DAMARISCOTTA – The Central Lincoln County YMCA is preparing for its 20th annual holiday bazaar. The sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 18 and 19. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
    BANGOR – At least 10 employees of Osram Sylvania will be told later this week or early next week that they may lose their jobs. On Monday, plant manager Tom Hackett said he had to inform the company’s 144 employees that the company was evaluating… Read More
    LUBEC – McGovern Ambulance Service says it is working to resolve a cash-flow problem that delayed last week’s employee paychecks, but that doesn’t change the fact that the company can no longer afford to serve Lubec, manager Ham Robbins said Monday. Robbins informed Lubec officials… Read More
    BAR HARBOR – The College of the Atlantic’s board has announced the election of four new trustees. They are Mabel Hobart Cabot of Cambridge, Mass., David and Valle Gooch of Falmouth, and Daniel Pierce of Dedham, Mass. Longtime trustee Susan Storey Lyman of Charleston, S.C.,… Read More
    On Nov. 8, a Boston Globe editorial read, “If Ralph Nader had not been in the race, Al Gore would today be preparing for the presidency.” It might also have read, “If Bill Clinton had not so disappointed us with his personal behavior…” or “If the vice president… Read More
    BANGOR – Laurie J. Karam often arrived at the YWCA in the dim light of early dawn, before the staff arrived to unlock the doors at 5 a.m. The 47-year-old businesswoman was an avid early-morning lap swimmer and a longtime member of the workout room. Read More
    DEXTER – Viola Hewes has lived in the Dexter area for most of her life and has voted in every election, so when the 85-year-old woman wasn’t contacted this year by the U.S. Census 2000, she became puzzled. “It’s just as if I didn’t exist,”… Read More
    I am concerned regarding the reporting of the election results on Nov. 7. I approach every election as a serious responsibility. I pay attention to how each candidate stands on each issue. As such, I have thought for years that no media coverage (including exit-poll… Read More
    Members of three Indian tribes met Saturday evening in the Penobscot Nation’s tribal council chambers, which are located in the nation’s community building on Indian Island. Read More
    In recent years, the concept of nonpoint-source pollution has come to the forefront of the public dialogue on water quality. This phenomenon describes pollution that results from sources that are difficult to identify. Our complex water system, which includes precipitation, soil saturation, percolation of excess… Read More
    CALAIS – The Downeast Resource Conservation and the Development Vacationland Resource Committee will sponsor a town meeting for the arts. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, at Calais High School.The meeting will include discussion of the arts in Washington County. Read More
    George W. Bush kept saying during his campaign that he trusts the American people. If so, why not agree to let the people of Palm Beach revote? I guess when push comes to shove, he really doesn’t mean what he said. It has been reported that a large… Read More
    BANGOR – A health insurance forum for small businesses will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the Richard E. Dyke Center for Family Business at Husson College. A panel of health insurance providers will discuss the options available to the… Read More
    Dear Jim: With gas, electricity and oil costs skyrocketing, I want to use a lower-cost renewable heat source for my home. Does installing a small wood-pellet heater make sense? I saw bags of pellets at a home center. – Al J. Dear Al: A wood-pellet… Read More
    CALAIS – The Schoodic chapter of the Maine Audubon Society will host a presentation on rabies, Lyme disease, the West Nile virus and hantavirus. Guest speaker Dr. Jim Goltz will begin the presentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 21, at the Sunrise Apartments recreation room. Read More
    To borrow a theme from Peanuts: Happiness is learning that Sally Landry won the legislative seat in House District 141. Having known this marvelous woman for more than a half-century, I can assure all who voted for her that those votes were well cast. You’ll have an honest,… Read More
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    Following are petitions for bankruptcy filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Bangor: Jason McPhail, fish processor, and Alayna McPhail, homemaker, two dependents, Searsport; assets, $57,209; debts, $46,831. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
    Steve Brooks, a Maine State Chapter board member of the National Wild Turkey Federation, was identified incorrectly in a sports story in Saturday’s paper. — googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
    ROCKLAND – An 18-year-old woman testified Monday in Knox County Superior Court that she was sexually abused for years in her Tenants Harbor home by her father and mother. The trial, which began Monday, involved a lengthy meeting in the judge’s chambers, after which charges… Read More
