The Penobscot Valley Conference Class B and Class C golf championships took place Sept. 29 at Jata Highlands Golf Course in Lincoln, with a handful of teams from each class looking to move on to the upcoming state championships. In Class B, Presque Isle (four-golfer,...
The 15th annual Lions Club Triathlon is set to hit Ponds End at Long Pond on Saturday, Oct. 8. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. and the triathlon begins at 9:30 a.m. The three events consist of a four-mile run, 14-mile bike and a four-mile kayak paddle. The event is...
Two days after Oct. 1’s heavy rains doused Mount Desert Island, Route 102A at Seawall remained hard to traverse, due to the usual flooding conditions that overtake this particular dip in the road. Motorists on the scenic route, which leads from Southwest Harbor to...
Maine has more than a century of experience with globalization, according to Lloyd Irland, former state economist and respected forestry expert. Maine’s central role in the 19th century, he said, made many Mainers citizens of the world at that time. Irland, a visiting...
Oct. 3 was a busy evening for rescue crews in Acadia National Park as two late-day incidents required rangers and volunteers to assist stranded and injured hikers after dark in two separate locations. According to rangers, the first call for assistance — which was...
In 1850, there were 10,000 known varieties of apples in Maine. On every farm and homestead they were eaten fresh and used for cooking, drying and for making hard cider. Today, only a handful of apples are commonly available in grocery stores. The Downeast Heirloom...
The Mount Desert Island girls soccer team is down, but not out as the Trojans have five games remaining on their schedule to crawl back into the Eastern Class B playoff race. MDI (2-7, 9.4388 points) is 14th in the Maine Principals’ Association Heal Point...
The Mount Desert Island boys soccer team experienced a lukewarm four-game homestand in recent days, going 2-2 against the likes of Hermon, Caribou, Ellsworth and John Bapst of Bangor. Now the Trojans will be on the road for three of their final four games of the...
The Mount Desert Island volleyball team took the court only once last week, but the match proved Trojans’ biggest challenge of the season, as the islanders squared off against Bucksport Sept. 28 in a competitive home affair. It was the first time the undefeated...
Bonnie McElwee can cross another athletic adventure off her to-do list. The Urbana woman spent much of the summer bicycling across the United States. It’s something she’s wanted to do for 30 years, ever since she saw a group of cross-country riders comeSource: The...
