ORLAND — A Bucksport motorcyclist was seriously injured in a crash on Route 1 in Orland on Saturday evening. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office reported that 29-year-old Gregory Farmer of Bucksport was hit by a car pulling out onto Route 1 at the top of the hill where the H.O.M.E. Co-op is located. Farmer was flown …
ELLSWORTH — Mention the words “Maine” and “Civil War” in the same breath, and the name Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is likely to come to mind. The Bowdoin-professor-turned-soldier-made-general has several statues in his likeness around Maine, was portrayed by Jeff Daniels in the 1993 Hollywood movie “Gettysburg” and is remembered in poetry and song such as …
DEER ISLE — Stepping into Don Carmichael’s workshop on the shore of Eggemoggin Reach is like embarking on a world tour of the wide-ranging kinds of wood that he works with. There’s purpleheart, a hard, dense wood from Central and South America, and bocote, a wood from Mexico with what one supplier described as “beautiful …
CASTINE — The storyline sounds familiar to any student of Maine history or the Civil War: a man born and raised on the shores of the Penobscot River goes on to attend Bowdoin College, then joins the Army after war breaks out. At Gettysburg, in July of 1863, he leads his command of Maine men …
SULLIVAN — Graduates, staff and alumni of Sumner Memorial High School each talked about the pride they have in their school and the special place it holds in the community at graduation on the evening of June 7. Madeline Bierman, who graduated magma cum laude and was one of 53 Sumner seniors to receive a …
SULLIVAN — The proposed Regional School Unit 24 (RSU 24) budget for the 2018-2019 school year gained initial approval at a district budget meeting May 30. An audience of about 30 people gathered in the gym at Sumner Memorial High School and passed all of the budget articles (the spending plan has a bottom line …
HANCOCK — The initial idea for the Itty-Bitty Diner did not come from the proprietor herself, Kathy Kidder. It was her husband, Scott Brown, who first mentioned it to her last year. The space next to No Frills Oil Co. in the log-cabin style building at 1166 U.S. Route 1 in Hancock was vacant after …
SULLIVAN — The proposed Regional School Unit 24 (RSU 24) budget for the 2018-2019 school year is up 2.84 percent over the spending plan for the current school year. The 2018-2019 budget has a bottom line of $16,586,096. That is an increase of $458,176 over this year. Local taxpayers will feel less of a hit …
LAMOINE — With nary a dissenting vote, just under three dozen voters approved a $2.9-million budget for the coming 2018-2019 school year at a special town meeting May 16. The bottom line of $2,913,696 is up $228,520 (8.5 percent) over the current school year, which ends June 30. Superintendent Katrina Kane said the single biggest …
HANCOCK — Funding for social services proved to be the only real source of debate for voters here during the town’s annual Town Meeting Tuesday night. In a little over two hours, about 60 voters approved a budget (including education and county government costs) of $4,835,207. Of that, $3.6 million was to fund the Hancock …
