Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association Holds 134th Annual Meeting

Board Receives Updates on Glen Mary Pool and Shore Path Shaun Farrar Nov 14, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Psychiatry. BAR HARBOR—At its 134th annual meeting on Tuesday, November 4, the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association (VIA) revealed that as of July 31, 2025, it has spent close to $1M on the Shore Path restoration and Glen Mary Pool rebuild planning. … Continue reading Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association Holds 134th Annual Meeting

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What One Added Clause Means for Bar Harbor’s Moratorium—and Its Planning Department.

From Lodging to Housing: How One Council Amendment Reshaped Bar Harbor’s Moratorium Workload. Shaun Farrar Sep 14, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Psychiatry. BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor’s new moratorium on certain transient accommodations (lodgings) was built on a series of “whereas” clauses meant to explain and justify the moratorium and to give the planning department guidance on information gathering. Over the next … Continue reading What One Added Clause Means for Bar Harbor’s Moratorium—and Its Planning Department.

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A Story Well Told.

Bar Harbor Bookstore Icon Deb Taylor Retires After 41 Years. Carrie Jones Sep 03, 2025 BAR HARBOR—When Deb Taylor first came to Bar Harbor to work at Testa’s Restaurant one summer, she fell in love at first sight . . . with a bookstore. “I fell in love with Sherman’s immediately, and spent a lot of tip money there,” Taylor said. “When I decided to … Continue reading A Story Well Told.

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Bar Harbor Pulls Back Campground Amendment Over Definition Concerns

Rest of the Proposed Land Use Amendments Will Be on November Ballot & Bar Harbor Issues Statement on Last Week’s Federal Cruise Ship Decision Carrie Jones Aug 21, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Shops. BAR HARBOR—One potential land use ordinance amendment will not be heading to Bar Harbor voters in November after the town’s planning department requested it not be moved … Continue reading Bar Harbor Pulls Back Campground Amendment Over Definition Concerns

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People We’ve Lost

Gregory Allen Spring, Charles H. Bartlett, Elizabeth Nason Murrell Halpern, Michael T. Gage, George N. Price, Colonel Harrison Wendell Hodgkins Carrie Jones Aug 03, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Swan Agency Real Estate. Note: “People We’ve Lost” is a feature of the Bar Harbor Story where we share obituaries of people that the island lost in the previous 1-2 weeks. We’re doing this … Continue reading People We’ve Lost

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Police Officer and Bystander Pull 77-Year-Old Man From Water at Seal Harbor Dock

Update on last week’s Otter Creek chase and all local and not-quite-so-local law enforcement press releases Shaun Farrar Jul 29, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Bar Harbor Music Festival. BAR HARBOR—After receiving a call regarding a man who had fallen off the dock in Seal Harbor, Officer Caleb Mora arrived in approximately one minute and with the assistance of another person … Continue reading Police Officer and Bystander Pull 77-Year-Old Man From Water at Seal Harbor Dock

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Bar Harbor May Take Over Mount Desert Police Staffing in Full Consolidation Plan

Carrie Jones Jul 29, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Choco-Latté Café. BAR HARBOR AND MOUNT DESERT—No decisions were made Monday night and no next steps outlined, but the Town of Mount Desert Selectboard and Bar Harbor Town Council seemed generally supportive of full consolidation of the two towns’ police forces underneath the Town of Bar Harbor. How exactly those costs would be … Continue reading Bar Harbor May Take Over Mount Desert Police Staffing in Full Consolidation Plan

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Dancing, Music, and Cars & COA Boat Fire Rescue Update

MDI Hospital Receives $1 million, Southwest Harbor and Trenton Select Board Updates and all the other news that wouldn’t fit Carrie Jones Jul 25, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. A QUICK NOTE FROM US: We’ve updated our story about the rescue of some fishermen by College of the Atlantic students. That updated story from yesterday afternoon is here. … Continue reading Dancing, Music, and Cars & COA Boat Fire Rescue Update

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Carl Wockner’s Live-Looped Kindness Hits All the Right Notes in Bar Harbor

From Australia to the Annex, Wockner Builds a Musical Moment Carrie Jones Jul 24, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Bar Harbor Music Festival. BAR HARBOR—The stage at the Annex seemed barely big enough to hold solo, live-looping performer and songwriter Carl Wockner, Wednesday night. That had nothing to do with the stage’s size. It had everything to do with just how … Continue reading Carl Wockner’s Live-Looped Kindness Hits All the Right Notes in Bar Harbor

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Letters From Our Readers Nineteen MDI Hospital employees

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Letter From A Reader

Rob Benson Jul 20, 2025 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY We welcome letter submissions to The Bar Harbor Story. For details on our policy, please visit our about page and scroll down or just visit here. The beliefs, opinions, and viewpoints expressed by the writers of letters to the editor and included here do not necessarily reflect the beliefs, opinions, and viewpoints or official policies of The Bar … Continue reading Letter From A Reader

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