Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME back issues from December 2003:
Snowsled insurance rise puts sport at risk
Dec 01, 2003; ... Snowmobiling is as much a part of Maine's winter as the snowitself. But if the Legislature can't resolve skirmishes over how to useliability insurance to protect snowmobile clubs and the landownerswhose permission makes the state's 12,000-mile trails system areality, the $300 ...
Deer kill down as firearms rifle season ends
Dec 01, 2003; ... Deer kill numbers were expected to be down from last year, but asthe firearms hunting season came to an end Saturday, the figures werelooking even lower than anticipated. "We expected deer numbers to be down from last year, which was oneof the best years in 20 years," Maine Game ...
Personnel
Dec 01, 2003 ... Julie Dawson of Bangor has joined U.S. Sen. Susan Collins'Governmental Affairs Committee staff in Washington as a staffassistant ....
Consumers have 3 days to rescind home equity loans
Dec 01, 2003 ... Credit organizations are constantly trying to convince consumersto borrow money against equity they have accumulated on their homes.Consumers, especially those experiencing financial difficulty,sometimes seize on these offers as a quick fix to their creditproblems. Then, often after ...
BATTLING THE BRAS
Dec 01, 2003 ... Just try to buy an American-made brassiere in this country. Lotsof luck. The tag may say "Made in USA," but that could mean Americanmaterials were stitched together in Central America. Yet the Bushadministration has slapped quotas on certain Chinese textilesincluding ...
Traditional hunting
Dec 01, 2003 ... I have retired in Maine where my wife was born and where I plan onspending my last years on earth hunting and fishing. I would nevervote against any issue that involved the prospect of potentiallylosing any hunting and fishing rights. I am having second thoughts onthe bear baiting ...
Blueberry opportunity
Dec 01, 2003 ... I am writing in response to so many who feel sorry for the poorblueberry processors. I agree that blueberries are important to ourlocal economy. They also are very important to the small grower;especially to the grower who does not make the full amount due him.They are important to the ...
Canceling AARP
Dec 01, 2003 ... My wife and I were appalled and surprised when we read on thefront page of the Bangor Daily News that AARP was endorsing theMedicare bill. Upon reflection we shouldn't have been surprised.After all, AARP is in the insurance business and not incidentally inthe health insurance business ...
Bad deal from state
Dec 01, 2003 ... The state of Maine has given the Indian tribes a bad deal. So ifthe state doesn't want gambling it should shut down all the horseracing tracks and the Maine State Lottery, which all comes under theword gambling. The state Humane Society should shut down horse racing. This ...
Please enlighten us
Dec 01, 2003 ... I was shocked to find that Washington County has the highestnumber of working families living below the poverty level. I wasunder the impression the only poor people in the state live inAroostook County. You might think by the prices for gas and fuel that the people ofWashington ...
Marquette shuts down Black Bears Eagles capture tourney
Dec 01, 2003; ... ORONO - The University of Maine played outstanding defense Sundayafternoon against a talented Marquette ballclub. The Golden Eagles' 1-1-3 zone was just a little bit more effectiveagainst the Black Bears. Marquette held UMaine scoreless during a pivotal 31/2-minutestretch of ...
Defense, physical inside play lead Maine men
Dec 01, 2003; ... ORONO - Toughness, both mental and physical, and intangibles. They weren't necessarily things last season's University of Mainemen's basketball team could list as strengths, but judging by Maine'sfirst four games, they are this season. Despite an injury-depleted bench and the ...
Colby collects tourney White Mules beat Husson
Dec 01, 2003 ... WATERVILLE - Brandon McGowan poured in 39 points and hit nine 3-pointers as the Colby College White Mules defeated the Husson CollegeBraves 85-72 in men's basketball action Saturday to capture the MaineEvent Tournament. Matt Forlizzi scored 14 points for Colby and Nick Loukes added ...
Greely's True wins regional Runner advances to nationals
Dec 01, 2003; ... Ben True of Greely High School in Cumberland Center wasn't evengoing for the "W" in Saturday's Footlocker Cross Country EastRegional at Van Cortlandt Park in New York. He got it anyway. True, a senior, took the overall title in 15 minutes, 22.8seconds, 2.3 seconds ahead of ...
