The Bucksport Town Council intends to declare the Spring Fountain Motel on Route 1 a dangerous building and order all inhabitants to vacate the establishment, citing safety issues for both motel guests as well as public safety personnel who must respond there in an emergency.
The Planning Board deemed an application to build additional units at the Gateway Estates subdivision incomplete at its Jan. 27 meeting, which was held in person and virtually. Board Chairman John Whetstone explained to The American that the decision was anticipated by all parties.
The High Street Burger King restaurant served its final burgers and fries on Dec. 28 before permanently shuttering its doors. Three additional locations, on Hogan Road in Bangor, Stillwater Avenue in Orono and in Rockland, are also closing.
SURRY — While voters here on Nov. 3 said “yes” to allowing recreational marijuana businesses in town, it will be a while before local regulations have been amended to allow that industry to occur. Residents voted 572-504 to allow the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, testing, and sale of marijuana products subject to state regulation, taxation and …
ELLSWORTH — What’s in a pitch? For five Hancock and Washington county entrepreneurs, their pitches would decide who would win cash to grow their business. With a $3,500 judges’ prize and a $3,500 audience prize on the table in the first annual Downeast Business Boot Camp & Pitch-off Nov. 5, Ellsworth’s Fogtown Brewing Co. won …
ELLSWORTH — As local communities look to the sun to save on electricity bills and be more environment-friendly — Ellsworth is actively exploring solar for its electricity needs — one business owner decided to power his shop through solar, too. Richard Newman, owner of Superior Docks at 420 Christian Ridge Road, will appear before the …
ELLSWORTH — On a sunny but cold Monday afternoon downtown, Nan Miller sat on the bench outside popular Main Street burrito and wrap eatery 86 This!, waiting for the door to open and a server to slip out with her bagged lunch. The restaurant remains closed to indoor seating, although the public may now enter …
WALTHAM — Out-of-state buyers are snapping up lots in a newly revived subdivision on Graham Lake, according to deed records. The lots are on an approximately 1,000-acre Waltham property that was sold at auction in 2018, according to past reporting in The American. The parcel was among more than 7,000 acres belonging to the estate …
ELLSWORTH — After two lengthy hearings, members of the city Board of Appeals voted unanimously on Sept. 28 to lower the 2019-2020 assessed value of the largest Maine Coast Mall building by roughly $2.5 million, to $12.5 million, but rejected other tax appeals by the mall’s owners on nearby properties. Valuing the mall building at …
ELLSWORTH — “I haven’t liked this summer at all,” said Brian Langley, co-owner of the Union River Lobster Pot, at the Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce annual awards ceremony on Thursday evening. “But you either adapt or perish, as they say.” It was an unusual summer, of course, and an unusual awards dinner: there was …
ELLSWORTH —It may not be very visible, but the Ellsworth Business Development Corp. (EBDC) is here and working. That was the message from board members presenting to councilors at a meeting on Monday evening. “EBDC is a collaborator, not a competitor,” said Board Chairman John Fitzpatrick. “A resource to help implement economic development strategy.” The …
OSBORN — A 22-turbine wind project known as Weaver Wind should be online by the end of the year at the latest, said Chief Development Officer Matt Kearns of Longroad Energy Partners, the company behind the project. “All of the towers are up,” said Kearns. “By the end of November, we will be electrically connected …
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