BANGOR – Stu Tisdale of Deering High School in Portland has been selected as the winner of the Dr. John Winkin Mr. Baseball Award – the honor reserved for the top senior baseball player in the state. Tisdale was announced as the winner prior to… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Maine’s unemployment rate rose 0.7 percentage points in May to 4.3 percent, state Labor Commissioner Valerie Landry said Friday. Landry said the rise stems from an unusually large influx of job-seekers between April and May who were not immediately absorbed by the job… Read More
    AUGUSTA — The 119th Legislature handed Gov. Angus S. King the first override of his administration Friday, when lawmakers refused to sustain a veto of a bill that boosts funding for Maine’s Meals on Wheels program. The 21-7 vote in the Senate and 107-38 vote… Read More
    BANGOR — Gladys Wright of Milo raised six children and has 12 grandchildren. She volunteers as a driver for Project Ride, which provides transportation for disabled adults and children. She also transports foster children to appointments and activities. As a volunteer for Project Ride, Wright… Read More
    BRUNSWICK — State fire investigators returned Friday to the scene of a fatal apartment house fire to try to determine its cause. An elderly man was killed in the Thursday afternoon fire, which engulfed a three-story Federal Street building that once was home to a… Read More
    BANGOR — Pride Manufacturing in Guilford this week eliminated the third shift from its production process, rearranging the schedules of some workers but reducing its work force by 12 to 15 people. The laid-off workers either couldn’t work first or second shifts, volunteered to leave… Read More
    BANGOR — You could call it the genealogy of the living, and it’s a specialty of the Red Cross — both here and around the world. Come this time next week, Bangor resident Ann S. Homola will be in Macedonia, helping to locate relatives for… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Any idea that the Legislature would attempt to weaken the term limits bill died quickly Friday when the House killed the measure 94-52 after a week of concentrated lobbying that included e-mails and radio and television ads by local and national organizations. The bill would have… Read More
    WASHINGTON — Nine Northeastern states, including the six in New England, have agreed to crack down on the smoke that billows from big diesel trucks and buses. The states — Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont —… Read More
    In his opinion column of June 15, Dr. Erik Steele expressed his concerns about the development of the strategic plan for adult mental health services in Region III and about the implications of that plan. As medical director for Region III of the Department of Mental Health, Mental… Read More
    Sticking points remain, legalistic language must be defined, but the emerging agreement on the Russian presence in Kosovo seems to strike a fair balance between public recognition of Russia’s role in forging peace and an unspoken acknowledgment of its inability to be much more than bystander. Read More
    Father absence appears to be a new phenomenon, but it has roots which extend back to the early 19th century and beyond. In his book, “Fatherless America,” David Blankenhorn writes that during the last 200 years fathers have moved from the center to the periphery of family life. Read More
    I picture Gov. Angus King hunkered down in his Augusta fuehrerbunker all week, laughing maniacally as he marks huge red X’s through a goodly portion of the Legislature’s five-month output while beseeching someone to stop him before he vetoes again, and I think, well, I can certainly relate… Read More
    A notice Thursday of intent to file a lawsuit in the cleanup of mercury in the Penobscot River may help this slow-moving project along or stall it through legal wrangling. That’s the risk the groups that intend to sue take by turning to the court. One aspect of… Read More
    Hancock County District Attorney Michael Povich said Friday that the Hancock County grand jury earlier this week mistakenly returned an indictment against Morgan Black, 19, of Seal Cove. The prosecutor said Black’s name was mistakenly entered on an indictment. “I spoke with Mr. Black today and have extended… Read More
    Is Gov. Angus King turning a deaf ear to both Maine’s senior citizens and the Bangor Daily News? The governor’s proposed veto of funding for all legislative bills approved “off the table” at the end of the legislative session includes a key bill in support… Read More
    Pardon me for not getting worked into a lather about the current congressional debate over gun control and juvenile violence. The issue, for me, boils down to something far more basic than whether the Ten Commandants should be posted in school rooms, or people who shop at gun… Read More
    In an era when enrollment in Maine’s rural public schools is declining and Catholic schools across the nation are closing, St. Agnes School in Pittsfield is expanding. In April, the Diocese of Portland granted the parish’s request to add seventh- and eighth-grade classes to their preschool-through-sixth-grade program. Read More
    It may be saddled with an inscrutable title, but “Beggars and Choosers” still rates as a wry, satiric look at the TV business. The title refers to those with ideas, programs and talents to sell (the “beggars”) and the handful of powerful network decision-makers they… Read More
    Jim Moore, who is an assistant U.S. attorney and father of three, to Stonington lobsterman Ted Ames who in midlife became a father for the second time. NEWS photographer Nicholas Fedyk spent time with and captured the day-to-day life of one of the dads, Jerry Toner of Bangor,… Read More
    AMHERST, Mass. — Oswald Tippo, the first chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died in Santa Barbara, Calif., while attending a grandchild’s wedding. He was 87. Tippo, a native of Milo, Maine, was a botanist who wrote many papers on plant structure and… Read More
    MACHIAS — The University of Maine at Machias awarded the first of two $1,000 scholarships last week to Heidi B. Colbert of East Machias. Colbert, a junior middle-level education major with a concentration in social sciences, has maintained a 3.62 grade-point average at UMM. She… Read More
