HOLE-IN ONE Chris Harrington CHARLESTON – Chris Harrington of Abbot aced the 130-yard par-3 second hole Thursday at the White Tail Golf Club. Harrington used a pitching wedge. The shot was witnessed by Bob Ford. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
    HERMON – Steve Martin was the second golfer to tee off on the eighth hole Thursday at the Hermon Meadow Golf Club. Playing in the Maine Republican Legislative Regional Golf Tournament, Martin’s group in the scramble included his son. The Pittsfield building contractor watched his… Read More
    BANGOR – Erin Sherman struck out 11 and walked none while pitching a six-hitter and leading Old Town past Bangor 12-6 to the District 3 Junior (ages 13-14)League softball title Thursday. Melanie Cox and Erin Sherman each hit two singles while Sam Sanborn hit a… Read More
    Maine Harness Racing Commission members Richard R. Crabtree and Willis A. Lord have submitted their resignations to Gov. Angus King. Both racing commissioners have resigned to campaign for seats in the Maine House of Representatives in the November election. Crabtree, who has been chairman of… Read More
    ORONO – The University of Maine women’s ice hockey schedule features 17 home games next season, starting with two games against Bemidji State Oct. 14-15. The Black Bears will also play host to Dartmouth (Nov. 4) and Brown (March 4), two teams that played in… Read More
    Veteran basketball coach Buddy Wood will be back on the court… and in the classroom. Just 28 days after an 8-6 vote by the Washington Academy board of trustees eliminated Wood’s teaching position at the East Machias high school, Wood was unanimously approved to be… Read More
    BANGOR — Comair has decided to drop one of its four round-trip flights to Bangor International Airport starting next month. Comair’s decision to cut a flight to Bangor isn’t based on the number of passengers using its service. On average, the 50-seat planes are 76… Read More
    BANGOR — The husband of a Bangor woman killed in a collision with a tractor-trailer 15 months ago has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the truck driver and the Canadian company for which the driver worked. Terry Strout, 27, claims trucker Andrew Paisley of… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Maine’s unemployment rate declined in June as job opportunities expanded, the King administration said Thursday. Maine’s jobless rate fell by 0.1 percentage point — to 3.4 percent in June. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
    The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is considering a rules change for shrimpers that would give regulators greater authority to manage the annual harvest by setting season lengths and restricting gear and days at sea. The changes to the fishery’s management plan would affect harvest… Read More
    SKOWHEGAN — The Skowhegan Area Chamber of Commerce has announced Skowhegan Log Days 2000, the 25th annual event that celebrates the last log drive on Maine’s rivers in 1975. The following events will be held: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
    WINSLOW — A methadone clinic and state officials have reached an out-of-court agreement to keep the clinic open under state supervision. “The earlier decision to deny licensure to Discovery House has been withdrawn,” said Kenneth Lehman, the clinic’s lawyer. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
    ROCKLAND — Former Thomaston fire chief and SAD 40 bus driver Malcolm “Mack” Hyler will serve 90 days in jail for sex offenses involving juveniles. Hyler, 54, of Thomaston was sentenced Thursday in a negotiated plea agreement with prosecutors in Knox County Superior Court. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Several buildings have been entered into the National Register of Historic Places by the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. The Carrabassett Inn in North Anson, the Oakland Public Library, Shore Acres in Lamoine, the Bremen Town House and the Springdale Farm in Burnham have… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE — The challenges facing human services providers in rural areas for the most part transcend borders and cultures. Just ask Shimshon Neikrug who traveled halfway around the world to attend the four-day National Institute on Human Services in Rural Areas this week on… Read More
    LINNEUS — Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from a Canadian courier plane that crashed Wednesday killing two men. The recording device from the Airwave Transport plane was found in the Meduxnekeag River, adjacent to the 2-feet-deep impact… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — A horse is a horse, of course, of course. And no horse belongs in a nursing home, of course. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i… Read More
    HARTLAND — A Pittsfield man is thought to have died Thursday before his truck left the road on Route 43, north of Hartland village. Harold Martin, 55, of the Beans Corner Road in Pittsfield was declared dead at the scene, possibly as the result of… Read More
    This Saturday’s Down East Puffin Festival will be the first major unveiling of the new Beatroots. The Bar Harbor-based group is now a quartet, featuring the husband-and-wife team of Bowen Swersey (vocals, acoustic guitar, sax, flutes) and Miriama Broady (electric guitar, violin) along with Bruce… Read More
    Maybe Charlotte dropped in. There weren’t any words woven in it, but the perfect, circular spider web suspended over the pig pen was as good an omen as any for the cast of Penobscot Theatre Company’s “Charlotte’s Web,” which opens today at the Bangor Opera… Read More
    An incorrect phone number and parade route were included in Joni Averill’s column Thursday about the Orrington Olde Home Week celebration. Committee member Glen Rand’s phone number is 825-3285. The parade will form Saturday, July 29 at 10 a.m., at the Snow’s Corner Road and Route 15. Read More
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    Packing the bags and preparing to leave in a huff are familiar and time-honored elements of that peculiar brand of brinkmanship known as Middle Eastern diplomacy. At the first Camp David summit in 1978, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was so angered by the perceived intransigence of Israeli Prime… Read More
