The Saint John Episcopal Church in Southwest Harbor is undergoing an extensive renovation project that will serve to improve handicapped access to the building as well as provide new office and meeting space for parish members. According to Senior Parish Warden Ted...
The streets of Bar Harbor may once again hear the sounds of horse and buggy, as the Town Council approved crafting an amendment to the town ordinance to allow horse drawn carriages to carry passengers for hire. The owner of Wild Iris Farm, Sandi Read, and son/stable...
Recent maneuvers to get a sign erected at the Village Green directing traffic to businesses on lower Main Street spurred the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce Business Roundtable into action, resulting in an offer to create a directional signage plan for the downtown...
Bar Harbor – It’s still a little early for spring cleaning, but students in Bar Harbor are offering a chance for you to clear out some of your old stuff and trade it for something new.
The Bar Harbor Town Council opted to pass the town budget along to the Warrant Committee unchanged, despite pleas by several town residents to re-examine the budget in an effort to lower the tax rate from the proposed 4.4 percent increase. The Feb. 14 meeting began...
Construction crews were hard at work Feb. 21 as the ongoing project to improve the Northeast Harbor Marina progressed toward its anticipated early-summer completion date. The $2.2 million project to upgrade marina facilities was approved in May 2010 and ground was...
A dozen business owners and community members representing several downtown businesses and organizations, as well as the Deer Isle-Stonington Chamber of Commerce, gathered Wednesday, February 8, to learn more about the Downtown Network program.
One might call it a great escape for the top-ranked, unbeaten team or a surprising performance by the lower-seeded, nothing-to-lose squad, but when those who witnessed Saturday afternoon’s thrilling, down-to-the-wire Eastern Class B quarterfinal playoff game...
It always is somewhat of a mystery and challenge when a team faces an opponent for the first time, and those two things are magnified when that meeting is on one of Maine’s grandest high school basketball stages. That was the scenario that faced the Mount Desert...
The Maine Lobstermen’s Association has scheduled a series of meetings — one in each of the state’s seven lobster zones — to discuss current research on interactions between lobster gear and endangered whales. The meetings will include an overview on reverse...
