• Katherine Timko of Bar Harbor has recently been named to the high honor roll for the fall term at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn. Loomis Chaffee is a college preparatory high school school that fosters critical thinking and a global perspective in...
Chris Doyle and friends are scheduled to headline the First Friday Coffeehouse at the Northeast Harbor Library on Jan 6. Doyle is an accomplished pianist and composer currently residing in Boston, Mass. He is originally from Seal Harbor and attended Mount Desert...
The Mount Desert Island boys and girls basketball squads hosted Aroostook County opponents in home doubleheaders last week on the island as the Trojans hoped to pick up additional victories as 2011 closed and 2012 began. The Trojans faced Caribou in a doubleheader...
The newly formed College of the Atlantic orchestra is open to community members. The group meets weekly on Wednesdays from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. in Gates Community Center. Participants would practice and perform a range of classical and contemporary music under the...
A new opera tells the story of a man who died in the Maine State Prison in Warren, allegedly due to mistreatment at the hands of prison guards. According to earlier reports in VillageSoup’s Augusta-based Capital Weekly, Victor Valdez, a Dominican immigrant who...
The Southwest Harbor Public Library presents its January artists of the month: Nancy Fairfield and Beth Pomeroy. Nancy Fairfield’s exhibit, “Icons: Windows Into Heaven,” can be viewed on the library’s walls with Byzantine icons, sacred...
The following building permits were issued in Bar Harbor during the week ending Dec. 23. Dec. 22 Mount Desert Island Hospital, 330 Main St.; install a 4-feet by 6-feet sign per Design Review Board approval and plan submitted; $600. Burns, Marians Ltd. Partnership, 69...
As summer drew to a close and residents began prepping for a shift to cooler weather, house fires continued in Bar Harbor, the area’s only air carrier announced plans to call it quits at the county airport, and the state’s top education official paid a...
November brought unseasonably warm temperatures along with several notable legal actions and a shower of falling rocks in Tremont.
As 2011 drew to a close, Mount Desert Island and the region experienced a delayed winter as temperatures climbed into the 50’s during the first half of December resulting in an additional wait for fans of snow and ice-dependent activities. In spite of this...