Bears pull away late, defeat Lions
Dec 01, 2003; ... ORONO - When you play the home team in the first round of itstournament, you're expected to be the meal ticket to the championshipgame. Apparently, somebody forgot to tell Columbia it had been penciledinto that role during the Dead River Co. Classic. The Lions pushed the ...
Census, town records track family movements
Dec 01, 2003; ... For any family you might be researching, keep in mind that theymay have lived in many more locales than you realize. We decided last week that Jeremiah Colburn - an early settler ofOrono with Joshua Eayres and John Marsh - was born in 1731 inNottingham West, N.H. Colburn came ...
Sweet food of youth Candy is dandy topic for children's book by East Blue Hill author Ruth Freeman Swain
Dec 01, 2003; ... Many children's books get described as sweet. But a new volume written by an East Blue Hill author trulyqualifies for that label. "How Sweet It Is (and Was)," written by Ruth Freeman Swain andillustrated by John O'Brien, is a history of candy that will appealto anyone with a ...
'Silas Crockett' a slice of Maine history
Dec 01, 2003; ... My eldest uncle went on a many-masted ship to South America with aload of ice around the turn of the last century as the age of sailwas coming to an end. A quarter century later, his much younger brother, my father, leftMaine to work for the U.S. Lighthouse Service and then the ...
Learning law called unfair by educators Special needs pupils crux of debate
Dec 02, 2003; ... Students with disabilities are treated unfairly under the newfederal education law, No Child Left Behind, according to some localeducators. Expecting students who have special needs to perform at the samelevel as those who don't have special needs is inhumane and abusive,say ...
Maine case marks start of flu season State health official advises vaccination
Dec 02, 2003; ... Monday morning marked the official arrival of flu season in Mainewith the confirmation of the state's first case of the misery-makingand potentially life-threatening viral illness. State epidemiologist Kathleen Gensheimer said that though only onecase - in Lincoln County - has been ...
Correcting the record
Dec 02, 2003 ... A caption under a photograph that appeared on Page B2 of Monday'seditions contained incorrect information ....
Santa's helper update
Dec 02, 2003 ... Contributions to the Santa's Helper Fund that arrived over theweekend have brought the total collected to date to $9,555.11. Thanks go out to Bud and Kay, Eddington, $20; Vincent and JanetRush, in memory of their son Lee Rush, Mattawamkeag, $50; Anonymous,Milford, $25; Barbara and ...
Court affirms life sentences,convictions in Cookson case
Dec 02, 2003; ... PORTLAND - The Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed theconvictions and sentences of the man serving two consecutive lifesentences in Maine State Prison for the 1999 murder of his formergirlfriend and the toddler she was baby-sitting. Jeffrey Cookson, 40, of Dover-Foxcroft was ...
Blueberry companies cite jury error, request retrial
Dec 02, 2003; ... ROCKLAND - Citing that the jury was "improperly instructed as tothe nature and quantity of evidence required to prove the existenceof a price-fixing conspiracy," attorneys for the three Down Eastblueberry processing companies that last month lost a price-fixingcase filed a motion Monday ...
Bangor hears racino pitches
Dec 02, 2003; ... BANGOR - Three companies that want to operate a racetrack casinoat Bass Park made their pitches to the City Council Monday. During a special meeting at City Hall, city officials heard briefpresentations from representatives of Iowa-based Kehl Management Co.,Delaware North ...
Cutback requests alarm UMS, colleges
Dec 02, 2003; ... The governor has proposed that Maine's universities and collegesshare $22 million in cutbacks with other state agencies to help covera $113 million deficit in the state's Medicaid program. The University of Maine System has been asked to cut $13 millionduring this fiscal year, ...
Shopping better left to the brave
Dec 02, 2003; ... Being a last-minute Christmas shopper by nature, who prefers tolet the yuletide spirit gain a little momentum before I unsheathe mycredit card and rack up some old-fashioned holiday debt, I've neverreally felt the urge to join the festive mobs at the stores the dayafter ...
