“The net was nearly full when it came out of the water, a shimmering, writhing mass of finger-sized fish,” reads a passage in “Rolfe Brook Smelt Run,” one of 20 stories in New Hampshire writer Daren Worcester’s “Open Season: True Stories of the Maine Warden Service” (Down East Books, 2017, $16.95). “Nat waited. At the …
EAST SULLIVAN — Mary Welsh was due last month to begin teaching an eight-week drawing class, but the 90-year-old Sullivan artist suffered a stroke and died on Feb. 6 at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth. In the Feb. 10 class, the warm, free-spirited Mary would have put her students at ease and shown them …
BLUE HILL — Seventeen-year-old violinist Brandon Aponte last week was named as the sole musician to represent Maine on the nation’s 2018 National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, which is bound for Asia this coming July. Under the auspices of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, Aponte will join 105 other teen musicians …
BLUE HILL — Driving a battered yellow Volkswagen convertible, Helen Sloane Dudman rolled into downtown Ellsworth nearly 40 years ago to start a new chapter in her life. The Washington Post’s former executive women’s editor, who died at age 93 on Monday, Feb. 19, at Parker Ridge retirement community in Blue Hill, was excited. But …
SURRY — Mainers have been making the most of this winter’s abundant ice. The merrymakers include Southwest Harbor’s Thom Willey and Tony Davis and many friends who took advantage of a three-day deep freeze last weekend. It took Willey and Davis just under two hours to cut a 40-foot circular platform of ice on Toddy …
WINTER HARBOR — Two boys’ concern and quick response to a fallen elderly woman’s plight cut short a life-threatening situation during last weekend’s bitter cold. Sunday afternoon, 14-year-old Logan Leighton and Emmett Moshier, 12, were out for a walk and headed down to the town pier when the boys heard a voice in the frigid …
Coffee is what fuels many Maine households including Marcie Correa’s Trenton home. The recently retired, longtime Rooster Brother staffer, who has knit as a pastime since childhood, creates felted cozies to keep coffee hot in French press coffee makers. To make a cozy for an 8-cup French Press, Marcie uses 100 percent, double-strand, worsted weight …
It’s early Thanksgiving morning in the 1941. Olivia Smith Moore is in her nightdress and headed out to fetch a live turkey kept overnight on the rickety fire escape three flights up behind Moore’s Drugs in Ellsworth. She and her husband, “Bill,” and their four children live in the apartment above the Moore family business. …
Say cheese! Tiller & Rye, the fine foods grocer at 20 South Main St. in Brewer, will host a cheese-making class from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 26. Frankfort’s Lally Broch Farm will conduct the class and provide goat’s milk for participants to make 30 ounces of feta cheese. The cost is $50 …
ELLSWORTH — Whether it’s crafting beer or blown-glass pumpkins, downtown Ellsworth will be abuzz with artisans demonstrating and selling their creations and related activities Wednesday-Sunday, Oct. 11-15. In synch with the Maine Crafts Association’s Maine Craft Weekend, Heart of Ellsworth will host Art of Ellsworth: Maine Craft Weekend with dozens of artists, nonprofits and businesses …
