SOUTHWEST HARBOR — The recent string of fall storms with high winds, and a detour around bridge work near the Southwest Harbor-Tremont town line, made life a little more difficult for the boatyards working to get customers’ yachts “put to bed” for the winter this year. “With a storm a week, it’s certainly challenging,” Will …
MOUNT DESERT — As public hearings focused on noise impacts of a proposed stone quarrying operation in the village of Hall Quarry continue, the Planning Board is working to clarify the basis on which they’ll make their eventual decision. No quantitative measure of sound levels is included in the Quarrying Licensing Ordinance the board must …
BAR HARBOR — If the town chose to site a new elementary school at the Park Street property currently used for Little League fields, the 10-acre site where the current Conners Emerson School sits could be developed as affordable housing, according to the Town Councilor who pitched the idea. “By possibly freeing up this other …
BAR HARBOR — The results of a recent survey of Bar Harbor businesses about the challenges they face won’t surprise anyone, Alf Anderson, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce told the group gathered for the chamber’s annual dinner Monday. Businesses identified staffing and housing as far and away the biggest concerns. Maine needs more …
SOUTH PORTLAND — The Mount Desert Islander earned 16 awards in the Maine Press Association’s 2019 Better Newspaper Contest. The awards were presented Saturday at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, concluding a day of workshops and networking for reporters and photographers, journalists, advertising staff and designers throughout the state. The Islander was runner-up in General …
BAR HARBOR — The Bar Harbor Historical Society group has found a buyer for the former convent building it owns on Ledgelawn Avenue, the group announced this week, and hired an acting executive director to guide the process of turning its new headquarters, the West Street mansion known as La Rochelle, into a museum. The …
BAR HARBOR — Recent actions by the State of Maine to recognize Indigenous People’s Day and ban Native American mascots are important, Penobscot activist and teacher Sherri Mitchell told a capacity crowd at the Abbe Museum Monday, but those declarations must be followed by other, substantive change. “Even though we have this incredible symbolic change,” …
MOUNT DESERT — Clay Kanzler has had reflections on the brain. One day not long ago, he was looking in a window in a town hall in a small Vermont town. An artist and lifelong Seal Harbor summer resident, he lives in Woodstock, Vt. in the winter. “When you look through a window you can …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Five years of work rebuilding a venerable old boat were finally capped off recently when Kathe and Dan Walton celebrated the launch of the 1972 Bunker and Ellis now called Susan Margaret, for Kathe Walton’s mother, Susan Bunker Newman. The late Raymond Bunker was Newman’s father and Walton’s grandfather. The …
BAR HARBOR — Like a number of successful Mainers, Linda Greenlaw planned to become a lawyer but got sidetracked along the way. She worked on commercial fishing vessels through college at Colby and, by graduation, had become first mate on the Walter Leeman, fishing for swordfish on the Grand Banks under captain Alden Leeman. “Promising …
