Loveable cub gets spring wakeup call October 8, 2018 by Cyndi Wood on Arts & living, Lifestyle Baby Bear would prefer to hit the snooze button on spring.
Book review: “How Do Fairies Have Fun in the Sun?” October 5, 2018 by Cyndi Wood on Arts & living, Lifestyle Is being a fairy all work and no play or do they, too, get to enjoy a summer’s day? That’s the central question in “How Do Fairies Have Fun in the Sun?” by Liza Gardner Walsh (Down East Books, $17.95). Walsh, a school librarian from Camden, also is the author of “Do Fairies Bring the …
“Silly Seals” draws smiles September 22, 2018 by Cyndi Wood on Arts & living, Lifestyle Smaller than your average coffee-table book, “Silly Seals” may be more appropriately scaled for an end table.
Convicted murderer caught days after prison escape September 18, 2018 by Cyndi Wood on Breaking News, Cops & Courts, News ELLSWORTH — A convicted murderer who escaped from Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston last week was captured Tuesday morning in Dover-Foxcroft. A Piscataquis County Sheriff’s deputy apprehended 65-year-old Arnold Freeman Nash as he was walking along Route 15 shortly before 7 a.m., according to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland. He was …
Bring “Toby” home September 17, 2018 by Cyndi Wood on Arts & living, Lifestyle The sad-eyed shelter dog in the children’s book “Toby” (Candlewick Press, 2016, $16.99) is having trouble settling into his adoptive home.
Man and his aunt charged with operating meth lab September 7, 2018 by Cyndi Wood on Breaking News, Cops & Courts, News BUCKSPORT — Police say a Bucksport man and his aunt were making methamphetamine Thursday evening when officers arrived to search an apartment on Noel Way. Jamie Matlack, 45, was arrested on a charge of Class A operation of a methamphetamine laboratory and Class C unlawful possession of methamphetamine. His aunt, Kimberly Matlack, 53, was also …
Christian Ridge culvert work continues September 5, 2018 by Cyndi Wood on News ELLSWORTH — Work on a Christian Ridge Road culvert is expected to wrap up by the end of this month. The project is to rehabilitate the culvert’s concrete footing to improve its life expectancy, according to Travis Hamel, resident engineer with the Maine Department of Transportation’s Bridge Program. “Currently the contractor, CPM Constructors, has completed …
Hancock County Sheriff’s Log Week of Aug. 30 August 28, 2018 by Cyndi Wood on Cops & Courts, News ELLSWORTH — Four area residents were arrested Aug. 22 as the result of an enforcement detail by the new, multi-agency Hancock County Violent Offender Task Force, according to the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested were: Dakota Eaton, 28, Blue Hill, probation violation. Calandra Fitzgerald, 37, Blue Hill, warrant charging theft. Brian Madore, 28, of Trenton, …
Maine State Police Log Week of Aug. 30 August 28, 2018 by Cyndi Wood on Cops & Courts, News ELLSWORTH — A Surry man who called for a tow ended up being charged with failing to report an accident. Trooper Travis Chapman responded to Wharf Road in Surry Aug. 24 after a tow truck driver reported that the vehicle to be towed appeared to have been in an accident, according to police. Chapman observed …
Mystical Irish landscape explored in children’s book August 17, 2018 by Cyndi Wood on Arts & living, Lifestyle Book review “Kathryn, the rhythm of the natural world changes with the seasons, with morning dew and evening shadows, with rain, wind, hail and snow, sunrise and sunset, starlight and moonlight,” writes Penobscot author Bundy Boit in her latest children’s book. “Letter by Fairy Post” is written as a letter to Boit’s granddaughter, who as …
