BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 5, 2024
After various delays due to rain, lightning and a truck breakdown carrying a crane, the largest elm in Blue Hill was taken down on Aug. 29, along with another elm next to it. The two elms, located on Tenney Hill between the First Congregational Church and George Stevens Academy’s Hinkley House property, had been infected with Dutch elm disease. A third tree, 75 years old, was removed elsewhere on GSA’s main campus the previous week. Blue Hill tree warden Phil Norris counted the rings on the larger tree’s stump and determined it was 158 years old, which means it was planted in 1866.