STONINGTON – Two women from Deer Isle received nonlife-threatening injuries Wednesday morning when the car in which they were riding struck a truck on Route 15, according to police. Luann Eaton, 45, was driving a 2004 Chevrolet north on the highway around 9:45 a.m. when… Read More
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    AUGUSTA – The Northeast Horseman’s Conference and Trade Show will return to the Augusta Civic Center on Saturday, Jan. 15, and Sunday, Jan. 16, for the 11th consecutive year. This year’s event will feature national, as well as local and regional guests speaking on a… Read More
    Thirty-three birders searched the skies and spotted 54 bird species during the National Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count on Dec. 18 in the Orono-Old Town area. Birders searched a 7-mile radius around the intersection of College and Stillwater avenues. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
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    SOUTH THOMASTON – A 17-year-old Thomaston boy was killed Tuesday night in a car crash on Buttermilk Lane that also seriously injured an Owls Head teen. Timothy M. Morse of Thomaston was dead at the scene of the 9 p.m. accident, roughly a mile from… Read More
    NEWBURY, N.H. – Disabled servicemen and servicewomen are invited to participate in the New England Handicapped Sports Association Winter Sports Clinic for Disabled Veterans, to be held 9 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, through noon Thursday, Jan. 13, at Mount Sunapee Resort. NEHSA ensures that adaptive… Read More
    NEWRY – A Massachusetts man was killed when he skied off an expert slope and into the woods at the Sunday River ski resort over the weekend. John Kerr, 46, of Sharon may have hit a tree or a lift tower near the White Heat… Read More
    ELLSWORTH – A Township 8 man accused of attacking his girlfriend’s father appeared Wednesday in Hancock County Superior Court to be arraigned on charges that he caused the older man’s death. Jack D. Wentworth, 19, is charged with manslaughter and aggravated assault in the beating… Read More
    PITTSFIELD – Ryan and Christine Dyer, owners of Pittsfield Pharmacy, have offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man who robbed the business on Dec. 21. “We know that someone out there knows something,” said Dyer on Wednesday. Read More
    When temperatures drop, the chances of house and structure fires go up. It’s a correlation that firefighters in Maine have come to recognize, but try to change. Earlier this week firefighters prevented a chimney fire from burning a local home. Assistant Hudson Fire Chief Bill… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT – A Veterans Services officer from the Department of Defense will be on hand to assist veterans, widows and dependent children in filing for state and federal benefits 9 a.m.-noon at the following locations: . Wednesday, Jan. 5, at the Penquis CAP building on… Read More
    BANGOR – The Penobscot County department of the USDA’s Farm Service Agency reminds producers that sign-ups for the $18 million Ewe Lamb Replacement and Retention Payment Program end Jan. 13. The program pays producers to replace and retain ewe lamb breeding stock. To apply for… Read More
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    MISSOULA, Mont. – The University of Maine women’s basketball team tried to rally in the second half, but couldn’t contend with Louisville’s inside game as the Cardinals defeated the Black Bears 69-57 in the consolation game of the Lady Griz Holiday Classic Wednesday night at Dahlberg Arena. Read More
    For the first time in almost six weeks, the University of Maine men’s basketball team will play a game at its actual home court Thursday night. Seven of the last eight games were on the road with the closest being in Hanover, N.H., and only… Read More
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    PORTLAND – Mainers are stepping up to do their part to help the survivors of the disastrous tsunamis that killed tens of thousands of people in 12 nations. The American Red Cross chapter in Portland has received thousands of dollars in donations, and The Salvation… Read More
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    The wife of a critically injured soldier in the Maine Army National Guard’s 133rd Engineer Battalion was en route Wednesday to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, where she was expected to see her husband. Sgt. Harold Gray, 34, of Penobscot is one of… Read More
    BANGOR – New Year’s Eve 1962 held a wallop that didn’t come from a champagne bottle. It came from a blizzard that dumped 40 inches of snow on Bangor and whipped up drifts 15 feet deep. The storm started with snow falling at 5 p.m. Saturday, then turned… Read More
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    BANGOR – This fall Thomas School of Dance added classes in West African dance to its menu of performing arts opportunities. Classes will begin again on Mondays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. starting Jan. 3, and will run through mid-May. Five students took the class… Read More
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    BANGOR – The Bangor Symphony Orchestra was recently awarded grant funding from Target Stores 2004 Community Giving Program and from the Simmons Foundation. Coordinated by education coordinator Surya Mitchell, the program takes groups of musicians – and sometimes Xiao-Lu Li, the orchestra’s music director and… Read More
    Cross-country skiing ORONO – Black Bear Gliders, a new cross-country ski club based in Orono, is accepting registrations for the 2004-2005 ski season. The purpose of the club is to promote cross-country skiing, healthy lifestyles, fun and community. This family-friendly club welcomes those interested in… Read More
    ORONO – A highly anticipated report, “Sports Done Right: A Call to Action on Behalf of Maine’s Student Athletes,” will be unveiled Jan. 6 at the Augusta Civic Center. Superintendents, school board members, athletic directors, student athletes and community recreation representatives are expected to attend… Read More
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    ORONO – Graduate students from Surry and Orono and an administrative assistant from Eddington joined engineering professors from Old Town and Orono to receive awards from the University of Maine College of Engineering recently during the college’s 25th annual Edward T. Bryand recognition banquet at Penobscot Valley Country… Read More
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    Immigrants in Maine have spent countless hours on the Internet and telephone trying to reach family members left homeless after a devastating earthquake killed more than 55,000 people in a dozen countries. “There’s a lot of worry,” said Suwanna Truong, 41, of Portland, who spent… Read More
    BANGOR – Employees at the Thai Siam restaurant on Main Street downtown are hoping the community will chip in to send money to relief efforts in Thailand, one of many countries affected by the tsunamis in Southeast Asia. Chinda Rustanavibul, one of the restaurant’s owners,… Read More
