Police: Second abduction attempt a hoax

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Tuesday, June 7th, 11:41 am

HERMON, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The Penobscot County Sheriff's Department says a second report of an attempted child abduction in Hermon was a hoax.

Sheriffs deputies say a boy told authorities a man in a white car with red stripes tried to kidnap him at the intersection of Route 2 and Billings road in Hermon Friday afternoon.

That description is the exact same one given by a girl who police say was nearly abducted a week earlier on Cold Brook Road.

Police determined that report to be credible, but after investigating the boys story, it didn't take them long to determine that his story was fake.

Deputy Mike Burgess said investigators who checked out the boys story found out that a surveillance camera at a store that was right next to the area of the alleged incident had recorded the area.

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Nine teen moms will graduate from Good Samaritan Agency's Teen Parent Education Program

Submitted by mmullen, Community Web Producer

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011, 9:11am

A graduation ceremony will be held on Thursday, June 9th at 10:00 a.m. for Good Samaritan Agency’s Teen Parent Education (TPE) Program, an alternative education program for pregnant and parenting teens. The graduation ceremony will take place at the Good Samaritan Agency, located at 100 Ridgewood Drive in Bangor. 9 young women will graduate from Good Samaritan Agency’s Teen Parent Education Program. Marie EZ Saucier, Accounting Manager for Webber Oil will be the key note speaker. Come celebrate the accomplishments of these young moms.

Good Samaritan Agency is a non-profit agency founded in 1902 and offers services to single parents, including an alternative education program and a daycare program in addition to adoption services. For more information about the agency’s services, call Good Samaritan at 942-7211.

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EMMC announces plan to eliminate positions

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Monday, June 6th, 6:46 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Officials at Eastern Maine Medical Center have announced that the hospital will be cutting jobs in order to cuts costs.

Positions that will be affected are across the board according to hospital administrators and include nurses, clerical workers and other healthcare professionals. Hospital officials say that they met with staff whose jobs would be affected by the plan on Monday. Other jobs that are currently vacant at the hospital are also being eliminated.

Hospital administrators are citing a decrease in income as the reason for the eliminations, which they say is due to reduced payments from Medicaid and Medicare as well as increase in charity care provided by the hospital.

Officials with EMMC say that they are hoping to reassign all of the affected workers to other departments to avoid layoffs.

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Warren Center cuts ribbon on new building

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Monday, June 6th, 4:39 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- People with hearing and speech disorders in the Bangor area have turned to the Warren Center for help for the past 50 years.

The Warren Center will continuing helping those people, but in a brand new location at Penobscot Communty Health Care's main Bangor campus at 992 Union Street. On Monday, Warren Center staff and supporters gathered to cut the ribbon. The new facility will give the Warren Center much more space to grow.

"We have great parking," said Ann Marie Power, the practice manager at Warren Center. "We have rooms for the providers to be with the kids to have a space thats cheery bright, conducive to learning and growing."

The Warren Center is accepting new patients.

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Bucksport Man sentenced in gun theft case

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Monday, June 6th, 4:36 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- A man who stole more than a dozen firearms from an orrington gun dealer last year has been sentenced to four and a half years in federal prison.

20 year old Brandon Caparotta of Bucksport received that sentence today at U.S. District Court in Bangor.

The prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release. Caparotta must also pay back more than 15 hundred dollars in restitution for the guns he stole.

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Downtown Outdoor Market/Cool Sounds Concert Series Information

Submitted by mmullen, Community Web Producer

Monday, June 6th, 2011, 3:52pm

The Downtown Bangor Partnership is coordinating the Downtown Outdoor Market and Cool Sounds Concert Series again this year. The market will involve vendors setting up tents, kiosks and booths along Broad Street in front of West Market Square to the area near Pickering Square behind the Freese’s Building. Vendors sell food, clothing, jewelry and other similar products beginning at 5 PM. The concert series will be held at Pickering Square from 7:00 to 8:00 PM.

The Outdoor Market will be held every Thursday evening from 4:00 to 8:00 staring on June 9th and ending on August 11th

Broad Street, at Main Street, will be closed at 3:00 PM each Thursday by the Parking Enforcement Division.

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Maine NEW Leadership Program Activities Scheduled Monday in Augusta, Skowhegan

Submitted by mmullen, Community Web Producer

Monday, June 6th, 2011, 9:33am

ORONO, Maine – The participants in the Maine NEW Leadership program, a University of Maine initiative that aims to educate and empower undergraduate college women to become civic and political leaders, will travel Monday to Augusta and Skowhegan for events and activities at the State House and Margaret Chase Smith Library.

Twenty-nine students from 18 different Maine institutions of higher education are participating in the intensive residential training program, which is offered through the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and the UMaine Cooperative Extension. The program is provided at no cost to participants and runs from June 2 to June 7.

Starting at 9:30 a.m.

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