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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Maine Event 16-and-under field hockey team compiled a final record of 4-1 and their 19-and-under counterparts went 1-2-1 in action at the National Field Hockey Festival on Friday. The 16-and-under team played three games on Friday, losing to New… Read More
HANOVER, N.H. – Pete Summerfelt fired a shot from 35 feet away that was apparently deflected past screened University of Maine goaltender Mike Morrison with 1:20 remaining in overtime Saturday night as Dartmouth shocked the 11th-ranked Black Bears 2-1 in Division I men’s hockey action at Thompson Arena. Read More
ORONO – There have been precious few games in recent years during which the University of Maine women’s basketball team was completely overmatched. Saturday night’s Dead River Company Classic championship was one of those rare occasions. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
TROY, Ala. – Tory Cavalieri scored 17 points and Colin Haynes pulled down 14 rebounds to help the University of Maine earn a 72-59 men’s basketball victory over Troy State Saturday night. Maine (2-1) had four players in double figures, including Carvell Ammons with 16… Read More
ERIE, Pa. – The University of Maine Black Bears reeled off four straight third-period goals en route to a 4-1 women’s ice hockey win over the Mercyhurst College Lakers Saturday. Cindy Biron scored once and assisted on two other goals for the 5-5-0 Black Bears. Read More
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LINCOLN – A garage at 62 McKenzie Ave. received minimal damage after a fire started on its lower level Sunday evening. No one was injured in the fire. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
HERMON – Police are searching for a man who possibly attempted to abduct a young girl outside her Route 222 home Saturday morning. The 6-year-old girl was playing in her front yard when a man in a brown pickup truck reportedly stopped and asked her… Read More
WINN – Five passengers in a 1995 Oldsmobile van were injured Sunday evening when their vehicle rolled over just off Route 2 Sunday night. Deputy Quinton Goodall of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department responded to the call at 7:35 p.m. According to Goodall, the van… Read More
WEST BATH – Two years ago, selectmen threatened to burn down the town’s dilapidated one-room schoolhouse. The building had fallen into disrepair by the early 1990s. When town officials determined restoration would cost $60,000, they announced plans to allow the town’s volunteer fire department to… Read More
CASTINE – Three teens visiting family in town for the holiday weekend were caught trespassing in a Maine Maritime Academy dormitory late Friday night. They now face possible charges from the District Attorney’s office and the MMA security department. Two boys, aged 15 and 13,… Read More
ELLSWORTH – A motorist’s car burst into flames while he was driving west on Bucksport Road on Friday night. The Bucksport resident managed to escape without injury. Police blame a mechanical failure for the fire that ignited in the 1987 Chevy Blazer’s engine while Bradford… Read More
LEWISTON – It’s been five months since James Gendron’s son had a BB surgically removed from his chest, and the Lewiston man is growing increasingly frustrated that no one has been charged. “What it tells us is that you can shoot somebody with a BB… Read More
On Sept. 29, 1864, Private Thomas Belcher of Bangor mustered for a bloody battle alongside his Union infantry comrades on a Virginia field. It was near the end of the Civil War, and members of the Union infantry were advancing against Confederate troops near the city of Richmond. Read More
By the end of this year, the state Department of Human Services will have completed the adoptions of nearly 400 children in state custody. The number is triple the adoptions completed a year ago and is five times the number of annual adoptions from the mid-1990s. For its… Read More
The Santa’s Helper Fund kicked off on Thanksgiving Day. The Santa’s Helper Fund is part of an effort to raise money for Salvation Army Units in northern Maine and Down East. Our goal is to raise $50,000 in the next 34 days. Each day in… Read More
Northern New England highways were littered with accidents and some flights were delayed as sleet and freezing rain surprised homebound travelers on Sunday’s close of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. In New Hampshire, state police said more than 30 accidents had been reported by early Sunday… Read More
AUGUSTA – A state initiative could end benefits to former state employees who have long received workers’ compensation. The state is conducting an audit of old claims to find ways to limit the state’s liability, according to Frank Johnson, executive director of the Division of… Read More
PITTSFIELD – Two 16-year-old male juveniles using high-powered rifles allegedly shot and killed two horses Saturday while the animals were grazing in a pasture on the Webb Road in Pittsfield. The juveniles, one from Pittsfield and the other from Waterville, are also suspected of shooting… Read More
To billionaire media mogul John Malone, Spencer Lake may be a place to rest and relax far from the cut-throat world of deals and mergers. After a day of togue fishing, he can sit back on the front porch of his luxury lodge and enjoy the spectacular views… Read More
The mail and the Internet are full of scam artists offering “business opportunities” and work-at-home schemes involving certificate booklets and coupon-clipping services. Using the Internet heavily, promoters promise charities and individuals “hundreds or thousands of dollars per month” by selling coupon certificate booklets or cutting… Read More
Following are petitions for bankruptcy filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Bangor: David Combs, maintenance mechanic, and Tammy Combs, warehouse packer, two dependents, Litchfield; assets, $86,182; debts, $105,445. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
Having just returned from a trip to Israel, I read with interest a recent article in the Bangor Daily News on Nov. 13 titled, “Touring Mainer witnesses strife in Israel.” I did not notice at first the author’s name, but after a couple of paragraphs I realized the… Read More
