ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce has canceled the Autumn Gold Car Show at Home Depot and the Union River boat rides at Harbor Park planned for Saturday, Sept. 25. “The weather forecast of heavy rains and thunderstorms are not conducive to being on the water, or having your vintage car out in …
AUGUSTA — Maine won’t pursue a lawsuit against federal regulators over the new lobster fishery rules aimed at helping the endangered North Atlantic right whale, but state officials are considering other legal avenues. In a meeting with lawmakers last week, Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher said he was advised that the state didn’t …
HANCOCK — It was a full house at the Hancock town office Sept. 15 when 58 residents gathered for a special town meeting to vote on whether to change the town’s Environmental Control Ordinance (ECO). The ordinance, which was enacted in 1994, includes a footnote that prohibits fast-food restaurants, shopping malls and commercial, outdoor recreation …
As federal unemployment benefits — the added assistance established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — ended Sept. 5, local businesses, especially those in the hospitality industry, are reflecting on the impact those benefits had on the workforce.
Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputy Luke Gross died Thursday after being hit by a car while responding to an incident involving a vehicle off the road on Route 3 in Trenton, announced Hancock County Sheriff Scott Kane.
A manslaughter case involving the death of Eastbrook resident Trudy Pickard back in November of 2017 was on the Hancock County Unified Court October docket. At least it was until the docket was canceled due to a shortage of judicial marshals, according to officials.
BUCKSPORT — A property owner called police to report her surveillance system had captured a woman in her yard taking a photo with a cell phone sometime before 8 a.m. on Sept. 15. Drug problem An 11-year-old student in the fifth grade was in possession of a vape pen that had a substance containing marijuana …
ELLSWORTH — Officers were called to check on a suspicious vehicle parked behind a High Street business a few minutes before 11 p.m. on Sept. 17. Police found Michael Palomares, 28, of San Fernando, Calif., in the vehicle. Further investigation discovered that a California warrant was active for Palomares for “lewd or lascivious with child …
A three-vehicle crash on the Surry Road in Surry that claimed the life of an Ellsworth woman on July 28 has not yet been reviewed by the District Attorney’s Office, according to authorities.
How hard is it to hire a school bus driver? Ask Don Saunders, director of transportation for Ellsworth schools, and he’ll tell you he’s been beating the bush for drivers for the better part of two years.
“The lack of involvement from the nursing home is a huge problem,” said Bette Kral of Deer Isle. “It seems like their end result is, ‘It doesn’t matter.’ They’ve decided it’s closing. My mother was there. My mother died there in December, so this is close to home for me. They’re not allowing people to speak. They aren’t speaking. I know I’m not alone in that thinking.”
The Nature Conservancy in Maine has acquired the approximately 13,500-acre Spring River-Narraguagus Forest property in townships 16 and 9, near Eastbrook.
