“Our Town” is a weekly feature, starting Jan. 3, that will profile each of Hancock County’s municipalities as well as the county itself.
Swan’s Island resident Nancy Carter “was born during the war, [in] ’44. I was born in Knox County Hospital in Rockland,” where her mother, Beverly Simmons, was living with her parents while Nancy’s father, Byron, was serving as an Army sergeant in the Philippines. Byron returned safely from the war, and the family moved to …
Town Clerk’s report (2018) Births: 2 Deaths: 5 Marriages: 3 Registered voters 324 total registered voters 66 Democrats 131 Republicans 26 Green Independent Party 101 not enrolled in any party Tax Collector’s report Outstanding 2018 real estate taxes 56 accounts (47 taxpayers): 87,617.99 Swan’s Island Volunteer Fire Department (2018) Type of call …
“I grew up in Colorado,” says Surry Selectman Bill Matlock, who started working “for a corporation in the late ’60s” and saw his career take him to several states before “I retired in 2004” in New Jersey with his wife, Marget. They vacationed that year in Nova Scotia “and loved it there and wanted to …
Originally from Island Falls, Surry Town Clerk Angela Smith attended Southern Aroostook Community High School in Dyer Brook for a few years. After attending an Anchorage, Alaska, school for about a year, she moved to Colorado and graduated from Steamboat Springs High School. With “family back here” in Maine, Angela came east to study business …
Although Gete Thomson was born in Portsmouth, N.H., her parents, Hollis and Regina Bonsey, were from Surry. They returned home in 1946 to care for Gete’s grandfather, Hollis Bonsey Sr. Gete was 3 years old at the time. “We stayed here until 1951, and then we moved back to Portsmouth,” where she graduated from high …
Surry town information Town Clerk’s report (2018) Births: 13 Deaths: 25 Marriages: 11 Registered voters 1,358 total registered voters 474 Democrats 447 Republicans 64 Green Independent Party 373 not enrolled in any party Tax Collector’s report Outstanding 2017 real estate taxes (as of Dec. 31, 2018) Nine accounts (nine taxpayers): $7,909.46 Outstanding …
Growing up in Malden, Massachusetts, Sullivan Town Manager Rob Eaton served in the Marine Corps from 1974-1977 and returned to Malden afterwards. There he met Candy, his future wife. Her mother lived in Columbia Falls, and her brother attended Narraguagus High School in Harrington. After visiting Maine on July 4, 1978, “we moved up here …
While growing up in Sullivan, Lynn Dunbar attended kindergarten at the Sorrento-Sullivan Recreation Center and grades 1-8 at the Sullivan Grammar School, now the town office. She graduated from Sumner Memorial High School. “I worked at the Dunbar Store,” a Sullivan landmark owned by her great-uncle, Emery Dunbar, Lynn recalled. One day as the town …
Town Clerk’s report (July 1, 2017 — June 30, 2018) Births: 15 Deaths: 8 Marriages: 12 Registered voters 922 total registered voters 229 Democrats 270 Republicans 60 Green Independent Party 363 not enrolled in any party Tax Collector’s report Outstanding 2016 real estate taxes as of June 30, 2018 Nine accounts (five taxpayers), …
An Ellsworth High School graduate, Sullivan Town Clerk Stacy Tozier pursued paralegal studies at Husson College before working six years as a legal secretary at the Silsby & Silsby law office. Taking classes primarily online, she later earned via the University of Maine at Augusta an associate degree in liberal studies and a bachelor’s degree …
