MILLINOCKET – The following are the permit winners or alternates who may hunt for moose in the 19th annual hunt on Oct. 4-9. The list of permit holders includes the name, town of legal residence, and the zone in which the hunter can take a moose. Read More
BANGOR – Up until pregame warmups, Mike Caggiano didn’t even know he’d be taking the mound to start Wednesday’s Eastern Maine Class A title game. “I was surprised. He threw me the game ball during pregame,” Caggiano said. “I was expecting to pitch, but I… Read More
BANGOR – As Nate Hall walked to the mound in the early innings of Wednesday’s Eastern Maine Class C baseball championship game, he was having some thoughts you usually don’t associate with a pitcher blessed with a comfortable lead. His Searsport Vikings staked him to… Read More
BREWER – Penquis Valley softball coach Dick Martin knew his team was prepared for its Eastern Maine final against Narraguagus of Harrington. He just didn’t realize how well-prepared. But that was clear after the first two innings Wednesday at Coffin Field, when the Patriots of… Read More
BREWER – Medomak Valley softball pitcher Danielle Bither didn’t need much in the way of fancy stuff during Wednesday’s Eastern Maine Class A championship game against Bangor at Coffin Field. She stuck to fastballs. She mixed in a few changeups – five or six, by… Read More
Hole-in-One EUGENE LEONARD ENFIELD – Eugene Leonard of Howland used a 7-wood on the 185-yard second hole to record an ace at Green Valley Golf Course on Tuesday. Leonard’s feat was witnessed by Dave Lindsay and Brett Keith. Read More
BANGOR – Baseball championship games often come down to which team can make the defensive plays at critical stages of the game and avoid errors. In Wednesday’s 3-2 Eastern Maine Class A championship game win over Bangor, the Cony High School Rams snuffed out two… Read More
BANGOR – A team of former Boston Red Sox will play the Bangor Firefighters in a baseball game to benefit the firefighters at 7 p.m. Sunday at Mansfield Stadium. Former Red Sox, including Rick Miller, John Tudor, Bill Lee, and Jeff Plympton will participate in… Read More
ORONO – The University of Maine Sports Hall of Fame is seeking nominations for the 1999 induction process. The primary criterion for selection is achievement in the athletic program, but other factors are also considered, including: character, leadership, integrity and nonathletic service. Potential inductees must… Read More
MILLINOCKET – There was even more excitement in the air than usual Wednesday evening during the 1999 Maine moose hunt permit lottery held at the Stearns High School auditorium. The optimism was palpable among the 200 or so people who turned out for the announcement… Read More
On May 28, after a six-month hiatus, the shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral with supplies and equipment for the International Space Station. The Discovery crew will spend several days rigging cranes and working inside the ISS. Last December, crew members from the shuttle… Read More
SULLIVAN — When the last car glides across the 73-year-old Singing Bridge on Route 1, the metallic icon of Hancock and Sullivan will sing a final song. And an audience will be on hand. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
AUGUSTA — The governor’s office was deluged with more than 1,200 calls Wednesday from residents concerned with a bill that would subject high-income Social Security recipients to the state income tax for the first time. Republicans called for the governor to veto the bill. As… Read More
BANGOR — Several members of the National Association of Letter Carriers participated in an informational picket line outside the city’s post office to alert the public to the reasons behind a breakdown in contract talks with the U.S. Postal Service. The picketing was part of… Read More
LIMESTONE — The steady growth in the food processing industry of battered french fries has led an Idaho company to open a dry blending facility at the Loring Commerce Centre, according to an announcement made Wednesday. A lease for Hydroblend Inc. of Nampa, Idaho, was… Read More
LIMESTONE — With an eye toward attracting more tenants and keeping the property in good condition, the Loring Development Authority of Maine approved Wednesday an $8 million budget. The budget is up about $2 million from last year’s expenditure of $6.08 million. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
BANGOR — New England’s largest energy producer — Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire — was close to going off line Tuesday because of mechanical problems in its generation plant. If it had been shut down, the region could have experienced its first power blackouts since the… Read More
AUGUSTA — Updated state rules that govern the maritime transportation and storage of oil in Maine are redundant and will create confusion in the shipping industry, the U.S. Coast Guard and port and oil company officials said Wednesday. Representatives of the Department of Environmental Protection,… Read More
LEWISTON — Maine entertainer Tim Sample is headed to the windy city to pitch Poland Spring bottled water to midwesterners. Sample, who uses a thick Maine accent in his comedy routine, will endorse the bottled water from a mock general store in Union Station in… Read More
