The following building permits were issued in Bar Harbor for the weeks ending Jan. 13 and Jan. 20. Jan. 9 West Street Properties LLC, 50 West St.; to construct the interior floors of the hotel, per plan submitted; $11,658,000. Jan. 10 West Street Properties LLC, 10...
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section has revised the total allowable catch for the 2012 northern shrimp fishery to 2,211 metric tons, an increase of 211 metric tons from the originally established total allowable catch,...
• Justin Lipkvich, a Mariaville senior at Mount Desert Island High School in Bar Harbor, has been awarded one of three scholarships by the THINK program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The THINK Scholars Program promotes science, technology and...
The Bar Harbor Planning Department is experiencing some restructuring as the town heads into fiscal year 2013. A number of issues precipitated the shakeup, according to a memo from the town manager to town officials, and during the first in a series of budget...
The proposed ordinance to define, set standards for and regulate rooming houses in the Bar Harbor Land Use Ordinance and code was shelved by the Bar Harbor Town Council on Jan. 18 after councilors learned the YWCA of MDI would have fallen out of compliance with the...
