“Our Town” is a weekly feature, starting Jan. 3, that will profile each of Hancock County’s municipalities as well as the county itself.
Mount Desert Town Clerk Claire Woolfolk earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Rutgers University after graduating from Longmont High School in Longmont, Colorado. She and her husband, Marc, later lived in Connecticut with their children, Matthew and Elizabeth. “We came up on vacation (to Maine), and we thought it was so beautiful, it would …
Durlin Lunt Jr. describes Mount Desert as “a very special place.” It’s his hometown, and he’s been the town manager since 2010. A Northeast Harbor native, Lunt graduated from Mount Desert High School, “a great high school, the only one of its size in the state that had full accreditation” while housing grades 7-12. Thinking …
Anna-Marie Hart relishes going to work every day at the Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor. A Brewer native, she graduated from Brewer High School and, after a year spent at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, transferred to the University of Maine to study sociology. “People fascinate me,” she said. “My favorite book growing up was …
Town Clerk’s report Births: 12 Deaths: 21 Marriages: 16 Registered voters 1,902 total registered voters 793 Democrats 464 Republicans 70 Green Independent Party 575 not enrolled in any party Tax Collector’s report Outstanding 2018 property tax liens (as of June 30, 2018) Eight accounts (eight taxpayers): $43,905.61 Mount Desert Fire Department report …
Liz Flood cannot imagine living anywhere other than Mariaville. Born in Missouri, she moved to Louisiana, Virginia, and Jacksonville, Florida as her father, a Navy medical officer, pursued his military career. Home-schooled along with her siblings, she earned her high-school diploma through Christian Liberty Academy in Illinois. When he retired, her father took a position …
Mariaville First Selectman Ross Edgecomb grew up “right here in Mariaville,” where his family has lived “since the early 1900s. The pulp industry, I think, moved them here” to cut wood and work in local mills. He attended Beech Hill School in Otis, competed on the wrestling team at Ellsworth High School, and “went right …
Mariaville Town Clerk Cindi Sargent grew up in Ellsworth and, after graduating from Ellsworth High School, “learned how to be a travel agent” by attending the Wilma Boyd Travel School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She then worked three years for Delta Dream Vacations in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Returning to Maine, Cindi worked at Union Trust Company …
Mariaville police report for Our Town January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018 Maine State Police, Troop J Type of call Number Burglary attempt 1 All other theft …
Originally from Winthrop, Lamoine Administrative Assistant Stu Marckoon “started working in radio” while attending Rockland District High School. He worked for WVII-TV in Bangor and studied accounting at Husson College. Later, “when Kiss 94 came calling,” Marckoon moved to Ellsworth to work full time as that station’s news director. “An affordable house on the Buttermilk …
Raised in Town Hill and the oldest of five children, Jo Cooper attended Bar Harbor schools and graduated from Mount Desert Island High School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in medieval studies at Wellesley College and did her graduate work in Scottish medieval history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Jo married Don …
