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Downeast Innovation Fund awards $95,000 in grants ELLSWORTH — The Maine Community Foundation’s Downeast Innovation Fund has awarded $95,000 in grants to 11 nonprofits located in or serving Hancock and Washington counties. Launched in 2018, the Downeast Innovation Fund Grant program supports nonprofit organizations that provide programs to improve or increase entrepreneurship and innovation in business and the local economies in Hancock and Washington counties. The 2020 grantees include: City of Ellsworth, to enhance targeted programming and technical infrastructure aimed at graduating exi...

Much too little, way too late Dear Editor: Last week a vice president from Brookfield Renewables — the Canadian owners of the Ellsworth and Graham Lake dams — made a statement to our community through an op-ed to the EA. This message comes after they have fought for over eight years to maintain the status quo of drawdowns at Graham Lake and horrific ongoing fish kills at the turbines. Now they are proposing that the community should be satisfied that they will “voluntarily” limit drawdowns for a few months next summer and if licensed provide safe upstream passage for salmon, eels, ale...

Mask sales to support veteran housing, Pride LAMOINE — Kasey Jordan has been helping her community for years. And she is only a junior in high school. The Lamoine resident, Mount Desert Island High School and Hancock County Technical Center student and Girl Scout is often found working on initiatives that benefit her neighbors.  Currently, Kasey is busy sewing masks that she can sell to raise money to fund her project to earn her Gold Award for Girl Scouts. Her work is having a ripple effect, reaching the Ellsworth High School Gender/Sexuality Diversity Alliance (GSDA) and even local busin...