Bucksport High track and field star Haley Rose, who won three events at the PVC Championship meet, is our Athlete of the Week ...

If you're a Boston Celtics fan - and many of us in these parts are - an Indiana Pacers/Oklahoma City Thunder NBA Finals, which tips off Thursday, probably wouldn't draw ...

Another change print readers may notice is more color. Because of the limitations of our current press, many pages of The American have been printing in black-and-white. The Maine Trust for Local News ...

By the Department of Homeland Security’s assessment, Hancock County is “lawless” and “endangering Americans and our law enforcement in order to protect violent criminal illegal aliens.” That’s accordi ...

Not long after celebrating a $24,000 grant from the Maine Historic Preservation Commission to help develop architectural ...

Efforts to reinvent the Union River Center for Innovation (URCI) recently received a boost from a $3,500 Coworking ...

Franklin Savings Bank will host a Grand Opening Celebration for its new branch on State Street on Monday, June 9, from 4-5:30 p.m. The public is invited to ...

The Trenton Solid Waste Committee is offering a free junk mail reduction workshop at the Trenton Town Office on Thursday, June 12, at 7 p.m.

A talk about the many farmers and makers in the area will take place at the Ellsworth Public Library on Thursday, June 12, from 6-7 p.m.

The South Street Quintet, a Bagaduce Music jazz quintet coached by Scott Cleveland, will perform at Bagaduce Music on Monday, June 9, from 7-7:45 p.m.

No one can tell me how we got on this list. I’m following the same practice for the 13 years I’ve been here. Our biggest ...

"We can regulate cannabis businesses in any number of ways. How many there are, where they are, how big they can be,” City ...