On carbon dioxide and global warming: About 100 billion tons of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide circulates between the Earth, oceans and atmosphere each year. This is the natural stuff and would go on without human activity. Each year human activity in the form of fossil… Read More
    AUGUSTA – The Maine Office of Energy Independence and Security survey of home heating oil prices last week found the current statewide average cash price for No. 2 heating oil to be $2.25 per gallon, a decrease of $0.23 since Sept. 5. This price is… Read More
    Dear Jim: I want to install the most efficient heat pump for lower heating bills, but I also want low summer cooling costs. Is a hybrid heat pump a good choice and what features should I look for in a heat pump? – Bob M. Read More
    After fighting the battles of everyday life, the tired and stressed Maine consumer sits down to unwind at his window to the world, the ubiquitous television. Somewhere in the mix of commercial or cable programming, channel surfing, and the long list of commercial advertising, there comes the infomercial. Read More
    Max Boot’s Sept. 29 op-ed commentary, “Islamism, not Islam, real foe,” was insightful but I am compelled to address a glaring historical error. “Religions..,” he writes, “have no fixed eternal identity. Until the 18th century, Christianity was a militant faith whose adherents did not hesitate to kill ‘heathens’.”… Read More
    With the election drawing near, I felt it important to write endorsing the candidacy of Rep. Christian Greeley to the Maine House of Representatives from the Glenburn-Levant-Kenduskeag-Corinth area. He has served this area well for two terms and is running for a third term. I, for one, would… Read More
    We were saddened to read in the Bangor Daily News recently of Dr. Arthur Joost’s death. Many years ago in the late 1950s, our son Terry, then 11 months old, became seriously ill. It was a time when doctors made house calls. I tried to… Read More
    If you’ve never heard of the Plan for a New American Century (PNAC), please look it up right away. This secret society is the key behind the neocon hijacking of America and the society-breaking war in Iraq. PNAC is a political think-tank, created in 1997… Read More
    October is widely recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. What many people don’t know is that October is also Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, as proclaimed by President Reagan in 1988. Each year in the United States, more than six out of every 1,000… Read More
    The Baldacci administration and the Maine Hospital Association are moving toward a settlement of some $330 million owed by the state to medical facilities from the mid-1990s and through the end of the current biennium, in June 2007. The agreement reportedly would also set rates that would help… Read More
    Long ago, pay phones had a little glassed-in room with a seat and a shelf where you could write or place your change. A call cost a nickel. Then they mostly were cut back to a little hood that offered some protection from rain and… Read More
    As a high school teacher I get that a lot. I hear lots of unflattering references to our youth, mostly from well-meaning people who have little contact with today’s young people. Fueled by media accounts of disruptive kids, disdainful of learning, it is easy to see why many… Read More
    As the Brookings Institution released Charting Maine’s Future Thursday, members of the Legislature’s Joint Select Committee on Research, Economic Development, and the Innovation Economy were at work in Augusta reviewing Maine’s current investments in research and development (R&D). It has been 10 years since Maine’s R&D plan was… Read More
    DAMARISCOTTA – It won’t be timbers that’ll be shivering when the pumpkin boats sail away this morning for the Columbus Day Great Pumpkin Regatta at Schooner Landing, it will probably be their captains. “We’re going to sail them on an incoming tide,” “Commodore” Buzz Pinkham… Read More
    ALLAGASH – Two of the moose downed by hunters in the state’s annual moose hunt two weeks ago left Maine with two teenagers taking part in a Hunt of a Lifetime. The two teens have life-threatening diseases and had sought moose hunting excursions from Hunt… Read More
    BANGOR – The early morning air on Saturday was hazy with mist off the Penobscot, but by the time the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk got under way at 9, the sun had burned through and the sky was a piercing blue. About 125 people showed up at Bass Park… Read More
    ST. AGATHA – Huge mounds of potatoes grew quickly Saturday afternoon as truckload after truckload of fresh spuds were put into storage at an Edwin Pelletier and Sons Inc. storage facility along the eastern shore of Long Lake. Across the lake, two company harvesters were… Read More
    BAILEYVILLE – Officials at Domtar Inc. pulp and paper mill announced Friday they plan to lay off up to 18 employees over the next few months. Company spokesman Scott Beal did not indicate in a telephone interview Friday how the layoff would be divided. “We’ll… Read More
