Park Fees
(Bar Harbor) – An advocacy group that supports Acadia National Park says it plans to comment on proposed steep fee increases. Friends of Acadia said it supports more funding to maintain the park, but the proposed increase may be too much and end up decreasing federal park funding. The proposal from the federal government is to raise park entrance fees at the most popular parks to as much as $70-dollars.
Car Hits Hannaford
(Ellsworth) – Police say an elderly man hit the gas instead of the brake when his vehicle slammed into the Hannaford Supermarket at the Maine Coast Mall in Ellsworth. The driver was uninjured, but the store sustained a lot of damage as the Subaru Forester crashed through the brick facade and ended up with its front end in the men’s room. Firefighters closed the store until a structural engineer could confirm that it was safe to reopen. That clearance came last evening, several hours after the crash.
Drug Take-Back
(Ellsworth) The Maine Sheriffs’ Association weighs the amount of prescription drugs collected during each drug take-back event and keeps a tally over the following 6 months. Hancock County sheriff Scott Kane says during the very first drug take-back event 14 years ago more than 24-thousand-pounds of unwanted medication was gathered statewide. He strongly encourages anyone with unused prescriptions to please take advantage of tomorrow’s collection at the Ellsworth Chamber of Commerce on High Street from 9AM to 1PM.
Teal Pumpkin Project
(Nat’l/Local) The Teal Pumpkin Project is steadily catching on across the country. Food Allergy Research Education spokeswoman Nancy Gregory says the campaign encourages people to serve up non-food items on Halloween to help kids with food allergies and other dietary restrictions feel included. To participate, Gregory says paint a pumpkin teal or post a teal paper pumpkin it outside your home to alert trick-or-treaters to your allergy-safe goodies.
Fatal-Pedestrian
(Camden) Police say a 90-year-old man died when dump truck ran over him in front of his Camden home just before 4:30 yesterday morning. It happened on Route 1 near the Camden-Lincolnville town line. Someone called police before the crash to say Henry Dircks was lying in the roadway in his pajamas and without shoes on. That person tried to alert and stop an oncoming dump truck, but the driver couldn’t stop in time and struck Dircks. Heavy rain and fog caused poor visibility. Police want to hear from anyone with information about Dircks or the crash.
Pedestrian Safety
(Winslow) The Maine Department of Transportation plans to visit 21 communities to discuss safety concerns for pedestrians and making roads safer for those who walk. So far this year 15 pedestrians have died from traffic-related incidents according to The Morning Sentinel. DOT program manager Patrick Adams tells the newspaper Wednesday’s visit with the Maine Bicycle Coalition in Winslow was the 8th such forum.
Shooting Arrest
(Bucksport) A Bucksport man will appear in Hancock County Unified Court this afternoon to face aggravated assault charges for allegedly shooting two men in the parking lot of Wight’s Apple Orchard. District Attorney Matt Foster tells Star 97-7 that 26-year-old Cory Turcotte remained at the scene Wednesday night and surrendered to police. Turcotte gave a full statement, claiming self-defense. Foster says the investigation is on-going. One of the victims, Ryan Parkhurst of Beddington said he was shot in the leg. He tells WABI-TV his cousin Roger took a shot to the chest. Parkhurst said the men met to settle a feud.
LSD Arrest
(Ellsworth) An Ellsworth man is charged with aggravated drug trafficking after a Hancock County teenager overdosed on LSD. Drug agents searched the Bucksport Road home of 46-year-old Russell Scott. They confiscated doses of suspected LSD, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, and cash. Scott posted bail and was released. The teen’s current condition is unknown.
Krause Transcript
(Rockport) – A woman murdered by her son called police from her Rockport home the night before the killing, concerned that Orion Krause might harm himself. Village Soup-dot Com reports Elizabeth Krause made the call September 7th from her Rockport home. Less than 24 hours later police were called to her parents’ home in Massachusetts and found the 4 victims. 22-year-old Orion Krause is charged with 4 counts of murder in the deaths of his mother, her parents and their caretaker. A professor where Orion attended college in Ohio says Orion called him before the incident and said he planned to kill his mother. Orion Krause is held at a State Hospital in Massachusetts.
Sports
- Boston Celtics 96 Milwaukee Bucks 89
- Thursday Night Football: Baltimore Ravens 40 Miami Dolphins 0
- Patriots have lost Dont’a Hightower for the season – he needs shoulder surgery
- Game 3 of the World Series is tonight in Houston – series with Dodgers tied at 1-1
- Rain has thrown the high school soccer playoffs into a delayed situation, with quarter final games planned for yesterday and Wednesday washed out by wet fields in some cases. The quarter finals should wrap up this afternoon. Semi final games were slated for tomorrow.
- High School football playoffs begin tonight. MDI will host John Bapst. Tomorrow Ellsworth will take on Dexter
- Field Hockey and Volleyball state finals are tomorrow. The Class “C” volleyball final at MDI High will feature Washington Academy against Calais for a third straight year.
