Elizabeth Walztoni

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Elizabeth Walztoni

The former Spring Fountain Motel on Route 1 in Bucksport, a condemned lodging establishment with a checkered history that’s been vacant since 2021, sold on Wednesday after years on the market. It had been listed for sale for $1.5 million, and buyers took out a mortgage for up to $1.48 million, according to deed records.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Elizabeth Walztoni

A Blue Hill exhibition wants to give people new experiences with shoes. The “Shoe Show,” which begins on Friday, is the latest exhibition at Working Loose, a combination gallery, shop and event space that owner Em Gift opened at 49 Main St. last June. She wants it to build community and feature retail items that are hard to find in rural Maine.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Elizabeth Walztoni

Andrew Peters was on a waitlist for a lobster license. Then he learned it was possible to farm scallops in Maine. For the last seven years, Peters and his wife Samantha have been trying to do so successfully, adapting techniques from Japan to Maine waters. Using long, vertical lines of nets tethered along four acres of Penobscot Bay off Deer Isle, they’ve found seemingly unlimited demand for the scallops they grow.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Elizabeth Walztoni

A rare, historically significant French apple tree recently discovered on a Verona Island farm is one of the oldest in North America. Called the Drap d’Or de Bretagna, the cultivar came from the Brittany region of France and was likely brought to Maine by Castine’s early French settlers in the late 1600s. The tree, believed to be a direct descendant of early plantings, was rediscovered by a group of local “apple explorers” who are passionate about old apples and what they reveal about history.

2 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Elizabeth Walztoni

Orland’s volunteer fire department is almost moved into its newly built station along Route 1, a roughly $3.9 million project designed to meet the needs of modern firefighting and prepare for how it might change in the future. The new station replaces a small, moldy building from the 1970s that barely fit fire trucks, had poor drainage that limited maintenance and posed other health risks. “It’s a big investment, but it also saves investment,” Chief Robert Conary said.