ELLSWORTH — Zoe Scott, executive director of The Grand Auditorium for the past five years, will step down when her contract expires at the end of July.

ELLSWORTH — When Trenton carpenter Brian Archer thought about fashioning an appropriate Top Drawer cabinet for this year’s award-winning business, The Ellsworth American, he thought about what it takes to put out a newspaper.

ELLSWORTH — Patti Patterson King, a Bangor native who followed her fortune first to Illinois, then Arizona, has returned to Maine to succeed Jane Sanderson as director of marketing and public relations and Maine Coast Memorial Hospital.

ELLSWORTH — It was Jim Newett’s 20th Boston Marathon.

BLUE HILL — Although the amendments and points of order came thick and fast, Blue Hill voters were much in agreement on two issues at Saturday’s annual session.

ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Middle School on Saturday hosted the first annual Cheer Fest.

ELLSWORTH — Firefighters from Ellsworth and Trenton practiced their fire-suppression techniques Sunday by igniting the former home of the late Mary Franklin on State Street.

ELLSWORTH — John Shoppe of Lamoine, 60, suffered a heart attack Friday night while officiating at a game at the Eastern Maine Basketball Tournament in Bangor.

ELLSWORTH — The last act in a cruel drama that began in 1990 will be played out in Washington, D.C., next Wednesday. The act even has a name: the Ruth Moore Act.

ELLSWORTH – A dozen gun rights activists stood in Ellsworth's Whiting Park at the corner of Main and High streets Jan. 19 to demonstrate their opposition to gun control initiatives that have been proposed in the wake of the Dec. 14 rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School.