The Weekly

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Inside Hermon High School last October, the production crew and young actors involved in filming “The Road Back” discuss an upcoming scene. Scheduled to debut on March 21, the film relates how two typical teen-agers are affected by anxiety and depression.

Local film focuses on teen mental health issues

For some viewers, “The Road Back” may hit close to home. At 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 21, the Acadia Hospital will premiere “The Road Back” ...

As the Nokomis and Medomak Valley girls’ basketball teams play at the Bangor Auditorium on Saturday morning, Feb. 18, Joan Butler (left) and Faye Albert watch the game. Originally from Houlton, Butler and Albert moved to Bangor in 1974 and started attending tournament game soon afterwards. Dedicated Aroostook County team fans, they arrived early on Feb. 18 to get good seats prior to the Ellsworth-Presque Isle boys’ game. Butler and Albert, who inadvertently wore the Nokomis school colors, found themselves surrounded by Nokomis fans for the day’s first game.

Long-time tournament fans loyally follow the Aroostook teams

When the Presque Isle boys took the floor against Ellsworth at the Bangor Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 18, two adoring fans cheered from the lower ...

Maine author Lynn Plourde discusses one of her books during a Young Authors Day workshop held at Fairmount School in Bangor.

Author Lynn Plourde speaks at Fairmount School

On Feb. 2, Bangor’s Fairmount School hosted the annual Young Authors Day. This year, author Lynn Plourde spoke about a few of her books. She ...

Organizers hope basketball hall ends up in new Bangor arena

Throughout this week, thousands will flock to the Bangor Auditorium, for more than 50 years the traditional home of basketball in eastern and northern Maine. ...

Adult day programs a reprieve to those caring for dementia sufferers

Caring for someone with dementia is a special kind of stressful. But there is a way to relieve the strain, a few hours at a ...

Bangor Courts

Cases Jan. 23-27, 2012 Sondra C. Bjornson, 41, Bangor, three counts assault, $800, $200 suspended. Alex Chicone, 19, Orono, minor possessing liquor, $200. Mark W. ...

“All roads lead to Bangor” when the Fireball Rally hits

On Feb. 10, David Hickman, marketing executive vice president for NBCUniversal, was at the Cole Museum in Bangor to announce that the city has been ...

Tournament boosts economic activity at Bangor-area businesses

While basketball fans watch the tournament action, Bangor-area business owners watch their front doors. As the 2012 Eastern Maine Basketball Tournament kicks off tomorrow at ...

Park Service replaces stairs at Sand Beach in Acadia

Beach-lovers living in the lower Penobscot Valley know that this end of Maine, at least, lacks good beaches. That’s why when friends and family “from ...

One of our ‘best-kept secrets’ is truly MARVEL!-ous

In the 1990s, a student researching Dr. Martin Luther King found ample information using a search engine. The problem? The number-one result was David Duke’s ...

Exercise, techniques can be used to combat incontinence

We’ve all seen bladder-control TV commercials with a desperate looking woman searching for a restroom. A miserable existence to be sure and yet one shared ...

Bangor Courts

Cases Jan. 16-20, 2012 Victoria A. Altvater, 42, Bangor, criminal trespass, jail 48 hours. Mark Amato, 59, Sullivan, operating vehicle while under influence of intoxicants, ...

Emeric Spooner, the librarian at Buck Memorial Library in Bucksport, stands at the grave of Phineas Augustine Heywood, a Civil War veteran buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Bucksport. Spooner identified Heywood as a veteran while researching his new book “Maine Gravestones and Flags Volume II: Honoring Our Civil War Heroes.”

New book highlights forgotten Civil War veterans

Cutline for Emeric Spooner in Bucksport final.tif Weekly Photo by Brian Swartz Emeric Spooner, the librarian at Buck Memorial Library in Bucksport, stands at the ...

Among the sculpture created during a Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium is “Bar Harbor Tension,” sculpted by Songul Telek of Turkey and placed at Baxter Park in Bar Harbor. The 2012 SISS will take place July 22-Aug. 31 at the University of Maine.

Schoodic sculpture symposium is coming to Orono

Sculptures similar to those appearing across Down East Maine will arrive in the greater Bangor area late next summer. The 2012 Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium ...

Valentine’s Day gifts made simple

OK guys and gals, let’s dish. Valentine’s day is almost here and do you have that special something picked out for your sweetie — guy ...

Taking a fun-filled class will drive away winter doldrums

We’ve almost made it through another winter. It’s now time to think spring, get out of the house, and try something new. Taking a fun-filled, ...

Bangor Courts

Jan. 2-6, 2012 Sean P. Rogers, 22, Old Town, criminal mischief, jail seven days; cultivating marijuana, $400, jail seven hours. David Roy, 21, Orono, operating ...

Wedding expo slated for Feb. 11-12 at Bangor Mall

Winter and spring are the time for proposals and wedding planning. Most bridal shows will be held at event centers or hotels, but local event ...

Larger space gives options to Brewer library

BREWER — There’s a certain symmetry in a former school becoming a library. The School Street School, on the corner of School Street and South ...

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North-bound drivers pass the Snow’s Corner Plaza on Route 15 in Orrington in early January. The plaza underwent an expansion after Orrington voters approved the town’s first tax-increment financing district a few years ago.

Orrington adopts a proactive approach to economic development

When opportunity knocks, someone had better answer the door. That’s happening at last in Orrington, according to Town Manager Paul White and Ronald Harriman, the ...