Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME back issues from March 2007:
Agent of Change Maine Education Commissioner Susan Gendron no stranger to controversy
Mar 01, 2007; ... AUGUSTA - As commissioner of education, Susan Gendron has been alightning rod for a number of policy decisions that often left schooladministrators, their boards, teachers, parents and taxpayersgasping. The contentious issues she has dealt with include the mandate thatthe state ...
Highway construction
Mar 01, 2007 ... It is with great concern that I am reaching out to the travelingpublic, our governor and our Legislature. I have been working in theroad construction industry since 1973. Each and every year that goesby I wonder if there will be a job for myself and my fellow workers.My company ...
Firefighters thanked
Mar 01, 2007 ... On Valentine's Day (Feb. 14 at approximately 1 p.m.), wediscovered a fire burning out of control in our home. Our 911 call brought the Corinth Volunteer Fire Department onscene in seven minutes. Their response was by a large number offirefighters who were very professional in their ...
Get the facts straight
Mar 01, 2007 ... I recently retired from the Maine Army National Guard after 24years of service. After months of reading the daily harangues against President Bushand our mission in Iraq, the op-ed piece by Stephen Allen, "America's'golden age' is all lost" (BDN, Feb. 22), is filled with so ...
U.S. seeks data about 'ghost cat' in Maine
Mar 01, 2007; ... The federal government is reopening its file on the Eastern cougaras part of a long-overdue update on the whether the great "ghost cat"is creeping back into the forests of Maine and other East Coaststates - if indeed it ever left. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced ...
Delegation urged to support children's health program
Mar 01, 2007; ... BANGOR - More than 3,000 low-income Maine children could losetheir health care coverage in the coming year if federal lawmakersfail to reauthorize and adequately fund the State Children's HealthInsurance Program, or SCHIP, child health advocates warned Wednesday. At a press ...
Cruise ship expert shares ideas with Bar Harbor
Mar 01, 2007; ... BAR HARBOR - A cruise ship industry analyst Tuesday nightsucceeded in getting the Town Council to voice its support forcontinuing to attract the tourist-filled boats to the scenic islandtown. This may come as a surprise to some people who have seenmultitudes of cruise ships come ...
Palmyra burn leads to probe of tire disposal Nighttime operation triggers complaints from neighbors
Mar 01, 2007; ... PALMYRA - When Fire Chief Don Chute as well as Dan Sprague, aselectman and local fire warden, investigated a fiery glow in the skyMonday night, they discovered an apparent tire burning business thatmay have been in place for 10 years or more and could involve 50,000tires. The ...
Lobstermen: no compromise on dragger bill
Mar 01, 2007; ... BELFAST - Politics may be called the art of compromise but thestate's lobster fishermen are hardly politicians and they're notabout to compromise when it comes to a proposal that would open thelobster fishery to draggers. About two dozen lobster fishermen gathered for a press ...
Murder suspect held without bail Canaan man appears in courton charges he killed 2 women
Mar 01, 2007; ... SKOWHEGAN - A man accused of killing two Canaan women in 2006 madehis initial appearance in Somerset County Superior Court onWednesday. Shannon Atwood, 37, faces two counts of murder. He is accused ofkilling Cheryl Murdoch, 37, and his estranged wife, Shirley MoonAtwood, 36, ...
Hermon residents mull water, sewer options
Mar 01, 2007; ... HERMON - If the town's opinion of a proposed public water andsewer extension to the village area was accurately represented by theresident turnout at Wednesday night's public meeting, the June votewill be close. Approximately 60 percent of the 30 residents who gathered in thehigh ...
Town meetings
Mar 01, 2007 ... Hartland Town elections will be held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, March2, and two town meetings will be held at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.Saturday, March 3, at the town hall. Voters will have two town meetings Saturday because of a switchfrom a calendar-based fiscal year to one ...
Searsmont event to aid woman with cancer
Mar 01, 2007; ... Many of you in the Searsmont-Belmont-Union area may know MaryGlidden as your rural mail carrier. What you may not know is that sheis fighting breast cancer and she has no medical insurance. To assist Glidden and her extended family through this difficulttime, her friends in the ...
