MAINE vs. HUSSON Time, site: Wednesday, 6 p.m.; 9-inning game; Mahaney Diamond, Orono Records: Maine 17-18; Husson 7-18 Series, last meeting: Maine leads 43-2; Maine won 17-7 on April 28, 1998 googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
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WATERVILLE – Matt Smith hit a two-run homer that highlighted a three-run sixth inning which spurred the Colby White Mules to a 7-6 baseball victory over Husson College Tuesday. Andrew Tripp singled and doubled for Colby and David Forsyth singled twice and knocked in a… Read More
College KELLY DOW Husson freshman Kelly Dow of Sebec Village has been named the Player of the Week by the Maine Intercollegiate Softball Coaches Association. Dow batted .529 and scored 20 runs while collecting five doubles, a triple, a homer and 12 RBIs for the… Read More
BANGOR – It’s been proven so many times in recent years, it has become something of a local baseball cliche: If you make errors against Bangor, they will come back to haunt you. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
ORONO – Playing in the National Football League means different things to different people. To some it is merely the expected big payday following a much ballyhooed prep and college career. To others it is the realization of a dream. And then there’s Drew O’Connor,… Read More
BANGOR – Husson College senior guard Mike McCaffrey has been named an Academic All-American by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. He is the first Husson men’s basketball player to receive this honor. McCaffrey maintains a 3.53 grade point average as a business administration/marketing major. Read More
It was his passion for the game that kept him going on the ice. In the end, when that passion seemed to wane, even if only in the physical preparation stage, he had to leave. My memories of No. 99 define the character of this… Read More
WATERVILLE – The Maine Magic have qualified for the National Amateur Athletic Union Tournament in Tennessee by winning the girls state AAU tourney in the Waterville/Fairfield area. Trisha Ripton coached the Magic team that was made of up: Lora Trenkle, Amanda Ashe and Mikayla Bunton… Read More
BREWER – For two teams laden with freshmen and last year’s junior varsity players, Tuesday’s high school softball matchup between Old Town and Brewer was a remarkably mature affair. Old Town freshman catcher Meghan King went 3-for-4 with two singles, a triple and three RBIs… Read More
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND – Aaron Civiello hit a grand slam, singled and added a sacrifice fly while driving in five runs to lead Stearns of Millinocket to a 15-2 victory over MDI in high school baseball action Tuesday. Josh Emerson singled three times and drove… Read More
Throughout the country, individuals who give generously of themselves to help others are being recognized during National Volunteer Appreciation Week. For example, individuals from a variety of programs will be honored during a volunteer appreciation luncheon at noon today at St. Joseph Catholic Church in… Read More
OLD TOWN — A colored pencil drawing of a pair of green-winged teal by a Milo student took Best of Show honors at the Maine competition of the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest on April 9. Organized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, the contest was… Read More
BANGOR — A 17-year-old Bangor youth who was charged last winter with vandalizing the Korean War Memorial and gravestones in the Jewish section of Mount Hope Cemetery was acquitted last week during a trial at 3rd District Court in Bangor. Because of the accused teen’s… Read More
WELLS — A Wells man being sought by police in connection with a string of burglaries turned himself in Tuesday. John Burchett, 20, was being held without bail at the York County Jail a day after a police search of the home Burchett shares with… Read More
BANGOR — Kenneth McNerney, a 64-year-old disabled man who likes to make birdhouses and bunk beds, sat before a jury last week and shook his head in disgust. “I got a habit of trustin’ people,” he said, twisting his red, white and blue cap in… Read More
PERRY — A fire destroyed a 122-year-old one-room schoolhouse during the weekend, and fire officials believe the blaze was of suspicious origin. There were two fires in Perry on Sunday, and Fire Chief Paula Frost said she believes they were related. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
WASHINGTON — It will be easier for states to relax deadlines imposed on insurance companies following a ruling by the Supreme Court Tuesday in a case centered on a Maine insurer. The court ruled unanimously that a California man’s insurance claim may go forward even… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee on Tuesday cast “a vote against the handicapped,” according to Gordon McCauslin of Millinocket. The committee voted 8-1 against LD 1699, a bill filed at McCauslin’s request to force Baxter State Park to comply with state and federal laws… Read More
ROCKINGHAM, Vt. — Tom’s of Maine is headed for Vermont. The natural products company, which makes shampoo, mouthwash, toothpaste and other items, is opening a factory at a building in Rockingham. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