2 Maine soldiers back from Iraq stop at BIA
Dec 02, 2003; ... BANGOR - Two soldiers from Maine enjoyed an unexpected visit homeMonday, stopping at Bangor International Airport just long enough fora warm welcome and a hot meal. Spc. 4th Class Gerard Warren of Robbinston and Pfc. Levi Rollinsof Dover-Foxcroft were among nearly 300 Army ...
Loring authority chief looks to Phish fans for development
Dec 02, 2003; ... LIMESTONE - Brian Hamel, president and CEO of the LoringDevelopment Authority, rarely misses an opportunity to promote theLoring Commerce Centre and northern Maine. The LCC, host to three Phish festivals - The Great Went,Lemonwheel and last August's It - each brought upward of ...
Former GNP workers need retraining to maintain benefits
Dec 02, 2003; ... EAST MILLINOCKET - A number of displaced Great Northern Paperworkers may see their unemployment benefits end later this month ifthey don't enter a retraining program. Under the Free Trade Act, former GNP employees can receive amaximum of 52 weeks of unemployment, according to Carl ...
Bangor schools eye college plan Students could earn credits early
Dec 02, 2003; ... BANGOR - Students here could be put on a fast track toward anassociate degree by earning community college credits while takinghigh school classes, according to a plan introduced Monday bySuperintendent Robert Ervin. The proposed "Early College" program would be a ...
SAD 53 school calendar comes under fire
Dec 02, 2003; ... PITTSFIELD - Several years ago, when SAD 53 adopted a newcalendar, some parents and staff were upset that it didn't mesh withother schools' schedules. Some staff members had children or spousesin other districts and could no longer share vacations with them. Butthe calendar was adopted ...
Children of Dexter church collect goods for Iraqi kids
Dec 02, 2003; ... DEXTER - No coaxing was needed to convince children who attendFirst Baptist Church that their support was needed in Mosul, Iraq. The children have no intention of piling into an airplane to makethe overseas trip, but they do plan to send boxes full of schoolsupplies and clothing to ...
Bangor Federal Credit Union to open Brewer office
Dec 02, 2003; ... BREWER - Bangor Federal Credit Union is planning to open a newbranch office next fall in Brewer. The credit union received site plan approval for a new facility onthe corner of Parkway South and the city's new parallel road atMonday night's Brewer Planning Board meeting. "The ...
Guns stolen from sporting goods store
Dec 02, 2003 ... Brewer police are investigating a "smash and grab" burglary of asporting goods store that occurred early Sunday. Detective Jay Munson said that an unknown number of suspects brokeinto Van Raymond Outfitters on South Main Street, took severalfirearms and fled. They entered by ...
Telford Group plans to sell two subsidiaries
Dec 02, 2003 ... BANGOR - The Telford Group, which specializes in the repair andoverhaul of regional-size aircraft, as well as selling aircraft partsand leasing aircraft, plans to sell two of its smaller subsidiaries:Maine Atlantic Aviation in Owl's Head and Flying Fashions in Bangor. Telford is ...
Old Town Canoe not moving to Mexico
Dec 02, 2003 ... BANGOR - Old Town Canoe is not moving to Mexico, according to itsparent company, Wisconsin-based Johnson Outdoors. For more than a month, a rumor has been circulating around the OldTown community that the longtime canoe and kayak manufacturer thatbears the town's name was packing ...
Navy awards BIW $76M contract option
Dec 02, 2003 ... BATH - Bath Iron Works shipbuilding company will get an extra $76million from the U.S. Navy under a modification of a previouslyawarded contract on the DDG 51-Class Aegis destroyer program. Under the option, BIW will provide technical assistance to anothershipyard with the designs ...
UM Extension plans marketing workshop
Dec 02, 2003 ... BELFAST - A marketing workshop for area residents who operate orare considering starting a small or home-based business will beoffered from noon to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, at the Waldo Countyoffice of University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Route 137, fourmiles outside of ...
Technical center auction in Dexter
Dec 02, 2003 ... DEXTER- Students at Tri-County Technical Center will hold anauction at 6 p.m. Dec. 4, at the technical center, to support theStudent Leadership Fund. This fund enables students to participate in the Skills USA-Vocational Industrial Clubs of America, Health Occupations Studentsof ...
