, with its Woodsmen’s and Log Hauler Day with exhibits and demonstrations of traditional woods work, tools and machinery. The University of Maine and Unity College’s woodsman teams will show… Read More
PITTSFIELD — The first speaker of the new MCI Speaker Series Program, Dr. Peter Williams, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 29, in the Ella Powell Room of the Powell Memorial Library, about his trip to South Africa during the winter of 1998. The event is open… Read More
The people of Maine should thank Aaron Baltes for his letter (“Unnatural act,” BDN, April 7), calling our attention to LD 1987, An Act to License Hikers, Canoeists, Kayakers and Off-road Bicyclists, sponsored by Rep. Henry Joy of Crystal and co-sponsored by Rep. Treadwell of Carmel. Read More
Sen. Leo Kieffer of Caribou is sponsoring LD 314 (BDN, April 14), to keep petitioners far away from the voting places because of the “treatment of his wife” at Caribou. He said petitioning is (get that) “inconvenient for voting officials” and “promotes debate.” Horrors! “Collecting… Read More
How refreshing to read letters of complaint about the Luis Palau crusade. It’s another reminder that we are in the last days. When Phish dominated the headlines with news of drugs, sex and violence, even involving underage children, many were hardly concerned. What a statement for America. While… Read More
We grieve each time the image of young men committing thoughtless and reckless acts passes before our eyes. The excellent photographs told a troubling story of a few young men disgracing their campus and the University of Maine hockey team. Sadly, there were many more stories of students… Read More
In response to the letter (“No Albanians,” BDN, April 12) by Carroll B Knox of Caribou; Sen. Susan Collins’ policy stands are often faulty. No one could doubt her family values. At the foot of her statue, the poet gives words to Liberty: googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
BANGOR — Time may be running out for two exotic dance businesses downtown, both of which face city-imposed removal dates early this summer. It has been a yearlong geography lesson for Diane Cormier, poring over a map of the city’s streets and zones. June 6… Read More
Wedding bells will be ringing soon for a special couple whose love for each other is so strong it has already endured the worst of times and now is welcoming the best of times. On Friday, April 30, in the Bahamas, Christine Packard of Jacksonville,… Read More
PLYMOUTH — A carload of teen-agers heading north at an accelerated speed left the road on Route 7 in Plymouth Monday morning and struck a tree stump, injuring two of the car’s occupants and angering a number of local residents. From reports from the occupants… Read More
BANGOR — When word came that Portland had used $10 million from the New Neighbors Program to help low- and middle-income families to buy homes, city councilors wondered: What about Bangor? They need wonder no more. Bangor intends to claim a share of this round… Read More
Bangor police are investigating two weekend thefts totaling more than $1,800 from the Whig & Courier Pub and Restaurant in the city’s downtown. Two back-to-back thefts occurred sometime between Sunday morning and Monday morning. According to police reports, there were no signs of forced entry… Read More
ORLAND — Fire heavily damaged a house trailer on the Back Ridge Road Monday evening, despite quick response from local firefighters. According to Orland Fire Chief Russell Field, the call came in just after 6 p.m. and crews from Orland and Bucksport responded. One end… Read More
ELLSWORTH — The City Council on Monday gave concept approval to the creation of a Tax Increment Financing district on Route 3, paving the way for a 35-acre business-professional park that could bring an estimated 50 or 60 jobs to the city. If this wins… Read More
CUTLER — Union officials representing civilian workers at the Cutler naval base say they are feeling a bit more optimistic about the facility’s future after a weekend meeting with Navy Secretary Richard Danzig. Elmer Harmon, president of Local 2635 of the American Federation of Government… Read More
PORTLAND — In a 5-2 decision, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court has overturned a lower court ruling dealing with the constitutional rights of a man arrested by drug agents in 1997. The court determined that an Aroostook County Superior Court justice erred when he ruled… Read More
EAST MILLINOCKET — A proposed $5 million school renovation project and improving educational opportunities for children were among issues cited as important by residents running for the school board. In the coming municipal elections, the big race is for the school board. Five people are… Read More
NEWPORT — Price, access and development costs are factors to be considered for the two parcels of land currently under consideration for new middle schools in SAD 48. A site behind Hartland Junior High School and another on Route 7 in Newport are the targets… Read More
Long before I saw Mount Katadhin or visited Baxter State Park, I was uplifted by the awareness that both were there in public trust and to remain “forever wild.” Sadly, we have among the least amount of public land of any state in the country… Read More
PITTSFIELD — A controversial vote on whether Pittsfield should become a member of the Kennebec Regional Development Authority — the agency developing the Super Park in Oakland — may be considered tonight. The Town Council delayed a decision on the issue two weeks ago after… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Despite the extra room that will be gained when the county jail moves into new quarters next year, space still will be at a premium at the Hancock County Courthouse. That’s why county commissioners last week decided to review the county’s space needs,… Read More
Belfast groundbreaking planned > Town library expansion and renovation expected to cost $2.4 million
BELFAST — The first and formal spades of dirt will be turned today on the $2.4 million expansion and renovation of the Belfast Free Library. A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for 5 p.m., weather permitting, on the High Street side of the library. The public… Read More
CAMBRIDGE — Residents of this tiny Somerset County town are running out of time to find a solution for their trash woes. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection, after years of issuing warnings that went unheeded, will close the town’s transfer station on May 30. Read More
PORTLAND — Richard Brzozowski underestimated the popularity of raising chickens in Maine. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension agent expected a few dozen people to sign up for a series of three-hour courses on hens. But within days, more than 100 people signed up for… Read More