BANGOR, Maine — The two men who attacked the wrong guest with a bat and a hammer at a Bangor hotel in April were sentenced Thursday in Penobscot County Superior Court to spend more than a decade …
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BANGOR, Maine — An Eastern Maine Medical Center employee suffered minor injuries Wednesday crossing busy State Street when she was struck by a vehicle driven by another hospital worker.
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BANGOR, Maine — Thousands of spectators are expected to be on hand to watch Saturday’s annual Festival of Lights Parade through downtown, marking the official arrival of the holiday season. The …
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BANGOR, Maine — The Hammond Street Senior Center’s popular weeklong silent auction, “It’s a Basket Case,” is scheduled for Dec. 8-12. The fundraiser will kick off with an after-hours event 4-6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at 2 Hammond St. The silent auction ends at noon Friday.
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BANGOR, Maine — “The Reason for the Season” will set the tone for the holidays as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints presents its ninth annual Creche Exhibit Dec. 5-8 at the corner …
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Rob Reeves, executive director of the Bangor Y, will step down on Dec. 19 after nine years in that position in order to take a similar job in his home state of Connecticut. Reeves shared these thoughts with The Weekly:
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Thanksgiving is behind us and the leftovers are but a memory, so the time has come to give serious thought to brushing up on Christmas carols and hoarding sales flyers.
There is no denying that …
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A barnacle goose arrived in a Yarmouth field this fall in the company of nearly a thousand Canada geese. These geese spent many days in October and November grazing in that field. Many birders went to see the rare barnacle goose.
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ORONO, Maine — Orono Community Theatre will present the Neil Simon comedy “Plaza Suite,” directed by Tellis Coolong and Sandy Cyrus, at the Keith Anderson Community House, 19 Bennoch Road.
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BANGOR, Maine — The bad economy appears to have eaten its way into the food business in Maine. The 22-year-old Shaw’s Supermarket near the Bangor Mall is scheduled to close on Jan. 31, and an unspecified number of jobs will be eliminated from the Hannaford Bros. corporate headquarters in Scarborough.
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Citing the need for stronger financial leadership, Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems President Michelle Hood announced Wednesday that Blue Hill Memorial Hospital is under new management. Effective …
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ORONO, Maine — As the future of some of Maine’s wood-based businesses hangs in the balance, more than 100 people gathered this week to discuss how biotechnology can be used to stimulate the existing forestry industry in both Maine and Atlantic Canada.
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Jon Grant and Sarah McEwen of Nokomis Regional High School unload a stuffed moose, prepared by the school’s taxidermy class, at a nearby middle school for display.
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WASHINGTON — Capt. Meritt Phillips, a 1988 graduate of Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine, recently joined the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, which is preparing to support the 56th Presidential Inauguration Jan. 20, 2009.
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As one half of the brand-new marquee for the Bangor Opera House dangled from a crane Wednesday afternoon, a passenger in a car driving past flagged Penobscot Theatre producing artistic director Scott Levy down.
“Looks good, Scott!” she said, stopped in traffic at the intersection of Main and Union streets in downtown Bangor. “Looks excellent, it really does.”
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BREWER, Maine — Scrooge is back.
After a two-year absence from the shores of the Penobscot River, actor Ken Stack is returning to the stage tonight to portray the man who must learn the hard way to “keep Christmas well.”
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BANGOR, Maine — The life of a winter road maintenance worker is always a delicate balancing act this time of year.
Dozens of crew supervisors with the Maine Department of Transportation and some …
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