BANGOR – The trustee for Eastern Pulp and Paper Corp.’s bankrupt estate plans to abandon the company’s two mills and other assets next week unless a bona fide buyer is found or extra money is secured to keep the facilities warm. The trustee, Bangor attorney… Read More
    BANGOR – A proposal crafted by the various factions of Maine’s harness racing industry to amend the governor’s emergency racino bill has received less than rave reviews from the Baldacci administration. The industry consensus amendment, as its proponents call it, also appears to have played… Read More
    A story on Page B1 last Tuesday about scrutiny of the funding for Gov. John Baldacci’s Dirigo Health program requires clarification. The story reported that Dirigo architect Trish Riley said Dirigo was developed in consultation with staff from the office of the Maine attorney general and the office… Read More
    WASHINGTON – Last week in Charleston, S.C., President Bush posed in front of a 40-year-old Coast Guard cutter that, under his budget proposal, won’t be replaced until it’s 48 years old. Bush used the USCGC Reliance as a backdrop while he touted his administration’s efforts… Read More
    ELLSWORTH – Union Trust Co. President Peter A. Blyberg recently announced the restructuring of his executive management team to help service two new business regions. John Lynch, executive vice president, will be responsible for managing the Down East region, encompassing Hancock and Washington counties. Lynch… Read More
    PORTLAND – Companies hoping to buy outdoor outfitter Eddie Bauer’s corporate parent will have to wait now that a federal judge has granted the parent company a third extension on the deadline for a reorganization plan. Spiegel Inc. now has until May 10 to file… Read More
    Employees of three blueberry processing companies recently met with a University of Maine dean and threatened to withhold funds for a new research building. They did this because they were mad that a long-time university employee was quoted in this newspaper as saying that the companies could weather… Read More
    The Maine Taxpayer’s Action Network, intentionally or not, couldn’t have given the state more chances to avoid its property-tax cap, a sledgehammer blow to municipal budgets that likely will go to voters via citizen’s initiative either in June or November. Where MTAN warned, the state dithered. It delayed. Read More
    I read a story about Department of Transportation Commissioner David Cole’s plan to eliminate 150 jobs. Probably not a bad idea considering the budget troubles in Augusta. When you read where the job reductions are coming from it makes you wonder. All the cuts are from snow plowing… Read More
    Your article Tuesday (“Berry expert’s ouster averted”) goes a long way toward explaining the climate of fear among our blueberry growers. Congratulations to Katherine Cassidy for bringing this blackmail to light. In investigating our unique industry, Ms. Cassidy has found many farmers prepared to talk… Read More
    I am writing to express my support for expanding the size of the West Old Town landfill. As an elected member of the Old Town school board, I want to stress the importance of the landfill expansion in terms of maintaining our tax base and our ability to… Read More
    I was amazed and angered by your article (BDN, Feb. 7-8) about Richard Albert facing a possible $10,000 fine for crossing the border from Canada into the United States after attending church. Mr. Albert, I assume, is a U.S. citizen, and therefore is not subject… Read More
    The Aquaculture Task Force Report is a great disappointment. This hurried study found no time to address the most important factor driving the tremendous divisiveness the process of granting aquaculture leases has fostered in our state in recent years. What most needs clarification is the siting of fish… Read More
    For European monarchies, granting crown monopolies was a win-win arrangement that enriched the treasury while rewarding courtiers. But for subjects, the arrangement was a lose-lose proposition that inflicted higher prices for often-inferior products. Fortunately for American consumers, state monopolies are relatively few. But states do still grant exclusive… Read More
    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the federal Environmental Protection Agency held a hearing in Orrington to discuss the proposed Corrective Measures Study presented by Mallinckrodt for cleaning up the former HoltraChem site. As citizens concerned about this cleanup, we are writing to express… Read More
    Once again, the governor and Legislature face an enormous budget crisis – a crisis that is about to get worse as we begin to tackle the budget for next year. The most recent budget, which Republicans did not support, cut funding for the university system and the community… Read More
    The recent news accounts of the abduction and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Florida presented parents everywhere with a nightmare too frightening even to contemplate. We can only wonder what the parents of Carlie Brucia, a cheerful, well-liked sixth-grader, must be going through since… Read More