    Thank you voters of House District 135 for your support in the Nov. 7 election. District 135 includes the communities of Alexander, Baileyville, Baring, Calais, Princeton and Robbinston. Good communications are important to me to best represent you in Augusta. I appreciate hearing from people and I want… Read More
    BREWER – A program on workplace issues in a changing economy will be aired via satellite from 10:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at Jeff’s Catering and Banquet in Brewer. The program, titled “The Brave New Workplace: Strategies to Excel in a World… Read More
    PORTLAND – The result of the chaotic race for the White House isn’t expected to affect the work of a committee examining the crisis in Israel and the Palestinian territories, according to former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, the panel’s chairman. President Clinton named the… Read More
    ORONO – Man-to-man defense requires intensity and focus. While the University of Maine women’s basketball team didn’t have its “A” defensive game Monday night, it still found a way to win. The Black Bears slowed down the National Women’s Basketball League all-stars with a 1-2-2… Read More
    ROCKLAND – Opponents of a proposed $14 million expansion of the Samoset Resort claim a tax break application the city approved for the project failed to meet state law. Clifford Goodall, an Augusta lawyer representing opponents of the expansion, hand-delivered a letter Monday to Commissioner… Read More
    Many newspapers in the United States, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, want to disenfranchise 22,000 Florida citizens in the name of “stability.” They represent corporations and other monied interests for whom democracy is an abstract concept. For the demonstrators in Palm… Read More
    GREENVILLE – A commission studying the equity in the distribution of gas tax revenues was urged Monday not to pit the improvement of Maine’s roadways against recreational improvements. Only a few people attended an afternoon hearing conducted at Greenville High School by the Commission to… Read More
    PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – When Mark Constance decided he wanted to come home to New Hampshire, he drove around the Seacoast area searching for a home to replace the $360,000 one he now owns in Los Angeles. He kept driving. “I thought if I was to… Read More
    NORTH ANSON – State fire investigators have charged a 12-year old boy with starting a fire last Thursday in the lobby of the North Anson post office. The boy was taken to the Northern Maine Juvenile Detention Center at Charleston, according to Stewart Jacobs of… Read More
    BELFAST – Jim Roberts, local history buff, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, at the Belfast Free Library. The event will take place on the third floor where the special collections are housed. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
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    BANGOR – Pan American Airlines will begin offering jet service from Bangor International Airport to Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pa., starting Jan. 8. But on the same date Pan Am will discontinue flying from BIA to Pittsburgh. In Allentown, travelers will be able… Read More
    PITTSFIELD – The Maine Department of Transportation’s policy to use only salt and liquid calcium chloride on Interstate 95 this winter in lieu of sand could affect the town’s water quality, according to Town Manager D. Dwight Dogherty. The manager said Monday he will recommend… Read More
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    With their lawyers busy fighting over the ballot count in Florida, can George Bush and Al Gore agree that the part of the election system that should be examined first is not the Electoral College but the ballots themselves and the procedures used to safeguard them? They should. Read More
    NEW BEDFORD, Mass. – The leader of a fundamentalist sect was indicted on murder charges Monday, along with his wife, in the death of their infant son, who authorities believe died of starvation. A third member of the sect was charged as an accessory. The… Read More
    BANGOR – The Glenburn couple who created a line of Electoral College merchandise will appear on “Today” this morning. Recent heated discussions about the importance and relevance of the Electoral College as a method to choose the president has sparked national interest in the selection… Read More
    SKOWHEGAN – Skowhegan Fire Chief Tom Keene admitted Monday morning, “I don’t know if I’ve ever been that scared at a fire scene.” Keene referred to the emotions he felt when earlier in the day, one of his firefighters fell two stories inside a burning… Read More
    Despite the mounting anxiety, confusion and anger, the closeness of the presidential election should teach Americans one fundamental lesson about democracy: Every vote counts. Or, in certain Florida counties, every other vote. . googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
