Bangor Daily News

Bryan Sidelinger worked in the service industry for over 20 years, including a 15-year stint as a bartender. Three years ago, he decided that he had enough and began attending the New England School of Communications at Husson University in Bangor for the spring semester of 2016.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

PORTLAND, Maine — Denyi Reyes allowed just three hits over six innings, leading the Portland Sea Dogs over the Altoona Curve in a 1-0 win on Friday.
Reyes (1-6) picked up the win after he struck out eight.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It’s been a whirlwind week in Canaan, New Hampshire, with television cameras descending on the town of fewer than 4,000 after news of a cafeteria worker being fired for giving a student a free meal garnered national media attention.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

AUGUSTA, Maine — Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Friday signed into law a bill that eliminates religious and philosophical exemptions for vaccinations in Maine.
Maine has one of the highest rates of non-medical vaccine exemptions in the nation, and health officials say the opt-out rates appear to be rising.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Eighty animals were seized Friday from a Corinna farm by the Animal Welfare Division of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.
That number included 38 pigs, 20 chickens, 15 dogs and seven cows, according to Liam Hughes, director of animal welfare.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts — On the day after his 33rd birthday, a newly enriched Julian Edelman was doing what he loves best: practicing with his fellow New England Patriots.
“We got something done,” the veteran wide receiver said Thursday after the Patriots concluded an organized team activity on the practice field behind Gillette Stadium.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

AUGUSTA, Maine — Sports betting is likely to advance in Maine in 2019 after a bipartisan group on a legislative panel came to a deal Friday on taxing and regulating the industry, though a split lingers on tying licenses for online and mobile betting sites to Maine-based facilities.

Two Mainers who were killed in the line of military duty are among the men and women who will be honored by NASCAR over Memorial Day weekend.
The names of Gary Ivan Gordon of Lincoln, who died in 1993 in Somalia, and Kyle Milliken of Falmouth, who was killed in 2017 in Somalia, will appear on the windshield of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series cars during Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

AUGUSTA, Maine — The former head of the Illinois Department of Public Health has been tapped to lead the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills announced the appointment of Nirav Shah this week.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

CAPE NEDDICK, Maine — The Center for Wildlife in York said four baby starlings were rescued after someone threw them in a dumpster along the Portland waterfront.