    AUGUSTA – Certainly the appearance of “Hot Lips Houlihan” before the Legislature’s Taxation Committee on Wednesday afternoon didn’t hurt the cause of the more than 100 supporters of a spay-neuter bill, even if the chairman, Sen. Stephen S. Stanley, D-Penobscot, couldn’t remember actress Loretta Swit’s real name. Read More
    FORT KENT – Getting the more than 300 athletes, coaches, trainers and officials taking part next month in the Biathlon 2004 World Cup to remote Fort Kent is one thing. Finding places for all of them to stay around this small border town is quite another. Read More
    BANGOR – A Bangor man who apparently used a large butcher-style knife to rob a State Street video store Tuesday evening remains in Penobscot County Jail. Dennis Moore II, 23, is accused of armed robbery after he allegedly walked into Premier Video, 250 State St.,… Read More
    BANGOR – A Brewer man charged with assaulting his girlfriend and leaving her in a ditch on New Year’s Eve pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Penobscot County Superior Court to Class B aggravated assault James “Butch” Boutilier, 41, remains in the Penobscot County Jail unable… Read More
    BREWER – Rep. William “Will” Rogers, R-Brewer, stood before the Brewer City Council on Tuesday and explained to the board that the state doesn’t want to regulate adult entertainment establishments. “It came out loud and clear that they didn’t want a state bill,” said Rogers,… Read More
    BANGOR – After another round of discussion and input from more than a dozen supporters and foes, a City Council committee Wednesday sent proposed changes to Bangor’s policy on adult entertainment businesses to the next stage of the approval process. The topic of adult entertainment… Read More
    BANGOR – Members of the Bangor House Craft Club are donating hand-crafted “kitty blankets” and braided dog bones to the Bangor Humane Society. Barbara Friedman of the Bangor Humane Society will meet with the Bangor House Crafts Club to accept the donation at 2 p.m. Read More
    WARREN – A proposal by a local businessman to move his Route 90 business complex to Route 1 has created a stink over one of the proposed uses. Robert Emery, who owns Emery Construction, Rhino Liner, Bob’s Auto Sales and, most recently, Handy Portable Toilets… Read More
    ELLSWORTH – Ellsworth High School students boycotted classes Wednesday and marched from the high school to City Hall in support of popular Assistant Principal Michael Wright. Hundreds of students joined the protest that student leaders said was in response to the unanimous decision by the… Read More
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    UNITY – The SAD 3 board has agreed to delay the construction of its new school by a few months in hopes of persuading the state to fund a new facility for kindergarten through 12th grade. The board voted Monday night, following Superintendent Daniel Lee’s… Read More
    ATKINSON – Local residents on Wednesday stood firm in their desire to deorganize their small community. In a vote of 48 to 15 during a special town meeting, residents approved an amended deorganization plan that switches the designated school system from SAD 68 back to… Read More
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    WARREN – At a special town meeting Wednesday, voters will consider spending up to $20,000 for an engineering review of the old Crowe Rope building that has been vacant since 1996 when the company left town for Winslow. Depending on findings of the phase one… Read More
    SOUTHWEST HARBOR – Town officials have issued a reminder to residents that driving vehicles on Long Pond is prohibited under town ordinances. “We’ve caught a number of people driving around on the ice near the inflow to the water treatment plant,” Code Enforcement Officer Stephen… Read More
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    HOULTON – Faced with declining enrollment and increased property values in the four towns that make up SAD 29, administrators are bracing themselves for a potential loss of $84,000 in state funding, Superintendent Susan Johnson said Wednesday. “There is a possibility that we could lose… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE – The four-year effort to stimulate the economy of Aroostook County is still in its infancy, and organizers are working hard on fund raising, their first objective. The Aroostook Partnership for Progress, a private-public initiative looking to bring more jobs to Aroostook County,… Read More
    HOULTON – In a meeting spent primarily in executive session, the SAD 29 board of directors renewed contracts Tuesday night for three administrators, with a 3 percent raise in salary for each. The board voted to renew the contract of Houlton High School Assistant Principal… Read More
