Bill Trotter
Reporter at Bangor Daily News
Coastal Maine writer for @bangordailynews. ATL native. Easternmost daily news print/web reporter in the USA. #fisheries #oceans #climate & other stuff 📰🦞🔭
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2 weeks ago |
bangordailynews.com | Bill Trotter
After having casting problems, trying to amend the script and then finding out they might have to cancel the show, officials at an Ellsworth theater say a musical is moving forward with additional actors. Four Black actors have been added to the cast of “Big River,” which will allow The Grand to stage the musical as originally written, according to Nick Turner, the theater’s executive director.
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2 weeks ago |
bangordailynews.com | Bill Trotter
For the first time since she acquired the property in the 1960s, Brooke Astor’s former waterfront estate on Mount Desert Island is being offered for sale. The 3-acre property, which overlooks Gilpatrick Cove and the yacht club in Northeast Harbor, has a listing price of $6.5 million. Astor summered in Northeast Harbor for decades along with other rich and powerful seasonal residents from out of state whose heirs still include members of the Rockefeller, Milliken and Ford families.
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2 weeks ago |
bangordailynews.com | Bill Trotter
A Bar Harbor man who recently spent a month in jail for a series of deer poaching violations apparently was assisted by four other men, according to newly released details from the Maine Warden Service. The extensive poaching scheme — along with more recent cases — have highlighted the ongoing challenge that Maine’s law enforcement face as they try to cut down on hunting violations.
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2 weeks ago |
bangordailynews.com | Bill Trotter
After being told that it cannot make changes to the licensed script for a musical it plans to stage next week, The Grand theater in Ellsworth is making a last-ditch effort to add Black actors to the cast. If it cannot find Black actors to play minor roles of two slaves in the musical, it will have to cancel the production, the opening of which has been delayed for a week, a theater official said.
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2 weeks ago |
bangordailynews.com | Bill Trotter
A popular Ellsworth pizza shop has temporarily closed its doors while its owner searches for a buyer for the business. DragonFire Pizza opened in Ellsworth in 2018 after a previous owner had left his job working across town for Finnelli’s Pizza. The two pizza shops — along with Zeppa’s Pizza, which opened on Water Street in 2022 — are among several locally owned and operated eateries in the city that have opened in the past decade as the city’s population has grown.
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