To the Editor: Mount Desert Island Regional School System students and staff are able to access a multitude of quality experiences in and out of the classroom through our collaboration with our eleven approved Education Partners. Over the past school year, you may have seen our third graders at the Vintage Schoolhouse in the spring …
To the Editor: At last week’s annual meeting of the Mount Desert Island Hospital, Board Chairman Jimmy Bright reminded us of the hospital’s simple but eloquent mission — neighbors caring for and about neighbors. As some of your readers know, I am a retired physician from Southwest Harbor who remains keenly interested in and concerned …
The letter of August 8 (“Crucial conversations”) is a bit extreme on the idea of a “climate crisis” being real and having a fatal effect on our lives. First of all, climate change has been with us for thousands of years, at least. There is nothing new here, and the contribution of carbon dioxide to …
To the Editor: The Aug. 1 article entitled “Shoreland zoning edits eyed” by Sarah Hinckley hints at deficiencies in Southwest Harbor’s governance of land use. It’s interesting that Southwest Harbor is the only place in Maine that has mixed land use zones — there are no residential zones. Planning Board members appear not to be …
To the Editor: In his op-ed “Tackle Bar Harbor’s housing crisis” (Aug. 8 issue), Gary Friedmann writes: “Cease new permits for non-hosted, short term vacation rentals. We know that many local families rely on Airbnb-type revenue to be able to afford to live here. But out-of-town investors have discovered that they can buy up multiple …
Your recent front page article, “Attendance struggles beset board,” about the Town of Tremont Planning Board, is not only disheartening but is misleading in omitting pertinent facts. For instance, I and the other board members who had to miss meetings were excused by formal action of the Planning Board itself. And one of the members …
It was with a discouraging sense of deja vu that my wife and I attended yet another meeting of the town of Mount Desert’s Planning Board held on July 17. The meeting concerned the now- infamous quarry located in our neighborhood of Hall Quarry. At the meeting, we were joined by about a dozen of …
To the Editor: Bar Harbor needs a mechanism to set up a Counterpoint Committee on contentious issues. A system of point, counterpoint would give you a hard look at both sides of the issue in depth. As it is now, the Town Council seems to appoint committee members who will confirm their ideas. So anyone …
To the Editor: The Bar Harbor Garden Club would like to thank our community for their support of two July fundraisers: this was the 30th year for the club serving pies at the Fourth of July Seafood Festival, and a Tour of “Fine Island Gardens.” The garden tour was made possible because of the people …
To the Editor: First of all, a disclaimer — I am writing this letter completely as a private citizen and my remarks do not represent the Bar Harbor Town Council in any way. Over the last few months, I have read with interest comments by several people critical of decisions made by various bodies of …
