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Kissing Cod, Walking 3 Miles, and Searching for the Naughty Sam Slick

At the Somesville Schoolhouse, History Gets Real CARRIE JONES MAY 05, 2024 Share SOMESVILLE—The third graders sat in hard pews, heads down, and focused. Their fingers clutched the chalk as they scraped it along the slate boards balanced on their laps. In front of them, stood a schoolmarm dressed in the garb of 1895. If you go to the mercantile, she asked them, and you … Continue reading Kissing Cod, Walking 3 Miles, and Searching for the Naughty Sam Slick

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State Championship Conners Emerson Olympiads Bring in STEAM Week With Over 30 Wins

STEAM WEEK FEATURES COMMUNITY, INFLATABLE PLANETARIUM, AND A WHOLE LOT OF FUN CARRIE JONES APR 15, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—The love of science is strong in Bar Harbor. It isn’t just the adults working and interning at the Jackson Laboratory, MDI Biological Laboratory, Acadia National Park, and MDI Hospital who are focused on science. It’s the kids, too. And the teachers and staff at Conners … Continue reading State Championship Conners Emerson Olympiads Bring in STEAM Week With Over 30 Wins

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Making Change

Combining education, effort, and hope, Earth Day celebration at COA invites the entire community CARRIE JONES APR 13, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Linneah Goh isn’t just a student at the College of the Atlantic. She’s a climate activist, a student, and someone who has organized the college’s Earth Day event for three years in a row, an organizer who puts thoughts and beliefs into action. This … Continue reading Making Change

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Bar Harbor People We Love, news, police, schools

Goodbye, Officer Tim

Bar Harbor’s School Resource Officer Is Leaving CARRIE JONES APR 05, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—He walked the halls to calls of “Hi, Officer Tim.” He played ball. He tied shoes. He helped straighten hats. Listened to stories. Learned name after name of students, teachers, and parents. He quietly calmed kids who had entered crisis mode and barricaded themselves in a room. Bar Harbor’s Tim Bland … Continue reading Goodbye, Officer Tim

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Author Returns Home In Conners Emerson Visit

Diane Magras brings the power of dreams come true to fourth graders CARRIE JONES MAR 23, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR— Once, there was a very, very, very, small dragon named Large Marge. She lived in Italy in a pizza parlor. She wanted to prove herself to Joe’s Pizza, the place where she wanted to work for, not just live at. However, she didn’t know how … Continue reading Author Returns Home In Conners Emerson Visit

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School Reorganization Planning Committee Gets Started

High School Budget Proposes 7% increase, public meeting April 3 SHAUN FARRAR MAR 15, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR––The AOS 91 School Board met on Monday night, March 11, in the high school library and among other business, heard from School Superintendent Mike Zboray. Zboray said that the Regional Planning Committee (RPC) is ready to begin its work. It had its first meeting Wednesday, March 13. … Continue reading School Reorganization Planning Committee Gets Started

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Parent Wonders About New School Design and Special Education

New school build currently on schedule SHAUN FARRAR MAR 7, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—An update on the new school building by Principal Dr. Heather Webster at the Conners Emerson School Committee meeting on March 4 came after the public comment period during which, Michelle Shaw, parent of a Conners Emerson student, spoke of concerns about the special education department and the spaces that they will … Continue reading Parent Wonders About New School Design and Special Education

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MDI Finds One Issue With An Electric School Bus Battery After State Urges Busses Taken Off Road

Defective busses caused power-failure crash in Winthrop CARRIE JONES FEB 21, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—After the Maine Department of Education’s request to park all electric school buses from Lion Electric Co. until the state can inspect them, two of the electric school buses used on Mount Desert Island have passed state police inspections. Another did not. “The third is getting a new battery in the shop, … Continue reading MDI Finds One Issue With An Electric School Bus Battery After State Urges Busses Taken Off Road

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Bar Harbor Woman One of the First Recognized at UMaine Teaching Program

Lanie Christianson’s Love for Kids Leads Her To Teaching Career CARRIE JONES JAN 28, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Not everybody makes an afghan in high school that’s based on all the genre of books they’ve read in one year. Not everybody marries their childhood sweethearts and not everybody loves kids and learning so much that they want to spend all day, every day, teaching them. But … Continue reading Bar Harbor Woman One of the First Recognized at UMaine Teaching Program

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AOS Budget Up 9%

Budget News SHAUN FARRAR JAN 27, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR––The MDIRSS AOS 91 budget was approved Wednesday night at the high school library. During a very quick meeting, all 14 articles were approved unanimously. The meeting for Wednesday’s meeting was Trenton Board of Selectmen board member John Bennett. The budget increased by 9.19% The process to approve the AOS 91 budget is very similar to … Continue reading AOS Budget Up 9%

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