Politics

Staff from Ellsworth's City Clerk's office along with overseers recounted the municipal ballots in the recently contested municipal election to verify the count between Marc Blanchette and Gene Lyons.

A recount has been requested and will occur on Friday, November 8th in the Ellsworth Municipal election that was held on Tuesday, November 5th.

Here are the straw poll results from the questions regarding Marijuana use and cultivation in the Town of Southwest Harbor

1277 of Ellsworth's 6229 registered voters cast ballots on Tuesday, November 5th in the election. Here are the City Council results.

The deadline has passed for turning in nomination papers for the November election in the City of Ellsworth and the ballot is now set. There will be 5 people running for 3 seats on the Ellsworth City Council.

This year we have two statewide issues to vote on that include a transportation bond and a constitution amendment for the State of Maine.

The Ellsworth Police Department announced that there will be OUI Checkpoints and Roving Details Labor Day Weekend within the City of Ellsworth between the hours of 8PM and 2AM Friday August 30th through Monday, Labor Day, September 2nd.

Do you have a desire to served on the Ellsworth City Council, the Ellsworth School Board or as a Ellsworth Library Trustee? Nomination papers will be available beginning on Monday, August 12th for the November 5th election

At Wednesday, June 12th's special Bar Harbor Town Council Meeting, newly elected Jeff Dobbs was elected as Council Chair by a vote of 4-3.

301 Ellsworth voters went to the polls on Tuesday, June 11th to vote on the School Budget as well as to whether to continue the budget validation referendum process.