This week we welcome the arrival of 2025, and with it the start of The Ellsworth American’s 175th year of publication. Maine’s oldest weekly newspaper launched in 1851 and in ...

Like most, this past year had its share of ups, downs, controversies and curiosities. Hancock County saw devastating storm ...

If you’ve driven through Searsport in the past couple of years, you know the community’s downtown has undergone an ...

In a sweeping reversal of decades-old laws reducing or eliminating public workers’ Social Security benefits because they ...

The plan is to extend it all the way up to the Central Street neighborhood so you can actually make a loop around the block ...

A full-time judge, a district attorney's office detective, a dedicated drug prosecutor and changing approaches to managing ...

ELLSWORTH — Former Lamoine resident Spencer Trott was so traumatized by a July 19, 2023 attack by his former coworker and ...

The Eagles' boys picked up a dual meet victory over Brewer/Hampden Academy in a meet held at the Bangor YMCA while the ...

Nine-year-old Skyler Ehrlich of Bar Harbor has taken third place in the 2023-2024 National Poetry Contest held by the ...

The first half of her freshman season for Johnson and Wales University was a strong one for Blue Hill native Grace Jaffray.

The premise of this version of British royal “herstory” is that the six ex-wives of Henry VIII have gathered in some ...

Facing a Bucksport club coming off a substantial win against Hermon, MDI boys' basketball coach Justin Norwood was looking ...