Giggey Girl Gowns is Open for Girls in Need!

Submitted by Kassidy Giggey, Giggey Girl Gowns Founder

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011, 11:30am

Giggey Girl Gowns will be open today from 1-3! Girls can come start to get dresses today and we are still taking dress donations as well! If you even have a slight worry about finances, come get a prom dress from us! We're at the Community of Christ Church; 128 Peirce Rd. Brewer!

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Bangor Woman celebrates 106th birthday

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Friday, April 1st, 7:10 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- It's no April Fools Joke, today is Edna Bragg's 106th birthday. Bragg is a resident at the Phillips Strickland House in Bangor but she grew up in Hampden.

She was born on April 1, 1905. Teddy Roosevelt was president, Henry Ford had yet to mass produce the automobile, and the Wright Brothers were still perfecting their airplane.

On her 105th Birthday, Bragg appeared in Willard Scott's Smuckers Label segment on the Today Show on NBC.

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Petrified Whoopie Pie unveiled as April Fools Day prank

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Friday, April 1st, 7:02 pm

ORONO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The Maine Whoopie Pie Association sent out a fake press release with the title "Maine Discovery Rocks Whoopie Pie Debate"

The fake press release stated that a certified geologist at the Univeristy of Maine had indisputable proof that the whoopie pie was indeed created in Maine and not Pennsylvannia.

Both states have made claim to creating the creme filled confection and there is a bill before the Maine legislature to make the Whoopie Pie the official Maine desert.

Along with the release, there was a photograph of what appeared to be a petrified whoopie pie that was discovered in the town of Perry in Washington County.

Accoridng to the release, UMaine Professor Emeritus Harold Borns junior said the whoopie pie was likely made by the Paleo Indians between ten and eleven thousand years ago.

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Sidewalk Art Festival application now online

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Friday, April 1st, 3:36 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)-- The application form for the 2011 WLBZ 2 Sidewalk Art Festival application is now online.

For more information, click on this article:

2011 WLBZ 2 Sidewalk Art Festival application

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Bangor store going for world record in cloth diaper change

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Thursday, March 31st, 2:31 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- A Bangor business owner is hoping to help set a new Guinness World Record.

Betsy Lundy is inviting people to her store, Central Street Farmhouse on Earth Day, which is Saturday April 23rd to help set a new world record for most cloth diapers changed simultaneosly.

It's part of an international event called "The Great Cloth Diaper Change" which, on its website boasts 394 locations in countries across the globe. Lundy is offering up her store as one of two sites in Maine to help set the record. The other is at Dandy Diaper Service in Southwest Harbor.

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State rests, defense opens in Goodrich trial

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Thursday, March 31st, 6:51 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The defense is now presenting its case at the murder trial of Perley Goodrich Jr.

Goodrich is accused of fatally shooting his father and pistol-whipping his mother.

Thursday morning the prosecution called two last witnesses.

State Police Detective Bryan Stout testified he was present for the interview of perley shortly after his arrest.

He read a note that Goodrich apparently wrote. It said "I don't know why I did what I did, it's against everything I believe."

Also testifiying was a psychologist for the prosecution-- Debra Baeder. She testified that she evaluated Goodrich and in her opinion, he was not psychotic at the time of the crime.

Prosecutor Andrew Benson said although Goodrich had a history of mental health issues, he was sane when the crimes were committed.

Goodrich's lawyer disagrees.

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Cindy Blodgett says she was "fired without cause"

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Thursday, March 31st, 6:56 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Former Maine women's basketball coach Cindy Blodgett says she was "fired without cause."

At a news conference two days after her dismissal, Blodgett said Thursday she was first told there was a divide in the locker room when she was asked to resign. She said after players rallied behind her, athletic director Steve Abbott announced she was fired because of the team's performance.

Blodgett says she did not feel complete support or committment from the University throughout her coaching career. She says she felt there was simply a lack of resources, especially when it came to facilities and monetary support.

Her teams had a record of 24-94 in her four years -- including 4-25 this season.

The university renewed her contract for two years last September. Under terms of the agreement, she would be paid one year's salary of $109,772 to terminate the contract.

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