The Northeast Harbor Library announced it will provide free inter-library loans beginning in January to all patrons. While the library used to charge $2 per item that came from another library, new library director Brook Minner said, “We felt it was important to...
Rotarians raise funds to meet Gates’ polio challenge For most Americans, polio is a distant memory or a past epidemic as irrelevant to modern life as the bubonic plague. In India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, however, it remains a very real and endemic disease...
Mark your calendars for Mark Twain. Acclaimed actor John Pogson is bringing the wit and words of the famed American humorist and author to Mount Desert Island, to jump-start a month-long celebration of reading and community called The Big Read. “Mainers love a good...
Residents at the MDI and Ellsworth Housing Authority had a little something extra under the tree this year, courtesy of the employees of Mount Desert Island Hospital. Hospital employees selected tags from a giving tree and filled gift wishes for residents. In all,...
Acadia National Park’s Teacher–Ranger–Teacher program gives classroom teachers an opportunity to personally connect with the many different teaching resources in a national park. The popular program focuses on teachers from schools with ethnically diverse or...
