The week in pictures

MOVING ON UP … Members of the eighth-grade class at Mount Desert Elementary School gather, while staying safely apart, for their promotion ceremony June 10 at the Joseph T. Musetti Jr. Veterans Memorial Park in Northeast Harbor. They will be attending MDI High School in the fall. PHOTO COURTESY OF MDES

HEADING TO HIGH SCHOOL … Pemetic Elementary School promoted Riley Donahue and 16 of his classmates from eighth grade to high school on Sunday in a ceremony on the school’s athletic field. Donahue received the Principal’s Award and Denali Wagstaff received the American Legion Award during the celebration that was kicked off with an escort by the town’s fire department. Students and their immediate families attended the ceremony in vehicles that were parked around the field, and they retrieved their promotion certificate from a table amidst cheers and honks from the crowd.  PHOTO COURTESY OF DENCIE MCENROE

GOTTA LOVE A PARADE … A motorcade of cars from area towns, accompanied by emergency vehicles, rolls toward Mount Desert Island High School for the drive-in graduation ceremony June 7. ISLANDER PHOTO BY DICK BROOM

GOTTA LOVE A PARADE … A motorcade of cars from area towns, accompanied by emergency vehicles, rolls toward Mount Desert Island High School for the drive-in graduation ceremony June 7. ISLANDER PHOTO BY DICK BROOM

SIGN THE SIGNS … As the graduates prepared for their big day on June 7, they took time to sign each other’s placards that were out in front of the school showing the public the graduating Class of 2020. During the ceremony, the placards were set up in the place where each graduate could park their vehicle for the ceremony. Continue inside for more coverage of the Mount Desert Island High School’s Class of 2020. ISLANDER PHOTO BY SARAH HINCKLEY