Caribbean Princess cancels Bar Harbor visit

Area businesses anticipating a surge of cruise ship visitors will instead get an unexpected break as a ship scheduled to arrive in Bar Harbor today opts out of the visit.

Photos: Rachel Platt’s Maine Vacation

It was a great way to avoid the heat a trip to Maine where you had to wear jackets! The Platt/Fogle family seeing America with an 18 hour car trip to Bar Harbor.

Planning Board wavers on Appendix C Ratification ordinance

At a public hearing Aug. 3, the Bar Harbor Planning Board delayed a scheduled vote on whether to recommend the Appendix C Ratification Ordinance to voters at the November town meeting, citing logical inconsistencies within the ordinance that could potentially lead to...

Schoodic hosts archeological researcher

Julia Clark, curator of collections at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, will speak about recent museum archaeological research around Frenchman Bay, including work in Bar Harbor, Sorrento and Gouldsboro, with background on past museum research in the area, dating back...

Financial turmoil lets towns, cities lower interest load

There is an upside to all the financial turmoil and the sluggish economic recovery of the past few months: Maine towns and cities are taking advantage of very low interest rates to refinance debt, with significant savings for taxpayers.
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