The Maine Forest Service will offer a presentation on the hemlock woolly adelgid – an invasive pest threatening Maine’s hemlock trees – at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Bar Harbor.
The seventh annual Flattop 5-Kilometer Road Race/Walk will be Saturday, March 31 at the Lamoine School. The children’s one-mile fun run will start at 9:30 a.m. and the 3.1-mile race at 10 a.m. Last year, the event, hosted by the Lamoine Parks Commission,...
The First will sponsor the Josh Sprague Basketball Tournament on Friday, March 2 at the Mount Desert Island YMCA and Mount Desert Island High School. Proceeds from the tourney will benefit the MDI YMCA’s Josh Sprague Scholarship Fund. Sprague was involved with...
Tremendous individual and team accomplishments on the high school basketball court this winter means extra recognition for Mount Desert Island players and coaches in the Big East Conference. The Trojans have the two best coaches in the conference, a co-player of the...
Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, CEO of the Abbe Museum in downtown Bar Harbor, is traveling to the nation’s capital this week to make the case for museums with the congressional delegations from Maine. She will be one of more than 300 museum professionals from across the...
Applications for this year’s Maine moose permit lottery are available online through the department’s website at mefishwildlife.com. Completing the application online is a convenience that thousands of hunters are using, because the forms are easy to fill out and...
The story of Saturday afternoon’s Eastern Class B high school boys basketball championship game between top-seeded Mount Desert Island and No. 3 Gardiner began with the Trojans, winners of 20 straight contests, having dreams of an undefeated title season dancing...
Foul play is now suspected in the disappearance of a Florida firefighter who has been missing for more than a week, according to police, and a home in Jackson has become a focal point in the search. Jerry Perdomo, 31, of Orange City, Fla., has been missing since Feb....
A one-car accident on Route 102 just before 2 p.m. on Feb. 26 claimed the life of Trenton resident Hope Cummings, 43, who was declared dead at the scene. Cummings was alone traveling north on Route 102 when her 2009 Chevy Cobalt left the road, according to the...
Rockland Public Library and Poetry Month Rockland have announced that this year’s celebration of poetry is underway, beginning with a call fro entries for the Poetry Month Rockland 2012 Poetry Contest. The contest is open to adults (age 20 and older), teens and...
