BANGOR – Even with rising gas prices, AAA predicts that more people will be driving to their vacation destination this year. Coming along for the ride could be motorists’ credit cards. According to a national nonprofit consumer credit counseling group, whipping out the credit card… Read More
NEWPORT – The woods are wet, still dripping from an overnight rain, but the deer don’t seem to mind. Seven of them – six does and a small, spike-horn male – cluster in a wooded thicket, peering at the strangers peering at them through an 8-foot high fence… Read More
Being poor and old may not have many advantages, but here’s a bright spot: about 5,800 elderly and low-income Mainers won’t have to figure out which of the dozens of Medicare drug benefit cards now on the market is best for them. Their more affluent peers, though, are… Read More
The National Folk Festival will move south next year, to the Virginia capital of Richmond. “It’s exciting to bring the festival to an area that has its own rich cultural history,” Heather McCarthy, executive director of the 66th National Folk Festival to be held August… Read More
A headline in Wednesday’s business section incorrectly stated that the Bangor City Council approved a contract to allow Mid-Coast Cruises to operate out of Bangor. The city’s transportation and infrastructure committee approved the contract. Read More
WASHINGTON – The discovery of sarin gas in Iraq and the use of anthrax and ricin against Congress spurred the Senate on Wednesday to approve $5.6 billion to help prepare for possible germ or chemical attacks on American soil. The Senate, on a 99-0 vote,… Read More
WASHINGTON – Republicans muscled a compromise $2.4 trillion budget for 2005 through the House on Wednesday, but struggled in their quest for enough votes to push it through the closely divided Senate later this week. The House approved the measure by a near party-line 216-213,… Read More
MACHIAS – Beginners’ luck may have helped a group of eighth-graders at the Rose M. Gaffney School win a statewide stock market contest last fall, but they can credit their stock market savvy for winning the spring version of the state contest. “Even I was… Read More
WATERVILLE – L.L. Bean Inc. plans to expand its call center operation in this central Maine city and is looking at four potential sites. The outdoors outfitter has operated a call center at the former Rich’s department store building at the JFK Mall since 1997. Read More
PORTLAND – A new airline that will begin serving the Portland International Jetport this summer gives airport officials something they have been seeking: a budget airline serving Maine’s largest city. Independence Airlines said Wednesday it will begin service between Portland and Dulles International Airport in… Read More
PITTSFIELD – In the last decade, Maine has lost more manufacturing jobs than any other state, so it comes as a welcome surprise that a Massachusetts cedar product company is bucking the trend – not only is it expanding three of its Maine locations, but it is also… Read More
WESTBORO, Mass – New England added jobs for the first time in three years during the first quarter, but economic and employment growth is expected to be slow for several more years, a nonprofit economic forecasting organization said. Through 2008, New Hampshire and Connecticut are… Read More
PORTLAND – The Portland.com domain name, which once sent Web browsers to the city’s newspaper, will soon link to a site featuring advertisements plugging services for visitors to Portland, Ore. The new site will be up and running in a few weeks, said Skip Hoagland,… Read More
Despite a recent flurry of activity to stop, or at least slow down, the West Old Town Landfill, the project is moving forward, as was expected. The Department of Environmental Protection last month granted Casella Waste Systems a license to operate and expand the landfill. Critics of the… Read More
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz provided the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week with a rare admission of error. His observations may not be revelatory, but they give Congress an opening to assume more responsibility for what happens next in the war. Mr. Wolfowitz… Read More
Peter P. Misluk Jr. of Searsmont is an excellent Democratic candidate for the State Senate in the June 8 primary. Peter is a married man with four adult children and two grandchildren. He is a Vietnam Veteran who served on the USS Ranger in the Gulf of Tonkin… Read More
Although his death was expected, it didn’t make it any easier to know that Dr. Thaddeus Jozefowicz was finally gone. Affectionately known as “Dr. J” or “Ted,” it’s tragic that the BDN (April 29) chose to resurrect his somewhat tarnished past rather than ask those of us who… Read More
