Ellsworth High School First quarter honor roll Seniors, highest honors: Rachel Decker, Katherine Fink, Nicole Higgins, Lara Jacobson, Rebecca Lock, Jessica Moreau, Christopher Raposa; high honors: Michael Archer, Brian Bohm, Shawn Connor, Jade Courtemanche, Katie Hodgkins, Ruth Isaacson, Amy Jones, Rebecca Joy, Angelique Kelley, Erin… Read More
    As a founding member of the campus Sustainability Coalition, I applaud the administration’s appointment of a Campus Planning Committee at the University of Maine. One of its four charges is to incorporate environmental protection issues into campus planning. But we need not await Planning Committee decisions to treat… Read More
    ROCKPORT – An Islesboro man with a background in educational management was hired by selectmen as interim town manager on Friday. Ken Smith will work three days a week until a permanent town manager can be hired, Peter Hall, chairman of the Board of Selectmen,… Read More
    Bangor High School First quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Kim Cammack, Tracy Collins, Terra Curtis, Joshua Johnson, Shannon Karam, Heather Kitchen, Justin Libbey, Tsega Menelik, Jana Savage, Justin Umel, Sara Walton, Samantha Warner; honors: Kyleen Allen, Matthew Anderson, Robert Baker, Barry Barker, Megan Batty,… Read More
    BANGOR – Katie McLaughlin tossed in 20 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the floor as the Bates College Bobcats rolled over the University of Maine-Machias Clippers 91-43 in the Paul Bunyan Tourney opener Friday night at Newman Gym. Husson beat Rochester Institute of Technology in… Read More
    Bates 91, UM-Machias 43 BANGOR – Katie McLaughlin tossed in 20 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the floor as the Bates College Bobcats rolled over the University of Maine-Machias Clippers 91-43 in the Paul Bunyan Tourney opener Friday night at Newman Gym. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
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    BANGOR – NASCAR driver Ricky Craven will be signing autographs on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 6 p.m. at the Wal-Mart in Bangor. It will benefit the Children’s Miracle Network. Read More
    HAMPDEN – Caitlyn Gunn, a freshman at Hampden Academy, has been picked for an 8-member Maine team that will attend the World Special Olympics in Anchorage, Alaska in March 2001. She will participating in the speed skating event. Gunn has been involved in the Special… Read More
    BANGOR – The Husson Braves discovered Friday night that their new fast-paced style can get just a bit out of control at times. Coach Kissy Walker’s team sped to a big first-half lead, then watched Rochester Institute of Technology erase it. But the Braves settled… Read More
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    CASTINE – The Maine Maritime Academy Concert Band will present its annual holiday concert at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 13, in Delano Auditorium on the college campus. The band will perform a variety of spiritual pieces featuring the trombone section, folk songs and Christmas carols. Read More
    I am scared. I am a member of Kiwanis, that glorious group of people who try to do great things for the community, especially, the young. We have our weekly meetings; invariably with guest speakers who usually discuss concerns for the young, but we in Bangor Breakfast Kiwanis,… Read More
    PORTLAND – This year’s deer kill in Maine likely will total around 35,000, an increase of 11 percent over last year and the largest harvest since 1980, according to the state’s preliminary estimates. And for the first time, the number of bucks killed is expected… Read More
    Machias District Court Michael E. Parker, 19, Columbia Falls, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, $150. 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… Read More
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    PITTSFIELD – At its regular meeting Monday, the SAD 53 board of directors will hear an update from Superintendent Terrence McCannell regarding unionization of the district’s 65 support staff members. At the board’s last meeting, several representatives of the staff approached the directors about becoming… Read More
    PORTLAND – More than 100 employees picketed outside the Portland Press Herald on Friday in support of strikers at their sister newspaper, The Seattle Times. Members of Local 128 of the Portland Newspaper Guild carried signs expressing solidarity with fellow union members in Seattle and… Read More
