Ellsworth News

Ellsworth - An event in Ellsworth might get you in the valentine spirit a few days early.

CALAIS, Maine - Mary Mayhew, Maine's Health and Human Services commissioner, took delivery Thursday of a letter of appeal that challenges a proposal to close the 50-bed Atlantic Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Calais.

Jason Bartlett, left, of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, with the help of volunteer Ernie Hilton, center, and Steve Shepard, right, of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service place tubes in the gravel of the Sandy River in Strong on Thursday as they planted Atlantic salmon eggs.

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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension and its Master Gardener Volunteers are offering a "Go Blueberry!" plant sale online to raise funds for its Master Gardener Volunteers program.

David J. Ball, 52, of Ellsworth, operating under the influence in Ellsworth, $700 fine, 48 hours in jail, and license suspended for 90 days.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - Kennebunk Savings Bank donated $10,000 to the Friends of the South Berwick Library for its continued fundraising efforts toward construction on the town's new library.

TOGETHER: Katheryn Moses, left, Linda Hook and Father Miles Brookes hold hands as they, and the congregation, recite the Lord's Prayer during the final mass at St.

Tremont Republican Party Chairman Ben Harper, with hand raised, calls for a vote during the Mount Desert Island GOP caucus Saturday, Feb.

A gaggle of bridesmaids in pastel-hued gowns lined up behind the white-bedecked bride, as costume director Jean Porter fussed with lace collars, puffy sleeves, petticoats, bodices, frilly hems, cutaway jackets and pleated skirts.

With 30 rural Maine post offices facing potential closure and nationwide service cutbacks looming, some local postal service employees and activists are attempting to ratchet up pressure on Congress to rescind a law they insist is causing the agency's financial woes .

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Seven Arts Gallery in Ellsworth is having a "Wickedly Wild Chocolate Event." Gourmet local artisan chocolates from Sassafrass Chocolates and gourmet hot chocolate from Morton's Moo will be highlighted on the evening of Feb 9, from 6-9 pm.

State lawmakers are considering a bill that would make the Director of the Maine State Housing Authority more accountable to its board and the governor.

ELLSWORTH, Maine - An officer with the Ellsworth Police Department was honored by his peers last weekend with a heroism award for rescuing a man from a burning car in October .

Kenneth Grant of Ellsworth shows off his locks cut Jan. 28 at Green with Envy Salon in Rockland.

On a frigid February day thirteen years ago, Linda Nelson and Judith Jerome crossed a threshold that turned out to be far bigger than they would ever have imagined.

Cheryl Marshall of Sullivan and DavidA Leighton of Ellsworth are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Valerie Leighton to ChristopherA Ward, son of John Ward and Diane Ward, and the late Janet Ward of Southwest Harbor and Surry.

Michael A. Abercrombie, 32, of Charlottesville, Va., operating under the influence in Bar Harbor, $500 fine, 48 hours in jail, and license suspended for 90 days.

The Grand in downtown Ellsworth is helping keep its neighbors warm this winter. The historic theatre is hosting a special event.