The executive branch of our government has failed us. The abuses of Iraqi and Afghani prisons, as well as the implication of such abuses in Guantanamo Bay, is a direct consequence of a top-down decision. The Bush administration and Department of Defense denied Geneva Convention rights to prisoners… Read More
The question of whether to provide communion to pro-choice politicians is gathering steam across the nation. The politicians who hold pro-choice views naturally bristle at the thought of being denied the sacrament and a few have lashed out at the church as engaging in thought-police tactics. Personal beliefs,… Read More
President George Bush claims he gets his inspiration from a higher power. Which one would that be? The one that feeds he and his rich, greedy buddies’ bank accounts? After all, they’ve been getting rich off death and wars for years. Or is it the same God that… Read More
During a number of periods in our nation’s history, the prevailing law restricted marriage rights, and popular opinion would undoubtedly have favored constitutional amendments to preserve those restrictions if amendments had been proposed. The first such amendment might have read: “Marriage shall be the union of one man… Read More
A year ago, the Maine Legislature took responsible and decisive action by enacting L.D. 845, “An Act to Provide Leadership in Addressing the Threat of Climate Change” to set our state on a path toward a more sustainable future. The new law sets forth goals for Maine to… Read More
PORTLAND – A Bangor lawyer was suspended Tuesday for three months from the practice of law for mishandling the case of a former Ellsworth businessman. Justice Robert Clifford of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ordered that Philip L. Ingeneri, 62, be suspended effective July 1… Read More
BREWER – A new psychiatric facility and a residential apartment building for homeless adults with severe mental illness will open later this year, thanks in part to an $883,500 federal loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Community Health and Counseling Services, a regional mental… Read More
BELFAST – The driver of a speeding sports car that crashed last weekend, killing a former Belfast Area High School football star, has been charged with manslaughter, state police said Wednesday. Adam Weymouth, 25, of Camden, was driving Sunday afternoon on Route 173 in Searsmont… Read More
I drove all over town on Wednesday, from one busy gas station to the next, but found little evidence that we were out there sticking it to them. Either the people in Bangor had not gotten the anonymous e-mail circulating around the country proclaiming May… Read More
WILLIMANTIC – Local residents who say they are frustrated with the lack of regard and respect shown by Willimantic selectmen presented a petition Tuesday night calling for the selectmen’s ouster. Chairman Debbie Pettigrew and Selectmen Bruce Thomas and Paul Viekman nonetheless refused to step down… Read More
BANGOR – Bob Evans discovered in the unforgiving waters of the Gulf of Alaska what the early Christian mystics found in the deserts of the Holy Land: a desire to live according to God’s will. After more than two decades as a commercial fisherman in… Read More
OLD TOWN – The public library will be reinstating fines for overdue materials starting on Tuesday, June 1. For the past six months, the Old Town Public Library has not charged fines on overdue materials while staff members were trained on the library management program… Read More
Army Pvt. James P. Fitzgerald has graduated from the network switching systems operator-maintainer advanced individual training course at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Ga. Fitzgerald is the son of Diane M. Rollins and the stepson of Greg T. Rollins of Springfield. Read More
A Milford man reportedly borrowed a Bangor girl’s car and failed to return it Tuesday evening. Bangor police Officer Douglas Moore reported that at about 7 p.m. a woman called police, saying her 16-year-old daughter had lent her blue 1997 Saturn to Jonathan Spinney, 19,… Read More
BANGOR – With all of the needed city and state approvals in hand, a Connecticut-based developer will begin construction this month on an $11.7 million retail shopping center on Stillwater Avenue. According to application materials filed with the city’s planning office, Bangor Parkade Inc.’s plans… Read More
PITTSFIELD – Pittsfield councilors cleared the way on Tuesday night for major improvements to take place in 2005 on Phillips Corner Road. The road is a state collector road, and the Maine Department of Transportation is planning to reconstruct more than 3 miles of the… Read More
