Bar Harbor Seeks Clarity on Campground Definitions, Private Campsites

Carrie Jones Nov 13, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Shops. BAR HARBOR—How should the town define campgrounds and should individual private campsites be allowed in places outside of the town’s shoreland zone? Those two questions were approached in a duo of workshops, November 12, as the town’s code enforcement office looked for guidance about potential tweaks to the town’s definition of … Continue reading Bar Harbor Seeks Clarity on Campground Definitions, Private Campsites

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Following Court’s Order, Tremont Planning Board Conditionally Approves Pointy Head Campground Application

Abutter’s attorney says court’s decision has been appealed Shaun Farrar Oct 29, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Psychiatry. TREMONT—At its October 28 meeting, the Tremont Planning Board conditionally approved the application of Madelon Brogdon for Pointy Head Campground. That application was originally submitted approximately four years ago. The board previously denied the application twice before. Both times those decisions were appealed … Continue reading Following Court’s Order, Tremont Planning Board Conditionally Approves Pointy Head Campground Application

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Court Orders Tremont Planning Board To Approve Campground Application

Also orders code enforcement officer to issue driveway permit Shaun Farrar Oct 27, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. TREMONT—Maine’s Business and Consumer Court has ordered the Tremont Planning Board to approve the application of Madelon Brogdon and ordered the town’s code enforcement officer to issue a permit for the use of a way to access Brogdon’s … Continue reading Court Orders Tremont Planning Board To Approve Campground Application

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Having a Little Tension With Your Family is Sometimes Part of a Vacation

“Does your heart have some sort of emotional attachment to this rug because I’d just as well get rid of it,” the woman in the pop-up camper asks the man. They’re a couple. Everywhere he walks, he walks slowly with his flip-flops dragging across the asphalt, the pine needles, the dirt. He wears a giant rainbow shirt. She wears fleece and jeans. … Continue reading Having a Little Tension With Your Family is Sometimes Part of a Vacation

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Campground Lady Where Friendly People Met

She had stayed at our camper site for nine years, not continuously, but for a couple weeks at a time each summer while her husband came to Maine to abandon the Alabama summer heat. She’d still had to stay home and work those summers, visiting him twice each season. They thought they’d spend a lot more time here soon. But this year, she walks across … Continue reading Campground Lady Where Friendly People Met

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