NORTHEAST HARBOR – For 95 years, residents of this summer community have seen the Neighborhood House, a fairy-tale cottage on Main Street, as their second home. But lately, the community center hasn’t been able to juggle the demand for ballroom dance, yoga, crafts, computers and kickball. Read More
BELFAST – Area children have pretty much figured out what they’ll be doing the next few weekends – catching the free movies at the Colonial Theater. This is the sixth year in a row that the Colonial and its sponsors have offered free Saturday and… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – Eleanor Roosevelt knew the importance of mothers and their abilities as homemakers and active public servants. Roosevelt was a founding member of American Mothers Inc. The organization, which has chapters across the country, recognizes a mother in every state each year. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
CRYSTAL – A three-story, recently renovated home, was gutted by fire around noon Sunday. Four fire departments, with 35 firefighters and seven trucks, were at the Jason MacArthur home on the Retreat Road for nearly 3 hours. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
PORTLAND – The new pharmacy worker at Martin’s Point Health Care Center has been nicknamed Spence – as in dispense. He doesn’t call in sick and he doesn’t take vacations. That’s because Spence is a machine. He’s an SP200 Robotic Prescription Dispensing System – a… Read More
GRAND ISLE – The property tax mill rate here has been set at 39.75 mills, an increase of 6.5 mills over last year. It is one of the highest in the state, according to Robert Dunbar, chairman of the Grand Isle board of selectmen. Dunbar,… Read More
FORT KENT – A thin blanket of snow covers northern Maine fields, hills and snowmobile trails, and slushy snow and ice patches are accumulating on lake and riverbanks. With signs of winter evident everywhere, local enthusiasts have had their snowmobiles out on front and side… Read More
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In midlife, and in something of a crisis, Joe Burke decides to be a writer, enrolls in a writing program, and gets to work on what the reader expects might become his first novel. “Joe Burke’s Last Stand” (Xlibris, 2000) is, in fact, the first… Read More
My heart went pit-a-pat recently when I saw two new books on the “Microforms Guide” bookshelf, right in the government documents section at Fogler Library. Staff at the University of Maine facility, bless their pea-pickin’ hearts, have obtained the two-volume “Maine 1870 Census Index” – covering the whole… Read More
FAIRFIELD – A father and his son lost their belongings to fire late Friday night. The fire at 240 Martin Stream Road demolished the mobile home that was being rented by the pair, whose identities were not known to fire officials. Lt. Jack Adams said… Read More
BROOKSVILLE – A community of fewer than 1,000 souls located atop a rocky peninsula that just missed being an island, Brooksville isn’t the sort of place you drive through en route to somewhere else. It’s a destination. And the people who choose to live in… Read More
Each day of his eight years of the presidency, and every day thereafter until his death, Thomas Jefferson recited this prayer: “Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage, we humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people… Read More
Dr. Anthony Lordon, a New Brunswick family physician, recently wrote an op-ed piece claiming (BDN, Nov. 20) that in Maine, we were lucky to have a federal judge block our efforts to secure reasonable prescription drug prices. He has gotten it all wrong. Instead of trying to do… Read More
I “third” the Nov. 9 letter of Mary Lou Colbath, which Robert H. Newall “seconded” in his of Nov. 22 concerning the selective but increasing purging of musical programming by Maine Public Radio. He asks how long before MPR axes “Pipe Dreams” and “With Heart… Read More
The last time Maine heard of an encouraging proposal to place a seasonal sports dome over half the football field at the University of Maine, it was a balmy September and winter seemed many months away. UMaine officials at the time were gently rejecting a generous offer from… Read More
On Oct. 23, the Bangor Daily News printed a lengthy article titled, “Laws protect lawbreakers: Inmates in Maine guaranteed medicine while seniors go without.” The article describes the significant increase in the cost of providing medical care to inmates in Maine and quotes officials who feel sorry “for… Read More
Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa recently proposed changes to health care coverage that would allow insurers to charge higher prices to the sick and lower prices to the healthy; charge higher prices to those with unhealthy lifestyle choices or in dangerous occupations; drop individual plans; and largely drop… Read More
Orono High School First quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Bronwyn Bryant, Tim Clement, Ryan Gordon, Jay Kinzer, Naomi Kirk-Lawlor, Jeremy Latour, Rob Marks, Sarah Marquez, Cameron Millard, Marilyn Nichols, Hazel Onsrud, Maia Pinsky, Hadley See, Dustin Sleight and Dan Whittington; honors: James Allen, Theresa… Read More
BANGOR – Convicted murderer Scott W. Allard of Bradford was back behind bars Sunday night after allegedly robbing a Hampden woman Saturday outside the Bangor Mall. Allard, 37, was being held on $50,000 cash bail at the Penobscot County Jail on a felony robbery charge… Read More
BANGOR – Don’t expect any easy answers in the debate over a proposed methadone clinic here, members of the city’s Special Committee on Opiate Addiction said last week. With a mid-December deadline looming for the committee to finish its report, reaching a consensus on the… Read More
BANGOR – The following committee assignments for the 2000-2001 session were made last week by City Council Chairman John Rohman and the City Council: Finance Committee: Gerry Palmer, chairman; Michael Crowley; Dan Tremble; Nichi Farnham and Patricia Blan- chette. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More