BANGOR – The Trenton Acadians did their best impersonation of the hot-hitting Brewer Falcons at Mansfield Stadium Friday afternoon by hitting almost everything that came across the plate while scoring early and often. It seemed to suit them as No. 3-seeded Trenton jumped on the… Read More
Calais has only had a Little League Softball program for three years, but that didn’t keep the ages 11-12 all-star team from having high expectations heading into the District 3 tournament. “I told the girls [before the tournament] we’d win districts,” said coach John Hill. Read More
KNOX – Hampden took advantage of a six-run first inning, while Biddeford put runs on the board in each inning while posting victories Friday in the first round of the Little League Softball Ages 9-10 State Tournament. Hampden defeated South Portland 8-4, while Biddeford handled… Read More
BANGOR – Just like last year, the two lower seeds got the jump on the higher ones in the opening round of the American Legion Zone 1 baseball tournament. No. 4 seed Bangor and No. 3 Trenton both find themselves in the winners’ bracket after… Read More
ROCKLAND – Just as the New England Optimist Championships are new to Maine, many of the Optimist sailors in eastern Maine are new to the sport. The excitement generated by the championship regatta has some of the local sailing groups thinking – why not have… Read More
Skeptics can talk all they want about America East being a “mid-major” among the nation’s 31 Division I women’s basketball conferences, but the fact is the University of Maine played the 52nd most difficult schedule in the country last season. Next winter, with a new… Read More
Six high school athletes will be honored with $500 college scholarships Sunday at the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland. Shannon Sirois of Stearns of Millinocket, Sunshine Anders of Richmond and Liz Winslow of Scarborough… Read More
Mike Beland of Milo had been racing cars for more than 30 years, so last year he made up his mind it was time to retire. He knew only something out of the ordinary would get him back on the track. That something has turned… Read More
BOSTON — Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., charging that federal regulators illegally opened coastal areas of New England to scallop fishing. The Ocean Law Project filed the lawsuit Thursday on behalf of the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation and the American Oceans… Read More
FARMINGTON — Western Maine dairy farmers’ gains from a strong hay crop will likely be wiped out by a dip in dairy prices that could wind up costing them thousands of dollars, a U.S. Agriculture Department official said. The income of some farmers in Franklin… Read More
LEWISTON — A debate over the best way to treat heart attack victims has become the latest point of contention in the heart surgery center battle between Central Maine Medical Center and Maine Medical Center. CMMC officials have asked the state to consider the need… Read More
SKOWHEGAN — Police had a murder investigation “handed to them on a silver platter, and they couldn’t even get the search warrant right,” defense attorney Janet Mills of Skowhegan said Friday. Mills made her comment after a hearing in Somerset County Superior Court, during which… Read More
My vote for the creepiest Maine news story of the week has to go to the invasion of the army worms. Like a plague wriggling up from the pages of the Old Testament, hordes of hungry caterpillars are munching their way across four counties at… Read More
PORTLAND — The Teamsters union planned to keep negotiating a wage dispute with the American Red Cross rather than call a strike on Saturday, union officials said. Local 340 had filed a 10-day notice saying the strike on behalf of 39 nurses, technicians and support… Read More
PORTLAND — Maine officials are asking a federal court to dismiss a class action lawsuit that accuses the state of failing to adequately care for children with serious mental and behavioral problems. Maine has launched a broad effort to improve services for children, and the… Read More
CARIBOU — A bottle of Pure Carnauba Wax was sitting atop the shining, black-leather seat, and other bottles of polishes were on the ground Friday morning around Roland Paquette’s 2000 Heritage Softtail Harley-Davidson. Paquette continued polishing softly, changing rags at times depending upon where on… Read More
BANGOR — The manager of Bangor International Airport hopes that Congressional rumblings to ease travel and trade sanctions against Cuba will mean that BIA will once again be able to serve as a maintenance stopover for planes headed from Europe to Fidel Castro’s island. On… Read More
WASHINGTON — Apple growers in Maine could receive federal relief after Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Carl Levin, D-Michigan, succeeded in pushing through an amendment to the fiscal year 2001 agricultural appropriations bill that the Senate unanimously approved Thursday night. The amendment provides much-needed emergency… Read More
AUGUSTA — The Chelsea fire chief says two Augusta firefighters viewed pornography and child pornography on the job, and he is asking that the Augusta fire chief keep them out of Chelsea. The two firefighters looked at computer-related pornography on at least two different occasions… Read More
