FRANKLIN — The town that bills itself as the “Christmas Tree Capital of the World” may also be home to its fastest wreath maker. “The most I’ve ever done in one day was 13 dozen,” says Audrey Gilman of Franklin. That’s more than double the number made by the current Guinness World Records holder, Canadian …
BUCKSPORT — Maine Drug Enforcement (MDEA) agents plan to charge a Bucksport man with unlawful operation of a methamphetamine laboratory after discovering evidence of such a lab in a search of his Central Street home Tuesday. Adam Staples, 49, is on probation for a burglary conviction, according to Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland. Conditions …
ELLSWORTH — When Brian Langley arrived on his sister’s Kansas doorstep Nov. 13, the pair discovered they had dressed for the occasion nearly identically. Both wore gray-and-black flannel shirts and blue jeans. Their shared fashion sense was not the product of a shared upbringing however. It was the first time the half-siblings had met. “It …
ELLSWORTH — Woodlawn plans to break ground this spring on a new education and event center on its historic Surry Road property, thanks to a donation from the former owner and publisher of The Ellsworth American. Alan Baker’s $500,000 donation to the Campaign for Woodlawn was recently announced by the Hancock County Trustees of Public …
ELLSWORTH — Ghouls and goblins, princesses and police officers, Spidermen and spirits — the candy-loving horde will soon descend. And there will be plenty of ways to entertain them in Hancock County. In Ellsworth, festivities begin with trick-or-treating at downtown businesses from 3 to 5 p.m. Line-up for the annual Halloween Parade begins at 5 …
Baby Bear would prefer to hit the snooze button on spring.
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 …
Smaller than your average coffee-table book, “Silly Seals” may be more appropriately scaled for an end table.
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 …
The sad-eyed shelter dog in the children’s book “Toby” (Candlewick Press, 2016, $16.99) is having trouble settling into his adoptive home.
