Community Comes Together To Bring Christmas To Kids

Witham Family Hotel’s Free Charitable Christmas Celebration Brings Full On Cheer To Locals and Continues to Provide Long After Event Is Over BAR HARBOR—“Are those reindeer?” one mom crooned to her newly walking toddler as they came down the stairs of the Atlantic Oceanside. “Yeah,” her daughter whispered. “Are those Santa’s reindeers?” the mom asked as they came to the bottom of the steps. “Ye-ah.” … Continue reading Community Comes Together To Bring Christmas To Kids

Things to Do In Bar Harbor

Week of December 5, 202 It’s our weekly round-up, and I may have missed some things so apologies! GET YOUR HERO ON! To check if Bar Harbor Fire Department is currently hiring, please go to the town’s jobs page. But even if it isn’t, you can become a call member Becoming a call force firefighter requires extensive training, hard work, and dedication to the community. We rely … Continue reading Things to Do In Bar Harbor

Things to Do In Bar Harbor

Week of November 28 It’s our weekly round-up and I may have missed some things so apologies! GET YOUR HERO ON! To check if Bar Harbor Fire Department is currently hiring, please go to the town’s jobs page. But even if it isn’t, you can become a call member Becoming a call force firefighter requires extensive training, hard work, and dedication to the community. We rely … Continue reading Things to Do In Bar Harbor

Things to Do In Bar Harbor

Week of November 21, 2022 It’s our weekly round-up and I may have missed some things so apologies! I’m just one person and very imperfect, so some weeks there will be more news than others as I try to fit things around my editing novels, podcasting, and writing my own books and actually making a living, but here you go! Subscribed GET YOUR HERO ON! … Continue reading Things to Do In Bar Harbor

Conners-Emerson Halloween Parade

Bar Harbor Tradition Opens Halloween Weekend BAR HARBOR—Cameras flashed. A band rocked out. Kids smiled. And one young person may have hopped the entire parade route from the Bar Harbor Village Green, down Main Street and up Cottage Street this Friday morning as the Conners-Emerson School continued its tradition of a Halloween parade. The Conners-Emerson building project will have a visioning session on Wednesday, November 9 … Continue reading Conners-Emerson Halloween Parade

Things to Do and Story Round Up October 17

What adventures will you have this week in Bar Harbor? I’m just one person and very imperfect, so some weeks there will be more news than others as I try to fit things around my editing novels, podcasting, and writing my own books and actually making a living, but here you go! *By request, at the end of this post, I’m going to paste in … Continue reading Things to Do and Story Round Up October 17

Jack Wilkins Writes The Songs That Bop Hard

Acadia National Park’s First Jazz Composer Improvises During Jesup Talk BAR HARBOR—Like any great jazz musician and composer Jack Wilkins proved that he could improvise during his lecture entitled “The Compositional Process: How to Make Mountains Into Music” at the Jesup Memorial Library, Thursday, October 20. The Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist is an Acadia National Park Artist-In-Residence and he presented a bit of his music and … Continue reading Jack Wilkins Writes The Songs That Bop Hard

Lager Than Life: Belt Sander Races Brew Up a Good Time

Vacationland Parking Brings Steven Glass His Third Win TOWN HILL—Imagine a crowd of locals holding beers, phones and eating barbecue crowded around a double, parallel, wooden track lifted a few feet above the gravel. Belt sanders covered in stickers, black check flannel hats or even an entire 3-D printed parking grid of a downtown Bar Harbor intersection rev their engines. “This is legit,” a kid … Continue reading Lager Than Life: Belt Sander Races Brew Up a Good Time

Things to Do and Story Round Up September 25

What adventures will you have this week in Bar Harbor? GET YOUR NEWS ON! I’m just one person, so some weeks there will be more news than others as I try to fit things around my editing novels, podcasting, and writing my own books and actually making a living, but here you go! Here are the links to our stories from the past week in … Continue reading Things to Do and Story Round Up September 25

Bar Harbor’s Fourth of July Events!

According to the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce: Bar Harbor’s Fourth of July has been voted the #1 Fourth of July celebration in America by the Today Show, and recognized by National Geographic as one of the top ten in the U.S.  With a full day of events, there are so many ways to enjoy the holiday, it’s no wonder that people love spending the … Continue reading Bar Harbor’s Fourth of July Events!