Rockland inns give $2,500 to food pantry
Mar 01, 2007 ... ROCKLAND - The Area Interfaith Outreach Food Pantry received acheck for $2,500 on Feb. 23 from the Historic Inns of Rockland fromproceeds of January's Pies on Parade event. This ...
Sea Coast Mission to host party for Allens
Mar 01, 2007 ... BAR HARBOR - The Maine Sea Coast Mission will host a party inhonor of Dave and Betty Allen for their service to islanders the past35 years as captain and steward of the Sunbeam from 5 to 7 p.m.Friday, March 9, at the Maine Sea Coast ...
$350,000 in gifts boost BHS scholarship fund
Mar 01, 2007; ... BANGOR - Graduating seniors at Bangor High School will have abetter chance to receive scholarship money for college thanks to twodonations from alumni totaling $350,000 over the last month. James Taylor, a 1944 graduate of Bangor High School who died inAugust 2004, left $300,000 to ...
Utilities consider new power line to The County
Mar 01, 2007 ... AUGUSTA - Maine Public Service and Central Maine Power have agreedto study building a new power transmission line to directly connectAroostook County to the rest of the state, Gov. John Baldacciannounced Wednesday. The Aroostook power grid is connected to the rest of Maine and ...
Drama festival to start with regional contests
Mar 01, 2007 ... The 2007 Maine Drama Festival regional competition will be heldFriday, March 9, and Saturday, March 10. More than 3,000 Maine highschool students from 79 high schools will compete at locations aroundthe state. Two winners from each region will be selected to ...
Field of themes Activities help stimulate adults with memory loss
Mar 02, 2007; ... BANGOR - If it's May, it must be Mother's Day at My Friend'sPlace. On the other hand, it could be Cinco de Mayo or Memorial Day. Theme-based activities have been a mainstay in kindergarten andpreschool programs for decades, but were not widely used with adultsuntil five years ...
Boy, 15, faces child porn charge Teen Bangor's first juvenile implicated in computer download crime
Mar 02, 2007; ... BANGOR - A 15-year-old boy charged with downloading childpornography is apparently the first juvenile in the city to becharged with a sexual cybercrime. Bangor Police Department officers confiscated the boy's homecomputer on Dec. 20 after learning that it contained child porn ....
Driver pleads guilty in fatal vehicle crash Ellsworth woman accused of manslaughter, felony OUI
Mar 01, 2007; ... ELLSWORTH - A woman whose alcohol level was nearly four times thelegal limit when she crashed her car into another vehicle and killedits driver has accepted responsibility, her attorney said. Dorothy Cook, 48, of Ellsworth, who is charged with manslaughterin the March 2006 death of ...
Electrical short blamed for Amherst home fire
Mar 01, 2007; ... AMHERST - A fire that tore through a single-story home lateTuesday night in northern Hancock County likely started from anelectrical short, officials said. Firefighters from several towns responded shortly after 9:30 p.m.to a call at a home just off Route 9 in Amherst, but by the ...
DA's office still reviewing shooting Boys involved in accident will not face charges, but adults might
Mar 01, 2007; ... GRINDSTONE - A boy who accidentally shot another boy in the backwith a rifle while both were hunting in woods off Route 11 two monthsago will not face charges, but adults involved in the incident might,officials said Wednesday. "Based upon the ages of the kids and the ...
Woman sentenced for employer theft
Mar 01, 2007; ... ELLSWORTH - A former employee at a popular lunch spot who for morethan four months altered transactions and then kept the differencewill serve 30 months in prison. Jody Silk, 26, of Lamoine was sentenced Wednesday in HancockCounty Superior Court on a charge of Class B ...
Hope residents vote to allow alcohol sales
Mar 01, 2007 ... HOPE - Residents voted Tuesday to allow the sale and publicconsumption of alcohol in town. Town officials were unaware residents had never voted to allow thesale and public consumption of alcoholic beverages until Brian O'Neilsought the necessary permits to open Hatchett Mountain ...