    ORONO – Adults considering college are invited to participate in a free college-planning workshop sponsored by the Maine Educational Opportunity Center. MEOC helps adult students to overcome class, social, academic and cultural barriers to higher education. Services include assistance in choosing a college, tutoring, and… Read More
    ETNA – The Etna Fire Department has received a grant of $103,365 from the 2003 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency. The award, part of $750 million being distributed to more than 7,000 fire… Read More
    BANGOR – Manna Ministries is asking for food donations to help stock its shelves. Manna has been sending food to areas that have been hit with layoffs and mill closings. Baked beans, spaghetti sauce, tuna, boxed macaroni and cheese, and Styrofoam plates are among the… Read More
    BANGOR – The National Association for the Education of Young Children has awarded accreditation to two Penquis CAP child care sites. The Cleveland Street and Job Corps child care centers in Bangor were given accreditation. For information on Penquis CAP, call 973-3534. Read More
    OLD TOWN – The Old Town School Department will be holding kindergarten registration in early March for all children entering kindergarten in the fall. Registration will be held 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, or Thursday, March 4, at the Old Town Elementary School. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    CARIBOU – The Caribou Choral Society will begin rehearsals for its spring concerts at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the Mormon Church recreation room. All area adults interested in singing in the group should come to the rehearsal to sign up. No auditions are… Read More
    ST. AGATHA – The Department of Economic and Community Development has awarded St. Agatha a $400,000 Community Development Block Grant to build a sewer-line extension along Route 162 and parts of Cleveland and Brook roads. The town has been working on the sewer-line extension project… Read More
    ST. AGATHA – St. Agatha is gearing up for its 2004 Long Lake Summerfest, to be held July 30-Aug. 1. The event will mark the 100th anniversary of the coming of the Daughters of Wisdom to St. Agatha. The group of nuns came in 1904… Read More
    BANGOR – Penquis Community Action Program will offer “Business Ownership 101” from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 2, at Penquis CAP, located at 262 Harlow St. The class will give an overview of the pros and cons of operating a small business, what a… Read More
    BANGOR – The Penquis Community Action Program Resource Development Center is offering 30 hours of training in preschool development for center-based care. The training will be held 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturdays, March 20 and 28, April 24, and May 1 and 8, at the University of Maine, Katherine… Read More
    ORONO – Orono High School will hold an open house for eighth-graders and their parents from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25. Snow date is Feb. 26. The staff of OHS will give a presentation of the freshman academic and co-curricular programs, and a… Read More
    With vacation week coming up and young people out of school, I thought I would pass along a bit of information I gleaned from the most recent issue of “Speaking Volumes,” the Bangor Public Library Newsletter. Library Director Barbara McDade addressed the issue of overdue… Read More
    SACO – A woman is recuperating from injuries she suffered after a pit bull attacked her as she walked her 7-month-old terrier in her neighborhood. Amy Bagley, 33, said the pit bull charged toward her Monday afternoon, grabbing her left hand in its mouth. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    FREDERICTON, New Brunswick – Divers found the wreckage Wednesday of a fishing boat and the bodies of two of its crew who went missing two weeks ago off the southern coast of New Brunswick. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police divers were still looking for one… Read More
    PORTLAND – The two sides in racino referendums in Saco and Westbrook spent a combined total of nearly $1.4 million, a sum that one expert says is more in line with a U.S. Senate race or a statewide ballot question. Fewer than 11,500 voters cast… Read More
    WELLS – Yet another dead, mutilated seal has been found in New England. It’s the ninth seal believed killed by poachers and was found last week in Wells, Maine. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
    BLUE HILL – Jane Coop, one of Canada’s leading pianists and a longtime member of Kneisel Hall’s summer chamber music faculty, will conduct a piano master class with young area musicians at the Blue Hill Congregational Church, 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14. Coop, a professor… Read More
    DEXTER – The Narraguagus Knights didn’t play one of their best games of the season Wednesday night. That’s mainly because the Dexter Tigers did, combining offensive patience with defensive tenacity to earn a 59-38 victory in their Eastern C boys basketball preliminary-round game at Guiski… Read More
