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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1 week ago |
bangordailynews.com | Bill Trotter
A resort company that owns and operates several hotel properties in Maine has been ordered to pay $46,340 in workplace safety penalties for violations that contributed to the death of a longtime worker in Bar Harbor earlier this year. Mark A. King, 64, was crushed and killed when a carport canopy collapsed at the Bar Harbor Regency on Feb. 24.
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bangordailynews.com | Bill Trotter
A controversial residential construction project in Southwest Harbor’s downtown village has prompted ongoing challenges from next door homeowners who are opposed to it, pitting neighboring seasonal residents against each other. The town appeals board this month denied the first challenge filed by the abutters, William and Martha ‘Kay’ MacIntosh, of a guest house that is being added to their neighbor’s home and threatening what they say is the privacy of their own nearby guest room.
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1 week ago |
bangordailynews.com | Bill Trotter
A midcoast retailer that sells and leases tractors, small backhoes, mowers and other farm equipment is looking to open a new store in Ellsworth. Union Farm Equipment, based in the town of Union, has submitted a building permit application to city officials to develop a property on Route 1 next to the Hancock town line. The proposal is to construct a store with a rental and service center that’s roughly 12,000 square feet in size on a 13-acre lot.
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bangordailynews.com | Bill Trotter
For $11 million, you could buy a mansion on Mount Desert Island and be the neighbor of former U.S. Senator George Mitchell. The home sits on 6.5 acres and was built in 2012 by the current owners, investment banker H. Winston Holt IV and his wife, Jennifer T. Holt, according to assessing records on file with the town of Mount Desert. It is located on Rock Garden Way, which is a private gated road in the village of Seal Harbor.
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2 weeks ago |
bangordailynews.com | Bill Trotter
To reach a suicide prevention hotline, call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. A man shot himself in a parking lot behind the Mill Mall in Ellsworth at around 11:30 a.m. Thursday, drawing dozens of police officers to the mall property. The shooting was a suicide, according to a local police official. After the shooting was reported, dozens of law enforcement officers from multiple agencies sped to the scene, as well as other first responders, but they could not revive the man.
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Route 1 in Hancock has now been reopened to through traffic.
Route 1 in the town of Hancock at the Route 182 intersection remains closed due to an accident, with all traffic being re-routed through Franklin. Most emergency vehicles have left the scene at this point, so the road is expected to reopen soon. https://t.co/jJMdB1rkFq
Route 1 in the town of Hancock at the Route 182 intersection remains closed due to an accident, with all traffic being re-routed through Franklin. Most emergency vehicles have left the scene at this point, so the road is expected to reopen soon. https://t.co/jJMdB1rkFq
Earl Brechlin, who was elected in 2023, and Randy Sprague, who was appointed to fill a vacancy in January, were elected to the #BarHarbor Town Council on Tuesday, along with newcomers Steve Boucher and David Kief. They won out against 4 others seeking council seats.