NMCC announces $2 million fundraising drive
Mar 01, 2007; ... PRESQUE ISLE - The goal is tremendous and the timeline is short,but the president of Northern Maine Community College isn't worriedabout raising $2 million in the next year for the institution's first-ever major gifts campaign. NMCC President Timothy Crowley joined with community ...
Trooper's awareness leads to drug arrest
Mar 01, 2007; ... NEWPORT - Police credited a state trooper's awareness as a factorin the arrest late Tuesday of a man who allegedly snatchedprescription medication from a Rite Aid customer. Patrick Clark, 25, of St. Albans was arrested at his Finson Roadhome about 11 p.m. Tuesday after Maine State ...
Courts
Mar 01, 2007 ... Lincoln District Court Cases Feb. 20-23, 2007 Kenya Doty, 32, Lee, operating vehicle while license suspended orrevoked, dismissed. Brandy Drake, 23, Monticello, possessing marijuana, $350. Dustin K. Edwards, 20, Houlton, sale, use of drug paraphernalia,$300; ...
Jackson Laboratory reaches training deal
Mar 01, 2007; ... BAR HARBOR - Officials with Jackson Laboratory, Eastern MaineCommunity College and Maine Quality Centers sealed a deal Wednesdaythat will provide $85,600 in grant funds to train about 50 newemployees the lab expects to hire this year. The program will be administered by EMCC to ...
Midcoast Magnet slates spring Lounge Project
Mar 01, 2007 ... CAMDEN - The Midcoast Magnet will hold its spring Lounge Projectat 5 p.m. today at the Quarter Deck. Creative professionals will gather to discuss the creative economyand network with each other. Other Lounge Projects will take place at ...
Working waterfronts topic of workshop
Mar 01, 2007 ... ROCKPORT - A workshop on tools for preserving working waterfrontswill be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 2, at the Maine Fishermen'sForum, at the ...
Community job fair to be held at NMCC
Mar 01, 2007 ... PRESQUE ISLE - Northern Maine Community College will host aCommunity Job Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 8, in thegymnasium. More than 40 businesses will send representatives. The ...
Contestants sought for 2007 pageant
Mar 01, 2007 ... CARIBOU - The 2007 Miss Northern Maine and Miss Northern AroostookPageant is looking for contestants. Girls and women ages 4 through 27will compete. Contestants will be scored on their scholasticachievement, community involvement, private interviews, the eveninggown competition and ...
Annual Expo coming to Guilford in March
Mar 01, 2007 ... GUILFORD - The latest products, the newest services and medicalinformation can be found in one place when the annual Expo is heldMarch 30-31, at Piscataquis Community High School, sponsored byPiscataquis Chamber of Commerce. This year's show will feature a "schools of the past" ...
Schools
Mar 01, 2007 ... Calvary Chapel Christian School, Orrington Second quarter honor roll Seniors, high honors: Brianna Burke, Mike King, Brittney Lowe,Daniel Thomas, Rosaire Veilleux; honors: Timothy Arbo, JonathanBurke, Brittany Dyndiuk, Alex Merrill, Beau Miller, Ian ...
State probes PIN Rx drug distribution
Mar 01, 2007; ... A state panel is investigating PIN Rx, the Penobscot IndianNation's mail-order pharmacy, for allegedly dispensing at least $3million in drugs via the Internet without verifying prescriptions fornearly nine months in 2006. A 22-page document from the state Board of Pharmacy ...
Baldacci taps Bangor justice for high court Mead awaits legislative approval, 'totally thrilled' about nomination
Mar 01, 2007; ... BANGOR - A veteran Maine Superior Court justice has been nominatedto replace Justice Howard H. Dana Jr. on the Maine Supreme JudicialCourt. Gov. John E. Baldacci announced Wednesday that he has asked AndrewM. Mead, 55, of Bangor to serve on the bench of the state's ...
Maine, New Brunswick urged to collaborate
Mar 01, 2007; ... ORONO - Energy development is transforming the economy of NewBrunswick, and the province is eager to partner with Maine businessesto invest and expand in the energy, environmental technologies,engineering and heavy construction industries, a Canadian energyindustry representative said at ...
L.L. Bean to use DIF&W logo
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is partnering withMaine's most iconic outfitter, L.L. Bean Inc., to carry merchandisethat will help fund state outdoor education and marketing programs. L.L. Bean's main store in Freeport recently began selling hats,shirts and other ...
