Maine news from Ellsworth, Bucksport, Gouldsboro, Blue Hill, Sullivan, Surry, Hancock, Deer Isle, Stonington, Orland and throughout Hancock County.
ELLSWORTH — A Hancock County Grand Jury Aug. 9 indicted a Bar Harbor man on charges of gross sexual assault and murder in the June death of Mikaela Conley, 19, of Bar Harbor. The Maine State Police on June 4 charged Jalique Keene, 21, with murder in connection with Conley’s death. Her body was found …
MOUNT DESERT — The Northeast Harbor Fleet hosted its first overnight cruise and race series in several years Monday and Tuesday, with the boats anchoring or picking up moorings off the Wooden Boat School in Brooklin Monday night. Fleet Director Fran Charles organized a pursuit race for the first day, in which the slower boats …
MOUNT DESERT — Two short sections of Route 102 in Somesville are in especially bad shape, and, according to Public Works Director Tony Smith, waiting until 2020, when the Maine Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to give the road a thin overlay of pavement, is too long. He had wanted to pave the two sections …
By Becky Pritchard, [email protected] BAR HARBOR — Citizen initiatives seeking to prohibit berthing piers for cruise ships and to require that voting members of town boards be town residents were brought to the town council Tuesday. Town Clerk Sharon Linscott certified that both had been signed by the required number of registered voters of the …
CRANBERRY ISLES — The Islesford community celebrated the beginning of a new chapter for the town’s waterfront Saturday at an open house and fundraiser for Islesford Boatworks in the building known as the Blue Duck. The community boatbuilding organization, which is in its 13th summer, signed a 10-year lease of the building earlier this year …
BAR HARBOR — The 17th annual Carol Dyer Memorial Luminaria Evening took place last weekend on the Village Green, and at the YWCA in Bar Harbor. Participants could buy luminaria to honor loved ones with cancer, for a suggested donation of $10 each. This year’s event was sponsored by the YWCA. Proceeds go to benefit …
By Jack Sasner [email protected] SOUTHWEST HARBOR — The Southwest Harbor Fleet honored winners of June and July races July 27 at its weekly tea at the Brookes residence. For the June series for Luders 16’s first place went to Rick Wheeler. Second place went to David Folger, and the third place trophy was presented …
MOUNT DESERT — Voters will decide at a special town meeting Sept. 10 whether to proceed with redevelopment of Main Street in Northeast Harbor as approved at the May 8 regular town meeting or to have town officials consider delaying and revising the project. The Board of Selectmen voted Monday night to schedule the special …
ELLSWORTH — A rule limiting to five the number of lobster traps on one trawl in an area encompassing some 300 square miles in the vicinity of Mount Desert Rock was adopted last week by the Maine Department of Marine Resources. The roughly rectangular area, located in waters that are part of Lobster Management Zone …
