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Hollywood Casino rolls out two more poker tables

BANGOR, Maine — Hollywood Casino Hotel and Raceway has added two more gaming tables to deal with customer demand in time for the holiday weekend. ...
Renee Ordway
RENEE ORDWAY

Police right to demand qualified applicants

Sit up straight, tell the truth and say “please” and “thank you.” These are traditional, basic lessons for the average 5-year-old child. Yet take a ...
People gather at Pickering Square to hang out, play games or loiter on Friday, May 25, 2012. Citizens have complained that the area can be scary at certain times of the day.

Pickering Square behavior concerns residents, councilors, merchants

BANGOR, Maine — Foul language, shouted curses, public intoxication, panhandling, and fistfights — even in broad daylight. These are examples of behavior regularly witnessed in ...
Towle Tompkins

Veteran TV, radio director Tompkins named BDN’s sales and marketing director

BANGOR, Maine — Thirty years into his media career, Towle Tompkins has decided to cross over from the broadcast business to the print side. The ...
Bangor police converge on an Essex Street apartment building after receiving a report of a possible stabbing shortly before 4 p.m. on Friday, May 25, 2012.
POLICE BEAT

Bangor police investigating Essex street assault

BANGOR, Maine — The Bangor Police Department is investigating an assault late Friday afternoon that sent a man to the hospital, Bangor police Sgt. Ed ...
From the community

Trouble AGAIN on Essex St.

I came home from work to find three police cars ...

Accidents involving 7 vehicles tie up Bangor traffic on Interstate 95

BANGOR, Maine — A pair of multiple-vehicle crashes Thursday evening ...

Hermon school budget clears first voter approval

HERMON, Maine — It took 26 residents about half an ...

Bangor International Airport gets another $4M in federal funds for baggage screening

BANGOR, Maine — Fresh off the official announcement of a ...

Old Town wins grant to start redevelopment of downtown Old Town Canoe site

OLD TOWN, Maine — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ...

Brewer taxes to increase after decade

BREWER, Maine — Steep declines in revenues, a flat citywide ...

Bangor looking to hire fire chief, airport director

BANGOR, Maine — While the application process is still going ...

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BANGOR, Maine –  Lawrence Barrett, Ed.D, president of Eastern Maine Community College, has announced that the Selection Committee of the Maine Community College System has ...
 
HOLDEN, Maine – The Holden Congregational Church will hold a public supper  with settings at 5 and 5:45 p.m. Saturday, June 9. Menu consists of ...
 
Bangor resident Audrey MacLean earns Connecticut College degree   NEW LONDON, Conn. - Audrey MacLean of Bangor was awarded a bachelor of arts degree from Connecticut College ...
 
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine  - VHA Inc., the national health care network, awarded a VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence to Mayo Regional Hospital at its annual Leadership Conference ...
 
BANGOR, Maine – Ensign John Gorecki, commanding officer of the Gary I. Gordon Division of the Navy League Cadet Corps, has announced the following promotion ...