“Our Town” is a weekly feature, starting Jan. 3, that will profile each of Hancock County’s municipalities as well as the county itself.
The current chairwoman of the Eastbrook Board of Selectmen, Julie Curtis attended Cave Hill School and Ellsworth High School, where she belonged to the French Club and the Future Business Leaders of America and played JV basketball for one season. She studied business management at UMA-Ellsworth and took business and computer classes through Eastern Maine …
Carolyn Yeo grew up in the Eastbrook house where she was born in September 1939. For grades K-4, she attended “a school on the Ridge” that later became a private home. For grades 5-8 she went “across the street to a school building they’ve [since] taken down. “There were only eight of us in that …
A Bucksport High School graduate, Eastbrook Town Clerk Methel Wilbur earned an associate degree in medical laboratory technology at Eastern Maine Vocational-Technical Institute in Bangor. Majoring in special education with a math emphasis and a minor in elementary education, she later earned an education degree online via Grand Canyon University. “I worked in special education …
Source: Eastbrook annual report for 2017-2018 Town Clerk’s report Births: 1 Deaths: 4 Marriages: 2 Registered voters (January 2019) 346 total registered voters 69 Democrats 128 Republicans 15 Green Independent Party 134 not enrolled in any party Tax Collector’s report Outstanding 2017 real estate taxes (as of June 5, 2018) 145 accounts …
Born and raised in Arlington, Va., Deer Isle Town Manager James Fisher is “related to a lot of families in the area,” including the Wymans and Nashes in Washington County (his grandmother was a Nash from Cherryfield) and the Rev. Jonathan Fisher, the first Congregational minister in Blue Hill. “I was a summer person on …
A Deer Isle native, Town Clerk Heather Cormier graduated from Deer Isle-Stonington High School and attended John Brown University in Arkansas and the University of Maine. She and her husband, Jeffrey, lived in Presque Isle for a little while before moving home to Deer Isle. Their two daughters, Emily and Allison, also graduated from DI-S. …
Except for his Navy service and a year spent at a Southern technical school, Peter Perez has lived all his life in Deer Isle. He traces his roots to the granite hewn from the local bedrock. “My grandfather came here from Spain to work in the quarries in the 1800s, so that’s why” he and …
Town Clerk’s report (2018) Births: 15 Deaths: 36 Marriages: 14 Registered voters (January 2019) 1,699 total registered voters 624 Democrats 386 Republicans 57 Green Independents 632 unenrolled Tax Collector’s report (2017) Outstanding 2017 real estate taxes as of December 31, 2017 159 accounts (144 taxpayers), $163,290.93 2016 tax liens as of Dec. 31, …
When not working at the New England School of Communications at Husson University, John Easton can often be found at home in Dedham, where he chairs the Board of Selectmen. While growing up in New Jersey, “I spent all my summers at Tenants Harbor, where my father wanted to move up to,” Easton recalled. That …
Now approaching her tenth year as the Dedham town clerk, Lisa Lovely attended SAD 63 schools while growing up in Holden. After graduating from Brewer High School, she worked as a deputy town clerk for Holden and then worked at Ames A/E in Bangor. “I enjoy my work here” at the Dedham Town Office, said …
