Author: Bar Harbor News

A large crowd of well wishers was on hand for the Oct. 20 ribbon cutting ceremony in Mount Desert Island Hospital’s new Oncology and Hematology Department.

VillageSoup newspapers received 27 awards during the annual Maine Press Association Fall Conference, held Oct.

Click the image above to view a slideshow. The scenery is astonishing as soon as you take off from coastal Maine’s Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport – and it only gets better during an evening circumnavigation of Mount Desert Island.

Vernon Cox is the featured performer at the Southwest Harbor Public Library Pumpkin Festival on Thursday, Oct.

College of the Atlantic President David S. Hales announced Monday that he is leaving the college at the end of the 2010-2011 school year.