BANGOR, Maine — Nicolle A. Lugdon hysterically begged for her life after watching Nicholas Sexton shoot and kill Daniel T. Borders and Lucas A. Tuscano, according to information made public Thursday during a hearing to determine if Sexton, 32, of Warwick, R.I., and his co-defendant, Randall “Ricky” Daluz, 35, of Brockton, Mass., will be tried […]
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Bangor man warns of rare flesh-eating infection that killed his wife days after childbirth
BANGOR — Matt Nichols cradled his newborn daughter, Ruby Ann, in his arms Wednesday morning, gazing into her sleeping face. When Matt, 29, accompanied his pregnant wife to Eastern Maine Medical Center on Aug. 1, he said he never could have imagined he’d raise their first child on his own after a vicious infection claimed […]
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Folk festival making final preparations, still fixing past financial troubles
BANGOR — With less than two weeks before tens of thousands of revelers descend on Bangor’s Waterfront, organizers are ironing out the final details of the American Folk Festival and keeping fingers crossed for sunshine during what has been a wet summer. This year’s f estival runs Aug. 23-25. The festival, which has struggled with […]
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KahBang kicks off in Bangor
Friday might have been a wash, but the music, food and fun on Saturday at the KahBang Festival on Bangor’s Waterfront was full of unlimited sunshine and not a cloud in the sky. The fifth edition of the yearly festival brought more than 60 bands and between three and four thousand people to Bangor to […]
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Richard O. Dawe
1919 – 2013 AUBURN — Richard O. Dawe, 93, of Auburn, went to be with the Lord Tuesday, Aug. 6. He was born Nov. 17, 1919, in Calais, the son of Leo and Edith (Fenderson) Dawe. He graduated from Calais Academy in 1938 and Beal College in Bangor in 1940. Richard served three-and-one-half years in […]
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Country stars Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley party with the Bangor Waterfront crowd
An estimated 12,000 people crowded into a newly cleaned-up and mostly de-smellified Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion on Friday evening to party to the sounds of two of the biggest stars in country music — Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley, with opening artist Kix Brooks. Both musicians meld the sound of classic country with a rock-based sensibility, […]
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State Legion Tournament: Worcester, Bangor grind out win over Pastime
AUGUSTA — It was immediately apparent Bangor’s Curtis Worcester didn’t have his best stuff for Thursday’s state American Legion tournament game with Pastime Club. Worcester kept his composure, though, and with his offense and, eventually, his defense picking him up, he found out getting hit doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing. Worcester settled […]
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Report finds not enough brake fluid led to fatal accident in Bangor parade
BANGOR — Insufficient brake fluid in the antique braking system on the 1930 McCann Pumper failed to stop the firetruck during the annual Fourth of July parade and is being blamed for a fatal collision that took the life of a Holden man. “This inspection and testing of the fire truck concluded that there was […]
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Mountain View youth center inmate’s jaw broken as part of ‘initiation,’ grandparents say
BANGOR — A 16-year-old inmate at Mountain View Youth Development Center underwent surgery early Wednesday to repair a broken jaw he suffered during the latest in a series of “initiation” fights at the Charleston-based correctional facility, according to his grandparents, who are also the boy’s legal guardians. “They call it a beat down,” Roger Ewer […]
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Broadway shows to take the stage at Cross Insurance Center
Four big Broadway shows will be coming to the Cross Insurance Center in the next several months, with the first performance in October and the final show in May 2014. Shows slated to hit Bangor’s new arena include the audio-visual spectacle Blue Man Group, set for Thursday, Oct. 10; the perennial holiday favorite Mannheim Steamroller […]