Top-Ranked Bar Harbor’s Conners-Emerson Tapped—Yet Again—for Random National Student Assessment

Carrie Jones Dec 04, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by First National Wealth Management. BAR HARBOR—The Nation’s Report Card has selected the Conners-Emerson School in Bar Harbor again as one of the schools where fourth and eighth grade students will be tested to create nation-wide data to show how the country’s students are performing. “It’s supposed to be randomly selected,” Conners-Emerson Principal Dr. Heather Weir … Continue reading Top-Ranked Bar Harbor’s Conners-Emerson Tapped—Yet Again—for Random National Student Assessment

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Bar Harbor’s New School May Get Double the Expected Energy Credit

Officials preview a draft moving schedule that could keep students out of school for two weeks during the transition Carrie Jones Dec 02, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. BAR HARBOR—The geothermal credit that the Conners Emerson School is hoping for to help offset the costs the new school construction may be double what was expected, School Superintendent Mike Zboray … Continue reading Bar Harbor’s New School May Get Double the Expected Energy Credit

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Connors Emerson School’s Sixth Annual Welcome Back Event!

Parents and students show appreciation for the teachers and staff Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar Aug 27, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Psychiatry. BAR HARBOR—The day before the first day of school something special happens at Conners Emerson in Bar Harbor. The teachers and staff are celebrated and welcomed to their home away from home by many of the community members—and students—who … Continue reading Connors Emerson School’s Sixth Annual Welcome Back Event!

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New State Results Show Conners Emerson Far Better Than Average at Both Reading and Math Scores

School Has Lowered Its Chronic Absenteeism Rate Carrie Jones Aug 13, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Bar Harbor Music Festival. BAR HARBOR—The Conners Emerson School had some great news recently and it all came in the form of data. The Bar Harbor school’s reading scores and math scores from grades 3-8 were higher than state average when it came to … Continue reading New State Results Show Conners Emerson Far Better Than Average at Both Reading and Math Scores

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Bar Harbor School Board Continues to Hope YMCA Will Reestablish After-School Route

Carrie Jones Apr 11, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor School Board on Monday afternoon expressed again its wish that the YMCA could use its small bus to bring students back to the YMCA after school days, part of the service that it had provided the town for years, but has stopped. The YMCA sits on town-owned land on Park Street and has had a … Continue reading Bar Harbor School Board Continues to Hope YMCA Will Reestablish After-School Route

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Breaking News: Cyber Criminals Steal Bar Harbor’s School Construction Payment

Superintendent Hopeful that $1 million can be recovered Carrie Jones Mar 14, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor municipal and school officials are dealing with a cybercrime that may have compromised some of the bond money to pay for the rebuilding of the Conners Emerson School, a project that has already begun. It is an ever-evolving situation, but School Superintendent Mike Zboray became aware that the … Continue reading Breaking News: Cyber Criminals Steal Bar Harbor’s School Construction Payment

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Efficiency Maine Grant Still Up In The Air for Bar Harbor School

Carrie Jones Dec 07, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. BAR HARBOR—A potential Efficiency Maine Grant that could have brought up to $300,000 to the new Conners Emerson School has encountered some issues, Conners Emerson School Board members learned from Superintendent Mike Zboray Monday. “As of now, we’re not getting the Efficiency Maine money….We didn’t meet the … Continue reading Efficiency Maine Grant Still Up In The Air for Bar Harbor School

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Why is building and renovating schools so expensive?

Maine Department of Education data of state-funded major construction projects shows how costs have grown in recent years. By Lana Cohen of the Maine Monitor BAR HARBOR—The price tag on a new elementary school in Bar Harbor is $63 million. An Auburn high school completed in 2023 came in at $122 million. And at the ballot box this fall, Cape Elizabeth voters will consider a $94.7 million … Continue reading Why is building and renovating schools so expensive?

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Chipmunks Play Hide and Squeak While Permit Delays Stall Conners Emerson Building Start

Carrie Jones Sep 18, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Dr. Heather Weir Webster is the type of person who puts down her blanket for a place to sit well before the Fourth of July parade. She is the type of person who likes to know what is going to happen. She’s the type of person who wants to know what the expectations are. So, she and the … Continue reading Chipmunks Play Hide and Squeak While Permit Delays Stall Conners Emerson Building Start

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A Teacher is Back

Jennifer Dougherty returns to the classroom, bringing kindness and experience with her CARRIE JONES JUN 09, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—This fall a kindergarten class at the Conners Emerson School is getting a master: a master teacher, a master in kindness, and a master in volunteering. Yes, Jennifer Dougherty only has a master’s degree in one of those things—education—but since she and her family moved to … Continue reading A Teacher is Back

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