Bucksport High track and field star Haley Rose, who won three events at the PVC Championship meet, is our Athlete of the Week ...

If you're a Boston Celtics fan - and many of us in these parts are - an Indiana Pacers/Oklahoma City Thunder NBA Finals, which tips off Thursday, probably wouldn't draw ...

Another change print readers may notice is more color. Because of the limitations of our current press, many pages of The American have been printing in black-and-white. The Maine Trust for Local News ...

By the Department of Homeland Security’s assessment, Hancock County is “lawless” and “endangering Americans and our law enforcement in order to protect violent criminal illegal aliens.” That’s accordi ...

No one can tell me how we got on this list. I’m following the same practice for the 13 years I’ve been here. Our biggest ...

Not long after celebrating a $24,000 grant from the Maine Historic Preservation Commission to help develop architectural ...

Efforts to reinvent the Union River Center for Innovation (URCI) recently received a boost from a $3,500 Coworking ...

"We can regulate cannabis businesses in any number of ways. How many there are, where they are, how big they can be,” City ...

A sprawling six-building, 100,000-square-foot facility dominating the Prospect Harbor coastline, formerly the Stinson Seafood ...

She was a leader, strong in her convictions while also fair when carrying out her goals. I truly believe that what Ellsworth ...

GOULDSBORO — Gouldsboro Police assisted Maine State Police with a motor vehicle complaint on Route 1 May 16.

A concerned citizen reported a deer being stuck in a fence, but the animal left by the time police arrived May 26.