Ellsworth’s Best Elements: Good-Hearted People
   Ellsworth, the only city within Hancock County, bustles by day as the county’s biggest municipality: It’s where the jobs and the stores are, drawing in hundreds daily from any of the 36 smaller towns in the rest of the county.
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A Dockside View of Ellsworth, When Lumber was King
   The Wabenaki knew the river by a certain word, Wech-ko-te-tuk, “comes out facing” for the falls which faced the traveler at the head of navigation. The French called the river Mount Desert. The surveyors sent from the General Court of Massachusetts called her the Union River, in 1763, because the Union River formed the boundary between six new townships to the East, and six to the West.
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Those Championship Seasons Never Far From City Memories
   It has been nearly 50 years since the city of Ellsworth celebrated its golden age of basketball.
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McKenney Marks 20 Years Of Fighting Fires
   When Ellsworth Fire Chief Bob McKenney takes a vacation, as he has done this week, it is well-deserved.
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Moore School Era Could Come To A Close
   The Gen. Bryant E. Moore School has been, at turns, a high school, middle school and grammar school.
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Outdoors

Abloom Again: 70-Year-Old Garden Club Lively As Ever
   For a club with fewer than 30 members, the Ellsworth Garden Club makes an impact well beyond its roster.
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Back To The Harbor: Ellsworth Eyeing Waterfront’s Future
   Given the vital role played by the harbor in Ellsworth’s early development and prosperity, it is surprising how insignificant a role it has played in the city’s recent past.
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Neighbors

Small Business

It’s Sid’s Barber Shop For Cuts and Courtesy
   Last Saturday, a freshly shorn customer asked Sid Emerson if he might use the shop phone. Certainly, said Sid. The chap took up the receiver and then paused in pleasant bafflement. It was a rotary phone: The man had to go back in time to remember how to dial.
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Never Too Old To Learn
   The Learning Center is one of the more out-of-the-way, lesser talked-about educational venues in Ellsworth. But the programs within Ellsworth Adult Education, which makes its home in the Learning Center building out on Boggy Brook Road, produce results as noteworthy as any of the city’s traditional schools.
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Community

Riverside Café Has That Community Feel
   A panelist at the May 18 “Speak Up, Ellsworth” vision session made the following observation: Ellsworth needs a community center, an old-fashioned gathering place where both young and not-so-young can gather to relax and chat. She said the only venue we have now that meets that description is The Riverside Café on Main Street.
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