The week in photos: Sept. 3

The Milky Way takes center stage above Sand Beach in Acadia National Park in this still image from a stunning time-lapse video by Will Greene of Bar Harbor. The 7th Annual Acadia Night Sky Festival begins Sept. 10. PHOTO COURTESY OF WILL GREENE

About 250 people clustered around the Ranger Station at the Schoodic Woods campground in Winter Harbor Wednesday afternoon for the official opening. Among the ribbon cutters was U.S. Senator Angus King, who planned to camp out overnight with his wife, Mary. Susan Newton, an executive with the National Park Foundation, announced the foundation has taken ownership of the property until it can be transferred to the National Park Service. PHOTO BY JACQUELINE WEAVER

Principal Scott McFarland greets a student arriving for the first day of classes at Mount Desert Elementary School in Northeast Harbor on Tuesday. PHOTO BY DICK BROOM

Interim Principal Cathy Lewis spent part of her first day at the Pemetic Elementary School in Southwest Harbor getting to know some of the students. Here, she poses with kindergarteners Trey DaGraca, left, and Kulani Granholm. PHOTO BY MARK GOOD

Madelynn Yeo takes her seat on the first day of school Tuesday at the Tremont Consolidated School. Madelynn is one of 13 students in the kindergarten class. PHOTO BY MARK GOOD

Students at Conners Emerson School in Bar Harbor celebrate the first day of classes with a group selfie photograph outside on Tuesday morning. PHOTO BY LIZ GRAVES

Chris Leland, left, and Mackenzie Leland walk their daughter Celeste to her first day of kindergarten at Trenton Elementary School on Tuesday, Sept. 1. PHOTO BY AMANAT KHULLAR

Vice Commodore Tom Rolfes, above left, presents Bullseye Class first place award to Tony Smith, center, at the Southwest Harbor Fleet’s annual meeting and awards tea. Commodore Ken Brookes is at right. In photo at right, Luders winners were Art Paine in second place, below left, and Ned Johnston, right, in first. Members also approved officers for the coming year: Commodore Ken Brookes, Vice-Commodore Tom Rolfes, Secretary Ken Fox, Treasurer Steve Homer and fifth director Jim Fernald. Luders races continue through October when the Southwest Harbor Fleet concludes its 57th season. The Southwest Harbor Fleet is a sponsor of the MDI Community Sailing Center and welcomes new members. Contact Brookes at 244-5187. PHOTOS COURTESY OF SOUTHWEST HARBOR FLEET

Billy Kerley of the Mount Desert Island High School varsity football team powers ahead during a pre-season game against Ellsworth. The MDI Trojans won the match 44-12. PHOTO COURTESY OF BARRY GUTRADT

Randy Pagels breaks a bottle over the bow of Bailey Louise Todd, the green two-masted schooner in Captain Stephen Pagels’ Downeast Windjammer fleet, at its christening ceremony at the Bar Harbor Inn pier Saturday. The boat returned to Bar Harbor this year after 25 years as part of an educational nonprofit in Connecticut. Pagels had the boat built in Milbridge in 1984 and first offered passenger trips on Janet May, as she was known then, from the Bar Harbor Inn pier in 1986. When he brought the boat back to Maine earlier this year, Pagels renamed it for his granddaughter Bailey Louise, shown with her mother, Marcie, and dad, Randy. While in Connecticut, the vessel was named Quinnipiack. PHOTO COURTESY OF KELLY MITCHELL

A zombie welcomes visitors to a Zombie Survivalist Doomsday Prepper show at the Atlantic Oceanside Hotel in Bar Harbor on Sunday. The two-day show featured seminars on emergency suturing, how to mold plastic items at home and other post-apocalypse survival skills. Organizers said they were encouraged by the turnout and hope to hold the show next year, perhaps in early October. PHOTO BY EARL BRECHLIN

Ellsworth native Sarah Sadie Newett, now a New York-based dancer, aerialist and yoga and Pilates instructor, performs for students as part of Summer Festival for the Arts at Conners-Emerson School in Bar Harbor earlier this summer. She specializes in aerial yoga. PHOTO BY DICK BROOM

After undergoing extended maintenance, Beal & Bunker’s front line ferry, Sea Queen, returned to service between the Cranberry Isles and Northeast Harbor last week. PHOTO BY DICK BROOM

Josh Gray at work on the former Wendy Jean, a Newman 36 fiberglass lobster boat being rebuilt at Newman and Gray Boatyard. The vessel was renamed Huzzah and will be used as a race committee boat at the Newport Yacht Club in Rhode Island. PHOTO COURTESY OF NEWMAN AND GRAY

Officer Brad O’Neil talks with a couple whose parked rental car was struck in a four-car accident on Cottage Street Monday. PHOTO BY LIZ GRAVES