SCHIP'S NEEDLESS SHORTFALL
Mar 01, 2007 ... Maine has among the lowest rates of residents without healthcoverage in part because it has extensive MaineCare programs thattarget children and their parents. This coverage is not certain,however, and Maine will run short of funds this year under currentprojections and will have more ...
STILL MOVING AND SHAKING
Mar 01, 2007 ... The towns that make up House District 20 - Eddington, Bradley,Clifton, Dedham, Holden and part of Brewer - may have thought it wastheir idea to elect Rep. Benjamin Pratt to his first term of stateoffice last fall, but it turns out the Democrat's success waspredicted long ago. An ...
Heart warmed, angered
Mar 01, 2007 ... On Feb. 22, I picked up the Bangor Daily News because of the storyon "He is my hero." I found it to be very heartwarming to see someoneso young, with a family, who died for his country - Staff Sgt. EricRoss. As I turned to page A10 to finish this story, I saw how theyplaced the flag for ...
Justice Mead: 'What I do really is teaching'
Mar 01, 2007; ... In early February, Maine Superior Court Justice Andrew Meadpresided over an emotionally charged double-manslaughter trial. Throughout the four-day trial, Mead sat in the large leatherjudge's chair in the Piscataquis County court room in Dover-Foxcroft, listening intently as he ...
Searsport candidate
Mar 01, 2007 ... I would like to introduce myself to the voters of Searsport. I amasking for your support for the position of selectman, and here'swhy: I am a homeowner and taxpayer in Searsport, a Vietnam era veteranserving three years in the Army, mostly in Germany. My experience asa volunteer ...
Another new Sunday hunting bill on Augusta agenda today
Mar 01, 2007; ... A year ago, during the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine's annualSportsman's Congress, Sunday hunting was a hot topic of conversation ... again. Tom Doak of the Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine toldthat 2006 crowd the issue was something that his membership ...
DI-S Mariners ply title waters Veterans lead club's tourney run
Mar 01, 2007; ... As the Deer Isle-Stonington boys basketball team made its way homeafter winning its first Eastern Maine Class D championship in 10years Saturday, there were lots of well-wishers waiting to greet theMariners. By the time the team bus crossed the bridge spanning EggemogginReach ...
Halftime pep talk paid off for Hyde Experience will be pivotal in state final
Mar 01, 2007; ... When coach Tom Bragg took the Hyde of Bath girls basketball teaminto the Augusta Civic Center locker room at halftime of lastSaturday's Western Maine Class D final against Rangeley, he remindedthem his squad that the Lakers were not a team to be taken lightly. That was enough for ...
The inside track Black Bear sheds 'tweener' label
Mar 01, 2007; ... ORONO - It's hard to imagine the Connecticut High School Player ofthe Year and star player on a three-time state championshipbasketball team falling through the cracks. But then, it's fairly easy to fall through the cracks when you'rea "'tweener," that reviled label applied by ...
Skowhegan's Hilton pacing New Haven
Mar 01, 2007; ... Ashley Hilton didn't rest on her laurels after being named theEastern Coast Conference Player of the Year last season. The senior forward from Skowhegan has increased her productionwhile leading the University of New Haven to the No. 1 seed in theECC women's basketball ...
Pulkkinen lifts Monks to win
Mar 01, 2007 ... STANDISH - Chad Pulkkinen tossed in 18 points to lead St. Joseph'sCollege past Roger Williams University of Rhode Island 70-65 in theECAC New England men's basketball quarterfinals Wednesday Elbie Murphy added 17 points and Marcus Alexander 13 for theMonks. Geoff Baranger ...
Bishop likely to miss two weeks
Mar 01, 2007; ... University of Maine sophomore goalie Ben Bishop won't make thetrip this weekend when the Bears face the University of Massachusettsin a crucial two-game series that could determine the fourth andfinal home ice berth for the Hockey East quarterfinals. And University of Maine coach ...
