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Tree knocks out power to 4,400 on MDI
BAR HARBOR, Maine — More than 4,000 customers on Mount Desert Island lost power for several hours Friday morning when a tree fell on a major power line. The outage happened at about 5:30 a.m. Friday and affected 4,447 Bangor Hydro Electric Co. customers in Bar Harbor, Bass Harbor, Seal ...
Ellsworth hospital recognized for response to quadruple shooting
ELLSWORTH, Maine — As one of the state’s rural hospitals, Maine Coast Memorial in Ellsworth doesn’t typically see many patients with gunshot wounds come through the emergency room doors. In fact, a year can pass without hospital staff seeing any. So when four men with gunshot wounds came into the ...
Horse gets stuck in hole after escaping from stall at Acadia, causing large rescue effort
MOUNT DESERT, Maine — A carriage horse in Acadia National Park apparently got out of his stall and into trouble Wednesday morning, triggering a massive effort to extricate the 1,800-pound animal from a deep hole in the stable floor. Duke, a 12-year-old Belgian Suffolk Cross horse that helps pull carriages ...
DOT sets meeting to discuss Blue Hill roundabout
BLUE HILL, Maine — The Maine Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting Wednesday evening in Blue Hill to discuss the installation of a roundabout or traffic circle on Tenney Hill. The roundabout would be built at the intersection of Route 15, Route 172 and Beech Hill Road. The ...
RSU 25 district residents to vote on $13.3 million budget
BUCKSPORT, Maine — Residents of the four towns that comprise RSU 25 in Hancock County will have a chance to vote Wednesday on the $13.3 million budget proposed by the district’s school board. The RSU 25 district budget meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in Bucksport Middle School’s auditorium. ...
Confused by curve, three drivers go off road and onto railroad tracks in Ellsworth
ELLSWORTH, Maine — Over the span of three hours on a foggy night this past week, two cars failed to navigate a confusing curve on Route 1A in Ellsworth and instead found themselves rumbling down the railroad tracks. Just three days earlier, another driver following her GPS went straight where ...
Pyro City proposes fireworks store in Ellsworth
ELLSWORTH, Maine — Area residents and those passing through the city may have a place to stock up on fireworks in time for their Fourth of July celebrations. Pyro City of Maine plans to open a year-round fireworks store in a commercial building located about 2 miles from downtown on ...
Grasshopper Shop in Ellsworth sold but staying open
ELLSWORTH, Maine — The Grasshopper Shop, a fixture in downtown Ellsworth for three decades, isn’t going anywhere, but it is changing hands. Earlier this week, owner Ken Schweikert sold the shop to Elizabeth McMillan from nearby Lamoine. McMillan said she plans to keep The Grasshopper Shop name, staff, and many ...
Mock accident provides wake-up call to Bucksport students
BUCKSPORT, Maine — Students at Bucksport High School were shown — in graphic detail — what can happen to impaired or distracted drivers on Thursday during a mock accident staged by the school and those who respond to real-life crashes. The 300-plus students watched quietly and attentively for about an ...
Group threatens EPA with lawsuit over St. Croix alewives
ELLSWORTH, Maine — Two individuals and a southern Maine organization are ramping up their legal fight to restore alewives to the St. Croix River, this time accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of complicity in preventing the fish from spawning Down East. Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, Doug Watts of Augusta ...
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Groups tout completion of historic 363,000-acre Plum Creek conservation deal
By Kevin Miller and Seth Koenig on May 15, 2012, at 5:48 a.m.
PORTLAND, Maine — Calling it the “missing piece” to a 2 million-acre jigsaw puzzle, groups on Tuesday announced the completion of a 363,000-acre conservation deal that was key to Plum Creek winning regulatory approval for its controversial Moosehead Lake development plan. Representatives from Plum Creek, The Nature Conservancy and the ...
Bucksport-area school board endorses $13.3 million budget
BUCKSPORT, Maine — Members of RSU 25’s board voted unanimously Monday night to adopt a $13.3 million budget. Local residents, meanwhile, will get a chance to weigh in on the proposed spending plan during a meeting next week and subsequent balloting in their towns. The proposed 2012-13 budget represents an ...
Groups urge lawmakers to refill Land for Maine’s Future coffers
AUGUSTA, Maine — As lawmakers return to the State House this week, a coalition of organizations and individuals is urging legislators to support a $5 million bond proposal for the Land for Maine’s Future program. Although consistently popular with Maine voters, the program doled out its final $9.25 million for ...
Deer Isle-Stonington school makes dramatic turnaround
DEER ISLE, Maine — During the 2008-09 school year, Deer Isle-Stonington High School posted academic scores and statistics that weren’t just below state averages. They were below pretty much every other school in Maine. Just 57 percent of students graduated on time that year, the lowest rate of any school ...
Bucksport police seeking tips on stolen car
BUCKSPORT, Maine — Police are asking for the public’s help tracking down a 33-year-old sports car stolen from a home in town. Sometime within the past several weeks — likely in late April — someone backed a flatbed truck into the driveway of an unoccupied home on Route 15/River Road ...
Former town manager settles discrimination suit against Stonington
STONINGTON, Maine — Stonington officials have agreed to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit with a former town manager who had accused selectmen of refusing to consider his requests for “reasonable accommodations” for an injured back. The terms of the proposed settlement between former manager Howard Willinghan and the town are ...
Bucksport-area towns face bigger school budget
BUCKSPORT, Maine — Three of the four towns that comprise RSU 25 would be asked to pay more next year under a proposed $13.3 million annual school budget that already is encountering kickback from some local officials. RSU 25’s budget for next year would increase by $464,528 — or 3.6 ...
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Maine Maritime students depart on two-month training cruise
CASTINE, Maine — Soft winds and calm seas greeted Maine Maritime Academy students and staff early Tuesday as the State of Maine training ship pointed its bow away from Castine Harbor and embarked on a two-month cruise to southern U.S. and Caribbean ports. Parents, siblings, significant others and other well-wishers ...
Growth in population forcing Ellsworth to take on more state road responsibilities
ELLSWORTH, Maine — Maine’s fastest-growing city is preparing to take on additional road maintenance responsibilities as part of an administrative change that could mean faster response from local road crews but also higher costs for Ellsworth taxpayers. Ellsworth is one of four municipalities around the state that, after the 2010 ...
Road expansion plan for new Bucksport nursing home moves forward
BUCKSPORT, Maine — Councilors voted Thursday to approve an agreement to extend two roads near downtown in order to accommodate a proposed nursing home in town. First Atlantic Healthcare of Portland is eying an undeveloped site off Main Street for a new facility that would feature 61 nursing home beds ...
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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