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“We’re looking to chart a course forward here.”

A 5,000-square-foot community garden is planned at the front of the building in collaboration with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and its Master Gardeners. Clients will take home harvested vegetables and some produce will be available inside the market and used for cooking demonstrations in the building’s teaching kitchen.

At the pandemic height, Everybody Eats! was delivering 170 meals. Now, that number has fallen to about 120 per week, King said, still a jump from pre-COVID times.

$92M awarded to local businesses ELLSWORTH — More than 2,200 Hancock County businesses received a total of $92.24 million as part of the Paycheck Protection Program, a measure intended at staving off economic collapse as businesses around the country scaled or shut down due to the pandemic, according to an analysis by The American of recently released federal data.  The average loan amount to a business based in Hancock County was roughly $42,000. The overwhelming majority of the loans — 2,111 of the 2,201, or 96 percent — were for $150,000 or less, with all of those payments accountin...