Island Briefs
Island Briefs: Read what’s happening around the island.
A deadline of March is before the town and an area organization that signed a purchase option for a .85-acre parcel near Chris’s Pond.
TREMONT — Representatives of the proposed Pointy Head Campground project withdrew their administrative appeal during the second phase of a hearing before the town’s Board of Appeals on Jan. 7.
Yikes! That was pretty much the Board of Selectmen’s reaction to the $8.5 million to $10 million estimated cost of building an addition to the Town Hall for the fire department, Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service and more space for the police department.
Thirty-two of the 40 teachers and staff members at Trenton Elementary School have signed a letter expressing strong opposition to a recommendation that the school withdraw from the Mount Desert Island Regional School System – AOS 91.
Selectmen reluctantly accepted the resignation of Tremont Town Manager Chris Saunders during their meeting Tuesday night, effective June 18.
Almost two months ago, 8,000 bales of plastic waste, weighing nearly 10,000 tons, set sail on the Atlantic aboard a Northern Ireland cargo ship, the Sider London.