    My wife and I were delighted with our visit to Bangor recently when I attended a conference for C.O.R.E. (Coalition for Residential Education), hosted by the Job Corps Center in Bangor, especially at the attempts made to draw people into the downtown area. There was… Read More
    On Nov. 7 we will have the opportunity to preserve our forest heritage and vote against a misguided proposal sponsored by Jonathan Carter. A July 5 commentary by Carter contained serious misinformation about his proposal. Rather than take the word of this self-proclaimed forest expert, we should listen… Read More
    When I read the July 17 letter about what is allegedly “happening in Washington County right now,” I was shocked at the description of cranberry bogs as written by Anna Andresen of Machias. It is obvious Andresen has never visited cranberry bogs nor does she understand how they… Read More
    Good customer service seems to be a lost art in American retail. Not at Porteous in the Presque Isle mall. Entering with my elderly mother on my arm we learned that the wheelchairs were located at the opposite end of the mall. A Porteous employee overheard our conversation. Read More
    At the risk of being accused of advocating cigarette smoking, let me go on record as saying that I thought the article on homegrown tobacco was very interesting and the close-up photograph of the cigarette was stunning. Isn’t that your job, to write interesting, factual and unbiased stories?… Read More
    On July 13 you printed an article which has caused a considerable stir among people in central and northern Maine, and those of us involved in statewide anti-smoking efforts. Your Page One lead article, “Smoker’s crop yields savings,” glorified smoking and the joys of growing your own tobacco… Read More
    BANGOR — The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development recently recognized the Youth Who Are Homeless Stakeholders’ Group for work on both a local and regional level. HUD awarded the organization with the “best practices” honor for its Homeless Youth Demonstration Program, a… Read More
    FORT KENT — While this northern Maine town’s annual Can Am Crown International Sled Dog race is months away, there are indications now that the annual classic is a financial boon to the community. A survey, done recently by a University of Maine at Fort… Read More
    PLEASANT POINT — An investigator for the Maine Human Rights Commission has agreed with Margaret Clement that her daughter, a student at Shead High School, and other American Indian students were singled out and insulted by a Perry school bus driver two years ago. The… Read More
    ORRINGTON — A flower show presented by the Orrington Garden Club will be held as part of the town’s Olde Home Week celebration from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 22, at the Orrington Historical Building on Center Drive. The show theme is “Through… Read More
    FORT KENT — Carol Browne, University of Maine at Fort Kent vice president for academic affairs, has been selected by the Maine Development Foundation as a participant in the 2000-2001 Leadership Maine program. One of 50 business and community leaders to participate in the statewide… Read More
    A newspaper reporter asked Vernon Jordan, “You just spent the Fourth of July in Jackson Hole right? Were there many other African-Americans out there?” She got a cool answer from the polished, self-assured corporate director, Wall Street banker and pal of President Clinton: “When I… Read More
    NEWPORT — A Newport man in custody at the Somerset County Jail in Skowhegan was charged late Wednesday with four counts of visual sexual aggression against a child, a Class D crime, according to Newport Police Chief Jim Ricker. The charges are related to new… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — A Baileyville man suffered head injuries when he apparently fell asleep Thursday afternoon while driving on Interstate 95. Brian Manza, 51, was heading south around 4:30 p.m. near the Pittsfield rest stop when he reportedly fell asleep, according to State Trooper Bryant Jacques. Read More
    FAIRFIELD — Two Kennebec Valley Technical College students placed in the Skills USA/VICA national competition held June 27-30 in Missouri. In the Job Skills Demonstration A contest, Patricia Tamargo of Oakland won a bronze medal for third place. Tamargo is a recent graduate from the… Read More
    FRANKLIN — Friends of Taunton Bay will hold a slide show analysis of the bay with an emphasis on eelgrass and land use trends. The presentation will be at the group’s annual meeting, starting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 25, at the Franklin Community Center. Read More
    Dover-Foxcroft District Court Myles W. Antz, 19, Dover-Foxcroft, operating all-terrain vehicle on public way, $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())… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — The natural history of Great Duck Island will be presented in a lecture sponsored by College of the Atlantic. Craig Greene will provide a slide show and discussion at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 26, in the McCormick Lecture Hall on the COA… Read More
    BAR HARBOR — Hulls Cove is a blink of the eye to a car speeding along Route 3, but the village’s distinctive personality has earned Bar Harbor $10,000 to protect rural Mount Desert Island’s past. “Even though we’re part of Bar Harbor, we have our… Read More
    BLUE HILL — The town will conduct an open house at the Blue Hill wastewater treatment facility. The tour will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, July 27, and 10 a.m. to noon Friday, July 28, on Water Street, across from the hospital. Read More
    BANGOR — The Bangor Humane Society has been forced to eliminate several staff positions, in part because of the expenses associated with its new, state-of-the-art facility, according to a news release issued Thursday by Don Hanson, president of the BHS board. “We could no longer… Read More
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    The fun side of the work of the Island Fishermen’s Wives Association manifests itself during the 11th Annual Fishermen’s Day beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday, July 23, at the Commercial Fish Pier in Stonington. The serious side of the work of the Island Fishermen’s Wives… Read More