    BUCKSPORT – It has been a long journey from the bluffs of the Missouri River to the banks of the Penobscot, but Sox the cat looks like she enjoyed the trip. The frisky special needs kitten was adapting to her new surroundings after arriving from… Read More
    BAILEYILLE – U.S. Border Patrol agents who regularly patrol the border between Canada and the United States soon will have a new home. Construction on the more than $6 million site at the town’s industrial park on Routes 9 and 1 is expected to be… Read More
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    NEWRY – John Farra, a former Winter Olympian from Caribou who trained by running up a ski slope with 80 pounds of mortar mix, won the seventh annual North American Wife Carrying Championship on Saturday at Sunday River. Farra’s first-place finish earned him and his… Read More
    BAR HARBOR – At his inauguration Sunday afternoon, the new president of College of the Atlantic predicted that the 21st century will be unprecedented in the pace and magnitude of threats to the global environment and social order. “The potential for violence, and the imperative… Read More
    SEAL HARBOR – According to a press release from Mount Desert police, a man has been released from Mount Desert Island Hospital after being treated for injuries resulting from a garage fire. At approximately 5:30 p.m. last Thursday, fire and emergency crews from Mount Desert and Bar Harbor… Read More
    BANGOR – The following are city meetings and other activities for the week ahead. All will be held in City Council chambers at City Hall unless otherwise indicated. . Monday: City office closed for Columbus Day observance. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
    BANGOR – A Maryland man was arrested and charged with aggravated furnishing of scheduled drugs early Sunday morning. Officer Jason Stuart pulled over a vehicle at 12:15 a.m. on Odlin Road after noticing the driver indecisively driving around in a hotel parking lot and nearly… Read More
    BANGOR – City officials are gearing up to tackle more of the details surrounding the development of a $90 million gambling complex across Main Street from Bass Park. During the City Council’s next regular meeting, set for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the councilors will be asked… Read More
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    One of last year’s new fundraisers for the Eastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary proved to be so popular, and so successful, that it is returning this fall. Auxiliary members and President Lynn Spooner cordially invite you to attend their second annual Kitchen Tour from noon… Read More
    MONTVILLE – A local man who took his life and set his home on fire Saturday made sure it would burn to the ground before firefighters could reach the scene. James Dooling, 61, of Center Road sawed down two power poles and a tree to… Read More
    CONCORD, N.H. – Beautiful weather, brilliant foliage and lower gas prices made for a spectacular Columbus Day weekend in northern New England, and leaf peepers gasped at views of a lifetime. Warm days and cool nights added rich hues to the leaves; cloudless blue skies,… Read More
    ORONO – The University of Maine women’s soccer team did a lot of things right in their America East game against Hartford Sunday afternoon. Generating good scoring chances off its significant possession advantage wasn’t one of them and it cost the Bears dearly when Hartford’s… Read More
    BANGOR – Bangor High School boys soccer coach Adam Leach succinctly summed up a dominant first-half performance that guided his Rams to an impressive 4-1 win over archrival Hampden Academy Saturday afternoon. “That’s as good a half as we can play and it’s against the… Read More
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    NEWTON, Mass. – Shelby Pickering scored three goals to lead the Husson College Eagles to a 6-1 women’s soccer victory over Mount Ida Saturday. Shelby Morissette, Samantha Homer, and Tatyana Wolterbeek added goals for 8-3-1 Husson. Leah Drew stopped 10 of 14 shots. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    WORCESTER, Mass. – Brandon Goodrich caught a 67-yard touchdown pass from Brandon Hamilton in the fourth quarter to seal a 12-3 victory for Maine Maritime Academy of Castine over Worcester State Saturday in college football action. Hamilton finished with 123 rushing yards and 134 passing… Read More
    The sounds of New Orleans jazz boogied into town Sunday in the form of Robert and Terry Rohe. Bob Rohe, who is 90, retired last year as principal bassist for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, but before that 25-year tenure, he played with the New Orleans Symphony for 30… Read More
    When the 1880 census became available – indexed for the whole country – I was sure all my long-lost forebears would be found. First I bought the CDs, then I searched again when the census arrived online at www.familysearch.org – a tremendous resource. But when… Read More
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    A century ago, Bangor manufactured more cigars than any other town in Maine. Six producers – Benjamin F. Adams, W.S. Allen, Central Cigar Co., Albert Lewis, Madine Cigar Co. and James J. O’Leary – kept up a steady flow of stogies to the city’s 24 cigar and tobacco… Read More