YARMOUTH — A school board member who stood watch outside an after-prom party to make sure teen-agers didn’t try to drive home is coming under fire for not crashing the party. Edgar Allen Beem III said he thought he was doing the right thing even… Read More
AUGUSTA — Mental Health Commissioner Melodie Peet is resigning after 4 1/2 years on the job to join Casey Family Services, the operating arm of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a national children’s group. An original member of Gov. Angus King’s Cabinet, Peet steps down… Read More
BANGOR — After a local restaurant abandoned its attempt to run pleasure cruises up and down the Penobscot River, the city has been forced to grab the helm. The Sea Dog Brewing Co. of Bangor declined to pick up the second year of leasing a… Read More
PORTOFINO, Italy — This secluded village of about 590 people is described in a local tourist guide as being “a playground for the financially advantaged.” That was obvious to the bus load of Maine Maritime Academy cadets, faculty and crew members viewing the huge yachts anchored in the… Read More
Affordable homes are the focus of National Home Ownership Week June 5-12 as proclaimed by President Clinton. In recognition of that week, the city of Bangor, Penquis Community Action Program, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and REALTY EXECUTIVES are hosting an open house… Read More
GLENBURN — Voters at Wednesday night’s annual town meeting rejected a private club’s plan to build a recreation building on a town-owned, 51-acre parcel at Pushaw Lake. Proposed by a local snowmobile club, the plan would have required the town to borrow $30,000 to construct… Read More
Bangor police arrested a 35-year-old man after he allegedly left his 3-year-old daughter in some bushes near a Bangor bar for as long as two hours while he went into the bar. Police charged Robert E. Rowlett of Bangor with endangering the welfare of a… Read More
BANGOR — Investigators are looking into what caused a fire Tuesday night that heavily damaged a mobile home and injured a resident who had gone back into the burning home to rescue his cat. Vincent Libby remained in fair condition at Maine Medical Center in… Read More
MILO — SAD 41 voters will be asked to raise taxes to cover deficit spending and fund a $5.6 million budget that officials say more accurately reflects the cost of running the district. The proposed 1999-2000 budget will include $160,000 toward the five-year loan voters… Read More
For the past three weeks — while most Mainers were watching apple blossoms fall like snowflakes — I have been wallowing in Southernness. Lulled by the clicking of the porch ceiling fan, I didn’t smell lilacs as I would have Down East but rather was… Read More
It harkens to a time of girls in poodle skirts, a pack of Luckies tucked into the sleeve of a white T-shirt, tubular neon lights reflecting off 18 coats of hand-rubbed lacquer, the rumble of lake pipes and the sound of squealing tires. The lure… Read More
I knew we were in trouble. The summit of Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park was 100 yards away and it was 4 p.m. Within four hours it would be dark. As in pitch black. On the side of a mountain. A big mountain. Most… Read More
THE WINSLOW BOY On the surface, David Mamet’s new film, “The Winslow Boy,” is about justice. British justice. But beneath it all, Mamet has other things in mind, such as a film about passion. British passion. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
Eleven years ago, Dawn Averitt received what then amounted to a death sentence: she had contracted HIV. Tomorrow, in Baxter State Park, Averitt begins her hike of the 2,160-mile-long Appalachian Trail. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
“New Sculpture by Karen Kang and Jesse Salisbury” at Tunk River Sculpture & Gardens, Steuben, through the summer. On a recent afternoon along the Tunk Stream in Steuben, the heat was heavy and the black flies thick. Neither discomfort took away from this outdoor show… Read More
A story in Wednesday’s Mid-Maine edition of MaineDay misstated the status of the snowplowing contract in the town of Clinton. Selectmen have recommended Ken Irving’s Trucking for the job; the budget committee has recommended low-bidder Starbird construction. The decision will be made by voters at town meeting on… Read More
It was hot in New England for nearly two full days this week. Not hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk. Not hot enough to parch the landscape or to threaten public health and safety. Certainly not hot enough to cause a calamity in the region’s… Read More
Jim Dodson, the golf writer, has two heroes. First, there’s his father, whose story is told in the popular book “Final Rounds.” A family odyssey, the book recounts a golf trip to England and Scotland when Dodson’s father was terminally ill. It has been published in four languages,… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Two decades is a long wait for justice. But on Friday, Robert and Gladys McLeary will watch the man convicted of killing their daughter go to prison. Albert Cochran, 61, will be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. in Somerset County Superior Court for the… Read More
