Stu Marckoon

[Southwest Harbor, Maine – January 17, 2018] A Mount Desert Island man and two teenage girls narrowly escaped with their lives this evening after going into the water on Long Pond. Eli Strauss, 43, his 12-year-old daughter Julia and her friend Jolie Beal, also age 12 and from Mt. Desert Island, were rescued a short time ago at the shoreline of Long Pond in Southwest Harbor. … [Read more...] about Three Rescued from Long Pond

Weather (Ellsworth) - School busses will stay put in most Hancock County school districts thanks to the snow that started falling overnight.  Plow trucks hit the roads early in the morning.  The snow is failing slowly but steadily.  Visibility does not seem to be an issue and the road surfaces was cold enough that plowing is pretty easy.  The quick cold snap on Saturday, … [Read more...] about Local News – January 17, 2018

Storm   (Undated) - The weekend weather has caused a lot of road problems, and public works crews spent part of their weekends patching things back together.  Mt. Desert town officials closed down the Beech Hill Cross Road because it's unstable.  Flooding in Augusta and Hallowell occurred when ice jams backed up the Kennebec River.  And a lot of businesses are finding it … [Read more...] about Local News Headline – January 15, 2018

Second Street Homicide     (Bangor) - Detectives in Bangor say someone killed 51-year old Israel Lewis this week.  They've classified the 2nd Street man's death as a homicide, but they're not yet saying how he died.  Police and paramedics found Lewis dead Wednesday morning after a 9-1-1 call to report someone was injured.  Authorities say they don't believe the public is … [Read more...] about Local News – January 12, 2018