    JACKMAN — Residents will be asked to vote Tuesday on a three-year contract to haul away the town’s trash and recycling materials. A special town meeting is scheduled to be held at the municipal building at 6:30 p.m. June 22, to act on a proposed… Read More
    BINGHAM — The search for a new principal for Upper Kennebec Valley Junior-Senior High School ended Thursday night as SAD 13 directors chose their candidate. The board also signed a mediation agreement that will allow students from The Forks back into Bingham schools next year. Read More
    I wish to thank John Bear Mitchell for the [eight-part] series (sponsored by Newspapers in Education, BDN, March 30-May 25), “Native Americans in Maine,” a wonderful history of his culture. I also am feeling sad and lonely for the past. The world, as I know… Read More
    I’m rather older now, happily married, and monogamous. When my wife and I go to bed together and get frisky, pregnancy is not a possible result. Even when it was, if I recall correctly, each case was not an attempt to get pregnant (she would get pregnant, not… Read More
    These days too much emphasis is placed on education and not enough on learning. Enrollments and graduations in seven of Maine’s 16 counties have dropped signficantly, but the cost of education has skyrocketed. The talk is Carmel and Levant will jump ship. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
    Who was it who said, “Maine is the state where the rich get the breaks and the poor get the shaft”? Gov. King promises to veto many expenditures, and you can bet they’ll mostly be the ones having an impact on the poor and middle class, not the… Read More
    Here’s something else to blame the Bangor Daily News for: the confusion over barbecue (BDN, June 9). The word itself derives from the Caribbean Arawak/Taino Indian word (Spanish barbacoa) that Columbus brought back from “The Indies” to Europe, along with other words we use such… Read More
    I don’t usually read John S. Day’s opinions, but in the June 12-13 paper I noticed an error in his column worth mentioning. Sen. Conrad Burns is, unfortunately for people from Montana, not from Nebraska. I may have remembered his name from a list of the Senate’s least… Read More
    We live on Route 2 in the Northern Maine Junction area of Hermon. We are very concerned about the tractor trailers which travel through this section of road. This is a residential area with a store and several side streets. We have a paper boy… Read More
    Bangor youth have been meeting for several weeks at the Bangor Public Library discussing the possibilities for a skateboard/rollerblading park. Storeowners, police and other adults leave us no place to skate or even hang out. The places that we did have, have been taken away from us. Read More
    Perhaps it should be known as “the little organ that could,” since the 1859 Mason & Hamlin reed pump organ at the Winterport Union Meeting House was able to attract a very special guest performer. An open concert by James Welch of Palo Alto, Calif.,… Read More
    ST. STEPHEN, New Brunswick — The new St. Stephen Farmers’ Market will be open 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays on the riverfront at 56 Milltown Blvd. beginning today. Market Manager Kathy Bockus said the market will run through Oct. 9. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
    AUGUSTA — As their final order of business for the 1999 session, Maine lawmakers enacted a $12.5 million bond issue for environmental projects late Friday. The proposal will go to voters in November. The original proposal called for $20.5 million in long-term borrowing, mostly for… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — Michael Owen, 19, of Bar Harbor was arrested on a charge of possession of drugs Thursday night after police searched the car he and his friend had been in and found a bong behind the driver’s seat. Matthew Lancaster, 19, of Lincoln,… Read More
    The following Central High School students received scholarships and awards for the 1998-99 school year: Alice Whitney Memorial Scholarship: Jessica Moody, $275. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0;… Read More
    Headmaster Barry McLaughlin, faculty and benefactors presented $41,950 in scholarships and awards to the following graduates of Lee Academy: Reader’s Digest Scholarship: Alyssa Blanchard, Ian Braziller, Lucy Budden, Laura Currier, Joy House, Sarah Leighton, Joshua Mercier, Jennifer Raymond, Jessica Read and Aaron Stratton. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    Houlton District Court Sharon Anderson, 37, Oakfield, dog at large, $50. 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()) { if (slot_sizes[i][0]… Read More
    Bar Harbor District Court Phillip Bemis, 20, Pittsfield, theft of services, $100. 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()) { if (slot_sizes[i][0]… Read More
    WALDOBORO — SAD 40 board members want to hear what the public has to say about the budget they defeated at the polls on June 8, but according to district officials, there is not much fat to cut. Voters in the five towns that make… Read More
    STILLWATER — Master gardeners Lois Berg Stack, Clay Kirby and Bruce Watt will begin lectures at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, at the Rogers Farm Demonstration Gardens on Bennoch Road. New garden plots include a horticultural “zoo,” a Shakespeare garden, knot garden, and a medicinal… Read More
    ROCKLAND — Police took a 14-year-old boy into custody Thursday after he allegedly threatened a 12-year-old boy with a knife. Rockland Deputy Chief Wallace Tower said officers responded to the area around Rockland District Middle School about 3:30 p.m. after school officials called police. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    ROCKLAND — Police arrested Patrick Maher, 30, of Owls Head about 1:30 a.m. Friday on charges of burglary, theft, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Deputy Chief Wallace Tower said police had seen two men walking near the Trade Winds Motel. One of… Read More
    BANGOR — The Bangor Public Library will offer several summer reading events including lunch with the librarian at noon Monday, June 28; dog sledding in the Can-Am races with five-time participant Barry Dana at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 29; and The Hobbit at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 30,… Read More