BAR HARBOR — A policy that provides guidance for teachers in addressing sensitive or controversial topics in the classroom was adopted by a unanimous vote of the Mount Desert Island Regional School System board Tuesday night. Proposed by Superintendent Marc Gousse and endorsed by the school board’s policy committee, it is a slightly revised version …
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND — If the elementary schools in Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor and Tremont start pre-kindergarten programs for 4-year-olds next year, they could significantly affect several of the island’s private childcare facilities. Aaron Long, executive director of the Mount Desert Nursery School in Northeast Harbor, said the proposed Mount Desert Elementary School program is …
MOUNT DESERT — The Tan Turtle Tavern, a popular Northeast Harbor restaurant, closed for good on Sunday. Owner Steven Foss announced the closing last Tuesday. He said his other restaurant, The Turtle in Ellsworth, would be closing the same day. He declined to say why the restaurants were going out of business. The Tan Turtle …
MOUNT DESERT — By the end of the year, residents here will no longer need to dispose of their trash and recyclables separately. The Board of Selectmen voted 5-0 Monday night to approve Public Works Director Tony Smith’s recommendation to switch to a system he called “one bin all in.” “All the garbage and all …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — If you have photos from anytime since 1950 that show fall foliage in Acadia, Stephanie Spera would really like to see them. A 2019 research fellow at the Schoodic Institute, Spera is studying whether climate change is having an effect on when the leaves start to change color, when they reach …
TRENTON — Trenton Elementary School could become the second school in the Mount Desert Island Regional School System — after MDI High School — to install solar panels on its roof. It could happen as soon as next summer if voters at the May town meeting approve the school’s proposed budget. School officials had considered …
BAR HARBOR — Schools in the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS) will be paying their substitute teachers more starting in January. The pay rate, which hasn’t changed in a number of years, will increase from $80 a day to $100, and for substitutes who are certified teachers, to $120. Superintendent Marc Gousse told …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — Leaf peepers in every kind of vehicle jammed Acadia’s roads and parking lots this past holiday weekend. Traffic was so heavy that park officials had to close the Cadillac Mountain summit road at least five times between Friday, Oct. 11 and mid-day Monday, Oct. 14. Four of those closures were on …
BAR HARBOR — Lilea Simis of Bar Harbor, a member of the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS) board, is frustrated that, despite repeated assurances to the contrary, some people still believe a decision has been made to build an island-wide middle school. It hasn’t. And even if the school board thinks it’s a …
