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She Needed a Bike. Southwest Harbor’s Community Made Sure She Got One. At the almost-annual Bike Rodeo, police, Lions Club members, local businesses, and emergency responders came together to help local kids ride safer—and look out for one another.
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She Needed a Bike. Southwest Harbor’s Community Made Sure She Got One.

At the almost-annual Bike Rodeo, police, Lions Club members, local businesses, and emergency responders came together to help local kids ride safer—and look out for one another. Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar Aug 26, 2026 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Viridian Law. BAR HARBOR—Southwest Harbor Police Sergeant Rick Graham smiled and leaned over, Saturday, August 22. His voice had a hushed joy to it as … Continue reading She Needed a Bike. Southwest Harbor’s Community Made Sure She Got One.

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Tremont Youth/Community Assistance Program Gets Firm Support From Select Board. Impromptu game of kickball spurs movement to level the playing field.
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Tremont Youth/Community Assistance Program Gets Firm Support From Select Board.

Impromptu game of kickball spurs movement to level the playing field. Shaun Farrar Aug 18, 2026 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Bar Harbor Bicycle Shop. TREMONT—It was just an idea that “came off the top” of Jayson Clough’s head as “an opportunity for kids and families to do something.” A game of kickball to be held on the ballfields behind the Tremont Consolidated … Continue reading Tremont Youth/Community Assistance Program Gets Firm Support From Select Board.

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For Tremont's Kids, a Sunday Kickball Game Has Become One Man's Promise to Do More. What began as an impromptu Sunday gathering became a reminder of what children need from the communities that raise them.
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For Tremont’s Kids, a Sunday Kickball Game Has Become One Man’s Promise to Do More.

What began as an impromptu Sunday gathering became a reminder of what children need from the communities that raise them. Shaun Farrar Aug 04, 2026 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Viridian Law. TREMONT—There’s going to be another kickball game in two weeks, according to Jayson “Cluffer” Clough, Monday on his social media, but before he made that announcement, he had some things to … Continue reading For Tremont’s Kids, a Sunday Kickball Game Has Become One Man’s Promise to Do More.

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13 99+ The Invisible Work Beneath the Flowers. How One Garden Club Helped Shape an Island for 100 Years. What does it look like when a century of quiet volunteers chooses beauty as a way of serving a community?
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The Invisible Work Beneath the Flowers. How One Garden Club Helped Shape an Island for 100 Years.

What does it look like when a century of quiet volunteers chooses beauty as a way of serving a community? Carrie Jones Jul 28, 2026 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Thrive Juice Bar & Kitchen. MOUNT DESERT ISLAND—The gardens cultivated and enriched by the Garden Club of Mount Desert, the greenhouses the club members have funded, the trees they’ve planted, the bulbs that … Continue reading The Invisible Work Beneath the Flowers. How One Garden Club Helped Shape an Island for 100 Years.

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When Love Is a Verb. 88 Blankets, 100 Valentines: How Mount Desert Island Loves Over and Over Again.
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When Love Is a Verb.

88 Blankets, 100 Valentines: How Mount Desert Island Loves Over and Over Again. Carrie Jones Feb 14, 2026 BAR HARBOR—It began with a really good Polartec fabric sale. Unable to resist, artist and Bar Harbor Historical Society’s Director of Engagement Nikki Moser ordered almost 400 yards. “I needed to do something that felt like direct action, and so many people are cold,” she explained. The next … Continue reading When Love Is a Verb.

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Families Say This Bar Harbor Swim Coach Changes Lives For More Than Two Decades, Jim Willis Has Turned a Small-Town Swim Team Into a Family
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Families Say This Bar Harbor Swim Coach Changes Lives

For More Than Two Decades, Jim Willis Has Turned a Small-Town Swim Team Into a Family Carrie Jones Feb 08, 2026 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—Somewhere between the concrete walls of the MDY YMCA, the bleachers and the six lanes of its pool, Coach Jim Willis quietly walks and counts and notices things. In a … Continue reading Families Say This Bar Harbor Swim Coach Changes Lives

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Games, Art, Beer, and Belonging: A Winter Saturday in Bar Harbor Winter gatherings bring warmth, community and smiles.
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Games, Art, Beer, and Belonging: A Winter Saturday in Bar Harbor

Winter gatherings bring warmth, community and smiles. Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar Feb 01, 2026 BAR HARBOR—Just outside the Bar Harbor Congregational Church in downtown Bar Harbor, Saturday afternoon, a bundled up family member tried to get a baby stroller over a parking lot snowbank so that it could go onto a sidewalk and then out into Main Street. It wasn’t going easily. The carriage’s front wheels … Continue reading Games, Art, Beer, and Belonging: A Winter Saturday in Bar Harbor

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Built to Last: 60 Years of Love and Kindness from Cliff and Kathy Olson. MDI couple celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary today.
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Built to Last: 60 Years of Love and Kindness from Cliff and Kathy Olson.

MDI couple celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary today. Carrie Jones Jan 22, 2026 NORTHEAST HARBOR—Sometimes the best news isn’t the hard news. It’s the quiet stories of triumph and long-lasting love and lives that make huge impacts in not just a couple’s family, but in an entire community. Cliff and Kathy Olson have a story like that, and today, it’s their wedding anniversary where they … Continue reading Built to Last: 60 Years of Love and Kindness from Cliff and Kathy Olson.

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Why This Homey Meal Is a Yearly Lifeline for Community Connection YWCA of MDI Cooks Community Thanksgiving Dinner
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Why This Homey Meal Is a Yearly Lifeline for Community Connection

YWCA of MDI Cooks Community Thanksgiving Dinner Carrie Jones Nov 26, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Shops. BAR HARBOR—No one is quite sure how long the YWCA of MDI has been cooking a community Thanksgiving dinner. “It’s been years,” Jackie Davidson, executive director said in 2024 as the smells of turkey and gravy wafted through the entire brick building and out … Continue reading Why This Homey Meal Is a Yearly Lifeline for Community Connection

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Smells Like Thanksgiving: Inside Pemetic’s Beloved Buddy Meal Gravy, Giggles, and Gratitude Fill Pemetic’s Gym
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Smells Like Thanksgiving: Inside Pemetic’s Beloved Buddy Meal

Gravy, Giggles, and Gratitude Fill Pemetic’s Gym Carrie Jones Nov 21, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The 1932 Criterion Theatre. SOUTHWEST HARBOR—In the Pemetic Elementary School gym Emma Damon Johnson watches everything with a mother’s nurturing eye, the kids, the staff, the tables, who needs apple pie, who needs something gluten free. She and other volunteers and Pemetic Elementary School hustle and … Continue reading Smells Like Thanksgiving: Inside Pemetic’s Beloved Buddy Meal

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