Second of two parts It goes without saying that a few people may do quite well under a privatized Social Security system: well-educated, shrewd and experienced investors equipped to play the market and make the right choices, as well as those with high enough earnings… Read More
The scrawled note on the side of my elementary school’s juice machine may not have seemed like a real threat on Tuesday morning, but I couldn’t take the chance. It read: “Bomb 6/2” in thin, barely legible letters. A dumb prank, copying recent events in… Read More
Three times in the last month, intoxicated and violent British passengers have forced transatlantic flights to make emergency landings at Bangor International Airport. Although BIA officials and Bangor police richly deserve the wide acclaim they’ve received for their deft handling of these cases, enough is enough. Our fair… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — After almost a century, Maine Public Service Co. is out of the electricity-generating business. Aroostook County’s primary utility has sold its generating assets to WPS Power Development Inc. of Green Bay, Wis., according to an announcement made Wednesday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
WASHINGTON — The $265 billion defense spending bill the Senate approved Tuesday is larded with million-dollar projects for senators’ home states, as it is every year. But not since the end of the Cold War has Maine stood to benefit from so much Pentagon largesse. Read More
WASHINGTON — Worried that people leaving the welfare rolls for work lack adequate health coverage, U.S. Rep. John Baldacci plans to introduce a bill this week that would give small businesses federal money to buy insurance for employees. Despite a roaring economy and plummeting unemployment… Read More
PORTLAND — Mainers will get an early taste of an international parade of sailing vessels to visit next year when two replicas of famous 18th century British square-rigged ships sail into Portland Harbor this summer. The HMS Rose and the HMS Bounty will visit Aug. Read More
CLINTON — Time has run out for Charles “Buddy” McIntyre Sr. The man who once placed a hangman’s noose and gallows in the front yard of his Main Street home has lost his appeal of an order to remove the structures and clean up his… Read More
SEDGWICK — Why does a lobster boat float? There’s a scientific reason behind that and a lot of other things that happen on a lobster boat. The question of buoyancy — and others — will be answered through a project just under way at the… Read More
HOPE — Residents elected three selectmen from a field of four candidates in voting Tuesday. Elected were incumbent John Wilson with 129 votes, Jerry Litzerman with 127 votes, and incumbent John Annis with 112 votes. Edgar Crowley, who garnered 95 votes, failed to win. The… Read More
GOULDSBORO — Town Manager Eugene Conlogue will step down by July 23 to become town manager of Millinocket. Conlogue — who has also been town manager of Fort Fairfield and Washburn — began working for Gouldsboro in January. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
GREENBUSH — Voters here elected Diane Knight to fill the three-year term on the Board of Selectmen during Tuesday’s election at the town office. Knight won the seat vacated by Richard Fish, who opted not to run for re-election, with 92 votes over Keith Kneeland’s… Read More
MILLINOCKET — Rather than cutting more personnel, programs and services, some town officials are proposing that municipal and school employees’ wages and benefits be reduced. The debate about a proposal to cut town and school budgets by $450,000 heated up Tuesday night when more than… Read More
CAMDEN — Kayakers from the Rippleffect 2000 AIDS Awareness Expedition will land on Laite Beach on Saturday. The six paddlers left Lubec for Key West, Fla., on Memorial Day. They are making the journey to heighten AIDS awareness, develop a network of AIDS organizations along… Read More
STOCKTON SPRINGS — Daniel J. Coulters defeated incumbent Vern Thompson in Tuesday’s balloting for third selectman. Residents also joined with Searsport and Frankfort to award a passing grade to the SAD 56 budget. Coulters topped Thompson with a vote of 105-86. Coulters will take his… Read More
THOMASTON — The SAD 50 superintendent figures a $23,514 contract for district supplies awarded to his wife’s business does not equal a conflict of interest. Superintendent John Dirnbauer said Tuesday that he and his wife talked about the issue of a conflict of interest before… Read More
LUBEC — Maine’s first vocational education program in aquaculture is part of the proposed $2.14 million Lubec school budget that goes to public hearing Tuesday. The proposed budget calls for an additional $44,082 in local taxes. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
CALAIS — The City Council on Tuesday night issued marching orders to the school committee and city department heads: Cut your budgets. The budgets submitted to the City Council last week caused a collective gasp as the councilors wrestled with a proposed 24 percent increase… Read More
