Bar Harbor Bank and Trust awards scholarships to local students

For many years Bar Harbor Bank amd Trust has awarded scholarships to local high school graduating seniors to help offset the cost of attending college. Annually the Bank awards $8,500 in scholarships, 16 awards of $500 each, to graduates from Eastport to Deer...

Remembering Former Bucksport Fire Chief Paul McCann – WABI

Remembering Former Bucksport Fire Chief Paul McCannWABIHe knew it was what he wanted to do from the age of 12, and at 16 after skipping school and hitchhiking to Bar Harbor to fight the great fire of 1947, that pretty much confirmed it for him,” said McCann's...

Hampden Senior Citizens trip to Bar Harbor

HAMPDEN, Maine – Area senior citizens are invited to go on a bus trip for a leisure day in Bar Harbor on The trip will cost $33 and includes the bus, tip and $10 toward your lunch.

Abbe Museum Features Maine’s Greatest Mountain – WABI

Abbe Museum Features Maine's Greatest MountainWABIThe Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor is featuring a new exhibit, dedicated to the Greatest Mountain in Maine. Katahdin translates from Penobscot to English as Greatest Mountain. The audio and visual exhibit comes from...

Abbe Museum Features Maine’s Greatest Mountain – WABI

Abbe Museum Features Maine's Greatest MountainWABIThe Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor is featuring a new exhibit, dedicated to the Greatest Mountain in Maine. Katahdin translates from Penobscot to English as Greatest Mountain. The audio and visual exhibit comes from...

Rope Bracelets: The Accessory Must-Have

Bar Harbor is a dreamy vacation spot in the summer. With the crashing of the ocean, breathtaking smell of the salty air and the creamy taste of Gifford’s ice cream it is every Mainer’s perfect get-a-way destination.

Area Arts: Fabric works by Nancy Morgan t first trick the eye

As I walked into the New Hampshire Art Association’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery a few years ago to see an art show, I saw color photographs on the wall. I remember thinking, “I thought this artist did fabric art.” As I walked closer I was...

“Mermaids, A Sailor’s Guide”

Art on West, 78 West Street, Bar Harbor will be presenting recent work by Bass Harbor artist Charles Rasmussen. Charles’ quirky mermaid illustrations are a refreshing departure from his mostly abstract and sculptural work.

New book explores Bar Harbor in the 1920s

What do rumrunners, the Vanderbilts and Henry Ford have in common? They were all part of the landscape of Bar Harbor in the 1920s, according to a new book. “Bar Harbor in the Roaring Twenties,” by Luann Yetter, looks at Bar Harbor in the period between the...
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