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ON THE AGENDA: Town & School Meetings This Week.

It’s our round up of upcoming government meetings. All are public. That means you can go and be involved.

Carrie Jones

Dec 08, 2025

Graphic promoting the Bar Harbor Story, titled 'ON THE AGENDA,' highlighting this week's town and school meetings with their agendas.

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Every week we document the Mount Desert Island region’s government and school meetings that we know of. Please let us know if we’ve missed something.

Also, sometimes things on the town and school calendars are cancelled or rescheduled, so make sure to doublecheck before you head over!

This is especially true if no agenda has been posted. Sometimes agendas are posted later in the week and are not available at our Monday press time. And sometimes (because Southwest Harbor’s website has corruption issues) we can’t safely download an agenda.

Again, if there are no agendas posted for an event, please verify with the town that it is occurring. We don’t want you heading over for no reason, but we do want everyone to know that:

  1. They can head over.
  2. What’s going on in their town government or at school board meetings.

All meetings are open to the public. If there is an executive session, that part of the meeting is not open.

When things change and we know (agendas are uploaded, meetings are cancelled), we will do our best to update the article as well.

A colorful calendar highlighting local government and school meetings for the week, with detailed timings and locations for each event.

BAR HARBOR:

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

According to Bar Harbor’s website, “Meetings that are broadcast live can be viewed at home by watching Cable Access Channel 7 or 1303 (Spectrum Cable only) and online at Town Hall Streams.”

Agenda for the Harbor Committee meeting of the Town of Bar Harbor, scheduled for December 8th, 2025. Includes items such as call to order, adoption of agenda, approval of minutes, old and new business, public comment, and items for next meeting.
A flyer for a Bar Harbor Planning Board workshop scheduled for December 9, 2025, detailing the agenda and location.
Agenda for the Sustainable Tourism Management Task Force Meeting in Bar Harbor, Maine, scheduled for December 10, 2025, detailing the schedule and topics to be discussed.
Information flyer for the Design Review Board Workshop in Bar Harbor, scheduled for December 11, 2025, at 4:00 PM, detailing the meeting location and agenda.

There is currently no agenda online for the Task Force on the Climate Emergency. Please check that there is a meeting still happening before heading over.

CRANBERRY ISLES:

Meeting notice for the Harbor Committee in Cranberry Isles, detailing agenda items and meeting logistics.

FRENCHBORO

There is a select board meeting, December 8, at 5 p.m. The agenda is not yet out. We’ll update here when we have it.

MOUNT DESERT:

Document detailing the agenda for the Harbor Committee meeting scheduled for December 9, 2025, including meeting time and location information.
A document detailing the agenda for a Town of Mount Desert Planning Board meeting, scheduled for December 10, 2025, including public hearing information and subdivision approval applications.
A document outlining the Conditional Use Approval Application for a location in Mount Desert, detailing owner and agent names, application purpose, site inspection time, and information for a scheduled Zoom meeting.

SOUTHWEST HARBOR:

Agenda for the Warrant Committee Meeting of the Town of Southwest Harbor, scheduled for December 8, 2025, including call to order, roll call, and discussion items.

There is currently no agenda online for the Southwest Harbor School Committee. Please check that there is a meeting still happening before heading over.

SWAN’S ISLAND:

The Select Board meets on the first and third Thursdays of the month at 4 p.m. at the Town Office. 6 p.m. meetings will resume in the spring. No agendas currently online, but there is a meeting this week.

TREMONT:

Agenda for the Tremont Select Board meeting, including call to order, roll call, adoption of agenda, regular business items, and scheduling of the next meeting.
Planning board agenda for Tremont, Maine, scheduled for December 9, 2025, at 6:00 PM, outlining meeting details and agenda items.

TRENTON:

A document displaying the agenda for the Board of Selectmen meeting scheduled for December 9, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.
Revised agenda for the Trenton School Committee meeting on December 9, 2025, including items such as public comment, principal's report, reorganization planning committee update, and draft budget.

HANCOCK COUNTY COMMISSIONERS:

Commissioners’ Regular meetings are held the first Tuesday of every month at 8:30 a.m.

MDI HIGH SCHOOL AND AOS MEETINGS:

A revised agenda for the Mount Desert Island Regional High School Regular School Board Meeting scheduled for December 8, 2025, detailing the items to be discussed.
Agenda for the Mount Desert Island Regional School System Board Meeting on December 8, 2025, including topics like public comment and math instruction.

A NOTE FROM US

This is Carrie and Shaun, and as you’ve probably noticed, we’ve been working hard at the Bar Harbor Story, providing local news in a way that keeps you informed, but also embraces and promotes community and the good that is within it.

We take so much time—just the two of us, with a special needs kid that has to be homeschooled—to cover our island community’s (plus, Trenton) local news in a way that’s timely, daily, and remembers that underneath the news . . . there are people who are our neighbors.

We are working hard to get the news out there—for free—for everyone. But it’s taking its toll on our family financially and honestly, sometimes, emotionally, because frontline local news in a small community? It’s hard.

Most media isn’t local (even when it claims it is). Most media has paywalls and advertisers. We don’t. That’s not a smart financial decision for us. It’s a moral one. And we’re going to try to do it for as long as we can because we’re local, we’re passionate, and we’re all about getting the news to everyone—no paywalls.

Why?

Richard Stengel, writing in The Atlantic, said, “Paywalls create a two-tiered system: credible, fact-based information for people who are willing to pay for it, and murkier, less-reliable information for everyone else. Simply put, paywalls get in the way of informing the public, which is the mission of journalism.”

As a paper that is owned and staffed only by locals, we make every attempt to gather all of the facts for our readers, information that might not be part of the main story and/or information that may not be known even to our towns’ officials, but is still just as important, if not more important, to the story.

We currently have well over 5,000 subscribers, the vast majority of them free, with over 401,500 article reads every month. Every one of our stories is opened at least 3,500 times. Most are opened well over that amount.

To continue to provide you with fact-based, non-editorialized news, we really need your support! If you’d like to support us or subscribe? It would mean the world to us, and to the Bar Harbor Story!

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