BLUE HILL — This tiny, seaside village was hit with its first reported case of coronavirus on Tuesday, according to hospital officials. “I can confirm we have admitted a patient who had tested positive for COVID-19 at Blue Hill Hospital yesterday,” said hospital spokeswoman Kelley Columber on Wednesday morning. Columber declined to give any more …
STONINGTON — The Maine State Police said Tuesday morning that the death of a man inside a home in Stonington is being considered suspicious. Spokesman Steve McCausland said the man’s body was found inside a residence at 44 Weed Field Road around 2 p.m. Monday. “The man’s body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s …
BLUE HILL — The Maine State Police have identified the victim of a Sunday evening shooting as Joshua Clarke, 31, reported Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland. “He was shot outside his home at 646 Ellsworth Road,” McCausland said. “An autopsy was conducted today at the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Augusta.” “Detectives say the …
ELLSWORTH — Coronavirus has reached Hancock County. During his daily briefing Thursday morning, Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said one case of coronavirus has been recorded in Hancock County. The total number of cases has reached 52, with 40 confirmed and 10 presumptive positives, which are positive …
ELLSWORTH — Partway through the Ellsworth City Council’s emergency meeting Sunday the primary question of the day was answered: Ellsworth schools will be closing at the end of the day Monday. The news came via a parent in the audience who received a digital communication from school Superintendent Dan Higgins. “Based on continued monitoring of …
ELLSWORTH — Citing “extraordinary times” in the wake of the novel coronavirus, Regional School Unit 24 Superintendent Michael Eastman has announced the district’s schools will close for three weeks starting Monday, March 16. Mount Desert Island Regional School System (AOS 91) made a similar decision Friday. In a letter to parents, Superintendent Marc Gousse announced …
ELLSWORTH — The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office has arrested an Amherst woman in connection with a burglary and theft investigation that began late last year at a business and residence in Orland, police announced Friday. Detective Frank Jennings said deputies executed a search warrant and served an arrest warrant at an Amherst residence on Feb. …
ELLSWORTH — After more than two years of failed negotiations, medical technicians at Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital voted “overwhelmingly” this week to authorize their union team to call a strike, according to a press release from the Maine State Nurses Association, which represents the employees. “We are not looking for anything more than what …
BLUE HILL — Voting in Blue Hill was interrupted Tuesday after a resident passed away while voting, said Selectman Vaughn Leach. The clerks called for help and temporarily closed the polls for about an hour while waiting for first responders and then a representative of the state medical examiner’s office to arrive. The death occurred …
ORLAND — A 63-year-old Orland man and his dog are dead after the truck the man was driving broke through the ice on Alamoosook Lake Wednesday night. Brian Wardwell was with his dog and was driving on Alamoosook Lake at approximately 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, when his truck broke through the ice. A person on the …
MACHIAS — A Northfield man is in custody and three people are dead following shootings Monday morning in Washington County. Thomas Bonfanti, 63, was arrested around 11:15 a.m. at the American Legion in Machias, said Lt. Troy Gardner of the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit during a news conference Monday. “He has been charged …
ELLSWORTH — State police say they are working with the FBI to investigate an online threat made against a dozen Maine high schools Friday. The threat was received by a Maine business, which forwarded it to police, according to a statement from Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. Police did not …