AUGUSTA — Federal officials said Tuesday they are reviewing the state’s point-by-point rebuttal of a report listing nine flaws in Maine’s Fix Me program, which helps homeowners renovate their dwellings. A spokeswoman for the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development said the regional office… Read More
BANGOR — Bangor police released a composite sketch Tuesday of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in her home. A woman in her 20s called police shortly before 7 a.m. Saturday to report that she had been bound and then sexually assaulted in… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Two alleged car thieves were behind bars Tuesday after they allegedly stole a pickup truck parked at My Fork in the Road Cafe and were tailed by the owner’s wife until police caught up with them. The pickup truck was owned by Lewis… Read More
BELFAST — The Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad has operated out of the downtown rail yard here for more than a century. But not much longer. Because of a dispute over control of the city-owned rail yard, City Hall and the B&ML have decided to… Read More
ORONO — Frowzy and acid-tongued, alcoholic Beatrice Hunsdorfer wreaks a petty vengeance on everyone around her, while supporting herself and two teen-age daughters by taking a decrepit old boarder into her home. The younger daughter, Matilda (Tillie), plain and almost pathologically shy, has an intuitive gift for science. Read More
AUGUSTA — A legislative panel has chosen not to recommend easing restrictions on the use of personal watercraft on 245 lakes and ponds in Maine’s unorganized territories. The Legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee has overwhelmingly rejected the bill, LD 106, that essentially would have… Read More
FREEPORT — L.L. Bean and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission are recalling about 13,000 backpack child carriers. The company announced the recall of the W695 model after receiving about 25 reports of children slipping out of leg openings or toppling out of the tops… Read More
ROCKLAND — Bomb threats Tuesday forced evacuation of the Knox County Courthouse — twice. Maine State Police Trooper Sharon Roy and her bomb-sniffing dog, Zoe, were called in to search the entire courthouse following bomb threats at 10 a.m. and again at 1 p.m. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BANGOR — St. Joseph Hospital has suspended its application to build a $1.5 million cardiac catheterization and angiography lab. The move comes on the heels of preliminary disapproval of the project by the Maine Department of Human Services. During the suspension period, which is permitted… Read More
AUGUSTA — Monday’s winds drove the danger of wildfires to extreme levels in some parts of the state, according to Maine forest rangers. The Maine Forest Service’s weather stations reported extreme danger ratings in Fryeburg, Augusta, Searsmont and Brunswick. Many stations in southern Maine also… Read More
With so many men and women in uniform at Saturday’s launch of the USS Winston Churchill at Bath Iron Works, it might have been easy to overlook the tall Marine officer who was never far from Defense Secretary William Cohen. He is Lt. Gen. Jim Jones, whom some… Read More
Every year a week is set aside as National Turn Off Your TV Day, but many Americans don’t do it. As a violence prevention teacher, I am concerned about how much television our children are watching. Recently, I took a survey of Maine students in… Read More
Your Tax Day editorial, “Tax-cut priorites” (BDN, April 15), was right on the mark in describing the negative impact of the state’s underfunding of K-12 education over the past eight years. The result has been rapidly escalating property taxes and an undermining of Maine’s best child investment program… Read More
You could say that Bay and Keiko Bigelow are charming, but lots of people are charming. The word can’t conjure up the warmth in the Bigelows’ Rockland restaurant, Oh! Bento. Semiundiscovered on Leland Street, a short detour off U.S. Route 1, the Japanese restaurant has… Read More
RUMFORD — An autopsy was ordered on a 7-year-old boy whose body was found at the bottom of a neighbor’s swimming pool, police said. Zachary Sorenson was pronounced dead at Rumford Community Hospital about 7:30 p.m. Monday, an hour after the boy’s father discovered his… Read More
As a former director of nursing and currently an instructor of certified nursing assistants, I feel compelled to respond to your front-page article of April 9 regarding the high CNA turnover rate. Although reporter Wyatt Olson’s article hints at the problem, he failed to clearly… Read More
I’d been wading in the trout stream for nearly three hours by then, flailing away with my fly rod and producing few tangible results. Not that it mattered. If the number of fish I caught on these cherished outings was the true measure of success,… Read More
The largest disparity between the regular retail price of popular prescription drugs and the price to preferred customers is 1,400 percent for a hormone-replace drug called Synthroid. The average difference in the retail vs. preferred customer price in Maine is approximately 100 percent. So when the Legislature considers… Read More
