TREMONT — A meet and greet with Genevieve McDonald, Democratic candidate for State Representative is planned for Saturday, Oct. 6, 10:30 to 11:30 am at Thurston’s Lobster Pound. McDonald, who lives in Stonington, is a lobsterman and substitute teacher. She is running for the district currently represented by Walter Kumeiga that includes Tremont, Southwest Harbor, …
MOUNT DESERT —The non-partisan League of Women Voters of Maine/Downeast will sponsor a candidate forum at the Somesville fire house on Tuesday, Oct. 16th at 6:00 p.m. featuring local candidates for Maine House District 134 and Maine Senate District 7. House candidates (Phil Brady, Republican) and (Genevieve McDonald, Democrat) as well as Senate candidates (Louis …
ACADIA NAT’L PARK — Maine U.S. Sen. Angus King and 2nd District Rep. Bruce Poliquin visited Acadia last Thursday to learn about the park’s infrastructure needs and to tout bills now making their way through Congress that would provide $6.5 billion over the next five years for facilities projects throughout the National Park Service (NPS). …
BAR HARBOR — Indivisible MDI will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, September 19, at 6:30 PM at the YWCA on Mount Desert Street, in Bar Harbor. Special guest Louie Luchini, candidate for Maine Senate District 7, will introduce himself and entertain questions. Esther Pew, organizer for the Maine People’s Alliance, will also be …
MOUNT DESERT — Regardless of how residents vote on two warrant articles at the special town meeting Monday, Sept. 10, it is likely that Northeast Harbor’s Main Street redevelopment project will go ahead essentially as planned and as approved by voters at the May 8 regular town meeting. That is because the Board of Selectmen …
TREMONT — A proposed zoning ordinance banning cruise ship activity is expected to go before voters at the end of October. A 180-day moratorium on new cruise ship activities was approved by voters last November and expired in February. Selectmen, as is their right from the vote, extended that 180-day moratorium through this season. The …
BAR HARBOR — The CEO of the private company proposing to bring back Bar Harbor-Nova Scotia ferry service faced a battery of questions Tuesday evening from town councilors and residents. Some of those questions were about the company’s history in Bar Harbor and current activities in Portland. Others were about ensuring public waterfront access and community input in …
ELLSWORTH — Whatever one thinks of the political scene in Washington, Tuesday’s announcement that the Trump Administration would impose new tariffs on some $200 billion worth of Chinese imports had to come as bad news to Maine’s lobster industry. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that China’s government said it would respond if those …
BAR HARBOR — About 500 people crowded the Village Green on Saturday to show support for immigrant families separated at the southern border of the United States. Attendees carried signs and were offered assistance in contacting their government representatives. The rally was organized by Indivisible MDI, the local branch of a nation-wide organization that resists …
MOUNT DESERT — A special town meeting will be held, likely in August, for voters to consider major changes to Northeast Harbor’s Main Street redevelopment project, which was approved at the annual town meeting two months ago. The Board of Selectmen made that decision Monday night in response to a petition signed by 176 registered …
