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Bill Trotter

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Covers:  fisheries, bar harbor, marine issues, maine breweries, environment, acadia national park, anything lobster, mount desert island
Doesn't Cover: the arts, sports
Coastal Maine writer for @bangordailynews. ATL native. Easternmost daily news print/web reporter in the USA. #fisheries #oceans #climate & other stuff 📰🦞🔭

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Bill Trotter’s Biography

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I have worked in television (WCSH in Portland, Maine and ABC News in London) and have been a newspaper reporter in Maine for more than 15 years. I am a rock band drummer, a certified SCUBA diver, husband and dad. I grew up in Atlanta and have lived in Connecticut, Delaware, Wisconsin, London and Philadelphia prior to Maine.

Bill Trotter’s Journalist Portfolio

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Infamous art thief revisits criminal past in Ellsworth

Infamous art thief revisits criminal past in Ellsworth

ELLSWORTH, Maine - It has been nearly 50 years since notorious criminal Myles J. Connor Jr. stepped foot insi…

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Feds to tighten rope rules for lobster fishermen

Feds to tighten rope rules for lobster fishermen

ELLSWORTH, Maine - In 2009, federal regulators set their sights on groundlines that linked lobster traps on t…

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Is there 'green' to be found in invasive green crabs?

Is there 'green' to be found in invasive green crabs?

ORONO, Maine - Fishermen, regulators and scientists are trying to determine if the booming population of inva…

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Maine's beer industry continues to brew double-digit growth

Maine's beer industry continues to brew double-digit growth

It's not unusual for people who enjoy the taste of beer to envy those who make their living brewing malt-flav…

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Elver fishery boom generates memories of 1990s urchin bust

Elver fishery boom generates memories of 1990s urchin bust

Elvers, the spaghetti-thin transparent juvenile American eels, may be the most sought-after commercial marine…

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Alarmingly warm water in Gulf of Maine bringing changes

Alarmingly warm water in Gulf of Maine bringing changes

Ed Monat, a seasonal tour boat operator and scallop fisherman from Bar Harbor, has seen a lot in his more tha…

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Articles

MDI inn whose owner died in May has been sold for $1.75M

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By Bill Trotter Verified
| Bangor Daily News Verified
A Southwest Harbor inn where the owner and another man were found dead more than two months ago has new owners. The Lindenwood Inn is being purchased by two Bar Harbor residents, according to documents filed in the Hancock County Registry of Deeds. Machias Savings Bank agreed on July 17 to loan the duo, Diana Chiriac and Tsvetomir Nikolov, $1.75 million to acquire the inn property at 118 Clark Point Road, registry documents indicate.
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Robbins Lumber co-owner dies of injuries from mill fire and explosion

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By Bill Trotter Verified
| Bangor Daily News Verified
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Robbins Lumber co-owner dies of injuries from May 15 mill explosion

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By Bill Trotter Verified
| Bangor Daily News Verified
Alden Robbins, a co-owner of Robbins Lumber who was severely injured in a May 15 fire and explosion at the company’s Searsmont mill, has died, according to his family. “It is with profound sadness that the Robbins family announces the passing of Alden J. Robbins, who died on July 2, 2026, from injuries sustained in the tragic accident at Robbins Lumber on May 15, 2026,” the family said in a statement released Friday afternoon.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Beat reporter.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, but not for my job.

How is social media changing news?

It is accelerating the pace of news but making it more egalitarian at the same time. There is an audience for everything/anything online.