The Ellsworth American

12/06/2025

Kaylee Bagley, Lizzie Boles, Sydney Mason and Austyn Atherton all scored in double figures to lead the Ellsworth girls' basketball team to a season-opening win over Caribou.

12/06/2025

Mount Desert Island freshman Avery Norwood had a strong high school basketball debut for the Trojans in a win over Washington Academy on Friday night.

12/04/2025

Longtime Water Street business The Clock Infirmary has closed following the Sept. 9 passing of owner Felix Duschek. If you had timepieces waiting to be picked up, please contact Rebecca Sargent at Jones, Kuriloff & Sargent. She can be reached at 664-0002 or [email protected].

According to a 2005 story in The American, Duschek emigrated to America in 1963 from Germany, where he had trained as an apprentice. “You spend a lot of time on your knees searching for tiny parts, getting slapped, getting your ears pulled, getting you hair pulled, getting kicked in the whatchamacallit,” he said, hastening to add, “not that it hurt. I think it built character.” In Ellsworth, he advanced his craft, opening The Clock Infirmary in 1976. In 1988, the business moved out of his home and to Water St.
His life’s work and collection of clocks hearkened back to another time.

“In the old days, a timepiece was a true luxury item,” he said in 2005. “If you have one in the house it meant you were doing quite well.” The story noted that there was no succession plan. “The future of the Infirmary is Felix’s future. When he goes, it will go with him.”

12/04/2025

The high school basketball season is set to tip off tonight, with the Deer Isle-Stonington girls and boys heading up Route 15 to take on Greenville.

12/03/2025

The Trenton Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to 571 Bar Harbor Road for a reported vehicle fire at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 3. Upon arrival, crews found a 2007 Chevy utility-body truck engulfed in flames.

The Trenton Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to 571 Bar Harbor Road for a reported vehicle fire at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 3. Upon arrival, crews found a 2007

12/03/2025

The city of Ellsworth will table a conversation about the “dissolution” of the Assessing Department, instead opting to seek an outside contractor to assist current city staff and recommend improvements to the department.

The city of Ellsworth will table a conversation about the “dissolution” of the Assessing Department, instead opting to seek an outside contractor to assist current city staff and recommend improvements

12/03/2025

Janis Garland has lived in her home on North Street in Ellsworth for roughly 40 years.

12/02/2025

Brick House Soups may have only recently started to serve up steaming soups and sourdough melts to its customers at its storefront in downtown Ellsworth, but the comfort food restaurant has been in the works for years now.

Brick House Soups may have only recently started to serve up steaming soups and sourdough melts to its customers at its storefront in downtown Ellsworth, but the comfort food restaurant

12/02/2025

The Ellsworth High boys' basketball team will be a force to reckon with in a restructured Class B North, while Mount Desert Island, led by James Witham, will be a contender as well.

The Ellsworth High boys' basketball team will be a force to reckon with in a restructured Class B North, while Mount Desert Island, led by James Witham, will be a

12/01/2025

The following students have been named to the first quarter honor roll at Ellsworth High School:

12/01/2025

Ellsworth native Kaela Springer has become one of the country's top collegiate divers, and set a Rochester University school record in a meet on Nov. 22.

12/01/2025

Castine Historical Society Director Kate McMahon along with Collections Manager Jules Thomson recently discovered two unexploded War of 1812 black powder cannonballs in the collections storage.