BANGOR — A Veazie man shot seven times by police after a high-speed chase in January notified the two involved police departments this week that he intends to take the matter to court — estimating his damages at more than $1 million. Sidney A. Dunton,… Read More
The Bangor Daily News earned three first-place awards, a second, and two third-place honors in the annual New England Associated Press News Executives Association contest, which judges the work of newspapers across the region. Results were announced Friday. Competing in the Class I category —… Read More
CASTINE — Concert pianists Sheila Converse and Linda Maranis will perform a program of Romantic Dances at 8 p.m. Friday, July 28, at Delano Auditorium of the Maine Maritime Academy. The concert will feature music by classic composers such as Mozart, Brahms and Dvorak, as… Read More
LEWISTON — Members of Maine’s congressional delegation are evenly split on a bill that would make debtors responsible for credit card debts that are normally erased during bankruptcy. Reps. Tom Allen and John Baldacci have both voted against the proposal to make credit card debts… Read More
Sorry, England, but we Americans have you beat again — in lovely ladies’ birthdays, that is. You may be proudly celebrating the 100th birthday of your “Queen Mum” — whom we adore as much as you, by the way, because she’s one heck of a… Read More
An injured eagle that was rescued on the Lubec shore earlier this month is doing well, but its Boston veterinarians are not certain if it will make a full recovery. The nearly 3-year-old raptor, which broke the major metacarpal bone in its left wing tip,… Read More
The 11th annual Cuthbertson family reunion will be held Sunday, July 23, at Reid State Park with a picnic lunch. This is an election year for the family, so guests should come prepared with nominations. For information, contact B. Simmons at 832-7313 or J. Richardson at 892-3915. Read More
SANFORD — Police uncovered a large stash of child pornography at the home of a convicted sex offender who is back behind bars for violating his probation. Police were investigating whether Timothy Stevens, 39, of Sanford had violated his probation when they found four shopping… Read More
WASHINGTON — Garden Botanika Inc. recalled 600 boxes of its “C” Slices Vitamin C Eye Relief eye pads Friday because the pads may be contaminated with bacteria that could cause vision-threatening eye infections. The orange-and-white boxes, each containing six pairs of eye pads, were sold… Read More
A story in Friday’s Maine Day section incorrectly named the school district Malcolm Hyler worked for as a bus driver. Hyler was employed by SAD 50. The story also incorrectly stated the age of sexual consent. Consensual sexual contact is permitted between an adult and a child 14… Read More
WASHINGTON — Toy maker Child Guidance is recalling 1 million Wiggle Waggle Caterpillar pull-toys after a 5-month-old Texas girl choked to death on a small ball attached to one, the government said. Three other toys also were recalled Friday because they posed a risk to… Read More
I plunked myself down in the vegetable garden the other day and contemplated the vagaries of life from the height of my broccoli plants. The sun was darting in and out between a few puffy clouds as I gazed around, admiring the hue of the… Read More
The sun and the water pour down from above, warm and refreshing. A breeze wraps around in a soft caress and stirs the leaves on its way past. Birds sing in the surrounding trees, and the fragrance of evergreens and flowers mixes with the clean scent of soap… Read More
USA Network continues to become ever more adventurous in its original programming, as is evident from two of the three new series the cable channel unveils this week. USA got its start in original programming with a number of cop shows featuring voluptuous females, including… Read More
THE BLUESTONE WALK: POEMS by Edward Nobles, Persea Books, New York, 2000, 96 pages, trade paperback, $14. Ed Nobles used to be a stonemason. It was slow, labor-intensive work. At the time he also wrote poetry, and maybe the similarities between the two occupations were… Read More
Bangor — Temple Beth Israel, 144 York St. Prayer services 6:55 a.m., 5:30 p.m. daily; 9 a.m. Saturday. Bangor — Saint Mary’s Catholic Church Parish, 768 Ohio St. July 1-Sept. 3: Saturday Vigil Mass, 4 p.m.; Sunday Masses, 7 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. 945-5018. Read More
While the tourists flowed into Maine for Independence Day, many members of the clergy were busy unpacking boxes and settling into new homes. For this is the time of year when Roman Catholic priests and United Methodist ministers move to new parishes. About a dozen… Read More
Dexter — The Rev. Adam Tierney will serve jointly First Universalist Church of Dexter and Unitarian Universalist Church of Sangerville and Dover-Foxcroft. He will replace the Rev. Alec Craig on Aug. 1. In Dexter regular worship services will be 10 a.m. Sundays in July and Vesper services will… Read More
Summer Slopes> New extreme boarding fad that adds mountains to sport going mainstream at ski resorts
The latest fad for escaping the summer doldrums at ski resorts is not for the timid. It involves racing down steep grassy slopes on something that looks like a long skateboard — or a short snowboard — equipped with shock absorbers and overgrown wheels jutting… Read More