Santa's Helper Update
Dec 01, 2003 ... With only three weekends left before Christmas, people are findingthemselves very busy with shopping and other holiday preparations.We're hoping that the Santa's Helper Fund will come to mind as listsof things to do are being written, for it is through this fund-raiser that many poor ...
Ellsworth burn victim returns to hospital Wounds not healing as they should
Dec 01, 2003; ... ELLSWORTH - A week after he got home from a Boston hospital, alocal boy who was seriously burned when another Ellsworth High Schoolstudent allegedly set his Halloween costume on fire has had to returnto Massachusetts for further medical treatment. Donald Awalt, 14, was driven ...
Unity logger killed when trees fall on him
Dec 01, 2003; ... TROY - A Unity logger was killed Sunday when two trees he wascutting fell and crushed him. Waldo County Deputy Sheriff Merl Reed said 40-year-old DavidBushey was found at about 10:30 a.m. in woods near the junction ofthe Barker and North Dixmont roads by landowner Jerry ...
High winds down trees, knock out power
Dec 01, 2003; ... PORTLAND - More than 2,000 utility customers in Maine remainedwithout power Sunday after high winds snapped tree limbs and put outpower lines a day earlier. High winds that blustered across the state toward the Maritimeprovinces were expected to leave another calling card: the ...
King improves, taken off oxygen Stalker suspect's car claimed by girlfriend
Dec 01, 2003; ... BANGOR - Author Stephen King remained hospitalized Sunday but wasreportedly doing better and off oxygen less than a week afterundergoing an operation to relieve damage caused by pneumonia in bothlungs. Also Sunday, police said a woman recovered the vehicle that wasimpounded two ...
Teen charged with driving after license suspension
Dec 01, 2003 ... A report of theft at Young's Market in Bangor Saturday turned intothe arrest of a juvenile for allegedly operating a motor vehicleafter suspension. Elizabeth Morang, store clerk at Young's, called police after shereportedly saw a juvenile stealing a candy bar. Bangor police ...
Many high school students sleep deprived
Dec 01, 2003; ... Editor's Note: This column was written by John Bapst Memorial HighSchool students. Their adviser is Lynn Manion. Parents, do you wake up at 3 a.m. to the clicking of the keyboard,angry because you think your child is chatting with his or herfriends online, only to find them ...
Much malice, but how much wit?
Dec 01, 2003; ... Editor's Note: Student Union's weekly columns are a joint effortof the region's high schools, the Bangor Daily News and AcadiaHospital. This column was written by Old Town High School students.Their adviser is Karen Marley. For best results, please read aloud, preferably with a ...
Backlog delays answers about inmate's death
Dec 01, 2003; ... ELLSWORTH - Five months after a Bangor man lapsed into a coma anddied after being arrested on drug charges, the state has yet todetermine a cause of death. Robert Dembek, 20, went into convulsions and then into a coma onJune 21, a few hours after he was arrested during a traffic ...
Activism burnout focus of workshop
Dec 01, 2003 ... BELFAST - The Gaelwynne Institute is offering Sustaining the Self,a workshop for environmental professionals, activists and students. The workshop will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13,at the Unitarian Universalist Church. The session is designed to help ...
P.I. airport improvements nearly done
Dec 01, 2003; ... PRESQUE ISLE - Runway improvements at Northern Maine RegionalAirport are two weeks from completion and facility personnel areready to get back to everyday operations, according to airportmanager Scott Wardwell. The airport's $3.8 million project is on schedule with an ...
Society halfway in raising funds Historical center eyed in Presque Isle
Dec 01, 2003; ... PRESQUE ISLE - The Presque Isle Historical Society has raised halfof the $250,000 it needs to begin renovations to turn one of thecity's oldest standing buildings into a historical center. The society recently received a $25,000 pledge from the PresqueIsle Rotary Club, which the ...
Belfast council to take stance on seafood plant
Dec 01, 2003; ... BELFAST - The City Council will have its first opportunity to takea formal position on the development of the shuttered Stinson Seafoodsardine plant when it meets this week to consider zoning changes atthe waterfront complex. Developer Tom Roberts has proposed converting the plant ...
