With a black bear high atop a tree in Ellsworth, police can only wait for it to come down

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 24, 2020

A black bear that has been hanging out near Ellsworth Elementary Middle School for the last several days climbed a tree on Wednesday morning, giving animal welfare workers a chance to put a tranquilizer dart into it so it can be relocated before it or anybody in the area can be harmed. Except for this: The bear was too high in the tree to make the dart a safe option. And it wouldn’t come down on its own.