Bangor Daily News

Hovercraft Put to Use Saving Girl Teen, Warden Rescued After Crossing Thin Ice

ELLSWORTH - A teenage girl who "needed some fresh air" ran across the thin ice of Graham Lake on Monday morning to a small island just offshore. After she was located by a game warden, both were rescued by a crew in a hovercraft. A hovercraft from Brewer was called into service for the incident and towed on a trailer to the scene approximately 20 miles away by rescue workers.

Hammond Street Blaze Sends Woman to Hospital

BANGOR - Fire crews removed an unconscious woman from the scene of a fire Monday afternoon that caused the evacuation of the Hammond Street apartment building where she lived. The blaze apparently started in a clothes dryer in the woman's first-floor apartment and spread to other parts of the building, which is on the corner of West Broadway, Assistant Chief Scott Bostock said from the scene.

U.S. Customs Lags Calais Bridge Project Span Connecting Calais and St. Stephen Expected to Be Completed in September

CALAIS - Although the Canadians are racing toward the finish line on their new international bridge customs facility, the U.S. project hasn't even made it into the first turn. Construction of a $100 million bridge connecting Calais with St. Stephen, New Brunswick, is expected to be completed by September 2008, with the highway part leading up to the bridge a month later, Carl Dodge, resident inspector for the state Department of Transportation, said Monday.

Quimby, Others Tout Katahdin Land Deal

Millinocket-area representatives joined Gov. John Baldacci and conservationist Roxanne Quimby on Monday to celebrate a land deal that will open 11,500 acres in the Katahdin region to snowmobilers and other recreational users. For the past several years, Quimby has often found herself at odds with sportsmen's groups and Millinocket-area leaders over her decisions to prohibit hunting, mechanized recreation and logging on her North Woods properties.

Man and 14-Year-Old Girl Arrested in Brutal Beating in Brewer

BREWER - A 54-year-old Hampden man apparently was lured into a Wilson Street motel room Saturday night and severely beaten by two or three people, then robbed of his cash, Capt. Jason Moffitt of the Brewer Police Department said Monday. "The injuries are fairly serious and include a possible broken cheekbone and broken ribs," he said, describing the beating as brutal. "No weapons were used."

Bangor Homeowners Find Grenade in Wall

The Bangor bomb unit was dispatched Sunday evening to a Cottage Street home after residents discovered a hand grenade in between a couple of basement wall studs, Sgt. Bob Bishop said Monday. The call for help came in around 7:15 p.m. and two officers from the bomb squad found the grenade. It was determined that the grenade was real but inert, Bishop said. Police seized the grenade. (Nok- Noi Ricker, BDN)

Land Offered to Dover-Foxcroft in Exchange for Cemetery Plot

DOVER-FOXCROFT - Selectmen agreed Monday to proceed with the acquisition of a gift of land to expand Dow Cemetery in East Dover. Ethel and Edward Wilbur have offered to donate less than half an acre to the town for the cemetery's expansion. In exchange, they would like a cemetery lot.

Public Invited to Share in Library Open House

Pittsfield Library Plans Puppets for Children

Brewer Awarded $6.5m to Build Safety Complex

WASHINGTON - Brewer has been awarded $6.5 million in loan funding from the USDA's Rural Development program for the construction of a new public safety complex, according to U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. The new 30,000-square-foot complex will be located on Parkway South, allowing for improved police and fire department response. Brewer's existing public safety building was constructed in the mid- 1950s and is not centrally located in the city. The city employs 41 public safety ...

Veterans for Peace Plan Candlelight Vigil

Gifts for Kids Needed More Than Ever This Year

This year, perhaps more so than in recent memory, dollars to purchase gifts are more difficult to come by with escalating costs of everything from oil to food affecting our daily lives. That is why requests by agencies and organizations for your contributions to help the needy are even more critical to their ability to help those they serve have the happiest holiday possible.

Historic Windjammer Damaged After Lines Cut

ROCKLAND - City detectives are investigating the intentional cutting of lines securing the schooner J&E Riggin to its wharf. Deputy Police Chief Wallace Tower said the incident was reported at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. He said the 76-foot schooner was berthed at the Rockland Harbor Park complex formerly owned by MBNA. Tower said the schooner was cast adrift but that the tide and currents kept it in the general area of the dock. The ship was damaged from pounding against the dock, he said.

Dedham Man Receives 5 Years On Drug Charges

BANGOR - A Dedham man was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court to five years in prison on drug charges. Brett Savage, 27, was sentenced to three years of supervised release after he completes his prison term.

Pchs Bake Sale to Aid Project Graduation

Injured Canadian Dies After Crash On Route 9

TOWNSHIP 22 - An 89-year-old Canadian man has died from injuries he suffered in a crash on Route 9 on Friday. According to reports from the Maine State Police, Tibor Jeszenszky died Sunday at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

Death in Burning Home Attributed to Suicide

FAIRFIELD - The State Fire Marshal's Office reported Monday that a man whose body was found in a burned house last Friday committed suicide after he set his home on fire. Autopsy results concluded that the man died of a gunshot wound to the head. The state medical examiner's office is waiting for DNA testing results to establish the identity of the man, but fire investigators say they believe the victim is Steven Edwards, 55, who lived in the house.

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Ellsworth District Court Cases July 1-Aug. 31, 2007

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Dover-Foxcroft District Court Cases Oct. 23-Nov. 29, 2007

Union 60 and Sad 12 to Share Superintendent

GREENVILLE - A partnership forged several months ago between SAD 12 (Jackman region) and Union 60 (Greenville region) tightened this week with the announcement the two regions will share a superintendent. Union 60 Superintendent Heather Perry has agreed to take on the additional duty of serving as SAD 12's superintendent starting Jan. 2. Both boards, which have long collaborated for cost-savings, support that move, Perry said Monday. Her contract representing the combined seven towns will ext...