THOMASTON – SAD 50 directors must decide how to readdress the district’s 2004-2005 budget now that Tuesday’s districtwide ballot tally shows more than half of the warrant articles were defeated. The proposed $10,528,585 budget is up 2.55 percent over last year’s expenses, while the assessment… Read More
FORT KENT – Ceremonies will begin at 7 a.m. Sunday, May 31, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall. Participants will leave the hall at 7:30 a.m. for a short military honors ceremony at the Daigle and Wallagrass cemeteries. A 9 a.m. Mass will be celebrated at Soldier… Read More
HANCOCK – A Milbridge woman suffered minor leg injuries Wednesday when a car in which she was riding struck a utility pole on the side of U.S. Route 1, according to police. Richard Loiselle, 32, of Steuben was driving a 1993 Pontiac west around 11… Read More
ELLSWORTH – A Sullivan man was sentenced Wednesday to serve nine months in jail for sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl. Charles Gibson, 23, was sentenced by Justice Andrew Mead in Hancock County Superior Court after entering a plea of no contest to a charge of… Read More
BLUE HILL – Blue Hill Memorial Hospital has trimmed its deficit by some $1 million and is charting a course that calls for increasing access to health care throughout its coverage area and possibly establishing closer ties with Eastern Maine Healthcare in Bangor. The hospital… Read More
ELLSWORTH – An Ellsworth man who pleaded guilty in January to helping to steal $42,000 from a Southwest Harbor convenience store was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison. Cory Sargent, 21, received no probation time as part of the sentence imposed by Justice Andrew… Read More
CALAIS – The mantra “Save the Unobskey School” has hit the airwaves, thanks to a local DJ who plans to make higher education sit up and take notice of Washington County. Radio personality Charlie Dix has mounted a one-man campaign over WQDY-FM in Calais and… Read More
HOULTON – A draft wellhead protection ordinance that has been revised by the planning board for more than a month is nearly complete, according to officials at a meeting Tuesday evening. Don Keiser, the town’s grant writer and planning administrator, said at the meeting that… Read More
NEWPORT – Just two weeks after having approved leasing a plot of land for a skateboard park, Town Manager James Ricker reported Wednesday night that the park is running well. The bonus, he told selectmen, is that the town of Pittsfield has agreed to share… Read More
HERMON – Some residents and two councilors said no thanks to what was described as a “no frills” fire and police station, although ultimately the proposed project will go before residents next month. Hermon councilors voted 3 to 2 on Wednesday to send the $950,000… Read More
HOWLAND – High school students in SAD 31 will stay right where they are if Wednesday’s unanimous decision by the district’s board of directors sticks. More than 100 people turned out to the board’s 7 p.m. meeting to debate a recommendation by Superintendent William Ziemer… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – The Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District will hold a Front Runner workshop 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the district office in the Pine Crest Business Park off Route 7. The Front Runner is a grader and rake attachment that… Read More
BANGOR – Trish Riley, director of the governor’s Office of Health Policy and Finance, will speak at 7:30 a.m. today in the dining commons for a Husson College business breakfast. Riley will discuss public health, long-term care, Medicaid, aging, licensure, state health planning and implementation… Read More
GREENBUSH – A teenage girl was injured Tuesday night when another car hit her Saturn and forced it off the road. Maine state Trooper Adam Coover reported that at about 10:15 p.m. a 17-year-old from Greenbush pulled out of a store at the intersection of… Read More
SOLON – The Somerset County Municipal Association will meet 7-8:30 p.m. today at the town office at 121 South Main St. to discuss tax reform and regionalization. Refreshments will be served 6:30-7 p.m., and Jeff Nevins from the Maine Municipal Association will speak. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
Shead High School, Eastport EASTPORT – Jeanne R. Bishop, principal of Shead High School in Eastport, has announced the honor parts for the Class of 2004. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
MACHIAS – A big dinner-dance on Friday in Machias promises to be a fun time for local businesses and friends, all because Louise West is involved. As executive director of the Machias Bay Chamber of Commerce since August, West is aiming to make Friday’s annual… Read More