Western Maine fields formidable foes for finals
Mar 01, 2007; ... The four teams that will represent Western Maine in this weekend'sschoolboy basketball state championship games boast a combined recordof 74-6 this winter. While that falls just short of the 81-4 record amassed by EasternMaine champions Bangor, Camden Hills of Rockport, Calais and ...
All-star teams
Mar 01, 2007 ... COLLEGE NESCAC All-Conference Teams Men's Basketball First team: Nick Farrell (Colby), Andrew Olson (Amherst), Zak Ray(Bates), Rob Stockwell (Bates), Dan Wheeler (Amherst); second team:Kino Clarke (Trinity), Pat Martin (Trinity), Chris Shalvoy(Williams), Russ Martin ...
Byrne sets defensive tone for NAC champions
Mar 01, 2007; ... The University of Maine-Farmington women's basketball teamfeatures a handful of talented players. Perhaps none impacts the game for the Beavers as much as sophomoreAmanda Byrne. That might seem surprising, considering the guard from Winslow isaveraging only 4.7 points and 3.0 ...
Correcting the record
Mar 02, 2007 ... The headline on a story in some editions of the State sectionWednesday about discussions between SADs 22 ...
Power line may lower prices Companies study Aroostook link
Mar 02, 2007; ... A new power transmission line connecting the Aroostook Countypower grid to the rest of the state could bring more energy producersto The County, lower prices and expand the power market in NewBrunswick, the state Public Utilities Commission said Thursday. Maine Public Service Co ....
Lobster catch value drops $42 million in 2006
Mar 02, 2007; ... Lobster fishermen and scientists had a feeling last year thatoverall landings in Maine would be down for 2006, but a yearlongprice drop has resulted in a $42 million decrease in the yearly totalvalue of lobster caught in the state. Preliminary figures compiled by the Maine ...
New home mortgage branch opens in Bangor
Mar 02, 2007 ... BANGOR - A branch of American Home Mortgage opened Thursday at 139State St. It will be headed by Carolyn Campbell, whose staff includesloan officers Dan McQuarrie, Glen Hudgens, Steve ...
WHALES VS. LOBSTERMEN
Mar 02, 2007 ... A recent lawsuit by the Humane Society of the United Stateshighlights that whales and lobstermen can have a tough time livingtogether. Improved relations will come, in large part, from changesin lobster gear to reduce whale entanglements. North Atlantic right whales face possible ...
PARENTS AS SCHOLARS
Mar 02, 2007 ... A review of new Census data by the Associated Press this weekshows that dependency on public assistance continues to grow despiterules established more than a decade ago designed to reduce welfarerolls. The new numbers are in some ways encouraging, and in othersyet another signal that ...
Support LD 170
Mar 02, 2007 ... LD 170, "An Act to Permit the Landing of Lobsters Harvested byMethods other than Conventional Traps," should be supported byMaine's elected officials. Maine's groundfish boats are relocating to Massachusetts becauseMassachusetts offers several advantages that translate to as much ...
LD 170 won't help
Mar 02, 2007 ... LD 170 is a bill that would allow Maine's groundfishing fleet to drag for and land lobsters in Maine caught outside 35 miles. This ill-conceived bill, which proponents argue will help save thestruggling groundfishing industry in Maine, takes direct aim at oneof the pillars of Maine ...
Christians and the war
Mar 02, 2007 ... I am writing in response to a letter by Joey and Denise Potvin(BDN, Feb. 26) where they stated that this country's "church-goingmoral majority" have not searched in their hearts and souls for whywe would welcome this insane act of war in our own lives, even thoughit is OK for those poor ...
MaineCare fiasco
Mar 02, 2007 ... The Feb. 23 front-page article on the MaineCare billing fiascodetailed the next step in this seemingly never-ending saga. With DHHSnow looking to essentially outsource the billing system, Maine's7,000 medical providers who serve the 260,000 MaineCare patientswill, once again, face a ...
Mrs. Clinton no president
Mar 02, 2007 ... Much has been on the TV news of late regarding the fact thatHillary Rodham Clinton is the "front-runner" from the DemocraticParty for the nomination to run for president in 2008. I am 81 yearsold and have lived through many presidents. I do not feel that theU.S. is ready for a female ...