ELLSWORTH — A recount of ballots cast Nov. 2 to determine the winner of a three-year School Board seat will take place on Monday, Nov. 8, in council chambers. It will also be livestreamed on the City of Ellsworth Facebook page and YouTube channel. Candidate Casey Hardwick requested the recount following a close 921-887 loss …
SULLIVAN — Community members in Regional School Unit 24 (RSU 24) will have the chance to ask questions about the transition to the Charles M. Sumner Learning Campus, the $44 million facility under construction behind the current Sumner Memorial High School that is slated to be open to students for the 2022-23 school year. The …
Space to hold the programs in each of the RSU 24 elementary schools — Cave Hill School, Ella Lewis School, Mountain View School and Peninsula School — has been made possible with the construction of the Charles M. Sumner Learning Campus.
ELLSWORTH — In a divisive and down-to-the-wire School Board race Tuesday, one-term incumbent Abigail Miller narrowly retained her seat against challenger Casey Hardwick, 919 votes to 886. A third candidate, Joshua Dudeck, secured 534 votes, with 61 cast as write-in votes and 343 left blank. Hardwick said early on Wednesday that she will request a …
TRENTON — An anonymous donor has covered most of the school lunch debts incurred at the Trenton Elementary School with a recent $1,546 donation. Those debts accumulated prior to the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to an increase in state and federal funding that provides free meals to all students, regardless of income. Mount Desert …
HANCOCK — Lauren Gross, the widow of Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputy Luke Gross, has been unanimously appointed by the Hancock School Committee to fill the seat vacated by her late husband. Deputy Gross was killed in the line of duty Sept. 23 when he was struck by a pickup truck while investigating another crash on …
Seafood harvesters face a sea of challenges ahead. Three organizations are working to figure out how training programs can help the next generation weather the storm.
Incumbent Abigail Miller faces a three-way race against newcomer Joshua Dudeck and 2012 candidate Casey Hardwick for a three-year seat, while Tara Keeleen Young runs unopposed for a one-year term.
In less than a year, Regional School Unit 24 (RSU 24) middle- and high-schoolers will be roaming the halls of the brand-new Charles M. Sumner Learning Campus. Until then, students and community members can get a tour of the building under construction and see for themselves the progress being made on the state-of-the-art facility.
SULLIVAN — Big changes are underway for Regional School Unit 24 (RSU 24), with construction progressing daily at the Charles M. Sumner Learning Campus, the grades 6 through 12 school being built behind the current Sumner Memorial High School on Route 1. But some memories will be preserved within the brand-new, combined middle and high …
SULLIVAN — Following a spike in COVID-19 cases, the Regional School Unit 24 (RSU 24) Board of Directors held an emergency meeting Sept. 28 and ultimately voted to mandate the wearing of masks indoors whenever the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifies substantial or high transmission rates in Hancock and/or Washington counties. …
The school was one of three in Maine to win a fitness center thanks to a program through the National Foundation for Governors’ Fitness Councils, which is headed by fitness icon Jake (Body by Jake) Steinfeld.
