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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Orland teen charged with furnishing marijuana to others in car
BREWER, Maine — Officer Liz Kelley was doing a routine check of Indian Trail Park on Tuesday evening when she found a car with three teens inside that smelled strongly of burned marijuana, Brewer police Sgt. Arden Jones said Wednesday. The group “admitted to using marijuana” and a pot pipe ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ellsworth District Court cases April 2-20, 2012
on May 15, 2012, at 4:22 p.m.
Courts Ellsworth District Court Cases April 2-20 Elijah J. Anderson, 20, Cherryfield, minor possessing liquor, $200. Tami A. Antieri, 46, Southwest Harbor, disorderly conduct, $100. Sean P. Arey Jr., 22, Ellsworth, violating condition of release, jail five days. Malachi E. Austin, 26, Bar Harbor, operating vehicle while license suspended or ...
Corea fishing boat found without lifejackets on board
The Associated Press on May 15, 2012, at 8:41 a.m.
BOSTON — The U.S. Coast Guard has terminated the voyage of a Maine-based commercial fishing vessel for allegedly having no lifejackets on board. The Coast Guard says a boarding team conducted a routine at-sea inspection of the Corea, Maine-based, 38-foot fishing vessel Calypso on Monday and found several safety violations. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Brooksville camera buyer looking for family on film with brontosaurus
BROOKSVILLE, Maine — When local volunteer DJ Duncan Bailey bought an old Kodak camera at the WERU-FM rummage sale in Brewer last spring he didn’t realize its contents would develop into a mystery involving a dinosaur. Vintage Tri-X black-and-white film lay undeveloped in the gully of the Pony 135 point-and-shoot ...
Dedicated volunteers make excursion railroad a reality in Ellsworth
ELLSWORTH, Maine — Spectacular weather Saturday prompted 22 volunteers to spend all the livelong day working on the railroad. The Down East Scenic Railway will embark later this month upon its second year of offering excursion rides on long-abandoned tracks between Hancock County’s Washington Junction and Ellsworth Falls, just west ...
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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