Installing solar panels on a home, school or public building is a large up-front investment that reaps significant savings over time, as the locally-generated electricity offsets some of what would otherwise be purchased from the power company. But the rules for exactly how that offset happens are quite complicated. Because the rules have kept changing, …
It’s an ongoing frustration for many doctors when treating chronic illness: Even effective drugs such as beta blockers and insulin won’t work if patients spend the rest of the day eating frozen pizza and cookies. Now, more and more, patients are leaving the doctor’s office with a prescription not only for the pharmacist but also …
Fourth of July! Bar Harbor! Yay! Parade, right? Then to the ballfield for lobster and hot dogs. The sun is out, the heat is cranking and by afternoon we all screamed for ice cream. Let’s hear it for the scoopers! If you went to CJ’s for a cone you were one of 1,768 sweltering visitors …
by John March Last month the Supreme Court held that even extreme gerrymandering is not unconstitutional, or at least not subject to any remedy that can be fashioned by the courts. Redistricting, the court held, is exclusively the province of the legislative branch, and that is where any remedy or reform must take place. …
To the Editor: First they came for the brown-skinned children and put them in cages. Why does our government, using our tax dollars, rip children away from their families? Some as young as four months old are then detained and subsequently reclassified as unaccompanied minors. Why does our government, using our tax dollars, imprison the …
To the Editor: As another Islander reader from away, I simply couldn’t let Barbara Cusumano’s letter in last week’s paper go unanswered. I have three observations: First, to the comment that “it all started with the cruise ships”, I assume you mean, Barbara, that the island is more crowded than formerly, which we’ve also noticed …
To the Editor: In a recent Mount Desert Islander, I read that a $25,000 fund was being recommended for the wellness of Mount Desert Island Regional School System employees. The piece hinted that such a plan would have a positive effect on insurance rates. Did the insurer tell us this? Was a cost analysis done …
To the Editor: As the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing on the moon approaches, I find myself confused. We completed six and a half successful lunar missions back then, in relatively quick succession. Since then, aerospace technology has presumably advanced tremendously, and yet, a half-century later, we still haven’t gone back. In fact, no …
To the Editor: I had the misfortune to suffer an auto breakdown last Tuesday on Eagle Lake Road. “Thank goodness for cell phones,” I thought as I confidently pulled my cell phone out of my pocket! I should have known better as I wasn’t lucky enough to have broken down in one of the three …
To the Editor: As a loyal Islander reader, I was saddened and dismayed to read the inaccurate and personal attack on our fine, community-oriented, Bar Harbor Warrant Committee in the Islander’s anonymous July 4 editorial. First, the Warrant Committee is not divided into subcommittees because the Warrant Committee is too large. The Warrant Committee is …
