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Wasted Food: Going After a Massive Problem One Compost Bin at a Time
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Wasted Food: Going After a Massive Problem One Compost Bin at a Time

Food Waste Impacts Towns’ Budgets and Air Carrie Jones Sep 26, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Food scraps. Yard waste. Combined, the items are about 40 percent of what Maine homes throw away. Those scraps, those twigs, the random lettuce that wilts and isn’t eaten, the moldy bread or cheese? It adds up and many local people and groups are trying to find ways to reduce the … Continue reading Wasted Food: Going After a Massive Problem One Compost Bin at a Time

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Council Approves School Fundraising Funding Planning Department Focuses on Bar Harbor Street Safety & Needs Your Input
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Council Approves School Fundraising Funding

Planning Department Focuses on Bar Harbor Street Safety & Needs Your Input Carrie Jones Sep 23, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. BAR HARBOR—A quick Bar Harbor Town Council meeting on Tuesday night focused on fundraising for the Conners-Emerson School reconstruction, an update on the town’s transfer station, and quick updates on other projects, as well as a consent … Continue reading Council Approves School Fundraising Funding

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What Is Bill Belichick Doing Between Coaching Jobs Visiting Bar Harbor!
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What Is Bill Belichick Doing Between Coaching Jobs

Visiting Bar Harbor! Shaun Farrar Sep 23, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Famous people visit Bar Harbor frequently. Sometimes they are seen and sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes they are everyone’s idol and sometimes they aren’t. No matter how you currently feel about Bill Belichick; if you are a New England Patriots fan, chances are that you loved him at one time or another. Apparently, between coaching jobs, … Continue reading What Is Bill Belichick Doing Between Coaching Jobs

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Music Harbor Brings Music, Joy, and A Lot More During Marathon Weekend

And according to science, it’s bringing some emotion, too Carrie Jones Sep 21, 2024 BAR HARBOR—The posts started showing up on one social media account after another: an image of Mount Desert Island and in the middle? A guitar fretboard. “Music Harbor” was all it read. What exactly did the image mean? What was Music Harbor? And why was this image suddenly showing up everywhere? … Continue reading Music Harbor Brings Music, Joy, and A Lot More During Marathon Weekend

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These MDI Sisters Don't Stop Giving Back MDI Hospital Celebrates its volunteers, employees and community partners
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These MDI Sisters Don’t Stop Giving Back

MDI Hospital Celebrates its volunteers, employees and community partners Carrie Jones Sep 15, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. MOUNT DESERT ISLAND—Two MDI sisters have spent 150 hours this year volunteering at the MDI Hospital. One hundred and fifty hours. But they aren’t counting. It’s part of who they are: talking, connecting, giving, worrying, making a difference in one interaction … Continue reading These MDI Sisters Don’t Stop Giving Back

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3 2 Dashboard Food Pantry Working To Snazz Up Former Mama's Verizon Antennas on Fire Station Tweaked, Mira Monte Inn Changes Approved
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Food Pantry Working To Snazz Up Former Mama’s

Verizon Antennas on Fire Station Tweaked, Mira Monte Inn Changes Approved Carrie Jones Sep 14, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Food Pantry at 34 Kennebec Street appeared before the Design Review Board, Thursday, September 12, to have changes to its exterior siding, windows, doors, paving of the parking lot, and installation of planters approved. The planter design will be like its neighbor, Reel Pizza. … Continue reading Food Pantry Working To Snazz Up Former Mama’s

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Bar harbor race with dogs
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Sometimes a Race is More Than a Race

Mary Parker’s Run, Walk, Wag 5K Set for October! Carrie Jones Sep 12, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—You’re allowed to bring your dogs. Actually, Mary Parker would really have wanted it that way. And she’d want you to bring yourself, too, even without a dog. If you could borrow one? That would be … Continue reading Sometimes a Race is More Than a Race

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Bar Harbor Town Council Recommends Using Higgins Pit Solar Bond Money For Capital Improvements

Improvements would reduce town carbon emissions Carrie Jones Sep 05, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. BAR HARBOR—In a quick 10-minute meeting focusing mostly on permits, the Bar Harbor Town Council recommended adopting a bond amendment article about the money that had originally been approved for the Higgins Pit Solar Array project. The Council has added the amendment to the November … Continue reading Bar Harbor Town Council Recommends Using Higgins Pit Solar Bond Money For Capital Improvements

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