Secretary of Defense William Cohen may well be right that the threat of the biological weapon anthrax is real and in the hands of nations that might use it against U.S. soldiers. But even Pentagon officials recently admitted that its plan to protect those soldiers with a vaccine… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — State and local police are investigating a series of burglaries in Presque Isle and Easton that they believe are related. Trooper Chuck Michaud of the Maine State Police said Friday that at least five burglaries occurred Tuesday and Wednesday nights. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
BANGOR — A local woman who was the victim of a stabbing in June was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in jail for a stabbing she helped commit last October. Lillie Harriman, 18, was sentenced in 3rd District Court for her role in the assault… Read More
Saddleback Ski Area officials and National Park Service representatives in talks this week narrowed their Appalachian Trail negotiations to three major issues, a spokesman for U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe said Thursday. “The talks come down to three major issues — trail crossings, high-elevation ski lifts… Read More
CAMDEN — A Northport man died Thursday from injuries he suffered from a fall at a Camden construction site Wednesday afternoon. Robert Gutman, 44, was employed by Harbor Builders of Port Clyde. The company was renovating and expanding a garage by moving a wall and… Read More
LITTLETON — In an odd twist of fate, Luke Schiada, the National Transportation Safety Board’s lead investigator at the scene of a plane crash in Linneus was involved early Friday morning in collision with a moose. Schiada, 26, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was traveling north on… Read More
BLUE HILL — An oral and photo history on aging will be presented by the Blue Hill Library. The program will start at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 26, at the Blue Hill Town Hall. Two award winning videos on aging, “Driving Utopia” and “Bringing the… Read More
CASTINE — The location of the American Red Cross blood drive planned for Monday has changed. The drive, to be held from noon to 5 p.m. Monday, July 24, has moved from the Castine Methodist Church to Curtis Hall on the Maine Maritime Academy campus. Read More
They’re both for fatherhood. Now there’s a compelling reason to leave for work early, squeeze yourself through traffic bottlenecks and stand in line at a school cafeteria waiting to vote. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
What’s your first thought when you learn that 8,300 mammoth recreational vehicles are converging on Brunswick for an RV convention in mid-August. And, worse, that a third of them will head afterward for Bangor, Ellsworth, Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. Panic. That’s the way… Read More
WATERVILLE — State police plan to ask the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles to review the license of an elderly woman who this week drove the wrong way down Interstate 95. Shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday, Maxine Manson, 83, of Seton Village in Waterville turned… Read More
I’d like to ask letter writer Carl Keicher (“Vengeance not justice,” July 12) a question. If someone were to brutally murder his son, daughter or brother, would he feel the same way about the death penalty? When people take a life, they’ve essentially said to the rest of… Read More
Of one thing I am sure after reading Stephanie Gutmann’s eye-opening book, “The Kinder, Gentler Military,” published earlier this year by Scribner at 25 bucks a pop: My old politically incorrect Army drill sergeant would be out on his keister in a New York minute, court-martialed to a… Read More
Secretary of Defense William Cohen may well be right that the threat of the biological weapon anthrax is real and in the hands of nations that might use it against U.S. soldiers. But even Pentagon officials recently admitted that its plan to protect those soldiers with a vaccine… Read More
By the time I graduated from high school, I had spent almost three-fourths of my life hating school, one thing a child should love. If it wasn’t for Karl Kurz, my industrial arts teacher, I would have dropped out when I was 16. At 29,… Read More
I am amazed at the number of people who were offended by the July 13 article regarding the man who grows his own tobacco. Major sin, major crime; I think not. If you want something to get annoyed by try “Family embraces accused.” The world… Read More
Thank you for the great editorial (July 17) on the C.N. Brown penalties for selling tobacco products to minors. Smoking remains the greatest preventable cause of disease in the state. Maine is at the top of the list for young adult smokers and 90 percent of them became… Read More
The tragic situation in Togus VA health care continues. There are numerous vacancies of health-giving positions and the waits for care grow longer. My primary care provider resigned from the Bangor VA clinic more than a year ago and I’ve yet to be reassigned one even though assigning… Read More
The July 13 article about the gentleman who grows his own tobacco seems to have aroused the pique of more than a few people. But for a moment, let’s lay the smoking and anti-smoking controversy aside. What strikes me about this news item is that this fellow has,… Read More
