Tim Searchfield, Cynthia Lambert Carrie Jones Jun 15, 2025 Share 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 … Continue reading Letters From Our Readers
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!
Scheduled for opening this season Apr 03, 2025 Share by Bill Trotter/Bangor Daily News BAR HARBOR—Three years after a dramatic fire destroyed a building at the Bluenose Inn in Bar Harbor, the owner has rebuilt it with a new design and plans to open it for guests this summer. The new $9 million Eden Building at the Bluenose Inn was constructed with roughly half as many units as its predecessor … Continue reading Bluenose Inn About To Open New Building After 2022 Fire
Linda C. Gray Harmon, Stephen Lee Somes, Ralph Benson Marshall, Jere Huston O’Rourke Mar 30, 2025 Share Note: “People We’ve Lost” is a new 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 because we think everyone deserves to be remembered. If you have an obituary for a loved one or … Continue reading People We’ve Lost
What About Real Property? Shaun Farrar Sep 28, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Treats. BAR HARBOR—How the transfer of an individual school’s property and the disposition of its debts to the Regional School Unit (RSU) would be handled under reorganization is still being hammered out by the district’s Reorganization Planning Committee (RPC). This topic was part of a reorganization update … Continue reading What Could Happen to School Debt if We Reorganize?
Lenny DeMuro and Others Celebrate a Birthday CARRIE JONES JUL 15, 2024 BAR HARBOR—Former executive director Lenny DeMuro calls the MDI YMCA, the soul of the Bar Harbor community. And that soul turned 125 this year. It was time to celebrate that, MDI YMCA Executive Director Ann Tikkanen decided. So, they did. The MDI YMCA held its celebration at the Bar Harbor Club on Thursday … Continue reading The Soul of Bar Harbor Might Be Right On Park Street
And Honors Three of Its Own CARRIE JONES JUL 11, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Friends of Acadia’s CEO Eric Stiles said he thought of himself as a wildlife biologist. He liked hiking. He liked nature. He liked it outdoors. “Housing?” Stiles thought. “That’s what developers do?” But, Acadia National Park has 25 vacancies on its meant to be 100-strong year-round staff. The park should have 150 … Continue reading Friends of Acadia Raises the Roof
CARRIE JONES JUN 22, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—The bids for the Conners Emerson School’s rebuild came in on Thursday. The lowest bid is approximately $11 million over budget. “We opened bids for the new school yesterday at 2 p.m. We had two bids. Both companies had pre-qualified,” Superintendent Michael Zboray said Friday. The hand-delivered bids came from Bowman Construction of Newport and Wright-Ryan out of Portland. … Continue reading Conners-Emerson Rebuild Bids Come in $11 Million Higher Than Budget
Bar Harbor Businesses File Motion for Preliminary Injunction CARRIE JONES MAY 09, 2024 BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor’s cruise ship saga continues this week with the latest installment occurring at the end of an almost-five hour Town Council meeting, May 7, as the councilors tried to move forward despite multiple lawsuits and a complicated ordinance. Also on May 9, APPLL released a press statement about the motion … Continue reading Cruise Ship Ordinance Not Moved to Public Hearing
State and federal agencies are debating how to fix a stretch of Seawall Road — or whether to abandon it altogether. by Jacqueline Weaver of the Maine Monitor APR 14, 2024 Share SOUTHWEST HARBOR—The fate of a flood-prone stretch of road on Mount Desert Island is up in the air as state and federal agencies debate whether to repair a road that washed out repeatedly … Continue reading Is a Coastal Road in Acadia That Keeps Washing Out Worth Saving?
