Versant Power sponsors community lighting installation in Downtown Ellsworth

Reflecting pool mess

The Trump touch.

Longtime Bucksport public safety chief to take new job with local school district

Sean Geagan, who announced this month that he is retiring as Bucksport Public Safety Director, has been offered the new position.

Newly released video shows Connecticut prison officers striking inmate before he died

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut prison inmate J’Allen Jones was suffering a mental health crisis in 2018 when correctional officers struck him multiple times, stripped him naked, put a spit bag over his head and sprayed pepper spray at his face shortly before he died. Video of the series of events was released Friday by […]

Black women's non-profit awards grants to local Southern groups as part of joy-filled tour

Organizations supporting Black women and girls across the American South can expect a bit more joy — and more money — this summer following a new round of grants. The Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium will grant $350,000 to two dozen Southern community organizations working in thirteen states. The grants will fund organizations that […]

Brewer man dies after rear-ending tractor trailer in Greenville

The crash happened on Tuesday morning near 482 Moosehead Lake Road.