With spring at its peak, May was a busy month for both Mount Desert Island and the nation. Town meetings brought new faces to municipal governments, the country and the island reacted to the death of a terrorist mastermind and tragedy would occur in Seal Cove.
On May 2, a team of US Navy Seals conducted a raid on a compound in Pakistan, and in the process killed al-Qaeda leader and mastermind of the Sept. 11 …