The single-copy price of the weekend edition of the Bangor Daily News, currently $1.50, will increase to $2 at newsstands and stores beginning today, Nov. 29. This is the first increase in the retail price of the weekend paper since September 1996. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
BANGOR – Holly Grant of Island Falls drove away from Quirk Auto Park in Bangor in a 2009 Chevy Cobalt on Saturday, courtesy of bangordailynews.com. The giveaway marked the conclusion of a 25-day Maine town trivia contest hosted by bangordailynews.com’s new community Web site Maineville.com… Read More
FORT KENT – For more than 35 years whenever a news story about the St. John Valley and northern Aroostook County appeared in the Bangor Daily News, it was a safe bet whose byline accompanied it. This weekend longtime reporter Beurmond Banville will be honored… Read More
The Bangor Daily News took first-place honors in seven categories in the annual New England Associated Press News Executives Association contest, results of which were announced Tuesday. The awards will be presented Sept. 19 at the NEAPNEA fall conference in Concord, N.H. A total of… Read More
The single-copy price of the weekday edition (Monday-Friday) of the Bangor Daily News, currently 60 cents, will increase to 75 cents at newsstands and stores beginning today, June 30. This is the first increase in the retail price of the paper since September 1996. “Rising… Read More
Careful readers of the Bangor Daily News will notice today that the small numbers printed in the Index at left read: Vol. 120, No. 1. Translated, this means the paper has started its 120th year of publication and you are looking at the first issue of the new… Read More
In November 1959, Wayne Lawton landed a job running errands and performing other tasks as an “office boy” for the Bangor Daily News. At $40 a week, it was a decent job for a 19-year-old. But Lawton’s love of sports soon opened up bigger doors… Read More
BANGOR – Two editors at the Bangor Daily News with close ties to candidates vying for a U.S. Senate seat in the 2008 election have recused themselves from dealing with any aspect of the paper’s coverage of the campaign for the duration of the race. Read More
In an effort to reduce costs to maintain our investment in local news, the Bangor Daily News has reconfigured some of its weekday and weekend sections. In the Business section on weekdays, below an easy-to-scan highlight of the previous day’s market activity, we’ve adopted a… Read More
In an effort to reduce costs to maintain our investment in local news, the Bangor Daily News has reconfigured some of its weekday and weekend sections. In the Business section on weekdays, below an easy-to-scan highlight of the previous day’s market activity, we’ve adopted a… Read More
Clayton Beal, a 30-year veteran employee of the Bangor Daily News, died July 30 at the age of 73 after a brief illness. Beal was hired by the Bangor Daily News as the Washington County bureau chief in 1966 and held that post until his… Read More
The New England Associated Press News Executives Association recently announced the winners of its annual awards for news photography, newspaper design and news writing. The Bangor Daily News received awards in all three categories. The BDN photo department won four awards. Kevin Bennett won first… Read More
Editor’s note: As you may have read in the Bangor Daily News, Johnny Hart, creator of the “B.C.” comic strip, died of a stroke April 7 at the age of 76. He and his strip, which eventually appeared in 1,300 newspapers, would have celebrated 50… Read More
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Alicia Anstead of Castine, a veteran writer for the Bangor Daily News, has received the inaugural Nieman Fellowship in Arts and Culture Reporting from Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Anstead, 44, is the first reporter in the paper’s history to receive… Read More
The Bangor Daily News is considering significantly reducing the number of stock listings appearing in the Business section of the newspaper. A listing of Maine-based stocks would continue to appear on our pages. Complete stock listings would be available on our Web site, Bangordailynews.com. Before we make this… Read More
The Bangor Daily News is announcing the following personnel moves in the editorial department, effective today: Michael J. Dowd has been named managing editor, replacing Julie Murchison Harris, who has been named editor-at-large. Rick Levasseur has been named night news editor. Tim Allen has been… Read More
A longtime editor at the Bangor Daily News died suddenly Friday, four days after working Christmas Day for the company that employed him for 22 years. Carroll Dana Astbury of Hampden was 58 years old. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
BANGOR – Responding to industrywide trends of declining circulation and advertising sales, the Bangor Daily News Thursday announced that it was forced to lay off 11 employees. In announcing the layoffs, which were felt through the company, BDN Publisher Richard Warren explained that “Like many… Read More
BURLINGTON, Vt. – A team of staff members from the Bangor Daily News won top honors this week from the Society of Environmental Journalists for a project that examined the science behind global warming. The BDN’s package “Our Changing World: Understanding the Science of Climate… Read More