SURRY — A salt-sand shed and the school construction project will be the two items of discussion next week when voters gather at a special town meeting. The school department had requested the special town meeting, set for Monday, to correct a technicality in the… Read More
BANGOR — There will be a public reading of selected works from the Husson College literary publication Crosscut Thursday, April 22, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bangor Public Library. The publication is produced by Husson faculty members and students and includes poems, short… Read More
ORONO — University of Maine researchers are looking for volunteers to participate in treatment research related to body dysmorphic disorder. People with BDD are “intensely preoccupied” with a defect in themselves that is either imagined or significantly exaggerated. A person may qualify for the study… Read More
BANGOR — The American Academy of Dermatology and Eastern Maine Medical Center will hold a free skin cancer screening from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 8, in the EMMC Cancer Care of Maine facility (just below the Webber Building). All participants must schedule an appointment and be… Read More
ORONO — Two professors at the University of Maine have been awarded 1998-99 Fulbright scholar grants to study and teach in foreign countries. John Buoncristiani, professor of mathematics, was awarded a Fulbright to go to Bulgaria as a lecturer in statistics. Richard Blanke, professor of… Read More
BANGOR — Two local educators will be going to Portugal at the end of April to assist fire departments and school educators on using the “Learn Not to Burn” program. Pete and Janet Metcalf are two out of a team of 11 educators who have… Read More
WINTERPORT — The town recently received $10,000 in grant funds through the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development Block Grants Program to be used toward planning development downtown. The focus of the planning effort will be securing funding to complete improvements to the Main… Read More
BANGOR — An art auction to benefit Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation will be held tonight at the Sheraton Four Points near Bangor International Airport. A preview begins at 5:30 p.m., with the auction to follow at 7. Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation assists local… Read More
MADAWASKA — The Greater Madawaska Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the 10th annual Top O’ Maine Trade Show from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, April 24, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 25, at the Multi-Purpose Center in Madawaska. For information… Read More
ST. AGATHA — Jean Paul Bechard of St. Agatha has been named the first recipient of the Father of the Year Award by the local council of Knights of Columbus. Bechard, the father of six boys, was heralded for his unyielding moral and mental strength… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — A 19-year-old man charged with arson in connection with the March 30 fire that destroyed the grandstand at the Skowhegan State Fairgrounds has been transferred to a state prison in Warren. The court-appointed lawyer for Charles Miles confirmed Tuesday that he was moved… Read More
BLUE HILL — After turning down a plan last month to spend up to $10,000 on harbor surveys, soundings and mapping, voters will have a chance Thursday to set aside $5,000 to look more closely at the need for all-tides access to downtown. The proposal… Read More
ROCKLAND — The trial of a former North Haven man accused of sexually assaulting a child while he was working aboard the Maine state ferry Neal Burgess began Tuesday in Knox County Superior Court. Patrick McDonough, 71, who was a seaman for the ferry service… Read More
CAMDEN — More trees, more shrubs are being recommended for the grounds around the Camden Public Library. An independent panel that has been meeting since fall has concluded its analysis of two areas of the landscape and will make formal recommendations to the library’s trustees… Read More
MILLINOCKET — Thanks in part to declining revenues, the town’s proposed budget of $4.5 million is $71,780 less than last year’s. Town Manager Paul Bird said his budget proposal recognized the uncertain future of the Millinocket paper mill owned by Great Northern Paper Co., which… Read More
MACHIAS — A Milbridge couple and the town of Harrington are locked in a court case over the valuation of the couple’s land on the Pleasant River. But, amid the dispute, there is agreement, too. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
State government and the Maine congressional delegation would do well to read the op-ed piece (BDN, April 14) by Bob Ziegelaar, airport director of Bangor International Airport. Once again, one of the finest airports on the East Coast is being forced into a second rate… Read More
As for Europe, 50 years of peace wasn’t so bad. Many didn’t survive the socio-political evolutionary experiments, during war and post war decades, My grandfather and four uncles included. Now the newborn debutants are dipping their liberal toes in a grotesque and “humanitarian” attack on a sovereign nation… Read More
I am writing to support LD 1669, which would authorize the Toxics Use Reduction Law, which expired in 1998. Maine businesses have worked hard to reduce their use of toxins, but that continued improvement is needed. The idea that this law is bad for business is short-sighted. Read More
