On Jan. 21, six members of the Mount Desert Fire Department and three Acadia National Park employees worked together to remove two buildings along the northwest shore of Long Pond. The National Park Service acquired the buildings as part of its land acquisition...
The Maine Department of Marine Resources issued a clarification of a Jan. 31 Associated Press report that 2011 lobster landings exceeded 100 million pounds. “While we believe this figure to be accurate, it is preliminary,” said DMR Commissioner Patrick Keliher....
A week before the Maine Forensics Association-sanctioned State Speech Tournament at Brunswick, the Mount Desert Island High School speech team was hard at work, practicing its ensemble piece. Linnea Erickson, Marisa Prestinari, Caitlin Denegre, Jane Pappas and Malcolm...
Storyteller Jim Weiss will entertain families at the Southwest Harbor Public Library on Friday, Feb. 3 at 6:30 p.m., when he will tell “true American stories from the era of Mark Twain.” Some will be from his new recording, “Women in Blue or Grey:...
The Mount Desert Island swim teams hit the road Monday night, Jan. 30 to take on Bangor in hopes of overtaking the host Rams in the state’s Queen City. However, the Class A hosts proved too tough for the visiting Class A Trojans. The Bangor boys and girls...