BANGOR – Bangor Daily News reporters, photographers and designers earned several awards through the New England Associated Press News Executives Association’s annual contest. The awards will be presented at NEAPNEA’s conference on Sept. 2 in Providence, R.I. Editorial page editor Todd Benoit and assistant editor… Read More
Hampden Academy’s Jordan Cook and Deering of Portland’s Carlos Strong earned a split of their head-to-head matchups in the 2005 and 2006 Class A state finals – with each player leading his school to its first gold ball in boys basketball. And as they each… Read More
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Carolyn W. Mowers of Cape Elizabeth was elected chairman of the board of directors of the Bangor Publishing Co., publisher of the Bangor Daily News, at the annual meeting of the company’s board of directors Tuesday. Continuing a multigenerational family tradition, Mowers, sister of BDN… Read More
Joanne Jordan Van Namee, 82, chairperson of the Bangor Publishing Co. board of directors, died peacefully Wednesday in Bangor at the home of her son, Richard J. Warren, publisher of the Bangor Daily News. She was predeceased in 1984 by her husband, James F. Van… Read More
When the Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce convenes tonight for its 95th annual dinner, it will honor members of a Bangor family that has operated a major business in the city for 110 years. Richard J. Warren and his wife, Elizabeth, will receive the Norbert… Read More
The Bangor Daily News won 12 awards in the 2005 Advertising Awards Competition of the New England Newspaper Advertising Executives Association. “Perspective 2005,” the annual business edition produced by the BDN advertising staff, generated three first-place awards, including best of show. The newspaper competed in the 60,000 and… Read More
BANGOR – The Maine Press Association has announced the induction of four members into its Hall of Fame, including the late Lillis Towle Jordan, former chairwoman of Bangor Publishing Co. The company publishes the Bangor Daily News and The Weekly. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
BANGOR – Malcolm E. Morrell Jr., a prominent Bangor lawyer who served as clerk of the Bangor Publishing Co. for more than 28 years and also as its general counsel, died on Friday at the age of 77 after a long battle with cancer. Born… Read More
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Bangor Daily News’ director of graphics and design, Eric Zelz, and Jonathan Ferland, designer, have been recognized with Awards of Excellence by the 26th annual Society for News Design “The Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition.” Their winning entry, “Voter Results: How Maine Voted,” was a full-page informational… Read More
BANGOR – The Bangor Daily News received more than 40 awards in the annual Maine Press Association Better Newspaper contest, including 14 first place honors. The awards ceremony was held Saturday in Portland during the organization’s annual convention. All placings listed below are in the… Read More
ORRINGTON – Merrill ‘Richie’ Richardson died Tuesday at the age of 94. Richardson worked 50 years at the Bangor Daily News, retiring in 1979. When he joined the paper it was located on Exchange Street, had 20 pages and sold for three cents. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
ORONO – The Bangor Daily News was awarded the Maine Center for the Arts’ Wilma Bradford Award for the Advancement of the Arts on Saturday at the center’s annual gala. “I’m very pleased and proud to accept this award on behalf of the four generations… Read More
After more than 30 years associated with the Bangor Publishing Co., during which he helped steer the organization through difficult times as well as through modernization and into new venues, John Bishop has retired as company vice president. Bishop, 62, will continue to have ties… Read More
Stephen King has pulled the plug on “The Plant,” his self-published online serial novel. The experimental and prolific author is taking a break to complete other projects but, according to his assistant Marsha DeFilippo, King is also suspending the project because too many people are downloading the work… Read More
BANGOR – The Puritans and Pilgrims who colonized America were not interested in sports – such frivolity did not honor God. But 400 years after the first Europeans sought religious freedom in North America, sports and religion have become entwined. The way religion adopted sport… Read More
WASHINGTON – President Clinton on Tuesday named former U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell, who helped broker the shaky Northern Ireland peace agreement, to lead an international investigation of the five-week outburst of violence in the Middle East. White House spokesman Jake Siewert said the five-member… Read More
PORTLAND – Most mornings, Don Nech trucks down to the rusty piers skirting this historic fishing town. After the boats come in, he loads up 90-pound cases of lobster, their feelers protruding from the boxes like needles from a pincushion. It’s hard work. It’s cold… Read More
