GOULDSBORO — Tyler Dunbar, chief of the Gouldsboro Police Department, resigned Wednesday, June 12. Dana Rice, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, said Dunbar submitted a letter of resignation to Town Manager Sherri Cox at about midafternoon. His resignation is effective June 26. Dunbar’s resignation came the day after the town was originally scheduled to …
ELLSWORTH — A Franklin man was killed and two other men suffered minor injuries when a pickup truck collided with a box truck on Route 1A on Tuesday afternoon amid heavy rain. Warren Higgins, 67, of Franklin died at the scene after being treated by emergency medical personnel. The crash was reported near McGowan’s Hill …
ORLAND — A fire of unknown origin claimed a house at 340 Castine Road on Sunday, according to Orland Fire Chief Bob Conary. “They’re still investigating,” Conary said Monday morning. The residence belongs to John Goss, Conary said. No one was home when the fire broke out but there were two cats unaccounted for on …
ELLSWORTH — A Machias man wanted for allegedly setting fire to an Indian Township food pantry and tying up a Washington County woman and stealing her truck was arrested Sunday following a police chase. The pursuit started in Ellsworth and ended in Trenton with the man’s arrest, police said. Maine State Police Cpl. Dan Ryan …
GOULDSBORO — Multiple departments battled a Gouldsboro house fire Friday afternoon. The fire was at 697 South Gouldsboro Road. Gouldsboro, Steuben, Sorrento and Franklin fire departments were on the scene More details will be posted when they become available.
ELLSWORTH — A Hancock County grand jury June 6 indicted a Richmond man on a charge of attempted murder in the April 14 shooting of his father at a camp in Township 28. The grand jury also indicted Christopher Laliberte on charges of aggravated assault and elevated aggravated assault. Laliberte was still incarcerated at the …
ELLSWORTH− Four Sullivan residents, including a pair of year-and-a-half-old twins, escaped serious injury on Thursday morning when a van driven by 29-year-old Samantha Polchies crash on Route 180, according to Ellsworth Police Officer Jon Mahon. “[Polchies] was headed southbound into town,” just before 9 a.m., said Mahon, “when she swerved to avoid a deer, went …
ELLSWORTH — A Hancock County jury took a little over two hours Friday to find a 22-year-old Bar Harbor man guilty of murder and gross sexual assault in the killing of Mikaela Conley, 19. Jurors were not persuaded by Jalique Keene’s testimony that he did not remember carrying Conley’s lifeless body into the woods at …
TRENTON — The Maine State Police are still investigating a crash involving a box truck, a sport utility vehicle and a car that occurred on Route 3 in Trenton at 8:15 a.m. Thursday. Maine State Police Trooper Blaine Silk said the box truck had crossed into an oncoming lane and struck a sport utility vehicle, …
ELLSWORTH — During a second day of testimony, family and friends of Mikaela Conley gasped at the image of the dead woman’s bloodied face in a crime scene photo presented as evidence at Jalique Keene’s murder trial. More than two dozen people were in the courtroom gallery Wednesday to support Conley’s family. Assistant Attorney General …
BUCKSPORT — It’s official: Whole Oceans now owns a piece of the former Verso mill site, where it plans to raise salmon. Whole Oceans, which intends to use a state-of-the-art recirculating aquaculture system to raise Atlantic salmon, announced Tuesday the completion of a purchase and sale agreement with AIM (American Iron and Metal) for a …
SULLIVAN — A Sullivan woman died in an all-terrain vehicle crash on Punkinville Road just before 2 a.m. Tuesday, Hancock County Sheriff Chief Deputy Pat Kane reported. Whitney N. Doughty, 25, died at the scene, Kane said. Doughty had been operating a 2018 Polaris Razor that drifted across the roadway and struck a tree, police …
