ELLSWORTH — With apologies to Nyquil, the sniffling, sneezing, aching, coughing, stuffy-head, fever season is here. Illnesses, including influenza but other viruses as well, are spreading around Hancock County, particularly in area schools. Surry Elementary School students and teachers were stricken with a fever and cough earlier this month. “On Tuesday, January 14, we started …
ELLSWORTH — A Richmond man has been sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for aggravated assault in the shooting of his father last spring at the family’s camp in Township 28. A sentencing hearing was held Jan. 22 in Hancock County Superior Court. Christopher Laliberte’s defense attorney, Jeffrey Toothaker of Ellsworth, said he has …
ELLSWORTH — The number of overdose deaths in Maine in 2019 was on track to exceed 2018, according to data released last week by the state. In Hancock County, five deaths between January and September were attributed to drug overdoses, half the number compared to 2018, according to the numbers. Statewide in that time frame, …
ORLAND — The Maine State Police said an Orland woman died after she was ejected from a pickup truck that went off the road and struck an embankment on Cedar Swamp Road in Orland Tuesday. Valerie Seavey, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The crash occurred at 4:15 p.m. Cedar Swamp Road …
ELLSWORTH — Several area fire departments, including Ellsworth, responded to a fire on Lincoln Street around 11 a.m. Saturday after a passer-by noticed flames coming out of a single-family house and called emergency responders, Ellsworth Fire Department Chief Richard Tupper said. “We had a fairly quick response because it’s fairly close,” Tupper said. “They were …
BLUE HILL — A former Blue Hill physician who was convicted of a drug offense in Maryland has permanently surrendered his Maine medical license, according to a press release from the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine. Brandt Rice had started a fee-for-service family practice, Coastal Family Medicine, in 2009 next to the Blue Hill …
ELLSWORTH — Is my town still recycling? Where is it going? If I put this milk jug in the recycling bin, will it really get recycled? In recent years, the answers to those questions have become less clear. New technologies have come online and communities are attempting to respond to fluctuating markets. So what’s the …
ELLSWORTH — A defense attorney cited an inconsistency in a detective’s arrest warrant affidavit as grounds for dismissal of charges against a former Tremont Consolidated School teacher who was convicted of gross sexual assault of a student. Attorney David Weyrens of the Portland firm Hallett Whipple Weyrens submitted final arguments in Hancock County Superior Court …
BANGOR — A Hancock man pleaded guilty Jan. 21 in federal court in Bangor to possessing with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of a substance containing fentanyl, United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced. Police stopped William Smeal, 33, on Feb. 13, 2019, while he was traveling through Ellsworth. Officers seized from …
ELLSWORTH — The number of cases of Lyme disease reported to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reached a record high in 2019. Hancock County has experienced a more than fivefold increase in the number of cases reported compared to a decade earlier, according to data released by the center last week. …
BLUE HILL — Selectmen from Blue Hill Peninsula towns gathered at the Blue Hill town office Friday to discuss George Stevens Academy’s proposed tuition increase. In November, the academy, which serves as the peninsula’s high school, cited a $1-million drop in revenue from its boarding program for international students. Initially, GSA sought an increase of …
COLUMBIA — Those who own property on Schoodic Lake have a chance to benefit from a proposal known as Downeast Wind. Exactly how they will benefit will be determined in part from their input to the Washington County Commissioners. But, cautioned Commission Chairman Chris Gardner, the county can’t stop the project. “The county’s role in …
