Author: Bar Harbor News

Residents will be advised to buy a former ferry terminal for $3.5 million to reduce tourist traffic in town. A Town Council committee agreed Tuesday to advise that cruise-ship tender traffic be split between docks downtown and the Eden Street site of t…

A server took a break from shucking oysters and shaking martinis to deliver my supper: a hat-sized bowl of plump, steaming mussels. I’d just finished snowshoeing along the Presumpscot River and was perched at the seafood counter at Scales, an upscale restaurant on a fishing wharf in the Old Port section of Portland, Maine.

The high-speed Cat ferry leaves Portland Harbor, bound for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, on its first run of the season, Friday, June 5, 2009, in Portland, Maine. A Canadian ferry company that stopped service to Bar Harbor in 2009 is exploring a retur…

Turkeys at Tide Mills Organic Farms in Edmunds hang out in the pasture. Turkey farmers say anyone looking to buy a fresh Maine turkey this year for Thanksgiving should be able to find one.

Michael Gorman is a reporter in Nova Scotia who covers Province House, rural communities, and everything in between. Contact him with story ideas at michael.gorman@cbc.ca Bay Ferries, which operates The Cat high-speed ferry, has made enquiries to town …