In 2014, 10 Maine hospital chief executive officers gathered to work on an opportunity to secure a federal grant to support chronic disease management in rural Maine. In early 2015, the group was notified that it had been awarded the Maine Rural Health Innovations...
The Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram have won top honors for daily and weekend newspapers in the Maine Press Association’s 2015 Better Newspaper Contest. Among weekly newspapers, the Mount Desert Islander of Bar Harbor and The Republican Journal...
Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR: The 41st Annual Holiday Craft Fair of the Island Arts Association will be held December 5-6 at the Atlantic Oceanside Conference Center on Route 3 in Bar Harbor. Hours...
From early spring, with the jarring announcement that Damariscotta’s 50-year-old Maine Coast Book Shop and Cafe was up for sale, all efforts were made to reassure worried patrons that their favorite bookshop was in no danger of disappearing and that, in fact, as...
The Deer Isle-Stonington Chamber of Commerce hosted members of the Bar Harbor Chamber for an Island tour on October 8. Island chamber board vice president Ron Dahlen and members Charlotte Davis and Bill Mitchell led the tour, meeting three Bar Harbor chamber members...
Coffee connoisseurs who made trips to or through Ellsworth are mourning the loss of one of the area’s better-known brew stewards. A Lamoine resident, Mike was the morning counter person on the kitchen store’s first floor, where coffee, tea, chocolate and...
From early spring, with the jarring announcement that Damariscotta’s 50-year-old Maine Coast Book Shop and Cafe was up for sale, all efforts were made to reassure worried patrons that their favorite bookshop was in no danger of disappearing and that, in fact, as...
PERRY, Maine (NEWS CENTER) – Two men, including a town selectmen, were arrested Friday on arson charges. The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office arrested Town of Perry Selectmen Scott A. MacNichol, and Jeffrey Morrison on arson, perjury and insurance fraud...
All those folks are here to see our beautiful fall foliage. Too bad there isn’t really any yet, at least not in these parts.
As I write this, the Coast Guard has called off the search for survivors of the El Faro, a cargo ship which was lost at sea on Oct. 1 during Hurricane Joaquin in the Bahamas. Among the 33 crew members are five Maine Maritime Academy graduates: Capt.