DENNYSVILLE – The 24-foot basking shark that died in the Dennys River was probably hit by a propeller blade in deeper water, then wandered into the Down East waterway, according to a marine biology professor. Gayle Kraus of the University of Maine at Machias said… Read More
There is a chill in Echo Lake [in western Maine], the subtlest hint of next week’s frost in the breeze. The trees are beginning to ripen with colors, one of nature’s miracles, and with apples, one of humankind’s delights. Winter is on the way and, like the light… Read More
You sit in a boat on a smoky evening 16 miles from the Quebec border and across from you is your 12-year-old daughter and in the stillness – in the deep, unfathomable stillness of dusk – the strongest urge you have ever felt is to shake her by… Read More
Bob Taylor will get a kick out of this one. The Washington Post on May 16 led its Metro edition with an eight-column headline declaring, “Cougar sightings mount in Tysons area.” Accompanying the story was a photograph of a large mountain lion apparently sizing up… Read More
“The air was filled for hours with the rifle report of snapping branches followed by the crash of ice-laden branches smashing to the ground.” That line from a publication on trees and ice storms could have described much of Maine 10 weeks ago. But it… Read More
CALAIS – A Meddybemps couple whose 16 dogs were seized by animal control officers last week reached a negotiated settlement in 4th District Court Tuesday. They agreed to give up 12 of their dogs in return for two longtime pets, Charlie, a dachshund, and a gray-and-white terrier named… Read More
AUGUSTA — Angus King officially became the nation’s lone independent governor Wednesday in a clear rejection of partisan politics and “business as usual” in state government. Late Wednesday afternoon, with 97 percent of Maine’s 664 precincts reporting, King received 35.8 percent of the vote, followed by… Read More
PORTLAND — Gov.-elect Angus King said Wednesday it was no coincidence that Maine voters had decided to support his candidacy and pass constitutional amendments limiting the terms of office for state and federal elected officeholders. “The message last night was that people were tired of politics… Read More
Publication Date: November 9, 1994 Edition: c5 BANGOR — At 2:45 a.m. today, the outcome of Maine’s gubernatorial election was too close to call as independent candidate Angus King continued to lead Democratic nominee Joseph E. Brennan by barely more than 1 percentage point. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
AUGUSTA — To those who followed his weekly televised interviews on “MaineWatch,” Angus King was the consummate moderator whose personal opinions remained inscrutably cloaked in professional neutrality. Running as an independent candidate for governor, the journalist-turned-politician now constantly strives to impress voters with his point of… Read More
AUGUSTA — A revived flirtation with a bid for governor by Cape Elizabeth financier Robert A.G. Monks is already causing ripples in politics and government. Monks said last week he would make no plans to enter the crowded Republican gubernatorial field until at least after he… Read More
WASHINGTON — Sound familiar? A millionaire businessman heads a special task force to fix a major state fiscal crisis. Then he runs for governor. Some Republican insiders, fearful that their party’s gubernatorial nomination may slip by default to religious activist Jasper Wyman, recently have begun urging… Read More
MACHIAS — The election for governor might still be a year away, but at least one Blaine House hopeful is confident that political lightning can indeed strike twice. In an interview here Friday, Angus S. King Jr., an independent from Brunswick, said the climate is ripe… Read More
In June 1991, Angus King was in the Augusta law library researching a story for his television show when he saw the light — figures that showed the economic boom of the 1980s was particularly kind to the state budget, which had increased threefold. At the… Read More
CAMDEN — The King who would be governor says the 1994 election could decide whether Maine becomes the hub of a global economy or a colonial backwater. Angus King of Brunswick, independent candidate for governor, told Camden Rotarians Tuesday the good news about the future “is… Read More
With the appointment of Robert A.G. Monks as chairman of the Commission to Study the Maine State Retirement System, the panel should be able to get down to business on a long-term and growing problem in Augusta. The state’s retirement fund is one of the weakest in the… Read More
WASHINGTON — Could Bob Monks shake up Maine government the way he did Sears and Roebuck? Some Republicans think so, and are pressing the 59-year-old financier to run for governor in 1994. In an interview Tuesday, Monks said he’s intrigued by the idea. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
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NEWPORT — The slender, long-haired woman sitting in her rocking chair gently stroked her tiny kitten, Murphy. Weighing a trim 115 pounds, the woman certainly did not conjure up images of “Hulk Hogan” or “The Ultimate Warrior.” But apearances can be deceptive. Corinne Knapp is… Read More