MEDWAY — Town officials on Wednesday learned they do not need to hold a special municipal election to fill a school board position. The seat can be filled through a board appointment. The large number of write-in votes cast during Tuesday’s municipal elections were overwhelming… Read More
BANGOR — A Delta Air Lines flight from Moscow to New York was diverted to the Bangor International Airport Wednesday afternoon because of a medical emergency, an airport official said. Flight 31 touched down at 3 p.m. because an American woman, who was not identified,… Read More
ROCKLAND — Daniel Winston, the Rockland District High School teacher accused of the gross sexual assault of a female student, has resigned from SAD 5. Winston, 36, was a math teacher and coach at the school. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
CAMDEN — None of the 38 applicants for the principal’s position at Camden-Rockport High School has made the grade. The Five Town Community School District had hoped to appoint a principal at its board meeting this week. Instead, the search will return to square one. Read More
WALDOBORO — The SAD 40 1999-2000 budget proposed at $14.3 million failed to pass at Tuesday’s referendum vote in the five-town district. School board members will meet at 7 tonight at Medomak Valley High School to decide whether to put the seven failed articles out… Read More
CAMDEN — Ah, what could be better? A warm spring Saturday afternoon skateboarding on smooth pavement with some live rock ‘n’ roll to provide the soundtrack. The mix might have been just right for the Rockland Kiwanis Club’s Skateapalooza last weekend at the Camden Public… Read More
In one fell swoop, the BDN has shown how the state really feels about our children. In the June 3 edition we were told the Part Two budget increases General Purpose Aid to Education by $40.8 million, but the same page points out that $50… Read More
I wanted to voice my opinion on how ridiculous it is for the Department of Transportation to force truckers to travel back roads because of stricter weight limits on I-95. Truckers don’t earn a huge lump of cash, so they need to make good time in order to… Read More
Cole Torrey is an outstanding young man, quiet, polite, intelligent and hard-working. The way he has been treated is outrageous. Luckily he has the courage and perseverance to make it through this horrible incident (at Narragugus High School), as well as the support from loving… Read More
As a member of the Unitarian-Universalist congregation and the Aroostook Hebrew Community, I feel compelled to respond to the Rev. Joanne Hunter’s op-ed in the June 5-6 BDN. She asked for forgiveness for the teens who desecrated the synagogue and did not believe they should be charged with… Read More
Your letters column of June 3 contains the lamentations of Father C. James Martel who decries what he sees as “the tragic fall from correct English grammar.” He cites a statement containing two negatives. He betrays his lack of understanding of English grammar when he says, “Anyone who… Read More
So, it seems the city of Boston has jumped on the bandwagon and filed suit against firearm manufacturers (BDN, June 4), alleging among other things that the industry has failed to “incorporate all possible safety devices” in their products. Before this becomes our society’s standard… Read More
NEWBURGH — Despite its promise of decreased local assessments and increased state funding, the proposed SAD 22 budget still is drawing criticism from some residents. The new $15.2 million plan relies too heavily on state money, members of Citizens for Affordable Education said Monday. The… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Dover-Foxcroft woman on Monday was arrested and charged with two counts of assault after she allegedly struck two of her three small children while they were walking on Main Street in Dover-Foxcroft. Marialyce Harper, 24, was taken first to Mayo Regional Hospital… Read More
STOCKTON SPRINGS — Daniel J. Coulters defeated incumbent Vern Thompson in Tuesday’s balloting for third selectman. Residents also joined with Searsport and Frankfort to award a passing grade to the SAD 56 budget. Coulters topped Thompson with a vote of 105-86. Coulters will take his… Read More
LEWISTON — State officials Tuesday inspected the Jaricot Foster Home, photocopied its records and interviewed one of the mentally retarded residents whom the house manager has forbidden from having sex there. Manager Monique Dostie, who has taken the state to court over its edicts, objected… Read More
Principal Sally A. Leighton has announced honor parts for the Class of 1999 at Sumner Memorial High School, East Sullivan. Valedictorian is Ben O. Huber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Huber of Franklin. He was a member of the National Honor Society for two… Read More
UNITY — Voters have resoundingly rejected a proposed $12 million SAD 3 budget. The budget was defeated by a better than 2-to-1 margin Tuesday as voters in all 11 of the district’s member communities rejected the plan and its projected $1.3 million increase in local… Read More
