Citing reduced margins and a need to put scarce resources to its most efficient use, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network announced last week it is pulling the plug on its annual MPBN Great TV Auction after 40 years. Usually broadcast over 10 days and nights...
The Hancock County Fiddlers Showcase & Contra Dance will take place on Saturday, Oct. 29 in Emlen Hall at the Bay School, on South Street/routes 172/175. Admission is $10, free younger than 5, with a $30 maximum for families. All proceeds benefit the scholarship...
Not one, not two, but three utility trucks were in Town Hill on Monday morning, as crews erected the utility poles that have been lying in wait since Bangor Hydro Electric Company and FairPoint Communications cut down and limbed a number of trees along Route 102 as...
Melissa Coleman, author of “This Life Is In Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone,” will be hosted by the Jesup Memorial Library and Sherman’s Book Store on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 1 to 3 p.m. “ The story begins with Melissa’s parents,...
In a physical, hard-fought game in which both starting goalies ultimately finished the contest on the bench and a player from one of the squads moved two steps closer to the single-season school scoring record, No. 7 Mount Desert Island hosted No. 10 Oceanside...
One year ago, fourteen-year old Hannah Paradis asked officials at her school if she could work with the NAACP to talk with students about racial sensitivity.
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A spectator gets an up-close look at fireworks operations that took place on Verona Island, as part of Bucksport’s “Ghostport” celebration on Oct. 22. The day-long event, which folded in Fort Knox’s two-weekend “Fright at the Fort,” included a Little Goblins Parade,...
Glowing spider eyes, ghoulish creatures jumping out of the shadows, scads of cobwebs, blood-red illumination, evilly grinning clowns, disheveled scarecrows leaping out from fields of corn, dismembered corpses, decapitated heads rolling around on the cobblestones, a...
The Downeast Dog Scouts will meet for a clean-up walk at Little Long Pond in Seal Harbor on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 10 a.m. Participants will meet in the wooded parking area above Little Long Pond. The walk is in coordination with Take Pride in Acadia Day, sponsored by...