    Lee Academy First quarter honor roll Seniors, highest honors: Ryan Jipson; high honors: Travis McAlpine, Shana Merritt, Ashley Offret, Eric Ryder; honors: Matthew Corbin, Andrew Ham, Galen Nickerson, Victoria Nute, Paul Roux, Colin Stratton, Nicola Thommes, Walter Tomah. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
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    THOMASTON – The Thomaston Toy Lady, who has provided Christmas gifts to needy families for more than three decades, is getting ready for the 2000 holiday season. Thelma Marr, with the help of her family, again will collect toys and goodies to be given to… Read More
    ORONO – The Los Angeles Brass Quintet will perform selections of classical, jazz and modern music in a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 4, in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall, at the University of Maine. The quintet is in residence at… Read More
    ST. GEORGE – St. George voters will be asked Monday to spend surplus funds to design a new fire station that would be connected to the town office building and to upgrade the town office telephone system. The special town meeting begins at 7 p.m. Read More
    BANGOR – Downtown Bangor will be aglow as the Bangor Rotary Festival of Lights Parade steps off at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. More than 50 floats, performing groups and marching units created by area businesses, schools, religious and nonprofit organizations are expected to light up the parade route. Read More
    Chris Lawlor. If you grew up in Southwest Harbor in the 1950s, you don’t need an introduction. If not, then let me introduce you. Chris was the last of an era, a member of a breed of men who made their living with a team… Read More
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    LEWISTON – Producer Jeff Dobbs of Bar Harbor has again captured the rich and rugged beauty of Maine from the air in “Air Maine,” a new program premiering on Maine PBS at 8 p.m. Dec. 5 and 7. New footage covers the St. John Valley to the very… Read More
    Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer posed the most appropriate question yesterday when the court heard arguments from the lawyers of George Bush and Al Gore. Justice Breyer asked at one point whether the court’s intervention would change anything in the protracted presidential election – “Would there be any… Read More
    BANGOR – The Bangor Area Visiting Nurses’ flu clinics have been rescheduled. The clinics are as follows: . Bangor, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday, Dec. 4, Shop ‘n Save, Airport Mall; googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
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    MASHANTUCKET, Conn. – The Mashantucket Pequot tribe plans to open a new high-end gaming room at their Foxwoods Resort Casino, designed to attract the world’s richest high rollers. The 10-table gaming room, to open in December, will be on the 25th floor of the Grand… Read More
    “Teens kill two horses” (BDN, Nov. 27) is is the saddest story I’ve read in a long time. I cannot erase it from my mind – or my heart. All November men and women and children have taken up guns and walked into the woods… Read More
    BANGOR – Penquis CAP’s Home Energy Assistance Program is accepting applications for fuel assistance to help income-eligible households meet the winter heating costs. An estimated 8,000 households in Penobscot and Piscataquis counties are eligible for assistance. An increase in the income eligibility guidelines during the… Read More
    PORTLAND – A new cruise line will bring a pair of unique ships and hundreds of visitors for extended stays in the Old Port when it comes to Portland Harbor next summer. The luxury vessels being built by Delta Queen Coastal Voyages will carry 226… Read More
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    BANGOR – Deena Widmann of Winterport always loved Christmas. When she was a girl growing up in Phoenix, Ariz., her father would drive the family far from the Desert City into the mountains to cut down a Christmas tree. As an adult, she filled her… Read More
    Thank you for the nice reminder of [the late Bangor Daily New staff member] Jeanne Purcell in Thursday’s paper. Richard Shaw paid her the proper compliment when he said, “She had no pretenses.” The notice of her passing saddened me and thousands of others who… Read More
    STANDISH – A woman working alone in a variety store early Wednesday morning was robbed and locked in a back room while the robber apparently tried to set the building on fire, authorities said. Rebecca Lavallee was rescued minutes after the Cumberland County Sheriff’s dispatch… Read More