PITTSFIELD — A New York couple escaped serious injury Wednesday afternoon when the pickup truck in which they were riding left the road on Interstate 95 in Pittsfield and rolled over. Judith Coger, 59, of Livingston Manor, N.Y., was driving a 1999 Chevrolet S-10 pickup… Read More
PITTSFIELD — The day didn’t start well Wednesday at Maine Central Institute, according to Head of School Douglas Cummings. Little did he know then that it would end even worse. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Mayo Regional Hospital has enrolled as a mammography provider with the Maine Breast and Cervical Health Program, offered through the state Department of Human Services, Bureau of Health. The program’s goal is to provide breast and cervical cancer screening and follow-up services to… Read More
GUILFORD — Piscataquis Community Middle School pupils will have a unique opportunity this summer to participate in the Discovery Channel’s acclaimed Pre-Med Code Blue program. The focus of the four-week summer school, offered in partnership with Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, is to increase the… Read More
VAN BUREN — Seven officials were elected to six boards during Tuesday’s municipal elections. Elected to a three-year term on the Van Buren Town Council was Roland Ayotte, with 263 votes, over Elmer Corbin, with 133 votes. Ayotte replaces Donald Dumond on the council. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
GUILFORD — A spending plan adopted unanimously on Tuesday by SAD 4 directors reflects the lowest increase to towns in the district in several years. Residents will act on the $5.7 million budget, which reflects a net increase in assessments of about $12,000 over this… Read More
WATERVILLE — Rape Crisis Assistance and Prevention has scheduled a late-spring volunteer advocate training, beginning June 14. The 40-hour training will prepare volunteers to handle crisis and informational calls regarding sexual violence. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
HERMON — Money talks, but perhaps not loud enough. A group of parents from Carmel and Levant petitioned the Hermon school committee Monday to reinstate a popular high school teacher or face the possibility losing about half of the school’s population — and more than… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Food, Fitness and Fun summer youth programs for children in grades one to four will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. throughout June at the following locations: June 15 at Cambridge School; googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
VAN BUREN — Two mothers demanded changes Tuesday in the way SAD 24 selects chaperones for school activities and field trips amidst allegations that a chaperone verbally and physically assaulted two children on a recent eighth-grade field trip to Bar Harbor. During a school board… Read More
HOULTON — U.S. Cellular has donated five cellular telephones to the Houlton Police Department in conjunction with the company’s Stop Abuse From Existing phone-loan program. The phones will be available to victims of domestic violence through the police department. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
Principal Stephen Fizpatrick has announced the honor parts for the Class of 1999 at Hodgdon High School. Valedictorian is Erin Antonition and salutatorian is Bobbie Shrock. Antonition, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Antonition of Cary, served as class treasurer, and was a member of… Read More
MADAWASKA — Two selectmen and two school board members were elected Tuesday to three-year terms. Vernon Doucette, the present chairman of the Madawaska Board of Selectmen, was re-elected with 588 votes. Also re-elected was Daniel Ahearne with 425 votes. A challenger, Cathy Marshall, failed in… Read More
HOULTON — The SAD 29 board unanimously approved on Monday night a 1999-2000 budget of $8,457,451. The budget will go to district voters at the annual district meeting set for June 29. The district towns — Hammond, Houlton, Littleton and Monticello — will pick up… Read More
FORT KENT — The Fort Kent Utility District has been told by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection that it has routinely been exceeding the design capacity of its sewer treatment plant and that something has to be done. The Fort Kent plant, a rather… Read More
HOULTON — The SAD 29 board at its Tuesday night meeting rehired Wayne Quint to serve as the district’s athletic director for next year. Quint, 62, will retire at the end of the month as a physical education teacher at Houlton High School, where he… Read More
VAN BUREN — Seven officials were elected to six boards during Tuesday’s municipal elections. Elected to a three-year term on the Van Buren Town Council was Roland Ayotte, with 263 votes, over Elmer Corbin, with 133 votes. Ayotte replaces Donald Dumond on the council. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BANGOR — In a June 8 letter to city planners, Brooks Pharmacy withdrew its application for a controversial zone change on the corner of Broadway and Stillwater Avenue. In the letter, developers for the national pharmacy chain thanked the city for its assistance, but said… Read More