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MaineDOT Work on Tenney Hill/Main St. Starting Sept. 8

09/03/2026 (Roads and Sidewalks)

A MaineDOT contractor will be working on the storm drain system in the vicinity of the intersection of Tenney Hill/Main St. and Parker Point Road (roughly between the Congregational Church and Town Hall). The work is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, September 8 and is expected to continue through the rest of the week.

Temporary No Parking Areas. The construction crews will require access to the catch basins along this segment of the road, some of which are on the curb side of marked parking spaces. MaineDOT and the contractor will be placing cones with “NO PARKING” signs where the work will take place, and will move these cones to preserve empty parking spaces as the work progresses.

Potential Single-Lane Traffic. Although the crew hopes to avoid needing to close any of the traffic lanes, this may prove to be necessary. If so, the contractor will have flaggers in place to coordinate alternating traffic in a single open lane.

Special Town Meeting Aug. 31, 2026

08/24/2026 (Elections/Voting)

A Special Town Meeting will be held on August 31, 2026, at 5:30 PM, in the board meeting room in the Town Hall. The regularly scheduled Select Board meeting will proceed immediately after.

The warrant may be read here; it contains two articles in addition to the election of the moderator. The meeting will be open only, meaning that no absentee ballots will be available. Any person registered to vote in Blue Hill may come join the discussion and cast their votes in person.

The results may be read here.

2026 Tax Bills

08/20/2026 (Town Office)

The 2026 taxes were committed 8/20/2026 and will be due 10/15/2026. We apologize for the lateness of these bills. We will be folding and mailing them out as quickly as possible, but in the meantime, you are welcome to find your bill(s) in the PDFs below. They are organized alphabetically by the last name of the first listed owner. If you notice that your mailing address is incorrect, please fill out and send in this change-of-address form so that your bill reaches you next year. As a reminder, per state statute, the bills are addressed and mailed to whomever owned the property on April 1, 2026; however, anyone is welcome to pay the bill.

Please note that these bills will show any prepayments toward 2026, but they do not display past-due balances. If you think you have a past-due balance, please call the Clerk’s Office and we can check for you. As always, all payments received are applied to the oldest outstanding balance first.

View Tax Bills:

Real Estate 1-9Download
Real Estate A-CDownload
Real Estate D-HDownload
Real Estate I-PDownload
Real Estate Q-ZDownload
Personal Property ALLDownload

If you have questions about the contents of your bill, or if you believe that the assessed value of your property is inaccurate, please visit this page and, if that does not answer your question, contact the Clerk’s Office. If you have questions about the mil rate, which this year increased from 9.35 to 10.10, or about the timeline of issuing bills, please contact the Select Board, who serve as the Board of Assessors.

Where is my bill?

Personal Property: Mailed 8/21.

Real Estate: 1-9 and A-G mailed 8/24 morning. H-S mailed 8/24 afternoon. T-Z mailed 8/25 morning.

Camper Trailer Registration – New Requirement

07/28/2026 (Town Office)

Effective 7/29/2026, the excise tax on camper trailers (including horse trailers with living quarters) will be calculated according to the length of trailer, not the MSRP. Therefore, in order to register or reregister your camper trailer, we will need you to know the trailer’s length, excluding the hitch, rounded down to the nearest foot. We only need you to supply this information once; our system should then keep it for future renewals. We understand that the added requirement might be frustrating, but in most cases, this change will reduce the amount of excise tax you pay. We will also no longer need new trailers to be registered between 9:00 AM and noon; you may do so any time we are open. Please contact the clerk’s office with any questions.

Blue Hill Mountain Cell Tower Work

07/11/2026 (Community Events, Recreation)

Blue Hill Heritage Trust has advised the Town that, due to work being conducted on the wireless carriers’ equipment on Blue Hill Mountain, the hiking trails on Blue Hill Mountain will be closed on Monday, July 13. In addition, the field to the south of the parking area will be used to stage equipment and as a helicopter landing area, starting Sunday, July 12.

There likely will be an additional closure, either later in the same week or early in the next. We will post any associated closures when the specific timing is known.

Primary Election Tomorrow, 6/9

06/08/2026 (Elections/Voting)

The state Primary Election will take place tomorrow, June 9, in the Gordon Emerson Auditorium above the Town Office. The polls will be open between 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM. The side door by the parking lot offers a wheelchair-accessible route to the polls. We will have a wheelchair-accessible voting booth and an ExpressVote machine set up for voters with visual impairments (or anyone else who would like to use it).

Please note that only enrolled Democrats, enrolled Republicans, and unenrolled voters are eligible to cast a ballot in this primary. Voters enrolled in third parties (Green Independent, Libertarian, etc.) cannot vote in this primary but will be able to vote in the general election in November. The Registrar of Voters will be present as usual to register new voters and update existing registrations, but due to the 15-day waiting period, it is too late to change your party enrollment for this primary.

Any outstanding absentee ballots must be received by the clerk by 8:00 PM to be counted; they may be brought into the polling place in person or dropped in the secure ballot drop box by the side door. Please do not drop them in the small black tax/sewer payment drop box by the front door – we will not check it before close of polls!

We are pleased to announce that the Town Office will be open in a limited capacity during our normal hours (8:00 AM to 4:00 PM). Please note that there will only be one clerk on staff; our priority is to serve residents with limited mobility so that they can consolidate trips to Town Hall, and if you bring a long or complicated transaction, we reserve the right to ask you to come back on a day when we are fully staffed. The Town Office will also be sporadically closed throughout the day when that clerk needs meal or bathroom breaks.

Transfer Station Scale Closed

05/19/2026 (Transfer Station)

The Blue Hill/Surry Transfer Station scale is currently closed awaiting a repair. The Transfer Station is still open for all transactions that do not require the scale. In the meantime, Ellsworth Waste Services (15 Industrial Rd, Ellsworth) can take demolition debris. We apologize for the inconvenience and are hoping to have it up and running again soon. We will update this post when the issue has been resolved.

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