There were tears and some shocked chest-clutching from the heads of three local charities this week, after a hotelier who had recently sold three properties announced that he was going to donate $100,000 to each organization.
Terramor Outdoor Resort, a glamping facility that opened in August 2020, can now call itself an award-winning destination.
Bar Harbor officials are looking for residents to serve on a committee to help shape the new comprehensive plan.
In a filing Monday with the Maine Labor Relations Board, the Mount Desert Island Regional School System board denied allegations in a “prohibited practice complaint” filed Sept. 14 by the MDI Education Association, the teachers’ union, in connection with negotiations for a new three-year teachers’ contract.
The proposed campground moratorium, if approved, would halt all pending campground applications, on top of any new applications for the following six months.
After plans for a childcare facility in partnership with the Mount Desert Island and Down East Family YMCA were halted earlier this year, The Jackson Laboratory has proposed building a new childcare center on its campus in Bar Harbor.
A state of Maine crash report said the roadway was dry and weather conditions clear when a pickup truck struck the late Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputy Luke Gross, who had been clad in a “high-visibility reflective vest,” at 5:15 a.m. on Sept. 23 on Route 3 in Trenton.
“The operator of the pickup truck has been fully cooperating with the investigation,” according to a Sept. 24 statement from Shannon Moss, spokeswoman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. “No charges are expected to be filed at this time.”
Chris Newell, the charismatic executive director of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, resigned his position on Thursday, just 18 months after becoming the first tribal member to lead the museum of Wabanaki art, history and culture.
The day before Michael Patterson was chosen by the Select Board to be Southwest Harbor’s next town manager, he was fired as town manager by the Town Council in Florence, Colo.
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