A community group dedicated to restoring Bar Harbor’s Park Street Playground will be holding a puppet show fundraiser on Feb. 11 with all proceeds going toward the restoration project. The show will be performed by the Frog Mountain Puppeteers at the Bar Harbor...
Hancock County Downeast Audubon is inviting applications for two scholarship opportunities for week-long residential nature programs at the National Audubon Society’s Hog Island Camp, off Maine’s Midcoast. A Hancock County educator will receive a full scholarship...
On Saturday, Feb. 18 from noon to 3:30 p.m., join Acadia National Park ranger Angi King Johnston and local naturalist Rich MacDonald for a winter bird walk along the bar to Bar Island followed by a talk at the Abbe Museum. Meet at the Natural History Center on 6...
The Connecticut Bond Commission last approved $291 million in state borrowing to construct The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Conn. In October, the Connecticut General Assembly voted in favor of sending the bond proposal to the Commission, with...
A Maine Forest Service survey crew will soon begin the hunt for signs of an invasive insect in an entirely new location — Mount Desert Island. The hemlock woolly adelgid is already damaging trees along southern coastal Maine, but has yet to be found in points further...
Applications are being accepted for the Monhegan Artists’ Residency for emerging Maine artists. This summer, the program will provide five-week residencies on Monhegan Island for two Maine-based visual artists. The application deadline is March 16 (postmarked). For...
Few late bloomers bloom as late as Charles Bradley. The singer, who headlines the Brighton Music Hall tonight, spent most of his life working odd jobs as an institutional cook and a handyman, in outposts from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Alaska.
A gaggle of bridesmaids in pastel-hued gowns lined up behind the white-bedecked bride, as costume director Jean Porter fussed with lace collars, puffy sleeves, petticoats, bodices, frilly hems, cutaway jackets and pleated skirts. It was the “costume parade” at the...
This is a compelling story showing you how Nadine’s transformation from a woman doing what she has to to protect her family becomes a woman who will do whatever she has to in order to get what she has only read about.
All this Super Bowl hype is making me, well, hyper. Can we please stop talking and start playing? Toss the coin and kick the damn ball, already. Is there any annual sporting event that is hyped and dissected more than the Super Bowl? There is no denying the National...
