Lisa DeMuro, owner of Walkin’ the Dog in Bar Harbor, is in the business of pets — and business is good. “The pet industry is huge and it just gets bigger every year,” said DeMuro. “It’s one of the few that are out there in this economy that aren’t floundering.”...
The studio of artist and events organizer Christina Heiniger is a lively world of color and light, her motifs an assemblage of cheer and whimsy that evoke a child-like sensibility, but expressed with sophisticated skill. Heiniger, whose events-organizing ways are also...
Babies and toddlers — with the help of mothers, caregivers, Southwest Harbor Public Library children’s librarian Susan Plimpton, and a library volunteer — got a chance to see a fire truck and firefighting gear up close when Southwest Harbor Fire Department firefighter...
Plans for a big Halloween fundraising bash are underway for Saturday, Oct. 29 — and volunteers are needed to pull it off. Local restaurateur Bobbie Lynn Hutchins, who also founded a social-activism group called United World Citizens, said she is organizing the event...
Lobster fishermen who fish 49 percent of their traps in a zone adjacent to their own — but none in their own zone — may be adhering to the letter of the law, but they are violating its spirit. That was the consensus of attendees at the most recent meeting of the...
