“Our Town” is a weekly feature, starting Jan. 3, that will profile each of Hancock County’s municipalities as well as the county itself.
As the Unorganized Territories supervisor for Hancock County, Millard Billings manages more land than some small European countries — Andorra, Leichtenstein and Luxembourg come to mind — contain. The Unorganized Territories date to the colonial era, when surveyors laid out townships across eastern Maine. In time, residents in particular townships organized town governments (Ellsworth upgraded …
Originally from Ellsworth, Nora Sargent Garland played basketball in grammar school and attended Ellsworth High School and Mount Desert Island High School. She and her husband, Robert Garland, moved to Fletchers Landing (then Township 8) “a little over 40 years ago. “I just love it up there,” Nora said. From her Hummingbird Lane home, “it’s …
Township 3 Maine State Police, Troop J Type of call Number OUI — liquor 1 Total calls for service 1 Hancock County Sheriff’s Department Type of call Number False 911 call 2 Total calls for service 2 Township 7 Hancock County Sheriff’s Department Type of call Number Violation of protective order 2 Civil problem …
Winter Harbor Fire Chief Tatum McLean grew up in Monmouth. He has lived and worked elsewhere in the United States, but his first visit to the Schoodic Peninsula convinced him “this was the place to be.” Graduating from Monmouth Academy in 1990, Tatum joined the Army as “an M-60 gunner, light infantry,” representing the third …
Town Clerk’s report (2018) Births: 1 Deaths: 10 Marriages: 13 Registered voters 484 total registered voters 121 Democrats 181 Republicans 19 Green Independent Party 163 not enrolled in any party Tax Collector’s report Outstanding 2018 real estate taxes (as of June 30, 2018) 44 accounts (40 taxpayers): $75,708.03 Winter Harbor Volunteer Fire …
Waltham Town Clerk Joe Jordan grew up not far from where his father, Harvey, built Jordan Brothers Garage at the intersection of routes 179 and 200 in Waltham in 1959. After attending Waltham’s Longfellow School through second grade, Joe went to Cave Hill School in Eastbrook and graduated from Ellsworth High School. The day came …
A graduate of Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn., Waltham resident Chris Kravitt attended Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. “I was at loose ends” afterward, he recalled, and then the Milford, Conn., owner of Mud Mill Pottery on the Bar Harbor Road in Trenton offered Chris a summer job in 1976. Expecting to stay …
Town Clerk’s report (2018) Births: 3 Deaths: 7 Marriages: 2 Registered voters 291 total registered voters 50 Democrats 145 Republicans 9 Green Independent Party 1 Libertarian 86 not enrolled in any party Tax Collector’s report Outstanding 2018 real estate taxes 41 accounts (41 taxpayers): $41,258.23 Outstanding 2017 tax liens Eight accounts (eight …
A Verona Island native, First Selectman Glendon Bevan “started school here” in a two-room schoolhouse. “I attended up to third grade there” before students were transferred to Bucksport, where he went to the Luman Warren and Jewett schools. After graduating from Bucksport High School, “I went into the service [Army] for a couple of years. …
Her family means a lot to Verona Island Town Clerk Marlene Smith. Born on this island surrounded by the Penobscot River, Marlene attended the town’s two-room schoolhouse on School Street for 1½ years. “I was only in first grade when we [students] moved to Bucksport” to attend that town’s schools, she recalled. Soon after graduating …
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