Elizabeth Walztoni

Just over a year since they opened a new restaurant on Bucksport's Main Street, the couple behind Chalee Thai-Sushi are planning to expand their menu and add dine-in seating in an adjacent office building.

Blue Hill's town administrator job, its top municipal management position, has been empty for more than a year and isn't publicly posted — but the town is still looking for candidates.

Residents of the town of Penobscot who haven't already bought a cemetery plot currently can't be buried in the Hancock County town when they die.

The stove in the galley in Bucksport went up in flames yet again Friday. Rugged coastlines, working harbors, and towns where everyone knows your name.

Two attorneys competing to become the top elected prosecutor in Hancock and Washington counties have opposing positions on how to use limited resources to handle a backlog that has kept some cases in limbo for years.

A family restaurant that departed Bucksport's Main Street last month after less than a year has opened its doors in downtown Blue Hill.

Bucksport has a new deputy police chief, the latest appointment in a handful of recent staffing changes in its public safety departments. BDN

Nancy Raye, the third generation-owner of Raye's Mustard who helped the company survive the death of Maine's sardine industry and grow to an international business, has died

Ike Hubbard, a longtime designer and maker of harvesting rakes for Maine wild blueberries and many other crops, died this month. He was 84. BDN

A procession of locals stopped on the porch of Northern Bay Market in Penobscot on Monday to talk with owner Jamie MacNair, who sat in a rocking chair: a local newspaper editor, a selectman, workers on their lunch breaks.