Proposed NOAA Budget Cuts Could Affect Local Mariners

Also weather forecasting and climate change research Shaun Farrar Apr 30, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Shops. WASHINGTON, DC—Looking things up on your phone or computer throughout the day, for you, may be entertainment, news, money management, or keeping tabs on friends and loved ones. But many people, many of whom are from our local community, spend the most time … Continue reading Proposed NOAA Budget Cuts Could Affect Local Mariners

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Letter from a reader

March 2 Share LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/LETTERS FROM OUR READERS POLICY While we do not solicit them, we do 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 (letters from our readers) and included here do not necessarily … Continue reading Letter from a reader

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Bar Harbor Talks Trash—and the Price Tag That Comes With It

Pay-as-you-throw, waste streams, recycling all discussed Carrie Jones Feb 19, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Edward Jones Financial Advisor: Elise N. Frank. BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor will continue to investigate how its trash and recycling choices could be potentially changed. Those changes may help the taxpayer or the budget. “Waste disposal is expensive,” consultant Thomas Henaghen told the town councilors, February 18. “More weight … Continue reading Bar Harbor Talks Trash—and the Price Tag That Comes With It

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What Will the Next Lodging Moratorium Potentially Cover?

Bar Harbor’s Sustainability Tourism Task Force a Go; Work Plan That Impacts Bar Harbor’s Future Approved Carrie Jones Jan 22, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—In a broad-ranging meeting, January 21, the Bar Harbor Town Council made moves that could impact the town’s future in the realms of lodging, short-term rentals, tourism, parking, and protecting water resources. Bar Harbor’s moratorium on lodgings was potentially tweaked for any … Continue reading What Will the Next Lodging Moratorium Potentially Cover?

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Bar Harbor’s Climate Plan Is a Go, Tourism Task Force Being Revised

Water and Sewer Rates Likely to Go Up Carrie Jones Dec 19, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—At its December 17 meeting, two documents that could impact the town’s future faced the Bar Harbor Town Council and both involved task forces. The councilors took no action on an outline that created a tourism task … Continue reading Bar Harbor’s Climate Plan Is a Go, Tourism Task Force Being Revised

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Should Southwest Harbor Be a Resilience Hub?

Rooftop solar possibilities discussed Carrie Jones Nov 23, 2024 Share SOUTHWEST HARBOR—Resilience hubs are popping up across the country and there may be one eventually in Southwest Harbor. Back in January, after a duo of storms with massive storm surges, the Island Institute, the Gulf of Maine Research Institution (GMRI), and A Climate to Thrive (ACTT) held a resilience workshop for MDI towns and the … Continue reading Should Southwest Harbor Be a Resilience Hub?

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Some Conners Emerson Students Take Tree Matters Into Their Own Hands

Carrie Jones Oct 18, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Street Cafe. BAR HARBOR—As trees come down at the Conners-Emerson School for construction this week, some students are preparing to plant a few more at the town’s ball park. “The timing of our trees coming down at school as we are planning to plant trees is serendipitous!” said Conners-Emerson teacher Elizabeth … Continue reading Some Conners Emerson Students Take Tree Matters Into Their Own Hands

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Town Will Apply for EPA Grant to Clean Up Brownfield at MDI YMCA

Carrie Jones Oct 16, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—The Town Council held a public hearing on a grant application for an EPA cleanup at 21 Park Street, the town-owned property that houses the MDI YMCA. Coal ash. Arsenic. Lead. Cancer-causing chemicals. It all lurks in the top three feet of soil at the MDI … Continue reading Town Will Apply for EPA Grant to Clean Up Brownfield at MDI YMCA

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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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Bar Harbor Town Council Talks Trash

Carrie Jones Sep 20, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Treats. BAR HARBOR—Some days in Bar Harbor, there will be three semitruck loads of trash hauled out of town. Each of them full. “It blew my mind that we can ship out three of those trailers for MSW (municipal solid waste),” Public Works Director Bethany Leavitt said. “In one day. It’s phenomenal.” … Continue reading Bar Harbor Town Council Talks Trash

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