Hancock news from the BDN for 12/11/2019

Hancock County news updates from the Bangor Daily News.

Hancock County news from the BDN for Wednesday, December 11, 2019

The landfill where you once dumped your garbage might be a great spot for a solar farm

If you want an example of how attitudes in Maine toward environmental stewardship have changed over the past 30 years, you might not have to go any further than your local landfill.
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Feds say blood sample taken from driver in Acadia crash that killed 3 is admissible

Despite a defense attorney’s objections, the results of a blood test taken from a man charged in the deadliest incident ever in Acadia National Park should be allowed as evidence in the manslaughter case against him, federal prosecutors said Monday.
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Facing a declining lobster industry, this Maine lobsterman has a Plan B

For a 48-year-old lobsterman, Jeremy Tyler considers himself lucky. But given that the lobster industry appears headed for decline, and concerns about proposed regulations to protect right whales, Tyler wonders whether lobstering is a healthy business to remain in.
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Blue Hill high school wants up to $2,000 more per student from its 7 towns

George Stevens Academy wants to charge higher tuition to offset an expected $650,000 shortfall from a drop in its international student enrollment.
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40 ‘mighty mice’ from Jackson Lab launched into space

They will spend about four weeks in outer space, and the resulting data will help researchers explore how myostatin inhibitors could be used to treat muscle and bone loss.
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Cianbro chairman indicted in cannon shot that injured ref at Maine Maritime football game

Peter Vigue, chairman of the board at Pittsfield-based Cianbro Corp., has been indicted in Hancock County on three charges stemming from the firing of a small cannon at a Maine Maritime Academy football game in September.
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Lobstermen’s union says former CEO and his parents embezzled funds, committed fraud

A union that represents Maine lobstermen has filed a lawsuit against the former CEO of its wholesale business and his parents in federal court in Bangor, alleging that the family defrauded and stole from the union after selling it their wholesale lobster business two years ago.
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Coast Guard: Sailor’s 911 call that sparked 2-day search off MDI was because she was ‘cold and uncomfortable’

The 911 call that prompted a two-day search last month for a sailboat off Mount Desert Island came from a boat passenger who said she was “cold and uncomfortable” and “was not sure she was going to get warm again,” a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Wednesday.
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Sailboat that spawned 2-day search near MDI abandoned off Virginia coast

The three passengers on board were rescued from the foundering 40-foot sailboat named Dove by a passing cargo ship.
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