    Easton Junior-Senior High School First quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Matt Hopkins, Bethany Pytlak, Jennifer Rice, Jessie Sherwood, Christina Spiers, Kuniko Yamamoto; honors: Justin Michaud, Stephen White, Andrea York. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
    ORONO – University of Maine junior right wing Niko Dimitrakos could only watch as his team struggled to score goals during his eight-game absence at the start of the season courtesy of a broken left wrist. Dimitrakos, last season’s Frozen Four all-tourney selection and Maine’s… Read More
    The present chorus of voices pleading with Maine Public Radio for a return to more, not less, classical music programming has revived my hope just enough to add my bit. The long descent from the glory days of Robert J. Lurtsema – his morning birds, quiet voice and… Read More
    People served by Manna Ministries of Bangor need your help this holiday season. Manna is asking the generous residents of our area to adopt an individual or a family by donating gifts that are needed, and gifts that will be just plain fun to unwrap on Christmas Day. Read More
    Three Ellsworth boys are giving another shove to their lobbying effort to promote Gov. Angus King’s proposal to give laptops to seventh-graders. Tom, John and Dan McClellan , students at the Bryant E. Moore School, are mailing the governor petitions bearing the 200 signatures they… Read More
    Although it is customary to give to charities this time of year, the fact remains that hardship ignores the holiday season, and can strike a blow at the most unlikely time. Several of the families who write to The Salvation Army and to Santa’s Helper are not desperate… Read More
    ELLSWORTH – Persons looking for an old-fashioned Christmas might want to head to Ellsworth on Saturday. The downtown merchants are sponsoring their annual Christmas parade again, and this year’s theme is an “Old Fashioned Christmas.” The parade includes floats, bands and, of course, Santa Claus. Read More
    Back in the 4th century, when St. Jerome contemplated those whose listening skills needed work, he was moved to write these wise words: “No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in stone; often it recoils upon the sender of it.”… Read More
    SOMESVILLE – Port in a Storm Bookstore and the Somesville Library will hold a holiday story hour for children of all ages at 10 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 9, in the bookstore. Resident Port in a Storm storyteller Roberta Sprague will join Tom Lange, the new librarian of the… Read More
    The quest to extend Interstate 95 through northern Aroostook County and to build a limited-access, east-west highway across Maine reminds me of the DINKs (Double Income, No Kids couples) who have been moving into my home area of central Massachusetts during the past several years and constructing hundreds… Read More
    There is one Christmas gift that Mabel LeVasseur would like more than any other this year. It’s a gift that would have to come from all of us together, you and me, young and old, in cities and towns all over Maine. It’s a valuable… Read More
    DEER ISLE – Haystack Mountain School of Crafts has been awarded a $120,000 grant over three years to support programs for teen-agers and Maine art teachers. The grant from the Surdna Foundation will allow the international craft school to expand its programs for local teens, including a four-day… Read More
    I have a confession. Big time, as Dick Cheney would say. John Day hasn’t looked like the photograph over this column since Ronald Reagan was president. (See congressional ID badge reprinted nearby.) I plead absence. Throughout most of my 37 years as a reporter –… Read More
    Harness racing at Bangor’s Bass Park in the year 2002 was one of the agenda items at the Tuesday meeting of the Bass Park Advisory Committee. The BPAC is composed of Bangor City Council members, Bangor Auditorium staff and legal counsel who make recommendations to… Read More
    NATCHITOCHES, La. – The University of Maine came agonizingly close Thursday night to earning its first road victory of the season. Instead, the Black Bears threw it away. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
    It is a diverse group drawn together by the experiences they had and the impact they made at the University of Maine. The five recent inductees into the University of Maine’s Sports Hall of Fame said they will always have a special place in their… Read More