    AUGUSTA – License suspensions and restitution are among the ways to address an unprecedented number of bomb threats in Maine schools, a legislative panel said in a report released Monday. The six-member committee also wants all schools in the state to adopt policies to deal… Read More
    WOODLAND – A Woodland man has been charged with escape after he fled Monday morning from an Aroostook County sheriff’s deputy who was trying to arrest him for a probation violation. In addition to the charge of escape, which is a felony, Jonathan Moir, 22,… Read More
    PITTSFIELD – The Pittsfield Planning Board Monday night unanimously approved the expansion of two local businesses, Gordon Construction and A.J. Fabrication. Lawrence Morton of A.J. Fabrication explained that he had recently sold his property to Cianbro’s fabrication shop and he wished to relocate his business… Read More
    ROCKPORT – The Rockport Public Library will wind up its fall marine lecture series this week. A talk at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, will consider the artistic vision of famed yacht designer L. Francis Herreshoff. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
    The Indians of Maine have always retained their sovereign rights. With the Land Claims Settlement in 1980, Maine tribes gave up some of their rights, for example, the right to the exclusive control of gaming on tribal territory (state police patrol at bingo games on Indian Island). Read More
    BANGOR – Maine Democratic Party officials issued an alert Monday that bogus fund-raising calls had been made in the name of the Maine Democratic Party, beginning Friday in the Greater Portland area. Gwethalyn Phillips, chairwoman of the Maine Democratic Party, said, “There are no fund-raising… Read More
    VAN BUREN – Despite the opposition of some SAD 24 parents, the school board has agreed to use grant money to put laptops in the hands of local teachers. With a petition carrying a reported 165 signatures, parents last week told the school board to… Read More
    PITTSFIELD – The Pittsfield Garden Club will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, at the home economics room of Warsaw Middle School. This is the annual “greens” workshop to make decorations of natural materials for the Pittsfield Public Library and for private homes. New… Read More
    Eugene Ionesco, the “Theatre of the Absurd” playwright, could not have written a better play if he tried. If things stand at the present time, Al Gore will have won the popular vote of the country, but lost the election in Electoral College numbers (and the election). Read More
    BREWER – Since voters rejected last Tuesday a referendum question aimed at financing pressing school building improvements, school officials have been working to come up with alternative funding plans. In a particularly close referendum, residents voted 2,396 to 2,376 against a request to increase the… Read More
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    PRESQUE ISLE -Former Maine Attorney General James Tierney, who was scheduled to speak tonight as a part of the University Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, won’t be able to make his appearance. Tierney was called to Florida last week… Read More
    ELLSWORTH – A state legislator from Brooklin has found his win in the Nov. 7 election stretched to a more-than-500-vote margin now that returns from three island communities have been included. Rep. Paul Volenik, a Democrat who represents District 129, appeared in early returns to… Read More
    ROCKLAND – The public is invited to visit the Farnsworth Homestead in Rockland for a holiday open house in December. The house, which dates from the 1850s, was built for the family of Rockland businessman William A. Farnsworth. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
    ORONO – Town councilors Monday night voted unanimously to renew a downtown restaurant’s liquor license even though its owners were fined by a state agency in the 1999 death of a New Hampshire man. No comments were made during a public hearing held before the… Read More
    AUGUSTA – Opponents of the gay rights question on last week’s ballot said Monday that Maine voters sent a loud and clear message of where they stand on the long-debated issue. Even though unofficial figures show only a 2 percentage point margin of victory, it… Read More
    HOULTON – The third annual Great American Smokescream will be held 9:30-11:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, at the Houlton Recreation Department. The Smokescream is sponsored by STOP, or Southern Aroostook Tobacco-Free Outreach Project, and allows children and community members to come together to scream out… Read More
    ORONO – Preseason exhibition games present college basketball teams with an endless number of possibilities. Sometimes, a club team shows up with a solid, veteran roster that can provide a good test for the university team that issued the invitation. Sometimes it arrives without some… Read More
