Sales totals for the Mount Desert Island area plummeted drastically in November, according to statistics recently released by the state Bureau of Revenue Services.
Sales totals for the Mount Desert Island area plummeted drastically in November, according to statistics recently released by the state Bureau of Revenue Services. The downward trend was also apparent at the state and county levels, though not as drastically as in the...
The Mount Desert Island swim teams hosted Brewer in a dual-meet Jan. 13 at the Mount Desert Island YMCA and, in the end, the Witches had no answers for the Trojans’ spell-binding pool performances. In the girls meet, MDI won 134-52, while in the boys meet, MDI...
The Mount Desert Island indoor track squads were back in action Jan. 14 in a Penobscot Valley Conference-Eastern Maine Indoor Track League meet in the University of Maine field house. Leading the charge for the islanders were first-place finishers Nora Hubbell (mile),...
Submissions are invited for the 2012 Friends of Acadia poetry contest. Established in 1998, the Friends of Acadia Poetry Prize is awarded biannually to promote and recognize distinctive nature poetry. Three winning poems will be published in the Friends of Acadia...
Bar Harbor Police Sgt. David Kerns said an investigation is underway into a reported burglary at the Willis’ Rock Shop on Main Street in Bar Harbor sometime between the evening of Jan. 6 and the morning of Jan. 9. As of Tuesday morning, the owners of the shop...
Orono – The 16th annual Martin Luther King Junior breakfast was held at the University of Maine in Orono Monday.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader who was born Jan. 15, 1929. The holiday was first celebrated in 1986. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the country’s most important figures in the civil rights movements of the...
The Bar Harbor Parks and Recreation Committee unanimously approved a request by several lower Maine Street business owners to put an informational sign at the Village Green along Firefly Lane and Mt. Desert Street. Spearheaded by Doug Smith, owner of the Maine Street...
Dr. Edison Liu, president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, visited the State House on Jan. 10. Pictured with Liu, left, is Sen. Brian Langley, R-Ellsworth, left, and Sen. Richard Rosen, R-Bucksport in the well of the State Senate.