NEW LOOK AT AN OLD TAX
Dec 01, 2003 ... How Maine gets itself out of its latest tax mess - a demand fortax relief on the local level and a huge shortfall of revenues at thestate level - should be one of the more entertaining and frustratingevents on the legislative calendar. Rep. Peter Mills of Cornvilleproposed a partial ...
USDA Service Center to hold open house
Dec 02, 2003 ... DOVER-FOXCROFT - An open house will be held 1-4 p.m. Dec. 10 atthe newly constructed USDA Service Center in Pine Crest DevelopmentPark. Three agencies are housed in the new building: Farm ServiceAgency, ...
Piscataquis panel welcomes 2 members
Dec 02, 2003 ... DOVER-FOXCROFT - Robert Pride and Merlene Sanborn have joined thePiscataquis County committee of the Maine Community Foundation. Pride is a Foxcroft Academy graduate and has a bachelor's degreein business administration from Babson College. He worked for PrideManufacturing Co. for ...
Dover-Foxcroft offers Christmas activities
Dec 02, 2003 ... DOVER-FOXCROFT - This community plans to provide visitors andresidents with an old-fashioned Christmas experience once again. The Southern Piscataquis County Chamber of Commerce is encouragingbusinesses and homeowners to outline their buildings with whitelights to celebrate the ...
No ID yet for body washed ashore at park
Dec 02, 2003 ... ROQUE BLUFFS - The identity of the badly decomposed body thatwashed ashore Sunday afternoon at Roque Bluffs State Park has not yetbeen determined. The state Medical Examiner's Office in Augusta conducted anautopsy Monday. The dead person was male, but nothing more will beknown ...
Brewer Holiday Food Drive needs donations
Dec 02, 2003; ... The Holiday Food Drive that began in 1999 with the collection of250 items by employees of the city of Brewer has grown so that, lastyear, with the help of the city schools, more than 7,000 items and$350 were collected to help the needy of the community. "We're already stepping out ...
Grower petitioning for Baldacci's help
Dec 02, 2003; ... MARSHFIELD - A Marshfield man with 75 acres of blueberry land inWashington County is circulating a petition intended for Gov. JohnBaldacci, asking for support and intervention in bringing the state'sblueberry industry back into balance. Ivan Hanscom has been spending portions of ...
Snowe pushes bill to aid small manufacturers
Dec 02, 2003 ... WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine unveiled Tuesdaya bill to help small manufacturers hard hit by foreign competitionand trade barriers get back on their feet. Snowe filed the "Small Manufacturers Assistance, Recovery andTrade (SMART) Act" Tuesday, saying it will ...
Holden police summon 2 men on drug charges
Dec 02, 2003; ... HOLDEN - Two men were summoned on drug charges after the vehiclethey were traveling in was stopped on Saturday and they were found inpossession of drug paraphernalia. "Officer Chris Greeley stopped them for a headlight out and henoticed a can of beer between the driver's feet," ...
Courts
Dec 02, 2003 ... Bar Harbor District Court Cases Nov. 1-29, 2003 Tucker L. Bell, 27, Milbridge, possessing marijuana, $350. Michael S. Biron, 28, Salisbury Cove, leaving scene of motorvehicle accident, $125. Claude A. Boisvert, 40, Bar Harbor, two counts procuring liquorfor ...
Fort Fairfield woman to face drug charges
Dec 02, 2003 ... FORT FAIRFIELD - A local woman posted bond and was released Sundayafter she was arrested on drug charges, according to Fort FairfieldPolice Chief Joseph Bubar. Mary Tilley, 39, of Fort Fairfield was arrested at approximately8:50 p.m. on the charge of aggravated trafficking of ...
Divorces
Dec 02, 2003 ... FORT KENT - The following divorces were granted during the lastseveral months in 1st District Court by Judge Ronald A. Daigle ongrounds of irreconcilable differences: Kevin Dionne of St. Francis and Angel Dionne of Fort Kent, marriedOct. 27, 2000, at Fort Kent. Two children to ...