ROCKLAND – Being in the limelight is nothing new for the man hailed as Mr. Lighthouse, neither is receiving awards from the U.S. Coast Guard. For retired Chief Warrant Officer Ken Black, who built Maine’s Lighthouse Museum from the ground up, however, the Coast Guard’s… Read More
HOULTON – The future is looking brighter in downtown’s Market Square, not only economically but cosmetically as well. At a meeting on Tuesday evening, the town’s planning board approved a design review application by James and Lois McPartland, listed on the document as the owners… Read More
HOULTON – A late afternoon collision between an ATV and a dirt bike sent two people to the hospital Wednesday, according to the Maine Warden Service. Houlton police, fire and ambulance personnel responded to the call shortly after 1 p.m. on a stretch of dirt… Read More
ELLSWORTH – A local man remained in jail Wednesday after police responded to a domestic disturbance call, and he threatened officers with a knife, according to officials. Jesse Hooper, 22, allegedly beat up a woman around noon Tuesday at his house on Winkumpaugh Road before… Read More
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AUGUSTA – U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe was tired of the rumors that she would not seek re-election in 2006, so at the state GOP convention this weekend her booth on the floor featured “Snowe 2006” signs and her staff handed out campaign stickers. “I have… Read More
ORONO – University of Maine student Matthew Rodrigue has been named the top electrical engineering student in the nation. Eta Kappa Nu, the national electrical engineering honor society, has announced Rodrigue as the winner of the Alton T. Zerby and Carl T. Koerner Outstanding Electrical Engineering Student award. Read More
PORTLAND – Police say concern for public safety prompted them to kill a 278-pound black bear that was roaming through back yards in a densely populated section of South Portland. Officers tracked the bear through residential neighborhoods for nearly an hour before Sgt. David Smith… Read More
PORTLAND – For a second time, a federal magistrate has recommended dismissal of a lawsuit by a woman who claimed that she was gang-raped 30 years ago at the York County Jail. Magistrate David Cohen reaffirmed the recommendation he made last year in the $20… Read More
The construction season has begun, yet a proposed wind farm in Mars Hill still hasn’t received its permits to place 33 turbines atop Mars Hill Mountain in Aroostook County. The developer and town officials anticipating economic gains have been waiting as the Department of Environmental… Read More
WARREN – Maine prison officials plan to hold a hearing this week on whether a convicted murderer eligible for parole should be held responsible for the smothering death of his mother in Florida. David Nelson, 53, one of only 10 prisoners eligible for parole in… Read More
OLD TOWN – Weather and emergency officials took to the air this week to assess the dramatic damage left on Saturday in the wake of a series of brief, but powerful wind bursts that knocked off the roof of one business and felled trees in Greater Bangor. Read More
AUGUSTA – A week after one man accepted the position as head of the Maine Warden Service, state officials on Wednesday announced that he had changed his mind and that they had hired another. Nathaniel Berry accepted a position as colonel of the service last… Read More
CAPE ELIZABETH – Peter Cooley was a meticulous man, the kind of person who gave Power Point presentations to members of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church when he served as treasurer. His visit to Washington state to climb Mount Rainier was no different. “He was very… Read More
The Izaak Walton League is sponsoring a statewide campsite cleanup Saturday, May 22. Individuals, families and organizations will work together to clean up and restore many of the remote, unsupervised and often privately owned campsites, scenic locations and water access points in Maine that are… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will hold the annual Moose Lottery Drawing at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, at the Northeastland Hotel. This year, 2,895 names will be drawn in the lottery to hunt moose during the season dates, which… Read More
AUGUSTA – A sampling of 810 brain tissues from deer harvested throughout Maine during the 2003 hunting season indicate that the state’s wild herds show no signs of Chronic Wasting Disease. The samples were gathered by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and animal health officials… Read More
