SOUTHWEST HARBOR — A solar array is planned for the rooftop of the new public works building and existing salt shed on Seal Cove road, as Southwest Harbor joins other Mount Desert Island towns working with ReVision energy to produce some of the electricity it uses. The Board of Selectmen voted last week to enter …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — The park’s carriage roads reopened Friday, April 27. Following the spring thaw and heavy rains of the past several weeks, the roads have dried out enough that foot and bicycle traffic isn’t likely to cause serious damage to the roads. However, park officials urge caution when using the carriage roads because …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — There is a new water tank at Blackwoods Campground and a like-new entry station at Seawall Campground. With a capacity of 47,000 gallons, the new water tank is larger than the one it replaced, which had been “failing slowly over the years, losing water and having lots of small-scale fixes,” said …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — The park’s Sign Shop volunteers have been honored by the National Park Service with a George and Helen Hartzog Award for Outstanding Service. The volunteers received the award for the NPS’s Northeast Region in the “group” category. For the past 20 years, volunteers have carved wooden signs for the park’s carriage …
BAR HARBOR — Registration for the 19th Annual Friends of Acadia Roadside Cleanup is now open. This year’s cleanup is on Saturday, April 28, from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Family, friends, neighbors and coworkers will join forces to collect a winter’s worth of trash and debris from roadsides on Mount Desert Island and Trenton to help beautify …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — Park officials and members of Maine’s four Indian tribes are exploring the possibility of allowing the tribes’ basket makers to harvest sweetgrass in Bass Harbor Marsh and perhaps other salt marshes within the park. Federal regulations prohibit the removal of any plants from National Park Service (NPS) lands. But a change …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Darian Higgins, a responder with Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection, arrived at a residence on Clark Point Road the afternoon of Feb. 26 to inspect what looked like slight oil staining in the driveway. The fire department had contacted the DEP earlier that day to report the smudge, thinking it might have …
BAR HARBOR — “If you have a willing, engaged partner in the community, it makes a crazy amount of difference,” Josh Castonguay of Vermont-based Green Mountain Power told a group of about 250 at Mount Desert Island High School Sunday. “I hope folks here understand that this [event] is a huge deal.” Power companies and …
ELLSWORTH – Last year, at least 17 endangered North Atlantic right whales died in Canadian waters and off the coast of New England. Some of those deaths were attributed to the whales’ entanglement with fishing gear. On Thursday, three conservation organizations sued the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service in the federal …
BAR HARBOR — A Climate to Thrive, a group seeking energy independence for Mount Desert Island in response to concerns about climate change, has been at work on several fronts, including solar power, energy efficiency, transportation and waste management. Two years after a large kickoff event in January 2016, the group is again planning a …