    When Hampden girls basketball players started working out in a fall preseason league at the Bangor YMCA, the Broncos were a bit surprised with the kind of numbers they were getting from Johanna Ghiringhelli. The Broncs knew the foreign student from Paraguay was a good… Read More
    Some Maine fishing records are holdovers from another era, and the prospect of them ever being broken are very, very slim. Take, for instance, the record landlocked salmon: A 22-pound, 8-ounce monster that Edward Blakey of Darien, Conn., hauled out of Sebago Lake back in… Read More
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    PORTLAND – Ten new members will be inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame on July 25 during a ceremony at the Holiday Inn By the Bay on Spring Street. The inductees are Merrill “Red” Wilson of Holden, Al McNeilly of Owls Head, Herbert… Read More
    MONSON – John Bapst of Bangor won both the girls and boys PVC freestyle cross country skiing championships at A Fierce Chase Trails to complete a sweep of the 2004 overall PVC skiing titles. Bapst won five of the eight team races to win their second consecutive girls… Read More
    BANGOR – Dwayne Ailey scored 18 points to help lead the Husson College men to a 68-65 win over Thomas College of Waterville Wednesday. Buddy Leavitt had 13 points and 17 rebounds for the Braves. Bill Beauregard scored 10 points and Matt Mulligan had 11… Read More
    DURHAM, N.H. – The University of Maine women’s basketball team was missing a big piece of the puzzle for Wednesday night’s America East game against New Hampshire. The rest of the pieces still fit together perfectly. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
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    ORONO – William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” has much to do with everything in life that’s important: friends, family, trust and love. The University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts will produce the romantic comedy Feb. 13-22 at Hauck Auditorium in the Memorial Union. Read More
    OLD TOWN – Old Town’s Travis Vicary won the boys 5-kilometer classic cross-country skiing title in Rumford on Jan. 31 while competing against other Penobscot Valley Conference schools. Vicary is the first athlete at Old Town High School to compete in cross-country skiing for his… Read More
    MILFORD – Amanda York, a sixth-grader at the Dr. Lewis S. Libby School in Milford, has been accepted to participate in the People to People Student Ambassador Program to Australia and New Zealand next summer. The 22-day exchange consists of meetings with government officials, interaction… Read More
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    VEAZIE – Inspired by the brand of “outside the box” thinking that has brought such innovations as the Segue scooter to the American public, a team of pupils from Veazie Community School’s Viking Science Club won the innovative design award at the First LEGO League competition. Read More
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    BANGOR – The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter recently received a grant of $5,000 from the UPS Foundation, the charitable arm of United Parcel Service. The grant will be used to repave the shelter’s parking lot. Paving will occur late this summer after work on the building’s third floor… Read More
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    Jeff Hudson had never been to Rockland before, so you’ll forgive the coach of the undefeated Presque Isle girls basketball coach if he didn’t exactly know he was actually in Rockland when he stopped at a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant there before a recent Tigers game against Winslow. Read More
    Penobscot County commissioners have recognized the efforts of a Penobscot County Jail corrections officer whose medical assistance helped save an inmate’s life. Penobscot County Jail Corrections Officer Douglas Libby was named Corrections Officer of the Year by the Maine Sheriff’s Association and late last month… Read More
    BREWER – Don’t put away your ice skates and toboggans yet. The Brewer P.T.U. Winter Fun Day is set for 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Brewer Auditorium. Activities will include sledding, ice skating, indoor and outdoor games, snow sculpture contest, face painting, fingernail painting, raffles,… Read More
    BREWER – For more than half a century, the city of Brewer’s Public Works building was located on waterfront property on the Penobscot River at the end of Hardy Street. That building was demolished Jan. 28 to make room for the city’s Penobscot Landing redevelopment plans. Read More
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    Support group listings are run as space permits. Items are due one week before publication. Mail The Weekly, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; or e-mail weekly@bangordailynews.net, or drop off notices at the front desk of the Buck Street entrance at the Bangor Daily News, 491 Main St., Bangor. Read More