Acadia to charge per bus rider
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — Acadia stands to collect a lot more money from tour bus operators once the National Park Service’s (NPS) new standardized, nationwide ...
Hancock County Jail log Feb. 11-14
The following were arrested or booked into the Hancock County Jail between Feb. 11 and 14: Christopher M. Saenz, 35, Thomaston, back for court. Joseph ...
Vehicle ban worries wormers
AUGUSTA — The age-old conflict over access to Maine’s tidal flats got another airing last week during a public hearing on proposed legislation in the ...
Transfer station hours slashed
BAR HARBOR — The town’s transfer station’s hours are set to change June 1, following a town council vote last week. “One of the ways ...
Rotary Club announces $10K in gifts
BAR HARBOR — The Bar Harbor (MDI) Rotary Club recently sent out over $10,000 worth of checks to local organizations, which included the YWCA MDI, ...
Cameras allowed in schools, buses
BAR HARBOR — A policy change that allows — but does not require — schools in the Mount Desert Island Regional School System to install ...
Music therapy offered
BAR HARBOR — Melissa Violette, one of a handful of board-certified music therapists in Maine, is launching a new Outpatient Music Therapy Program in concert ...
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Meet Town Clerk Kathy Downes
After graduating from Bucksport High School, where she played basketball and softball, Kathy Downes went ...
Next Our Town Profile: Castine Feb. 21
Sports All posts
Olson, Isaacs, relay team win state track titles
LEWISTON — Mount Desert Island High School indoor track team members Zoe Olson and Gilbert ...
Boys first, girls third at swim state championships
By Glenn Jordan, Portland Press Herald and Mike Mandell, mmandell@mdislander.com ORONO — The Mount Desert Island High ...
Stout defense powers girls’ quarterfinal win over MCI
BANGOR — The Mount Desert Island High School girls’ basketball team’s senior class has won ...
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‘Big sky country’ is talk topic
TREMONT — Carey Donovan and Art Paine of Tremont will share slides, stories and history ...
Nature: To ID a hawk, note size, tail, behavior
The north winds still blow and we’re still getting some snow and some of us ...
Documentary highlights climate change impacts, local activism
BAR HARBOR — “Paris to Pittsburgh,” a National Geographic documentary about climate change activism will ...