The Mill Pond Park Committee (J.P. Follis, Suzette Wheaton, Christal Applin, Maili Bailey, Iver Lofving, and Tom Duchesneau) asks for our help. “Raising the Roof! The Mill Pond Park needs to raise $6,500 for the renovation of the roof of the band shell. The structure is used for cover in bad weather and for a …
There will be a meeting of the Cranberry Isles Ladies Aid on Saturday, Oct. 20 at 1 p.m. There will also be a craft afternoon with Mary Wallace on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 1:00 p.m. to assemble items for our Christmas Fair held in December. Hope to see you at the Aid. The Cranberry Island …
ELLSWORTH — Kenneth and Debra Worden of Ellsworth are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Heather Worden, to Matthew Boyle. Boyle is the son of Christopher and Amy Boyle of Franklin. Worden is a graduate of Ellsworth High School and Boyle is a graduate of Sumner Memorial High School. The couple resides in …
About 25 people attended the Ferry Service public meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Swan’s Island School gymnasium. Agenda items presented were projects, priorities, and emergency trips; presenters were Mark Higgins, Maine State Ferry Service manager, and Jennifer Smith, Maine Department of Transportation Policy and Community Relations. While updates on new boats being built, …
Great Cranberry was awash with tears, tributes and celebrations over the Columbus Day/Indigenous People’s Day Weekend. Family and friends gathered at the Bunker Cemetery on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 6 to say their final farewell to Leona MaCallister. Leona, who passed away at the age of 96 on Sept. 6, was daughter of Elisha …
Welcome, Cora Mae Austin-Fernald! She joined Stephanie, Robin, and her brother, Henry, on Monday, Sept. 24th, before noon. Library time with Ashley Bryan was on Tuesday. Ashley told about apple picking time; Karen Smallwood had made small pie crusts and Ashley, Lindsay Eysnogle, Marina Pickering, and Zinnia Gray made and enjoyed apple pies. A good …
We exuberantly welcome our new chief engineer for the Swan’s Island ferry, Steve Davis. Oftentimes, our behind-the-scenes engineers are the unsung heroes of the ferry and some of the nicest people around; from what I’ve already witnessed, this is true of Steve. We hope his tenure with the Swan’s Island ferry is a long and …
It’s always exciting to meet an artist of the highest caliber, but even more exhilarating is to witness his passion, his creative energy at work. I recently had an opportunity to do just this with Swan’s Island visitors Peter Guttman and Lori Greene. I discovered, while giving him and his wife a tour of the …
It will soon be time for more schedule changes for the folks on Cranberry as the Beal & Bunker Ferry will be returning to their winter schedule on the third Monday of October through April of 2019. The Cranberry General Store is now closed on Sundays with Monday through Friday hours 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and …
