The Mount Desert Island boys and girls basketball teams continue to surge to the Eastern Class B playoffs, with both riding high in their respective regions. As of Jan. 30, the unbeaten Trojan boys had four games remaining on their regular-season schedule, were 14-0...
The state Department of Transportation is in the process of surveying all towns in Maine about their road improvement needs, as part of the DOT’s 2014-2015 biennial transportation plan. That was the word from Hancock County Planning Commission senior planner Jim...
The town of Mount Desert has approached the select boards of Tremont and Southwest Harbor to see if the latter two towns would share in the cost of creating a right-hand turn lane at the stoplight in Somesville. Mount Desert Public Works Director Tony Smith attended...
As part of the ongoing Big Read event on and around Mount Desert Island, the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor will host two events examining racial issues and the treatment of indigenous cultures in Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” On Feb. 3, the...
The Jackson Laboratory has received grants totaling $55,000 from The Betterment Fund, the Sam L. Cohen Foundation and the Dorr Foundation to support the Maine State Science Fair. The Betterment Fund grant provides $10,000 annually to support the fair for three years....
