ACADIA NAT’L PARK — Stuart West, chief ranger here for the past 10 years, is leaving at the end of this month to become superintendent of three National Park Service (NPS) sites in the West. They are Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site and Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, both in southeastern Colorado, and …
TRENTON — Some residents and town officials here think the town is spending more on education than it needs to, and they are looking for ways to reduce the cost, including, perhaps, withdrawing from the Mount Desert Island Regional School System, or AOS 91. (In Maine Department of Education parlance, AOS stands for alternative organization …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — Acadia’s forests are thriving. They have a healthy understory and a good rate of regeneration. And there are very few problems with invasive plants, insect pests or deer browse. Forest ecologist Kate Miller knows all that because each of 176 forest monitoring plots in Acadia gets a check-up every four years …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — Acadia and Downeast Transportation, which operates the Island Explorer bus system, are looking at expanding the fare-free system, which serves the park and surrounding communities in the summer and early fall. With a $33,000 grant from Friends of Acadia, Downeast Transportation has contracted with Tom Crikelair, who helped design the bus …
BAR HARBOR — Mount Desert Island High School Principal Matt Haney was so eager to get irrigation systems installed on the football field, known as Alumni Field, and the practice field this summer that he failed to follow the school system policy on putting the project out for bid, he told the high school board …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — Superintendent Kevin Schneider has just over two weeks to decide what if any restrictions to place on the use of electric bikes on the 45 miles of carriage roads in the park. The carriage roads have been off limits to e-bikes, which have small motors that can be activated to supplement …
BAR HARBOR — Mount Desert Island High School will celebrate the completion of its solar panel array — the largest at any high school in Maine — with a ribbon-cutting ceremony next Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 12:30 p.m. in the school’s gym. Local school officials and high school students will talk about the importance of …
BAR HARBOR — The new building near the football field at Mount Desert Island High School that includes restrooms and storage space for sports equipment is finished. “This was sorely needed to protect the investments we have in the equipment,” said Marc Gousse, superintendent of the Mount Desert Island Regional School System. Previously, the equipment, …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — By order of the secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), the use of electric bikes — or e-bikes — are to be allowed wherever non-motorized bikes are permitted in most National Park Service (NPS) units including Acadia. The DOI announced the new policy last Friday, a day after …
