AUGUSTA – Maine needs to invest more in research and development but has been doing a good job with the funds it has appropriated over the last five years. That is the assessment of a group of professors hired by the state to review its efforts. Read More
As a self-described health food nut, Michael Shook was never supposed to feel this way. Not tired, weak and unable to bring his voice above a whisper because of a malignant tumor that invaded his throat. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
BANGOR – After failing to appear at a Portland women’s policy forum earlier in the week, Republican gubernatorial challenger Chandler Woodcock declined an invitation Saturday to attend a similar function hosted by the Bangor chapter of Business and Professional Women. Two other women’s issues candidate… Read More
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
“We’ve actually had to heat extra rooms this year, but we’ve done it in the past.” -NANCY HALL, ORONO googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length;… 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
ORONO – Get out there! That’s the homework assignment Orono Adult Education teacher Alessandra R.S. Cunha gives to students in her English as a Second Language class. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false;… Read More
HAMPDEN – Residents of Crestwood Trailer Park are scrambling to find new accommodations after receiving notice last month that the park on Route 1A will be closed as of Nov. 1. Sharall Wilson and her daughter Nellie Lagasse are among the renters who already have… 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
Democrat J. Chipman Beckwith googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length; i++) { if (isMobileDevice()) { if (slot_sizes[i][0] googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
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
PERRY – As American as apple pie sums up Saturday’s 28th annual Perry Harvest Fair where for the second year in a row apple pies were the featured guests. And what good-looking apple pies they were, from the thick and juicy traditional pie that our… 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
AUBURN – An Androscoggin County Superior Court judge must decide whether confidential statements that a woman made to her attorney before she was killed nearly 14 months ago should be allowed as evidence in her ex-boyfriend’s murder trial. Daniel Roberts admitted that he shot Melissa… 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
BAR HARBOR – Tracy Collins, a copy editor and reporter for the Bangor Daily News, was named the winner of the Bob Drake Young Writer’s Award in the Maine Press Association’s annual “Better Newspaper Contest.” The award was presented at the organization’s annual fall meeting… Read More
LEE, N.H. – Jersey cows, with their sandy brown fur and molasses eyes, are among the bovines that have quietly produced organic milk for decades in New England without much interest from the academic world. That’s finally changing. The University of New Hampshire has 48… 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 – Jake Steele played the role of a shadow Saturday night, but the Winthrop High School sophomore certainly didn’t play in the shadows. Steele rushed for 99 yards on 21 carries, had two pass interceptions, a fumble recovery and helped contain John Bapst of… Read More
BANGOR – When your football team has the nation’s top rushing offense in Division III, led by the nation’s top rusher in quarterback Chris Sharpe, the passing game and defense become almost an afterthought as far as outsiders are concerned. Saturday afternoon, defense and passing… 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
TOWSON, Md. – Towson University went into Saturday’s game against the University of Maine boasting the most prolific passing attack in all of Division I-AA. While the Black Bears afforded the 17th-ranked Tigers plenty of yardage (290) through the air, it didn’t translate into production… Read More
COLLEGE Daren Stone googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length; i++) { if (isMobileDevice()) { if (slot_sizes[i][0]… 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
CALAIS – Susan Lavertu netted two goals as the Madawaska girls soccer team earned a pointworthy 3-0 victory over Calais Saturday in high school action. Ashley D. Cyr added a goal for the 8-3-1 Owls. Stephanie Nadeau stopped all eight shots. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
BUCKSPORT – Cassie Gourley’s game winner with just 1:08 left in regulation boosted the Bucksport girls soccer team to a Heal point-worthy 1-0 victory over George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill Saturday in high school action. Katie Hurd picked up her ninth shutout of the… Read More
BANGOR – Nick Hubbard registered a goal and an assist to lead the John Bapst boys soccer team to a 3-1 victory over Caribou Saturday in high school action. Ian Bamford and Jordan Myers each added a goal for the 10-2 Crusaders. Petter Lundquist provided… 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
It’s the time of painted leaves again. There are better years and worse years for color, but the red maple beside my driveway never misses. It’s always one of the first to show fires, just as it’s first to bud in spring, and every fall it blazes even… Read More
Wealthy adventurers are lining up to pay tens of millions of dollars to take a ride into space, but a federal research program is allowing enterprising college students to get part of the space experience for free. NASA is calling on college undergraduates interested in… Read More
Where else can you see 50 hippos packed into a small, dung-filled watering hole? They swish that smelly muck onto themselves to keep cool. Where else will you see a leopard lounging on the stout branch of an acacia tree, flicking its tail to keep the bugs at… 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
Plants have developed a variety of ways to disperse their seeds to new locations, allowing the young seedlings to avoid competition with their parent plants for sunlight, nutrients and water. Typically, the seeds begin the journey packaged in a “seed container,” or fruit. There are… Read More