TRENTON — According to Sarah Norwood, owner of Revive Salon, located on the Bar Harbor Road in Trenton, “everyone needs a little pick-me-up every once in a while.” That is the inspiration behind the name of her full-service salon, which offers hair, waxing, nail and tanning services. The same philosophy can apply to the building. …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR –Carolyn Gage will be joined by Portland actor Denise Poirier and Waterville actor Juli Brooks Settlemire for an online reading of excerpts from the letters written between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman. This event is hosted by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 5:30 p.m. In 1952, Carson began building a vacation cabin on Southport Island …
BAR HARBOR — The Maine Council on Aging (MCOA) elected a new chairman of its board of directors on Oct. 19. Leah Graham, manager of external and government affairs for The Jackson Laboratory, assumed the role after a unanimous vote of her peers during the October MCOA board meeting. Graham was a postdoctoral fellow at The Jackson Laboratory, …
Quilting guild’s pieces on display NORTHEAST HARBOR — The Northeast Harbor Library will host the MDI Island Quilters this November and December, with projects hanging in the Mellon Room during that time. The public is welcome to come in and browse during regular business hours, eight at a time, maintaining safe social distancing. The MDI Island Quilters group was started 28 years ago by Mary Vekasi, who moved to the area …
BAR HARBOR — Kate Worcester, a certified physician assistant at Cooper Gilmore Health Center, has received the Outstanding Health Care Professional of the Year Award from her peers at the Maine Physician Assistant Association (MEAPA). This award is presented each year to a physician assistant who has demonstrated exceptional knowledge and teaching skills in support of the profession, with an emphasis on contributions …
BAR HARBOR —College of the Atlantic welcomes two new professors and a teaching fellow for the 2020-21 school year. Artist Daniel Kojo Schrade has joined the staff as a faculty member in painting and drawing. Schrade’s Afrofuturistic work explores the Black diaspora through an abstract-modernist lens. His art, he says, is significantly research based and nurtured by a complex culmination …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR— Most locals would warn anyone who was opening a restaurant in November on Mount Desert Island that they had it backward. But, after spending the last eight months or so renovating their space on Main Street, the owners of Hearth and Harbor are ready to serve the people in their year–round neighborhood some wood–fired …
Although nature is winding down all the nesting, rearing of young and other such duties, there’s still lots to see in the out of doors. Some days it can even be warm enough that a peeper calls out late love songs, still hoping to find a mate. Nothing comes of it now, though, and he …
BAR HARBOR – The stone barn at the intersection of Crooked Road and Norway Drive in Bar Harbor is quite photogenic, and the two miles of trails through the fields and forests behind the barn are great for hiking. But aside from that – and even though the farm is on the National Register of …
BAR HARBOR— Imagine gazing at stars while hovering in space. Destination Health, a new wellness center located in downtown Bar Harbor, offers a similar experience. The recently built health and fitness club offers an array of services for those who want to take care of themselves. One of the more popular attractions installed in this new building is a sensory deprivation tank, otherwise …