CAMDEN — Selectmen sweetened the deal on the proposed town public safety building Tuesday night. At a public hearing — actually, the second part of a hearing recessed two weeks ago — the board provided more details on the design and layout of offices in… Read More
BANGOR — A Vermont company that builds assisted living projects for the elderly is interested in a local property — the city-owned former U.S. Naval Reserve Center at 402 Essex St. Nightingale Communities, which undertakes the projects with Liska Corp., would demolish the building and… Read More
An errant bicycle that landed in traffic on Union Street Tuesday afternoon caused a two-vehicle accident. No injuries were reported in the accident, although a car received extensive front-end damage when it struck the back of a Bangor city bus that had stopped quickly ahead… Read More
EASTPORT — The Police Department is investigating a series of home break-ins that netted burglars a small number of items. Chief Charles Shaw Jr. said the break-ins began April 14 and involved seven homes located between the County Road and Boynton and Water streets. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
CALAIS — Police on Tuesday were investigating a theft at Androc’s Plumbing and Heating on Hog Alley where someone walked away with more than $5,000 in plumbing and heating materials and tools. Police Chief Michael Milburn said the theft was reported to police Friday. He… Read More
STEUBEN — The State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating an early Tuesday morning fire that destroyed a mobile home on the Dyer Bay Road. Steuben Fire Chief Delbert Pinkham said an unoccupied trailer belonging to David Benner of Steuben is considered a total loss. There… Read More
EAST BLUE HILL — Two children who wandered into the woods in pursuit of a turkey were found safe Tuesday afternoon after searchers had spent about an hour and a half looking for them. State Trooper Jerry Coleman said the two children wandered away from… Read More
BELFAST — By unanimous vote, the City Council decided to let voters determine whether a charter commission is needed to review the practice of city government. In reaching its decision Tuesday night, the council set in motion a process that could have the potential of… Read More
BAR HARBOR — After putting a liquor license renewal request on hold earlier this month, town councilors voted Tuesday night to renew the permit for a downtown establishment called The Zebo. Located near a residential district, the business drew criticism for “unreasonable noise” generated from… Read More
Our leaders continue to cling to testing as the primary way to achieve excellence in our schools, when they should know that the “quality by inspection” approach does not work in schools any more than it works in factories. If we are truly trying to get away from… Read More
PITTSFIELD — Pittsfield councilors tabled a controversial decision Tuesday night on whether the town should participate in Oakland’s Super Park, a technology park being developed by the Kennebec Regional Development Authority. Two of the six voting councilors were absent, and Town Manager D. Dwight Dogherty… Read More
Washburn District High School Third quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Krista Doody, Kristen Long, Mary McIntosh, Christopher Peary and Nicholas Thompson; honors: Trina Akerson, Amy Allen, Joshua Blackstone, Adam Canales, April Clapper, Darin Cunningham, Kerry Flanagin, Meranda Hafford, Steven Hobbs, Mark Kelley, Jessica Laliberte,… Read More
NEWPORT — Seven candidates emerged from a field of 23 possibilities when Newport selectmen met Monday night to review applications for a new town manager. The seven individuals selected from the board’s review will be contacted to determine their interest, according to Chairman Al Worden. Read More
Penquis Valley High School, Milo Third quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Catherine Joyce; honors: Abel Atwater, Abbie Brown, Brandy Burns, Jeremiah Brown, Katie Comeau, Rickie Lee Davis, Josh Decker, Amanda Demers, Steve Gillis, Tasha Granger, Lauren Hamlin, Jake Heinemeyer, Jesse Helms, Derek Hersey, Anna… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — It’s intermission time at the Skowhegan State Fair. But the curtain will be going up for the next act in August, as scheduled, said Jeff Sprague, a Skowhegan businessman-turned-fund-raiser. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
DEXTER — The monthly meeting of the Alzheimer’s support group will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 13 at Dexter Health Care, 64 Park St. For information call Dianne Coppola at 924-5516. Read More
GREENVILLE — Greenville High School’s National Honor Society and Charles A. Dean Memorial Hospital will hold a Community Health Fair from 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 27 in the high school cafeteria. The free event is planned to provide the community with education on… Read More
FAIRFIELD — An off-duty sheriff’s deputy headed north on Interstate 95 noticed a small, white car weaving in and out of traffic Tuesday morning. Dale Tilton flipped on the blue lights and siren in his unmarked Chevrolet pickup, hoping to stop the speeding Nissan Sentra. Read More