    EDISON, N.J. – Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, announced Monday that its service would become available throughout Maine. Vonage’s phone service runs over a consumer’s high-speed Internet connection, allowing calls to be made over the Internet while utilizing a regular… Read More
    WASHINGTON – A synthetic form of a sea-snail venom was approved Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration as a novel approach to treating severe, chronic pain. The drug, called Prialt, was approved for hard-to-treat pain associated with cancer, AIDS and neuropathies. Based on a… Read More
    ELLSWORTH – Since L.L. Bean announced it would not establish a new call center at FirstPark business center in Oakland, Hancock County’s largest municipality has joined the ranks of several Maine communities vying to be the home of the proposed facility. State officials have said… Read More
    BANGOR – Bangor International Airport’s director admitted Tuesday that the airport easily could have handled problems that surfaced over the holidays if only they had come one at a time. Instead, foul weather, computer malfunctions and a barrage of lost luggage came together in a… Read More
    AUGUSTA – In response to the increasingly complicated technological and regulatory changes, the latest Ratewatcher Telecom Guide has been published to assist Maine consumers make informed decisions about telephone, wireless and Internet services. The guide provides money-saving information regarding new local and long-distance calling bundles,… Read More
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    On Dec. 16, an unfortunately negative letter appeared in the Bangor Daily News concerning SAD 48, aimed directly at the breakfast program, but also creating a negative sense about the entire system; so let’s get the record straight. SAD 48 does not deny any child… Read More
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    Scary-sounding acronyms and warnings that thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment in Maine each year are sure to get people’s attention, as they should. But a recent report by three environmental groups fails to mention even once in its 71 pages that these… Read More
    A few weeks ago I saw the president on television and he suggested that “it may be time to get reasonable about the importation of drugs from Canada,” though in the same talk he implied that they may be unsafe since they are manufactured abroad. Read More
    In 2003, Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe secured $100 million from the federal government to bail out the Maine Medicaid program. This bailout was not limited to Maine, as other states also received some help. In Maine, $47 million was used to help the… Read More
    After being elected tax assessor for the town of Franklin for more than 20 years, I have great concerns about the governor’s proposal to reduce local property taxes. Gov. Baldacci has given our elected lawmakers in Augusta two schemes, labeled LD 1 and LD 2, both aimed at… Read More
    ROCKLAND – Fire inspectors say arson caused last Friday’s waterfront fire that destroyed the once popular restaurant known as The Black Pearl. The building, located on a long pier jutting into Rockland Harbor, became Grapes Restaurant last summer when leased by Mike and Kate Miller… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT – Businesses located on major highway arteries in Piscataquis County have been the target of burglaries over the past several days. Break-ins occurred on Monday night at Abel Blood’s Pub and Restaurant on Route 15 in Dover-Foxcroft, Paul’s Tires on Route 15 in Guilford… Read More
    BANGOR – Penobscot County officials voted Tuesday to endorse a resolution calling for the state to fully consider locating a new court facility on the existing county property and not out of the downtown area as is feared. The unanimous decision by the three Penobscot… Read More
    Jane Muskie stood by her husband through his long political career, and Edmund Muskie lost his bid for the U.S. presidency when he stood by her on a snowy February morning in Manchester, N.H., in 1972. Even the Washington Post reporter who so famously described… Read More
    The bodies of two Maine Army National Guard soldiers killed by a blast in Mosul, Iraq, were returned home on Tuesday aboard commercial jets. Adj. Gen. John Libby, commander of the Maine National Guard, was on hand as the caskets were hoisted from separate commercial… Read More
    BREWER – Brewer is looking for a partner or partners to apply for a grant to create a regionalized fire service plan. At a meeting Monday of several area fire chiefs and city representatives, Brewer Fire Chief Rick Bronson said he found “a couple or… Read More
    HOULTON – It seems likely that children participating in parks and recreation department programs will see a slight fee increase, but just how fast it will come is still uncertain. Town councilors tabled a motion Monday evening to increase the fees effective Jan. 1. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
    HOLDEN – The final draft figures for next year’s budget are in, and it looks like residents in SAD 63 and CSD 8 will pay $8,051, or 1.9 percent, more than this year for the central office budget and salaries, which the two districts share. Read More
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    SKOWHEGAN – The 2005 proposed county budget is ready to be presented to voters this week, and the public hearing is expected to be contentious. Two budgets have been presented, $6.54 million by the county commissioners and $6.22 million by the budget committee. The $300,000… Read More
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    FREEDOM – A benefit potluck supper for Sgt. Lynn Poulin’s family will be held at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, at the Freedom Grange Hall on Route 137. Poulin, of Freedom, was killed in Iraq on Dec. 21 in an apparent suicide-bomber attack at a… Read More
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    DOVER-FOXCROFT – A $2.9 million spending plan for Piscataquis County in 2005 was approved Tuesday by Piscataquis County commissioners. Commissioners Eben DeWitt, Tom Lizotte and Woodrouffe “Tony” Bartley, during their last meeting of the year, also adopted a 2005 budget of approximately $952,000 for the… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT – A Milo man who spent 46 years in public service, the last 20 as Piscataquis County commissioner, was thanked Tuesday for his outstanding leadership. Eben DeWitt, 73, was feted at a retirement party given by his cohorts in county government at the Piscataquis… Read More
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    ALEXANDER – A female passenger in a Calais-bound Subaru was killed Tuesday morning in a head-on collision on Route 9 that police said was caused by another driver’s inattention and distraction rather than weather or road conditions. Maine State Police had not released the name… Read More