WATERVILLE – The Maine Elks Association elected officers for the 2004-05 year at its 75th annual state convention April 30-May 2. Elected state president was Luis Morales of the Rockland Elks Lodge who said his theme for the upcoming year will be “Proud of our… Read More
AUGUSTA – Fourteen Maine communities will be honored as a Tree City USA for demonstrating excellence in community forestry from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday, May 21, at the Pine Tree State Arboretum, according to the Maine Forest Service. The Tree City USA… Read More
Frank T. Siebert was not an anthropologist, nor a linguist, but a doctor. And yet his contributions to Northeast American Indian ethnography and linguistics equals, perhaps even exceeds, most professionals. According to one colleague, he was the most important Algonquian linguist. There are photographs around… Read More
BREWER – A season that began with 12 exhibition games over six days in Florida is evolving into a focused charge toward postseason play for the Brewer High baseball team. The Class A Witches opted for the methodical approach to victory Wednesday night, backing the… Read More
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Mike Ferriggi went 4-for-5, stroking a two-run single to highlight a five-run first inning Wednesday while leading the University of Maine to an 8-4 baseball victory over Boston College at Shea Field. Coach Paul Kostacopoulos’ Black Bears improved to 29-19 heading… Read More
HAMPDEN – Old Town coach Rod White will tell you it was “a bonus” moving Wednesday’s four-team track meet up from Tuesday. Why? The weather went from crummy and foggy Tuesday to sunny and calm Wednesday, perfect for anybody “on the bubble” to get qualifying… Read More
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For the past several months, you’ve been reading about bears. Why we should – or shouldn’t – hunt them in the manner that we do is a hot topic, and a fall referendum will address that issue in a more official way. As that time… Read More
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BANGOR – “The Nutcracker” was a Christmas confection, and “Cinderella” sold out in March. Now the Bossov Ballet Theatre is preparing to return to Bangor for a weekend of performances of “Scheherazade,” named for the wise heroine in the timeless legend of the Middle East, “One Thousand and… Read More
ORONO – Bruce Johnson and Sandy Cyrus are hoping Orono Community Theater’s “Noodle Doodle Box” and “Under Construction” will help people see theater as a creative springboard for families. “Noodle Doodle Box” is set for 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, May 22, while “Under… Read More
BANGOR – Seventeen members of Washington County Children’s Chorus, a nonprofit organization, had the opportunity to interview nine WWII veterans at Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor on May 1. The chorus of more than 30 members, and some of their parents, will go to Luxembourg June 16-26… Read More
ORONO – Four University of Maine professors were recognized for outstanding job performance at the recent UMaine Academic Honors Convocation. The convocation is an annual event, scheduled for the day before commencement, at which faculty members and students are recognized for exceptional work. Along with… Read More
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Summer swim team BANGOR – The Bangor YMCA and Bangor-Brewer YWCA Barracudas Swim Team is now accepting registrations for the Barracudas Summer Swim Team, a three-month season beginning June 14 and ending Aug. 20, for youth ages 6 through 18. All practices will be held… Read More
Stock car racing, like other sports, has been looking to younger drivers to take it to the next level. Last season, it was Brian Vickers in the NASCAR Busch Series. He was barely 20 years old when he claimed the championship. The youth movement in… Read More
“It is a super place to work,” said Ken Hanscom of Brewer Parks and Recreation Department. He should know. He has been the director for “15 years this July – and enjoying every minute of it,” he said. Brewer established a full-time parks and recreation… Read More
OLD TOWN – As her Bronze Award Project last year, Melissa Thibodeau of Troop 152 developed an idea for a new badge that Junior Girl Scouts could earn. She called it the Sympathy Badge. The idea came to her when her troop leader’s father passed… Read More
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BANGOR – Bangor Lodge 244 of Elks held its annual scholarship recognition award night on May 6. Fifty-four seniors from seven area high schools and their parents were treated to a banquet. The youths received scholarships ranging from $400 to $1,000, with a total of… Read More