The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section will meet via conference call on Nov. 30, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., to discuss revising which three days per week landings would be allowed (currently set at Monday, Thursday and Friday). The...
The Southwest Harbor/Tremont Chamber of Commerce announced this week its office will be closed for the season and not reopen for regular hours until late spring. The Chamber Board continues to meet on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 a.m. at Harbor House and...
The Bar Harbor Town council voted Nov. 15 to ask the planning board to re-examine a series of proposed land use ordinance amendments known as the Town Hill Mini-Plan . The move could set the stage for a revived plan to go before voters, using as a starting point a...
Taxable sales in the Mount Desert Island area dropped significantly in September following a peak in August, according to data recently released by the Maine Bureau of Revenue Services. The decrease marks an apparent end to the steady incline in sales totals that...
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating the discharges of small marine vessels, according to a press release from the office of U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine. The legislation, included in...
