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$36 million school budget approved in Hancock County
SULLIVAN, Maine — By about a 3-to-1 ratio, voters approved a $36.1 million annual operating budget for RSU 24, according to an official. Residents of the 12 member municipalities of RSU 24 met Wednesday evening at Mountain View School to hold an initial vote on the district’s 2012-2013 budget. David ...
POLL QUESTION
Former Iran hostage who lives on MDI supports compensation bill
MOUNT DESERT, Maine — A man who vividly remembers being held hostage in Iran for more than 400 days three decades ago stands to benefit if a bill introduced to Congress is passed into law. Moorhead Kennedy, 81, a former economist for the State Department, said this week that the ...
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Group takes rare visit to count seabird colony eggs on outcropping in Frenchman Bay
EGG ROCK, Maine — Mount Desert Island, where millions of people visit Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park each summer, dominates the view from this rocky outcropping in Frenchman Bay but it might as well be a world away. The birds that nest here like it that way, and the ...
Fires burn woods, mobile home in Hancock County
DEER ISLE, Maine — A local fire that burned more than an acre of woods was one of two fires in Hancock County that attracted attention over the weekend, according to officials. Brent Morey, Deer Isle’s fire chief, said Sunday evening that a fire the day before burned about an ...
VIDEO AND POLL
Bar Harbor woman marks 15 years rehabbing animals with Acadia Wildlife Foundation
BAR HARBOR, Maine — Like many people in the local lodging trade, Ann Rivers spends her time providing food and shelter to those who need it. She does not have a paying clientele, however. In fact, her lodgers don’t even talk. They are animals who are hurt, sick, or otherwise ...
Trenton voters approve funds for park, sidewalk projects
TRENTON, Maine — Local voters decided Saturday to accept $1 million in federal grant money to build a new park by the seaplane ramp at the local airport and to build a sidewalk along the west side of Route 3. Michael Hodgkins, chairman of the board of selectmen, said Saturday ...
Bar Harbor hotel firm changes parking deck plans
BAR HARBOR, Maine — Ocean Properties is scrapping plans to build a multilevel parking deck on land it owns on the east side of lower Rodick Street and, as a result, plans to have fewer rooms at its unopened West Street Hotel than it had planned. Instead, the company plans ...
GOING COASTAL
Explosion? Earthquake? No, just thunder.
on May 18, 2012, at 2:18 p.m.
On most Mother’s Days, my primary concern usually is about whether I’ve called my parents. It usually is not about what kind of dangerous event may have just happened outside as I’m getting ready for bed. This past Sunday, I already had phoned home and spoken to Mom when I ...
Bar Harbor to vote on more money for pump station upgrade
BAR HARBOR, Maine — For the second year in a row, local voters will be asked this June to borrow money for improving the town’s water pump station at Duck Brook. In June 2011, voters approved bonds that included $1.95 million for upgrading some of the water treatment equipment and ...
Trenton to vote on accepting $1 million in federal grants
TRENTON, Maine — Local voters will decide this weekend whether to accept $1 million in federal funding to build a seaside park at the local airport and a sidewalk along Route 3. Trenton’s annual town meeting is set for Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19. Elections will be held ...
Bar Harbor councilors resolve to fight corporate influence on elections
BAR HARBOR, Maine — By a surprising 7-0 vote, the local Town Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution that calls for limiting corporate influence on governmental elections. Supporters of the resolution and similar efforts in other states have said that the 2010 “Citizens United” decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, ...
Funds being raised to assist Gouldsboro farm fire victims
GOULDSBORO, Maine — Several events are being planned as fundraisers for Darthia Farm, which lost dozens of animals last week in a fire that consumed a 153-year-old barn. Several organizations and friends of Bill and Cynthia Thayer, who have owned and run the organic farm since 1976, have set up ...
GOING COASTAL
When I say scallops, you say….
on May 16, 2012, at 9:58 a.m.
Scallops. Is the state of the bivalve resource healthy or not? People who consistently follow news reports about the shellfish can be forgiven if they’re not exactly sure. This AP story about scallops, which appeared in print and on air this past week, indicates that the industry is “booming.” The ...
Scallop meetings scheduled for Maine fishermen
ELLSWORTH, Maine — Maine’s Department of Marine Resources has scheduled eight meetings over the next several weeks at which it hopes to gather comments from fishermen about a possible rotational closure plan. The plan would implement a series of closures that would rotate among multiple areas established along the coast. ...
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With support, Gouldsboro farmers plan to rebuild after tragic fire
GOULDSBORO, Maine — Despite suffering the enormous setback this week of losing its main barn and dozens of animals that were inside to fire, Darthia Farm will continue to operate this summer, according to its owners. Bill Thayer, who with his wife, Cynthia Thayer, has owned and operated Darthia Farm ...
Passamaquoddy tribe issues 236 elver licenses as prices top $2,000 per pound
ELLSWORTH, Maine — Even though federal officials are looking into whether elver fishing might be adversely affecting the abundance of American eels, the number of elver fishing licenses in the state of Maine went up by more than 50 percent last week. But it wasn’t the Maine Department of Marine ...
Former MDI schools chief hired as interim superintendent
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, Maine — Meet the new superintendent. Same as the old superintendent. The man whom outgoing schools Superintendent Rob Liebow replaced eight years ago is returning to Mount Desert Island on an interim basis. Howard Colter was the superintendent for the now-defunct Union 98 from 1992 to 2004. ...
MDI man charged after another man suffers burns at Lamoine bonfire
LAMOINE, Maine — A Mount Desert Island man has been charged in connection with an incident early Sunday morning in which a local man was burned, according to police. The incident occurred around 3 a.m. Sunday at a bonfire in Lamoine, according to a report summary released by the Hancock ...
12 Ellsworth-area towns to vote on 2 percent increase in RSU 24 budget
ELLSWORTH, Maine — A loss of federal funds for transportation and an increase in energy costs are the main reasons the RSU 24 annual budget is expected to increase next year, according to an RSU official. The RSU will hold a public vote on the proposed $36,181,000 budget for 2012-2013 ...
Mental illness claims Maine tennis pro’s life
BROOKLIN, Maine — Chip Angell says he fought for his son and tried to get him the help he needed before he died. One morning last week, outside a local inn, Carl Christopher Angell, 39, connected a hose from the exhaust pipe of a car to the interior compartment and ...
Glenburn art teacher killed in Friday morning collision in Bangor
Harvard student asked to leave bar for ‘bad behavior,’ not drunkenness
LePage blasts teachers union for endorsing same-sex marriage question
Reporting crime
A people’s revolt in Bar Harbor
Old Town football coach steps down
Perakslis helps UMaine beat Albany; Binghamton next in America East tournament
Orono baseball shuts out archrival Old Town for ninth straight victory
Stony Brook knocks out UMaine to win America East tournament
Aroostook businessman expands company out of home with hit mobile app 7 Little Words
Former CEO of MaineToday Media Richard Connor sued over $250,000 in loans
Small idea launches major project in Hampden
Diversity predicts export success, MIT professor tells Maine audience
New, old methods combine to deter scrap metal thefts in Aroostook
Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Signs lead artist to opportunity
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