Ellsworth News

W hile most shoppers who head this far north do so in summer, there's plenty to explore among Maine's quieter villages in December, particularly if you enjoy long coastal drives and scenery.

Despite being in the midst of a recession, despite being in the middle of Washington County, and despite being hours from any major city, two music lovers have opened up a music supply store on Route 182.

BAR HARBOR : In the last eight years, the Maine Sea Coast Mission has awarded $1,000 scholarships to 69 graduates of Mount Desert Island High School and to 14 graduates of Ellsworth High School.

A longtime sheriff's deputy and then dispatcher for the Hancock County Sheriff's Department died Saturday in Ellsworth.

Despite a soft misty drizzle, the clack of the mallet hitting the balls was crisp Sunday afternoon at the Woodlawn Museum's championship croquet match.

ELLSWORTH : The popular Ellsworth High School band Entropy, winner of the recent Ellsworth battle of the bands, has booked its first professional gig at the Grand Auditorium, Saturday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m. They will be sharing the stage with the Portland area high school band Dysfunktional Mayhem.

A Bradley man has been identified by police as the victim in a fatal accident Wednesday afternoon on Route 1A.

Police are on the scene of a deadly car crash in Ellsworth. We're told two cars collided on route one-a, just about 4:30 this afternoon.

ELLSWORTH : The Maine Grind will host a juried art and craft show to kick off summer.

BAR HARBOR : A man reported, June 12, that when he unrolled a piece of carpeting he bought from a local hardware store he saw the message, a oeYoua re gonna die,a written in blood on the inside.

ELLSWORTH : A genealogy workshop with members of the Hancock County Genealogical Society will be held Saturday, June 20, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Ellsworth Public Library.

HANCOCK : Award-winning, Bulgarian soloist Elitsa Stoineva will be directing the Maine Womena TMs Balkan Choir for a special summer session beginning Thursday, June 18, 6 p.m. at St.

ELLSWORTH : The Ellsworth Duplicate Bridge Club held a regular open game on June 11.

ELLSWORTH : Courthouse Gallery Fine Art is presenting the new show "Fairfield Porter and the Great Spruce Head Island Artists," June 14-July 14 with an opening reception, Sunday, June 14 from 1-3 p.m. A limited edition print of "Daisies and Harbor Boats" by Fairfield Porter will be available at the Art Week show at the Court House Gallery in ...

Two men, one from Kennebec County, the other from Hancock County, have been indicted on theft charges in connection to loan scams.

A man from Northeast Harbor died Friday morning after hitting a pickup truck head-on. Authorities say Brad Kenney, 31, died at Eastern Maine Medical Center from his injuries.

A former local loan broker whose license was revoked in April is one of four people being prosecuted by the Maine Attorney General's Office who were indicted last month by a Hancock County grand jury.

TRENTON, Maine a ' An accident Friday morning on Route 3 has resulted in two men being sent to a Bangor hospital.

Breezy Maples Farm will live on. That's what Cyndee Carroll says, even though she lost her riding stable - and nearly everything she owns - after a bad business deal.

SOUTHWEST HARBOR : Lisa Ann Sullivan, of Southwest Harbor, whose life was violently thrown off course five years ago by a drug intoxicated driver, died unexpectedly at age 46 on May 26, 2009, at her home in Southwest Harbor, just a few days after having taken her first step since the accident.