Bar Harbor Council Chair Stresses Unity Around Comprehensive Plan Carrie Jones Sep 03, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Thrive Juice Bar & Kitchen. BAR HARBOR—Making sure that the town’s comprehensive plan stays first and foremost in the town’s actions was a key talking point during the Bar Harbor Town Council’s September 2 meeting. That comprehensive plan was enacted by voters in June … Continue reading ‘Rowing for the Same Shore’
Bar Harbor Election Results! Carrie Jones Jun 10, 2025 Share Correction in the title! The changes did not hold! The only change is in the headline. The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Margo H. Stanley Real Estate. BAR HARBOR— Steven Boucher, Earl Brechlin, David Kief, and Randell Sprague are heading to the town council. Bar Harbor elected four town councilors, five warrant committee members, … Continue reading Bar Harbor Sends Steven Boucher, Earl Brechlin, David Kief, and Randell Sprague To The Council!
Council Chair Urges People to Run For Office Carrie Jones Apr 05, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Town Council made quick work of its meeting, Tuesday night, unanimously renewing multiple taxi licenses and voting to recommend that the voters support the town’s comprehensive plan in June. “It’s just very exciting for me,” Town Council Chair Valerie Peacock said of the vote to recommend the … Continue reading Bar Harbor Town Council Recommends Town’s Comprehensive Plan to Voters
Carrie Jones Sep 22, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—The draft Bar Harbor Comprehensive Plan has been sent to the state for review and to the town’s Comprehensive Planning Committee for review and tweaking. The plan came after a hiatus since March as the plan was shaped into its current form—a 100-plus page document … Continue reading Bar Harbor’s Proposed Comprehensive Plan Tweaked and Unveiled
Comprehensive Plan Workshops Move Through Differences to Create Vision CARRIE JONES AND SHAUN FARRAR MAY 24, 2023 BAR HARBOR—A bustling Atlantic Avenue Brewery paid host to a comprehensive planning visioning session Tuesday night that attracted at least 50 people. It was the second in a series of four workshops that intended to help the town’s Comprehensive Planning Committee involve the public in the vision statement of … Continue reading Different Meetings, Different Perspectives
Comprehensive Planning Committee Sets May Workshop For Public Input CARRIE JONES BAR HARBOR—The town’s Comprehensive Planning Committee met Thursday night to work through a draft map on land uses as well as a visioning statement, intending to get feedback on a set of workshops with the public in May. The Thursday night meeting was in person, on Zoom, and streamed and featured input by Resilience … Continue reading What Will Bar Harbor’s Future Be and Who Will Make Sure It Happens?
Comprehensive Plan Committee Looks Toward Bar Harbor’s Future Carrie Jones BAR HARBOR—On Wednesday, Town Planner Michele Gagnon helped the Comprehensive Plan Committee journey through a workshop about the town’s land use, trying to envision what they would want the areas of Bar Harbor used for and not used for in the future. The state mandates that municipalities update their comprehensive plans and the plans are … Continue reading What’s Land Got To Do With It?
Initial Findings from Comprehensive Plan Committee Public Forums Discussed BAR HARBOR—What makes a town’s identity? It’s defining characteristic? What is it that a town is nostalgic for? And what does it want to become? Those were all questions that were addressed near the end of a two-hour Comprehensive Planning Committee meeting on Thursday, December 14. The meeting was in person, on Zoom, and streamed and … Continue reading “Staggering” Amount of Respondents Believe That Bar Harbor Isn’t Meeting the Needs of Its Community Members
