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An Ellsworth woman is dead and three other people injured after a chain-reaction crash in Surry. The Hancock County Sheriff's Department reports the crash happened at approximately 5:35 Wednesday evening on the Surry Road in Surry. A Subaru Outback driven by Thomas Bugbee, 62, of Blue Hill was traveling west, as was a Honda Civic driven by Daniel McLaughlin, 36, of Massachusetts. A Chevrolet Trailblazer, driven by Kathleen Anderson, 66, of Ellsworth, was traveling in the eastbound lane.

SURRY, Maine (WABI) - Authorities are investigating a crash in Surry that killed a woman from Ellsworth and sent three people to the hospital. It happened around 5:30 Wednesday night on the Surry Road in Surry. Police say 62-year-old Thomas Bugbee from Blue Hill tried to pass several vehicles, and...

SURRY — Hancock County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a three-vehicle fatal crash, which claimed the life of Kathleen Anderson, 66, of Ellsworth on the Surry Road Wednesday around 5:35 p.m. Lt. Tim Cote said the crash occurred when a westbound 2019 Subaru Outback tried to pass several vehicles and while...

BANGOR, Maine: An Aroostook County man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced. According to court records, between approximately July 2018 and May 2019, members of the conspiracy obtained methamphetamine in western and...

BANGOR, Maine—A Lebanon, Maine man was sentenced today in federal court for distributing fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced. Chief U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy sentenced Angel Valle, 55, to 10 years in prison and four years of supervised release. Valle pleaded guilty in February 2020. According...

BANGOR, Maine—An Eddington man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing firearms after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced. U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. sentenced Amilio Christopher Samaroo, 56, to 10 months in prison and three years...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - The Maine CDC reported 122 new cases of COVID-19 in the state Thursday. Penobscot County shows 19 new cases. Kennebec County has 18 more cases. Somerset County added 14. Aroostook, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, and Washington counties show no change. Piscataquis County reports one less case than Wednesday.

ORRINGTON, Maine (WMTW) - The Calvary Chapel church in Orrington is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Gov. Mills’ administration from enforcing or reinstating any pandemic-related restrictions due to the delta variant. In the petition filed with the Supreme Court, Chapel officials claimed any restrictions would violate their religious...

STATEWIDE — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday the biggest one-day uptick in COVID-19 cases since May. There were 120 new cases, pushing the total number of cases since the pandemic began to 70,261. According to the Maine CDC, there were 14 new cases in Somerset...

ELLSWORTH — The COVID-19 pandemic is a numbers game and remains so even as emergency orders have been lifted across the U.S. For Maine, the numbers are low, but are on the rise. Looking at the same time period last year, there are more positive cases, more hospitalizations and more...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - After a difficult year for many people, Winterport Pizza is helping feed the community. On the last Friday of every month, they offer a free family meal deal for anyone who needs it. This includes a 14 inch, one topping pizza, bread sticks, salad, and a...

ELLSWORTH — A three-story, 12-unit apartment building at 64 Pine St. is up for preliminary review by the Ellsworth Planning Board. The lot directly behind it on Spruce Street is included in the plans and will be turned into a two-way entranceway and 18-space parking lot. The Pine Street lot is the former site of the “Tilden House,” a one-time boarding house that also housed a restaurant in its storied past. It was long unoccupied before being razed earlier this year. The proposed development is located in the downtown zone and urban core.

A condensed version of the Bangor State Fair will start next week, a year after the 2020 edition of the fair was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The abbreviated version of the 170-year-old fair will open at Bass Park on Thursday, Aug. 5 and run through Sunday, Aug. 8, and will feature only rides, games and food vendors. Other typical offerings, including agricultural events, truck and tractor pulls, the demolition derby, live music and the petting zoo, are on hold for this year, though fair organizers said they plan to have the full nine-day fair in 2022.

Summer in Maine also goes by another name: Road construction season. That being said, we all know how much it can suck to get caught off guard when we unexpectedly drive up on a road construction or paving site. So consider yourself warned. Several on-ramps to Interstate 95, in the...