“Our Town” is a weekly feature, starting Jan. 3, that will profile each of Hancock County’s municipalities as well as the county itself.
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 …
Linwood Bridges Sr. has crossed the Penobscot River only once to live somewhere other than Verona Island, where he was born. He traces his Verona Island roots back “a long ways, four or five generations. “I grew up on the East Side” in a farmhouse that “we just tore down … last spring. Twelve of …
Town Clerk’s report (2018) Births: 6 Deaths: 6 Marriages: 4 Registered voters 430 total registered voters 126 Democrats 155 Republicans 12 Green Independent Party 3 Libertarian 134 not enrolled in any party Tax Collector’s report Outstanding 2018 real estate taxes (as of Dec. 31, 2018) 33 accounts (33 taxpayers): $47,209.91 Outstanding 2017 …
For Trenton Fire Chief Steve Corson, firefighting runs in the family. A Trenton native, Steve “played two years of football” and also played intramural sports while attending MDI High School. He later earned an associate degree in business management at Eastern Maine Vocational-Technical Institute in Bangor, then worked at Carroll’s IGA in Trenton. He “was …
Frederick “Fred” Ehrlenbach traces his Trenton connection to just a few days after his birth in 1948. “I came home from the Bar Harbor hospital to Trenton, to my grandparents’ summer cottage,” Fred said. His parents and grandparents lived in Ellsworth; growing up there and graduating from Ellsworth High School, he studied civil engineering technology …
Originally from Southwest Harbor, Trenton Town Clerk Carol Walsh graduated from Pemetic High School in the era when “all of the [Mount Desert] island towns had their own elementary and high schools.” After attending Becker College in Worcester, Mass., she moved to New York City and lived there for 11 years while working “in personnel, …