NEWRY — A tornado touched down in Newry on Tuesday afternoon, knocking down several hundred trees in a woodlot, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado touched down and moved into Hanover, according to John Jensenius, a forecaster in Gray. No one was hurt. Read More
State Treasurer Dale McCormick called upon Attorney General Andrew Ketterer Friday to file an injunction to stop the sale of the portfolio of Maine’s largest provider of student loans to a private Nebraska-based organization. McCormick also asked Ketterer to subpoena all documents related to the… Read More
NEWPORT — Entrances near Newport’s busy Triangle intersection were the site Friday afternoon of two separate accidents. No one was seriously injured, according to Newport police Officer Larry Merrithew. Shortly after noon, Merrithew responded to a car-bicycle collision at the entrance to Bud’s Shop ‘n… Read More
PORTLAND — A psychological evaluation was ordered Thursday for a 26-year-old man who refused to leave his blood-spattered cell to be arraigned. Dean Mallis was arraigned in his absence on charges of harassment, criminal threatening and violating bail conditions. He was arrested two days ago… Read More
A Glenburn man with $950 worth of shorts and T-shirts told police he planned to place the clothing on layaway, although his cash on hand fell short of a 10 percent deposit, even had the store offered layaway. Late Thursday night, Bangor police charged Scott… Read More
FARMINGTON — A 13-year-old boy was flown to Maine Medical Center in critical condition after being hit by a car in Farmington Friday afternoon. Jerry Scott Sweetser ran a stop sign on his bicycle at about 5 p.m. and was struck by a Buick on… Read More
FORT KENT — Three teens, one a juvenile, were charged early Friday morning with burglary and theft at the Lonesome Pine Ski Lodge. Josh Shaw, 19, of Mars Hill was charged with burglary, theft, burning without a permit, and illegal possession of alcohol. He was… Read More
FORT KENT — The Aroostook Retired Educators Association will hold its July meeting at noon Wednesday, July 26, at Nowland Hall at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Speakers will discuss the Maine Winter Sports Center. A $50 savings bond will be awarded for… Read More
LEWISTON — Police were investigating the death of a Lewiston man who was struck and killed by a train at around 7 a.m. Wednesday. An autopsy on Keith Abbott, 25, was still pending late Wednesday, Lt. David Chamberlain said. The Guilford freight train was heading… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE — An Auburn man received minor injuries Thursday after being struck by a car on Park Street, according to Presque Isle police. Timothy Smiley, 25, was working as a flagger for a tar company when he was hit by Josephine Riley, 19, of… Read More
There are two hot races these days – the major league pennant contests and the chase for vice president. George Mitchell has been trying to make the first a fairer proposition. If you believe the New York Times, President Clinton is trying to put Mitchell on the Democratic… Read More
SANFORD — A man in a blue van with Massachusetts plates stabbed a woman while trying to drag her into his vehicle Friday, police said. Virginia Stasulis, 42, said she was walking to work on Emery Street around 4:30 a.m. when the blond man stopped… Read More
BANGOR — The 2000 comprehensive plan has been approved by the state, and now it will be the City Council’s turn to cast the final vote during a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday at City Hall. The document, some three years in development, will be… Read More
PORTLAND — A Farmingdale couple who did stints during World War II and the Korean War finally received their service medals Friday. U.S. Rep. Tom Allen, D-Maine, presented Annah G. and James P. McLean with 17 medals during a ceremony at his office. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
ROCKLAND — Though he died when Richard Nixon was still president, Halsey Tichenor Adams is having an impact in Knox County in 2000. Adams’ estate was distributed, per his will, on Friday, giving Penobscot Bay Medical Center $1.4 million and three Knox County Episcopal churches… Read More
BANGOR — The Bangor Humane Society will turn to the public to help ease its financial woes, the president of the board of directors said Friday. “The community will be hearing more from us during the next several months,” said Don Hanson. “We need more… Read More
STONINGTON — Local fishermen are touting the initial success of a program designed to restore the local inshore stocks of scallops, give a boost to the sagging industry and reduce local dependence on the lobster fishery. The fishermen are now looking to substantially increase that effort in the… Read More
LINNEUS — The scene of Wednesday’s crash of a Canadian cargo plane was quiet Friday as salvage crews prepared to remove the wreckage from the banks of the Meduxnekeag River off New Limerick Road. Other than the subdued voices of investigators from the National Transportation… Read More
BANGOR — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Friday denied the appeal of a former Bangor businessman convicted in September of bilking a University of Maine fraternity out of about $115,000 over three years. John R. Moon, 46, was sentenced in December to 18 months… Read More