Category: Town

Southwest Harbor selectmen voted unanimously Feb. 28 to add six Land Use Ordinance amendments to the May town meeting warrant. Among the proposed changes to the ordinance are clarifications of a number of definitions and lot requirement stand…

A four-minute recording of the Gott’s pit rock-crusher brought an abrupt end to the March 1 workshop of the Tremont Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee.
Bass Harbor resident Charles Rasmussen told the committee that the sound was recorded a…

By a March 5 vote of 4 to 1, the Mount Desert Board of Selectmen approved a 180-day moratorium on the construction of cell towers in Mount Desert. The move comes on the heels of news that joint negotiations between the MDI League of Towns, Ac…

(Editor’s note: This story has been edited to clarify that the moratorium issue was approved to appear on the town meeting warrant for voters to decide.)
By a March 5 vote of 4 to 1, the Mount Desert Board of Selectmen approved sending a 180-…

Bar Harbor tides, as well as sunrise and sunset times.
Wednesday, March 7
High 9:34 a.m. 9:59 p.m.
Low 3:24 a.m. 3:51 p.m.
Sun 5:55 a.m. 5:31 p.m.
Thursday, March 8
High 10:20 a.m. 10:42 p.m.
Low 4:10 a.m. 4:34 p.m.
Sun 5:53 a.m. 5:32 p.m.
Fr…

The Bar Harbor Parks and Recreation committee heard from Conservation Commission chairwoman Jill Weber March 5 regarding the commission’s responsibility under the town’s comprehensive plan. The commission is tasked with creating an Open Space…

Members of the Mount Desert Island League of Towns were in general agreement that the new state law to allow consumer fireworks was a bad idea.
The consensus arose at the league’s Feb. 28 meeting, as part of a discussion of local regulation…

In the Feb. 29 article “Tremont continues discussion on noise standards,” Scott Grierson should have been referred to as a property owner.

In response to Viking, Inc.’s lawsuit against the town of Tremont and Viking’s lien on Tremont Consolidated School for a roofing job, the town has, in turn, filed a cross-claim against its co-defendants — contractor Darren Stover of Ban…

In an effort to improve high-speed Internet access to more Mount Desert communities, the town is seeking to buy into a consortium with numerous other towns in the region in order to effectively bargain with Time Warner Cable to expand the num…

Bar Harbor tides, as well as sunrise and sunset times.
Wednesday, Feb. 29
High 3:21 a.m. 3:55 p.m.
Low 9:47 a.m. 9:59 p.m.
Sun 6:07 a.m. 5:22 p.m.
Thursday, March 1
High 4:13 a.m. 4:51 p.m.
Low 10:43 a.m. 10:56 p.m.
Sun 6:06 a.m. 5:23 p.m.
Fr…

About 20 Bass Harbor property-owners came before the Tremont Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee on Feb. 23 to see if restrictions could be worked out to address heavy industrial noise in the town’s residential areas.
The committee had befo…