ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth area adults and seniors will soon have a new place to play and get fit. City officials and Friends in Action received word this week that the city had been awarded a $40,000 grant to install several pieces of fitness equipment, game tables and benches at Knowlton Park. “It’s really for the …
ELLSWORTH — After several months of searching and a few twists and turns, the city of Ellsworth has hired a planner to start Sept. 3. J.E. “Jef” Fitzgerald resigned his post as town assessor in Bucksport this week to take the job in Ellsworth. He worked in Bucksport for roughly eight years, according to The …
ELLSWORTH — A Tremont man whom the Maine State Police arrested Aug. 2 on a charge of being a fugitive from justice has been charged in two unsolved Massachusetts rape cases from the 1990s, according to authorities. Maine State Police Detective Greg Roy took Ivan Keith, 61, into custody from his Tremont Road home just …
Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series examining the impact of teacher shortages in local schools. SULLIVAN — For Katelyn and Logan Riggs, teaching in Maine has required a lot of do-overs. During the summer of 2018, the couple moved from Southern California to begin teaching in Regional School Unit 24 (RSU …
COLUMBIA FALLS — Maine’s second national cemetery is currently under construction in Washington County. The cemetery, which has yet to be named, will be located on a 6.22-acre tract donated in September 2017 by Worcester Holdings Inc., said Les’ Melnyk, chief of public affairs and outreach for the National Cemetery Administration, which is part of …
ELLSWORTH – Maine has more than 6,000 licensed lobstermen. If the 100 or so who gathered at Ellsworth High School Tuesday evening to discuss proposed whale protection rules are a representative sample, most of those lobstermen are angry. The fishermen gathered for a National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) scoping session on proposed measures to protected …
MOUNT DESERT — A Bar Harbor man was killed in a head-on collision on Route 102 at Echo Lake at around 2:25 p.m. Tuesday. Edward “Ted” Wells, 72, died at the scene after his 2006 Honda Insight was struck by a 2016 Toyota Prius driven by Susan Edson, 70, of Bernard. Edson, who sustained what …
ELLSWORTH — It’s a Thursday morning at the Eagles’ Nest Clubhouse and Director Casey Harris is making lunch (sandwiches and salad, along with garlic-salted kale chips) while clubhouse members Eric St. Pierre and Matthew Coffin are sunk into plush green chairs nearby, chatting. It’s pouring rain outside and a trailer for the rock climbing movie …
BLUE HILL — Over 9,000 Emera Maine customers from Surry to Stonington spent six hours without power Tuesday morning thanks to a lightning strike Monday night that damaged a transmission line, power company officials reported. The power went out at 5:01 a.m. and was restored at 11 a.m. Spokeswoman Judy Long said crews found a …
The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a multi-vehicle crash involving the Brooklin General Store early Monday evening. Authorities said that no life-threatening injuries have been reported. However, it appears from a photo that the store may have lost its ice machine. Deputy Jeff McFarland is the lead investigator. The Brooklin Fire Department is handling …
ELLSWORTH — Northeast Harbor, Bass Harbor and the Gouldsboro village of Corea top the list as the least affordable places in Hancock County to live. Those rankings are based on recent U.S. Census data analyzed by the website unitedstateszipcodes.org. The site ranked the 50 most and 50 least affordable towns in Maine using the “median …
ORLAND — After Barbara Violette’s wedding on June 6, 1987, she had Gold Star Cleaners in Ellsworth clean and preserve her wedding dress. The dress was wrapped in acid-free tissue paper and carefully boxed up. Violette opened the box this week for the first time in 32 years only to find another bride’s dress inside. …
