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Bangor sweeps PVC large-school championships
BREWER, Maine — Breezy and cool conditions that at times felt more like late April than late May couldn’t prevent the records from falling at Friday’s Penobscot Valley Conference large-school track and field championships. Bangor dominated the girls competition, winning eight of the 19 events and scoring 164.3 points, well ...
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. Just over two months after debuting 14 total table games, four of which were Texas Hold ’Em poker tables, the casino is adding two more ...
High school baseball
Messalonskee’s seven-run fourth seals victory over Hampden
By Joe Duball, Special to the BDN on May 25, 2012, at 8:40 p.m.
HAMPDEN, Maine — With the postseason just a week away, high school baseball teams are looking to solidify their positions in the standings and prove they can rise to challenges.The Messalonskee Eagles did so Friday against Hampden Academy.With both teams bound for the postseason, it was an opportunity to show ...
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 look around at a roomful of teenagers and even young adults and one could wonder whether anyone was listening all those years ago. In the ...
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 the Pickering Square area downtown the last few months that have local merchants, patrons and city officials looking at ways to make a prime downtown ...
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 former program director at Bangor TV station WABI and marketing director at Portland TV station WGME will take over as the Bangor Daily News’ sales ...
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 Potter confirmed Friday evening. The assault, initially reported as a possible stabbing, occurred shortly before 4 p.m. at an apartment building on Essex Street, near ...
From the community
Trouble AGAIN on Essex St.
I came home from work to find three police cars and a camera crew on site at the green apt. on the corner of Essex St. and Garland St. The police were interviewing several people…..can’t wait to find out what is going on. Landlords need to start taking some ownership ...
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
In 1979, the building at 26-28 Central St. in downtown Bangor housed a grocery store, owned by the Zoidis family. That year, the building burned to the ground, and after the charred remains were razed, the lot sat vacant for more than three decades. Businesses came and went around it. ...
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Stony Brook knocks out UMaine to win America East tournament
STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Relentless. That is the best way to describe the Stony Brook University baseball team, especially its offense. With the University of Maine pitching staff thinned by injuries, illness and fatigue, the Seawolves knocked the Black Bears out of the 2012 America East Baseball Championship on Friday. ...
Senior living regimental commander to close out WWII unit’s last reunion
on May 25, 2012, at 2:52 p.m.
BANGOR, Maine — A 96-year-old Auburn man believed to be the senior living regimental commanding officer from World War II’s 5th Armored Division will give the last remarks when the group holds its final drawdown during the 66th reunion of the 5th Armored Division Association at 6 p.m. Saturday, June ...
BDN, Sea Dogs collaborate for Bangor Community Day at Hadlock Field
PORTLAND, Maine — The Boston Red Sox have special nights for their New England neighbors like State of Maine Day at Fenway Park. The Portland Sea Dogs, the Red Sox’s Double-A Eastern League affiliate, has had special community days for fans from specific towns primarily in the Portland area. But ...
MANCHILD
The reality never quite lives up to the dream
on May 25, 2012, at 12:50 p.m.
In philosophy, reality is the state of things as they actually exist, and not as they may appear or might be imagined. Yesterday on my way out the door and on my way home from work this was the tweet. It was a simple enough dream. Reality set in upon arrival at home. ...
MAN ABOUT TOWN
(Still Not) “Finding Bigfoot”
on May 25, 2012, at 9:28 a.m.
What? Are you guys going to make me write another one about this? How is this possible? Alright, I may be done with the questions (maybe not), but can’t we agree that this is ridiculous? (See, I told you maybe not). I love the idea of some gargantuan Simeon ...
Glenburn art teacher killed in Friday morning collision in Bangor
on May 25, 2012, at 8:16 a.m.
BANGOR, Maine — A resident of Union Street in Bangor who was an art teacher pulled out of her driveway early Friday morning and turned into the path of a landscaping service truck. She was ejected from her small blue car by the force of the impact and died at ...
MANCHILD
Just say no to Home Depot
on May 24, 2012, at 10:37 p.m.
OK, I have been nice up until now. But enough is enough. You’ve all see them. The “friendly” Home Depot commercials. The ones that sugest you go out this weekend and tackle a simple household project. They sound so innocent. How you can do it all, cheaply and with great results. “That’s the power ...
Accidents involving 7 vehicles tie up Bangor traffic on Interstate 95
BANGOR, Maine — A pair of multiple-vehicle crashes Thursday evening that involved seven vehicles on Interstate 95 resulted in minor injuries, thousands of dollars in damage and major traffic tie-ups. “Traffic was backed up from Hogan [Road] to Hammond [Street],” Maine State Police Trooper Dave Yankowsky said Thursday night. The ...
Hermon school budget clears first voter approval
HERMON, Maine — It took 26 residents about half an hour Thursday night to approve a $12.5 million school budget for the fiscal year ahead. The $12,498,376 school budget was approved during a special town meeting in the Hermon Middle School gym, Deputy Town Clerk Ruthann Dyer said Thursday night, ...
Bangor International Airport gets another $4M in federal funds for baggage screening
BANGOR, Maine — Fresh off the official announcement of a $4.9 million grant to improve its commercial jet apron infrastructure, Bangor International Airport received word Thursday that it has secured another $4 million in federal funds for a new baggage inspection system. The Transportation Security Administration grant will allow BIA ...
Old Town wins grant to start redevelopment of downtown Old Town Canoe site
OLD TOWN, Maine — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $600,000 brownfields grant that will allow the city to clean up the asbestos-ridden historic Old Town Canoe building. City officials were notified of the grant approval on Thursday. Old Town Canoe occupied the 5.5-acre downtown site from 1902 ...
Glenburn art teacher killed in Friday morning collision in Bangor
Harvard student asked to leave bar for ‘bad behavior,’ not drunkenness
LePage blasts teachers union for endorsing same-sex marriage question
Reporting crime
A people’s revolt in Bar Harbor
Old Town football coach steps down
Perakslis helps UMaine beat Albany; Binghamton next in America East tournament
Orono baseball shuts out archrival Old Town for ninth straight victory
Stony Brook knocks out UMaine to win America East tournament
Aroostook businessman expands company out of home with hit mobile app 7 Little Words
Small idea launches major project in Hampden
Former CEO of MaineToday Media Richard Connor sued over $250,000 in loans
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
New, old methods combine to deter scrap metal thefts in Aroostook
Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Signs lead artist to opportunity
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