A week before the Maine Forensics Association-sanctioned State Speech Tournament at Brunswick, the Mount Desert Island High School speech team was hard at work, practicing its ensemble piece. Linnea Erickson, Marisa Prestinari, Caitlin Denegre, Jane Pappas and Malcolm...
The KidWind Project, one of Wind Powering America’s Wind for Schools project partners, announced that applications are now available online for the 2012 Wind Senators training program in Bar Harbor, Maine, on July 24 – August 4. KidWind is looking for 25...
Storyteller Jim Weiss will entertain families at the Southwest Harbor Public Library on Friday, Feb. 3 at 6:30 p.m., when he will tell “true American stories from the era of Mark Twain.” Some will be from his new recording, “Women in Blue or Grey:...
The Mount Desert Island swim teams hit the road Monday night, Jan. 30 to take on Bangor in hopes of overtaking the host Rams in the state’s Queen City. However, the Class A hosts proved too tough for the visiting Class A Trojans. The Bangor boys and girls...
The Mount Desert Island boys and girls basketball teams continue to surge to the Eastern Class B playoffs, with both riding high in their respective regions. As of Jan. 30, the unbeaten Trojan boys had four games remaining on their regular-season schedule, were 14-0...
The state Department of Transportation is in the process of surveying all towns in Maine about their road improvement needs, as part of the DOT’s 2014-2015 biennial transportation plan. That was the word from Hancock County Planning Commission senior planner Jim...
The town of Mount Desert has approached the select boards of Tremont and Southwest Harbor to see if the latter two towns would share in the cost of creating a right-hand turn lane at the stoplight in Somesville. Mount Desert Public Works Director Tony Smith attended...
As part of the ongoing Big Read event on and around Mount Desert Island, the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor will host two events examining racial issues and the treatment of indigenous cultures in Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” On Feb. 3, the...
The Jackson Laboratory has received grants totaling $55,000 from The Betterment Fund, the Sam L. Cohen Foundation and the Dorr Foundation to support the Maine State Science Fair. The Betterment Fund grant provides $10,000 annually to support the fair for three years....
Mount Desert Island indoor track athletes were back jumping, running, hurdling, vaulting and throwing in another Penobscot Valley Conference and Eastern Maine Indoor Track League meet Jan. 28 in the University of Maine field house. The Trojan girls, led by the...
