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The Bangor Daily News' Hancock County bureau is staffed full-time by reporter Bill Trotter.

12/08/2022

Bill Nelson, a local school bus driver, began volunteering a few yesrs ago to pick up trash around Ellsworth, and now is leading an almost one-man effort to haul away 40-plus discarded tires from a wooded lot off the city's busy High Street thoroughfare.

Bill Nelson has been digging dozens of decades-old tires out of the mud for months in an effort to help clean up his city.

12/10/2020

With three weeks left in 2020, Maine has had more wildfires this year than in the past 35 years.

The number of wildfires in the state this year, 1,150, has been aggravated by drought and by more people spending time outside as a way of coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, said Bill Hamilton, Maine’s chief forest ranger. The number of reported wildfires in Maine in 2020 is the highest annual total since 1985.

With three weeks left in 2020, Maine has had more wildfires this year than in the past 35 years.

09/11/2020

The BDN is co-hosting a debate at 7 p.m. tonight between candidates in Maine's US Senate race. The debate will be streamed on the BDN homepage.

The candidates will appear in person, but without a live audience.

08/11/2020

A federal judge has ruled that police improperly compelled Praneeth Manubolu to provide them with a blood sample after he crashed a car in Acadia National Park on Aug. 31, 2019, killing all three of his passengers. It is the deadliest incident in the park's 104-year history.

U.S. District Judge John Woodcock ruled that Bar Harbor police had plenty of time to secure a warrant and rejected federal arguments that a warrantless blood draw was necessary because time was pressing.

06/05/2020

Ellsworth police Chief Glenn Moshier has issued another statement concerning today's planned protest in downtown Ellsworth.

Message from Chief Glenn Moshier -
6-5-20 at 0930 hours.

06/05/2020

Ellsworth PD is advising motorists they may want to avoid downtown Ellsworth this afternoon due to a planned protest there.

******Potential Traffic Delays******
June 5, 2020 3 pm until event is over.

We have information to pass onto the community about potential road closures in the Downtown Ellsworth area.

We are aware of a Black Lives Matter protest that is being held in Ellsworth on June 5, 2020 at 3 pm. Information provided indicates the protest will take place in the downtown area of Ellsworth and may impact traffic flow at different times during the protest. Please seek alternative routes and avoid the area if at all possible.

Law Enforcement along with other City of Ellsworth services will be out rerouting traffic when necessary.

06/05/2020

The Frances B. Wood Preserve covers 438 acres in Gouldsboro, and is owned and maintained by the Frenchman Bay Conservancy. On the property is a hiking trail that travels through a mossy forest for 0.4 mile, then splits into a 0.75 mile loop at the edge of a bog. This loop travels over a small, forested hill, where you can find humps of exposed granite and beds of lichen.

The forest and wetlands on the property make for excellent habitat for warblers, which is a group of small songbirds.

05/08/2020

Hancock County has recorded 10 total cases of the new coronavirus, while nine individuals have recovered. One hospitalization has occurred in Hancock due to COVID-19, according to the CDC.

The resident, a man in his 60s, is the first from Hancock County to die from the virus or the complications it can cause.

05/08/2020

An April order from Gov. Mills establishing a 14-day quarantine requirement appeared to allow these travelers to engage in activities that have been deemed essential, including grocery shopping. But Maine CDC spokesman Robert Long said shopping is not essential as applied to the quarantine, meaning visitors should bring necessary supplies and not interact with others.

“That means no shopping, going for takeout, picking up supplies at a hardware store, or otherwise exposing others to risk,” Long said.

The Bangor Daily News held a Tuesday session on Zoom with officials from the Maine Tourism Association that was attended by nearly 100 people who had questions on these restrictions and how they will lift under the state’s gradual reopening plan. Here are some answers.

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