Castine Child Care
(Castine) – A foundation that once served as a reservoir for Castine will sit under a child care center soon. The Ellsworth American reports a group called Community Childhood Learning Place has raised $180-thousand dollars to build a center on top of the huge, circular foundation that once hosted the town’s water supply. They hope to have something ready to open in 2018. The group says there are few child care options in the Blue Hill Peninsula, and that hampers employment opportunities for young families and limits the employee supply for businesses.
Orono Columbus Day Renamed
(Orono) – The federal holiday in October is still named Columbus Day, but town councilors in Orono have renamed it locally as Indigenous People Day. The town becomes the third in Maine to make the change in recognition of the state’s Indian heritage. WABI-TV reports the Orono Town Council voted last night to make the change, joining Bangor and Belfast.
Ellsworth Fatal
(Ellsworth) – Police say speed was one of the factors that led to yesterday morning’s fatal crash on Route 3 in Ellsworth. Chief Glenn Moshier tells Star 97.7 Kevin Dyer died in the crash near Coastal Car Care just before 4-o’clock in the morning. Dyer, who was 28-years old, worked at the Bar Harbor Inn according to his Facebook page. Emergency crews shut down the road for nearly 3-hours while they cut Dyer out of his sedan and police investigated the crash.
Irma Aftermath
(Ocala, FL) Florida Keys residents who evacuated are trying desperately to find out what happened to people who stayed behind and property as Hurricane Irma swept the island chain Sunday, wiping out electricity, cell towers, and water supply. Key West musician Howard Livingston says he doesn’t know what condition his home is in after Summerland Key took a direct hit.
EFD Honors 9-11
(Ellsworth) Members of the Ellsworth Fire Department stood in a moment of silence yesterday morning on the 16th anniversary of the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks. Deputy fire chief Gary Saunders says each year at this time they display a steal beam from one of World Trade Center towers. Saunders says it took about 2 years to get through the “red tape” of the application process to own the piece of history.
Murder-Guilty Plea
(Gardiner) Testimony was to begin Monday in the trial of a Gardiner man charged with killing his father and dismembering the body. But 27-year-old Leroy Smith III changed his plea yesterday to guilty and a judge ordered him held at a psychiatric hospital for an unspecified amount of time. Smith is the first person in Maine forced to take medication to restore his mental capacity under a new law that aims to allow defendants to take part in their own defense. Prosecutors say Smith killed his father in an apartment they shared in May of 2014.
Murder Suspect
(Groton, MA) A 22-year-old Rockport man is held without bail and a judge has ordered him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to decide if he’s competent to stand trial for allegedly killing 3 relatives and their caretaker. Village Soup-dot-Com reports the Middlesex County district attorney believes Orion Krause used a baseball bat to kill his 60-year-old mother Elizabeth Krause, her parents 89-year-old Frank Lackey and 85-year-old Elizabeth Lackey, and the elderly couple’s caretaker Bertha Parker. The murders happened Friday afternoon at the Lackey’s home in Groton Massachusetts. No motive has been released. Krause’s next court appearance is October 30th.
Teen Sentenced
(Houlton) A judge has sentenced a teenager to 40 years in prison for his role in a brutal killing in Houlton. Samuel Geary was 16 at the time he and another killed Keith Suitter in 2015. Prosecutors charged Geary as an adult, and he pled guilty in May to a murder charge after his effort to keep the case in juvenile court failed. Another defendant, Reginald Dobbins, was convicted in June and will be sentenced later. Suitter ran a painting business and lived alone. Officials say the 61-year-old was beaten and stabbed to death in March 2015. Law enforcement described the case as a drug-related killing.
Sports
The Red Sox host the Oakland A’s tonight. Eduardo Rodriguez is on the mound for Boston. The Sox have a 3-game lead over the Yankees who beat Tampa Bay yesterday.
Monday Night Football: Minnesota beats New Orleans; Denver beats San Diego
High School
Boys Soccer
George Stevens 1 Ellsworth 1
Brewer 3 MCI 1
DI/Stonington 3 Sumner 3
Woodland 4 Narraguagus 2
Bangor Christian 1 Central 0
Volleyball
Ellsworth 3 Brewer 0
Woodland 3 Narraguagus 1
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