Stu Marckoon

Lamoine - Gravel Hearing     (Lamoine) - A Hancock based contractor that wants to expand a gravel mining operation in Lamoine goes before the public tonight with its proposal after the town agreed to re-hear the plan that was rejected a few years ago.  Harold MacQuinn, Incorporated claimed bias on the part of a couple of Planning Board members that voted to deny … [Read more...] about Local News – September 27, 2017

Missing Mom & Kids (Old Town) - A Bangor woman reported missing yesterday is dead, but her two children survived a car crash on Interstate 95 near Old Town.  State Police report a truck driver spotted the wrecked car in thick woods near mile marker 197.  Liza Parker was supposed to meet her former husband in Howland.  Her two little children survived the crash - they were … [Read more...] about Local News – September 26, 2017

Narrows Bridge Crash (Prospect) - A speeding Mercedes didn't make the left hand turn at the Prospect end of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge early Saturday morning.  Five people were inside, four of them remain in the hospital this morning.  The Waldo County Sheriff's Department tells Star 97-7 two of the victims flew by rescue helicopter to Eastern Maine Medical Center, two … [Read more...] about Local News – September 25, 2017

Jax Mice (Bar Harbor) - The Jackson Laboratory says a Chinese University is violating terms of a contract by breeding and reselling mice developed by the lab.  Lawyers filed a federal lawsuit against Nanjing University, claiming it bred and sold two strains of genetically modified mice originally developed by the Bar Harbor based research lab.  Nanjing says it has removed the … [Read more...] about Local News September 22, 2017

Police Chief   (Pittsfield) - The former police chief in Ellsworth is the new chief of Pittsfield's tiny police department.  The Ellsworth American reports town councilors in Pittsfield unanimously picked Harold "Pete" Bickmore to lead the police force.  Bickmore has an impressive resume, including 25-years with the FBI.  He resigned from the Ellsworth Police Department … [Read more...] about Local News – September 21, 2017