MOUNT DESERT— Town officials are telling people who aren’t already in Mount Desert that they should stay away to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. If you insist on coming, “You are putting your lives at risk as well as the many elderly and chronically ill residents of our community by arriving now,” states a …
In rapid sequence, Legislature approves $76 million budget package geared toward pandemic The measure includes $38 million more for Maine’s public schools, funding for coronavirus response and dozens of other new initiatives. By Scott Thistle Portland Press Herald AUGUSTA — The Legislature approved a supplemental budget package worth about $76 million Tuesday, with funding …
ELLSWORTH — Nicole Grohoski (D-Ellsworth) has announced that she is running for re-election to continue as Representative for House District 132 serving Ellsworth and Trenton. “I have been working hard in Augusta on behalf of our community, as I promised you I would in 2018. It is truly an honor to represent my hometown of …
CRANBERRY ISLES — It’s not often that voters are asked to approve a school budget that is smaller than the budget for the previous year and a municipal budget that represents an increase of less than 1 percent. But that will be the case at the annual Town Meeting on Saturday, March 14. The meeting …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — This primary season, here’s a story of a campaign that never happened. When local optometrist Carleton C. Kelley announced his retirement on March 21, 1968, he did so in a two-column ad in the Bar Harbor Times. “I cannot see any more patients because of physical disability,” he wrote, suggesting his patients …
ELLSWORTH — With the majority of precincts reporting, Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden was the frontrunner in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary in Maine. Locally, Bernie Sanders was the victor. As of mid-morning Wednesday, Sanders had received 63,221 votes (33 percent) statewide and 3,262 votes in Hancock County. Meanwhile, former vice president Biden received 65,481 votes …
ELLSWORTH — On Tuesday, voters in Hancock County and statewide decided to keep a law that eliminates non-medical opt-outs for childhood vaccinations, joining California, Mississippi, West Virginia and New York, all of which have passed similar legislation. Roughly 67 percent of the 16,995 voters who cast ballots in Hancock County (with all but Gouldsboro reporting) …
STONINGTON — The sun was blazing hot, but tempers were moderate on Sunday when hundreds of lobstermen and their family members gathered at the Municipal Fish Pier at noon for a rally to protest proposed federal rules aimed at protecting right whales. The rules would force Maine fishermen to cut by 50 percent the number …
ELLSWORTH — Two men accused in the late August death of Franky, a Boston terrier-pug whose body washed up at the shorefront home of the district attorney, pleaded not guilty Monday in Hancock County Superior Court. A grand jury last month indicted Nathan Burke, 38, of Hancock and Justin T. Chipman, 23, of Steuben on …
BAR HARBOR — Jill Goldthwait and Fred Benson will speak and lead a discussion on current issues in state and federal government Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. at the Jesup Memorial Library. “Both the United States Congress and the Maine State Legislature have recently sworn in new members,” event organizers said. “So what does …
