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A news reporter in coastal Maine for more than 20 years, Bill Trotter writes about how the Atlantic Ocean and the state's iconic coastline help to shape the lives of coastal Maine residents and visitors. He writes about fisheries, marine-related topics, eastern coastal Maine communities and more for the BDN. He lives in Ellsworth. Follow him on Twitter at @billtrotter.

Posted inHancock

A popular but crowded skating pond on MDI could get easier to access

by Bill Trotter January 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Posted inHancock

Mount Desert is taking over an ambulance service as volunteers become scarce

by Bill Trotter January 27, 2022January 27, 2022
Posted inPenobscot

Inmate seeking to use Maine’s ‘death with dignity’ law charged with 12 counts of rape

by Bill Trotter January 26, 2022January 27, 2022
Posted inDown East

Residents return to Milbridge nursing home damaged in storm

by Bill Trotter January 25, 2022January 25, 2022
Posted inDown East

Calais schools employee charged with sexually assaulting student

by Bill Trotter January 24, 2022January 25, 2022
Posted inHancock

Ellsworth group grasps at ideas to save old crumbling jail

by Bill Trotter January 24, 2022January 24, 2022
Posted inHancock

Driver in deadliest incident ever in Acadia National Park plans to plead guilty

by Bill Trotter January 21, 2022January 21, 2022
Posted inDown East

Critics ramp up pressure on Jonesport fish farm, but others voice their support

by Bill Trotter January 20, 2022January 21, 2022
Posted inDown East

Roof of Milbridge nursing home blown off in Monday storm

by Bill Trotter January 18, 2022January 18, 2022
Posted inHancock

A former strip mall movie theater is now an event space for political conservatives in Maine

by Bill Trotter January 17, 2022January 17, 2022
Posted inHancock

Ellsworth fire department’s medical response call volume soars 4,500 percent

by Bill Trotter January 13, 2022January 13, 2022
Posted inDown East

Woman found dead in Lubec is Washington County’s 7th homicide victim in 2 years

by Bill Trotter January 12, 2022January 12, 2022
Posted inDown East

5th person charged with murder in Machias drug robbery that left teen dead

by Bill Trotter January 12, 2022January 12, 2022
Posted inMidcoast

Ellsworth businesses frustrated by lack of action over ‘horrible’ smell of compost

by Bill Trotter January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
Posted inHancock

Even MDI town managers can’t afford to live there

by Bill Trotter January 11, 2022January 10, 2022
Posted inWeather

Maine’s 1st major snowstorm of 2022 shutters schools and government offices

by Bill Trotter January 7, 2022January 7, 2022
Posted inDown East

Milbridge man sentenced to 8 years in prison seeks ‘death with dignity’

by Bill Trotter January 6, 2022January 6, 2022
Posted inHancock

Following tourism boom, Bar Harbor wants to boost bus system funding more than 700 percent

by Bill Trotter January 5, 2022January 5, 2022
Posted inHancock

Ellsworth could bring in a new food vendor for its popular harbor park

by Bill Trotter January 4, 2022January 4, 2022
Posted inBusiness

The 4 large fish farms planned for Maine haven’t started construction

by Bill Trotter December 25, 2021April 20, 2022

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