Mario Moretto
Ellsworth Bureau
Ellsworth creates independent nonprofit to support business development
ELLSWORTH, Maine — The City Council will spin off an independent, nonprofit corporation aimed at drumming up business development within city limits. Membership of the group’s initial board of directors is yet to be determined, but councilors on Monday approved a concept plan and bylaws for the Ellsworth Business Development ...
Ellsworth firm opens state’s first public fueling station for propane-powered vehicles
ELLSWORTH, Maine — A local company has opened Maine’s first public refueling station for propane-powered vehicles. R.H. Foster, located on High Street in Ellsworth, unveiled the dispenser on Monday, with plans to install two more stations, in Hampden and Machias, in the coming months. Propane is the third-most common automotive ...
Ellsworth halfway to $1.2 million fundraising goal for new city park
ELLSWORTH, Maine — The fundraising effort to build a new city park in Ellsworth has kicked into high gear, and organizers say they’ve reached the halfway point in a sprint to raise $1.2 million. The milestone was reached Sunday, when the Knowlton Community Park Campaign announced that The First Bankcorp ...
Authorities recover body of Holden man believed to have jumped off Penobscot Narrows Bridge
VERONA ISLAND, Maine — Police have recovered and identified the body of a Holden man believed to have committed suicide Monday by jumping off the Penobscot Narrows Bridge. A multi-agency search team was assembled early in the morning after a passing motorist reported an abandoned pickup truck on the bridge ...
With legal fight far from over, embattled Blue Hill raw milk producer will file for bankruptcy
ELLSWORTH, Maine — Dan Brown, the poster child for local food rules in Maine, said he will have to file for bankruptcy if the judge who barred him from selling raw milk and other food doesn’t reverse her decision. The state took Brown to court in 2011 for selling unlabeled ...
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Waldo-Hancock Bridge nearly gone after last suspension cables plunge into Penobscot River
VERONA ISLAND, Maine — With a thunderous, steely groan and an enormous splash, the two towers of the defunct Waldo-Hancock Bridge were separated for the first time since 1931 after demolition workers dropped the suspension cables into the Penobscot River. From a platform held aloft by a crane more than ...
Suspension cables of Waldo-Hancock bridge crash into Penobscot River as demolition nears completion
Workers from S&R Corporation, of Lowell, Mass., severed the last remaining suspension cables on the Waldo-Hancock Bridge between Verona Island and Prospect on Thursday. The cables crashed into the Penobscot River, where they were later retrieved. Demolition of the defunct bridge, replaced in 2006 by the Penobscot Narrows Bridge, is ...
Residents find more questions than answers as Ellsworth pitches agreement to withdraw from school district
ELLSWORTH, Maine — Residents on Tuesday got their first chance to weigh in on an agreement between Ellsworth and Regional School Unit 24 for the city to leave the district; but those who spoke didn’t get the answers they were looking for. “The public is asking questions we can’t answer ...
After six years of eluding police, man facing sex crime charges extradited to Maine
ELLSWORTH, Maine — A man indicted nearly six years ago on three felony charges after allegedly forcing sexual contact on a preteen girl is finally back in Maine after he was apprehended in Colorado. William J. Hickey, 65, who according to jail documents is currently a resident of Taft, Calif., ...
Ellsworth man charged after allegedly wielding axe during fight with wife
ELLSWORTH, Maine — A local man was arrested Sunday afternoon after smashing a carpet cleaner with an axe during a fight with his wife, police said Monday. Joseph Gallagher, 29, of Ellsworth, was arrested on charges of domestic-violence terrorizing and domestic-violence assault. He was brought to Hancock County Jail where ...
Bear awakens from hibernation, scares residents in downtown Ellsworth
ELLSWORTH, Maine — An early morning bear sighting on a downtown residential street had nervous residents looking to authorities for help on Monday. Around 5 a.m., the Ellsworth Police Department received several reports of a “large bear” wandering around Elm and Water streets. A dispatcher called an official at the ...
Ellsworth approves new nursing home, community center at former Moore School
ELLSWORTH, Maine — The city has given the go-ahead for a Portland company to build a new 91-bed senior living facility on the ball field at the former Bryant E. Moore elementary school on State Street. First Atlantic Healthcare will relocate its Collier’s Rehab and Nursing Center, located on Birch ...
Raw milk, poultry and produce: Bills easing small-farm oversight clear big legislative hurdle
AUGUSTA, Maine — Small-farm advocates in Augusta on Tuesday celebrated a key political victory after a legislative committee gave the green light to several bills that would relax state oversight and open local markets to unlicensed farmers and raw milk producers. Bob St. Peter, a Sedgwick farmer and board member ...
Incarcerated Ellsworth woman charged after allegedly stealing family member’s identity
ELLSWORTH, Maine — A local 25-year-old woman was charged Wednesday with aggravated forgery after allegedly using someone else’s identity to get out of a ticket for an expired inspection sticker. According to Ellsworth Police Detective Dotty Small, Brittany Carter was stopped by Officer Gil Jameson on Jan. 4 for an ...
MMA’s training ship bustles as students move aboard, prepare for 60-day voyage
CASTINE, Maine — “I have top bunk, so I’m not worried about getting puked on.” Those words were bravely spoken by Maine Maritime Academy freshman Brian Bentley of South Berwick. Bentley was sitting in the mess of the training ship State of Maine on Monday, chatting over lunch with other ...
Students aboard MMA training ship run safety drills before disembarking for 60-day voyage
Students enrolled in Maine Maritime Academy’s Regiment of Midshipmen participate in several training cruises before graduating with an unlimited Coast Guard license to operate even the largest ships. In this video shot Monday, May 6, students run a fire and emergency drill. The Training Ship State of Maine will leave ...
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Bar Harbor on schedule for record-breaking cruise ship season
BAR HARBOR, Maine — The summer cruise ship season began Sunday when the 720-foot Veendam pulled into Frenchman Bay and unloaded a throng of passengers who shopped, ate and went sightseeing in town and Acadia National Park. The Veendam was the first of 135 scheduled cruise ship visits scheduled for ...
Blue Hill scientists finds high levels of dangerous chemicals in firefighters’ blood
Dr. Susan Shaw of Blue Hill is studying the levels of flame retardant chemicals and their cancer-causing byproducts in the blood of firefighters, who have a high occupational risk of cancer.
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Study: Exposure to flame retardant chemicals means firefighters face higher cancer risk than previously thought
ELLSWORTH, Maine — New research by a Blue Hill scientist shows that during a fire, firefighters are exposed to dangerous levels of toxic, cancer-causing chemicals created when commercial flame retardants burn. That firefighters develop cancer at an alarming rate is not news to industry professionals or scientists. But Dr. Susan ...
Blue Hill raw milk ruling deals blow to local food sovereignty movement
BLUE HILL, Maine — A Superior Court ruling against a Blue Hill farmer who has been selling unlabeled, unlicensed raw milk will have farmers in several Maine towns wondering about the future of local “food sovereignty” ordinances that seek to exempt them from state oversight. Dan Brown, of Gravelwood Farm, ...
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