    PORTLAND – Minor League Baseball has awarded the 2000 John H. Johnson President’s Trophy to the Portland Sea Dogs. This award will be presented to Sea Dogs’ President and General Manager Charlie Eshbach at the annual Baseball Winter Meetings, which are being held next week… Read More
    Bangor’s Jesse Speirs recently tied for first place in a junior golf tournament at Myrtle Beach, S.C. Speirs, 13, fired a six-under-par 66 in the first round of the George Holiday Memorial Classic played on the Myrtle Beach National Golf Course, Nov. 24-25. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Former University of Maine All-American Steve Kariya of the Vancouver Canucks was demoted to the IHL’s Kansas City Blades on Thursday. Kariya, younger brother of Anaheim Mighty Ducks superstar Paul Kariya, had one goal and seven assists in 16 games with… Read More
    Each December for the past three and a half decades a few basketball teams head to Bangor for an early-season tournament test. Most of the time, they head back to their campuses having watched the host Husson College Braves win the trophy emblematic of a… Read More
    WATERVILLE – Sarah Walsh pumped in 17 points and grabbed eight rebounds Thursday night to lead the White Mules to an 86-52 women’s basketball victory over Gordon College of Wenham, Mass. Colby’s Kim Condon scored 16 points. Jasmine Ashe and Carli Parisella added 13 and… Read More
    MAINE vs. NORTHEASTERN Time, site: Friday, 7 p.m., Alfond Arena, Orono; Sunday, 2 p.m., Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland 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
    DOVER-FOXCROFT – The Southern Piscataquis County Chamber of Commerce is inviting young and old to join in the third annual Community Christmas Caroling at 4 p.m. Saturday in front of the Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society Building (the old Observer Building) on Main Street. Historical society members… Read More
    I would like to thank you both for your editorial (Nov. 25-26) and Bruce Kyle’s column (Nov. 23) on the program changes at Maine Public Radio. MPR has a slogan, “The Radio You Listen To.” I suggest a new slogan – “The Radio We Used to Listen to… Read More
    EAST MILLINOCKET – Students in School Union 113 will go home early Thursday, Dec. 7, when a teachers workshop will be held. Medway Middle School will dismiss students at 10:40 a.m.; Opal Myrick Elementary School and Schenck High School will dismiss students at 10:45 a.m. Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT – “Buckshot,” the young bobtail cat from Monson that survived multiple pellet wounds to its head, was adopted Thursday by an Orono wildlife rehabilitator. The cat’s tale of nine lives apparently tugged at the heartstrings of Maine residents because the local veterinary service treating… Read More
    Aroostook County Superior Court CARIBOU – The following cases were processed this week in Aroostook County Superior Court by Justice Jeffrey Hjelm: googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0;… Read More
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    A Hampden man was driving his pickup truck without a license the wrong way on a one-way street in Bangor Wednesday evening when he was struck by another vehicle, according to police. Anthony Ragonesi, 31, was charged with these violations, as well as for leaving… Read More
    MADAWASKA – An oversight at Fraser Papers Inc. last May – the company missed a 60-day deadline for filing papers with the state – could have cost the company $1.6 million in state reimbursement of property taxes. But town and state officials have come to the rescue. Read More
    Dover-Foxcroft District Court Douglas L. Ames, 37, Sebec, failing to make oral or written accident report, $250. 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++) {… Read More
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    BANGOR – The Eastern Maine Diecast Association’s “Cars for Kids Campaign” is asking for donations for children in need. To find out how to take part in this toy collection program, call 866-0171 after 3 p.m. The Eastern Maine Diecast Association is a nonprofit organization… Read More
    The following contributions have raised the Santa’s Helper Fund past 10 percent of its goal. Our hope is to meet or surpass $50,000 by Dec. 31. If you are considering giving a donation, please send it today and join the following people and organizations who are sharing with… Read More
    CARIBOU – A New Sweden juvenile denied allegations lodged against him in district court Thursday involving the death of a 17-year-old Woodland teen-ager in a car crash last July. Nathan Anderson, now 17, has been charged with manslaughter and reckless conduct in the death of… Read More