    ORONO-The gap between the powerhouse University of New Hampshire women’s hockey team and the upstart University of Maine has closed dramatically. But the Wildcats showed the Bears Sunday that they still have a little ways to go. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
    LOCAL At St. Joseph’s College, Standish Run For The Health Of It 1. T.J. Hesler 16:09, 2. Matt Olson 17:22, 3. Mark Steege 17:49, 4. Roland Thibault 18:02, 5. Russel Boisvert 18:21, 6. Rose Prest-Morrison 19:26, 7. Chase Pray 20:11, 8. Francis Canillas 20:31, 9. Read More
    COLLEGE At UMass-Dartmouth NCAA Northeast Regional Championship Boston College women 47, Yale 56, Brown 87, Providence 95, Columbia 143, Boston University 144, Cornell 204, Dartmouth 257, Massachusetts 299, Harvard 339, New Hampshire 367, Vermont 371, Rhode Island 420, Connecticut 460, Buffalo 482, St. John’s 531,… Read More
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    WATERVILLE – Pat Conley passed for 250 yards and a touchdown while Danny Noyes caught nine passes for 141 yards and ran for 80 yards on 13 carries Saturday to lead Colby College to a 34-7 football victory over instate rival Bowdoin College of Brunswick at Seaverns Field. Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE – Rachel Larlee scored a game-high 25 points and grabbed 13 rebounds Sunday as the University of Maine-Presque Isle won the championship in the Star City Shootout by posting a 91-20 women’s basketball victory over Atlantic Union of South Lancaster, Mass. In Sunday’s… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE – Humans may visit Earth’s closest planetary neighbor – Mars – just 10 or 15 years from now, a scientist told an audience this weekend at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. “Mars will be the first planet to be visited,” said… Read More
    BANGOR – The next meeting of Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder will be held 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14 in the Penobscot Conference Room of Acadia Hospital. Parenting children with ADHD will be discussed. Effective discipline methods will be taught and explored. Those… Read More
    BANGOR – Bernard Coro of Medway loved to work on cars. Thomas Moody of Guilford was an award-winning artist. Paul Sudsbury of Corinna had a passion for sports. Before they were killed in Vietnam, Maine soldiers were like boys everywhere, the president of the local… Read More
    BANGOR – Pat Caggiano, R.N., will address the Tuesday Forum on the topic of “Optimal Living Through Lifestyle Choices” from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14 at Geaghan’s Restaurant. Caggiano obtained her nursing degree from Kettering College of Medical Arts in Ohio. She then… Read More
    BREWER – Jane Skelton, attorney-at-law from the firm of Rudman & Winchell, will present a talk titled “Trusts and Estate Planning,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the Brewer Public Library. Skelton specializes in elder law and will discuss wills, power of attorney, advance health care directive… Read More
    INDIAN ISLAND – Governors of three of the state’s Indian tribes, who were found in contempt of court last week for not turning over documents relating to water regulation to three paper companies, will be at the Androscoggin County Courthouse at 9 a.m. today. They will not be… Read More
    BANGOR – A Hudson woman was charged with assault and refusing to submit to arrest late Saturday after police were called to the Bangor Civic Center during the Speedway 95 awards banquet. Kerri Thayer, 32, was taken to Penobscot County Jail after she turned on… Read More
    CAMDEN – Claiming that MBNA New England’s donations to the Camden Teen Center have come with strings attached, a teen center board member has resigned in protest. But MBNA officials and others involved in the center say the perception that the company is making demands… Read More
    BANGOR – A wayward owl that became trapped inside the Shop ‘n Save on Union Street late Saturday afternoon is back where it belongs. “I took him out in the woods and let him go,” said Mahlon Wood, owner of a pest removal company in… Read More
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    The immediate solution to the “who won the election” dilemma seems reasonably simple. The state of Florida should be forced to reconduct its presidential election with a properly formatted ballot. The major news networks should be forced to pay a share of the cost of this. Perhaps a… Read More
    HERMON – Hermon High School will host the first evening of parent-teacher conferences 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14. Teachers will be in their classrooms during this time so that parents may discuss their children’s progress. Conferences are expected to last no more than five minutes,… Read More
    I know that people in Florida read the Bangor Daily News, so this letter is for them. You people are living within an illegitimate government and you don’t know it. Any government that would allow a voting ballot such as the example that was printed in the Nov. Read More
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