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PublishedMay 19, 2024
‘No courthouse in our neighborhood’: Plans for new Hancock County facility draw outcry
Ellsworth residents criticize the site on Surry Road, raising concerns about the amount of usable land and effect on local traffic.
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PublishedJanuary 16, 2024
Gov. Mills formally requests federal disaster declaration for Maine’s December storm damage
Ten counties in central and western Maine sustained more than $20 million in public infrastructure damage when a powerful storm on Dec. 18 brought historic flooding and widespread power outages to the state.
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PublishedNovember 13, 2022
Doris Grumbach, a prolific author with Maine ties, dies at 104
Grumbach died Nov. 4 at 104. She spent nearly two decades living in down east Maine, where she wrote many of her memoirs and ran a bookshop.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2021
Hancock County deputy killed in crash remembered as kind, young at heart
Deputy Luke Gross' funeral drew hundreds of people to the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.
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PublishedSeptember 27, 2021
Funeral for deputy killed last week to be held Thursday in Bangor
Hancock County Sheriff's Deputy Luke Gross, 44, was struck and killed by a motorist while he was cleaning up debris from an accident on Route 3 in Trenton.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2021
Deputy was cleaning crash debris from road when he was hit by truck
Maine State Police say Deputy Luke Gross, 44, had responded to a crash on Route 3 before he was struck by a small pickup truck. He died at the scene.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2021
Hancock County sheriff’s deputy hit and killed by motorist while responding to call
Deputy Luke Gross was checking on a vehicle that had gone off Route 3 in Trenton when he was hit early Thursday morning. Sheriff Scott Kane called him a ‘credit to his profession.’
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2021
Man who hid in Maine for years now sentenced for 4 rapes in Massachusetts
Ivan Keith already had been sentenced in 2 rapes, and his sentencing in 2 others means he will spend 44 to 50 years in prison.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2021
Nonprofit barred for supporting Black Lives Matter may be allowed back in Maine jail
The Hancock County sheriff cut off a nonprofit recovery coaching service after it expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2021
Counselors from agency that praised Black Lives Matter barred from Hancock County Jail
Hancock County Sheriff Scott Kane canceled the group's contract last summer and defended his decision when questioned this week.
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