Winter Harbor resident Mike Gerrish got the go-ahead from the Planning Board April 6 to erect a steel structure on Walters Road off Route 1, where he will repair commercial trucks and other heavy equipment.
Regional School Unit 25 (RSU 25) has received a $2,500 grant from the Thriving Older Adults Strategic Goal Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to create a technology literacy program for older adults to increase participation in telemedicine and social media.
Selectmen late last week instituted a COVID-19 policy entitling the town’s municipal employees to up to 80 hours of paid time off if they contract the coronavirus.
“We simply need some leadership out there,” Hancock County Administrator Scott Adkins said of the finance office, “and we need some continuity. It’s one of those last pieces to solidify Hancock County government.”
In part, the proposed resolution states, “The Town of Trenton wishes to further express opposition to any law that would unconstitutionally restrict the rights of our citizens to peacefully keep and bear arms.”
Sarah Redmond, the owner of Springtide Seaweed, has put in an application to be added to the lease of James West, who has had an experimental and commercial horizontal longline culture of marine algae at the 35-acre parcel since 2013.
After a long pandemic winter, spring is inching its way into Ellsworth’s downtown streets. Flowers may not yet be blooming apart from inside The Bud Connection, but merchants are betting on a booming business climate as Memorial Day nears.
Rice said at least half of the potential candidates sought an annual salary starting at $80,000. He noted this caliber of applicants, who possess sufficient experience in municipal administration, typically balk if the pay is any less and don’t pursue an interview. Nowadays, he added, serious contenders also don’t expect to be treasurer and tax collector and carry out some everyday transactions as part of the job. “They aren’t ready to do it and they haven’t done it in the past,” he said.
Since the start of the annual calving season, researchers have documented 17 live births of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
The family plans to offer the classic meals that have had customers coming back for decades. The upcoming season already has three times the number of catering events booked than it did last year.
While the budget may pass with an increase, the portion of it supported by local revenues from property tax appears nearly 1 percent down because of an increase in projected state subsidies.
“People ain’t catching a whole lot right now,” said Ellsworth-based Darrell Young, the co-director of the Maine Elver Fishermen’s Association.
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