Tremont’s Backside Blast: A Weekend of Laughter, Music, and Community Carrie Jones & Shaun Farrar Jun 28, 2025 Share TREMONT—At Tremont’s Backside Blast it doesn’t really matter if the pollock is a tiny bit more oily during one race across Archie’s Lobster’s back lot than another because someone maybe forgot to re-slick it with baby oil. It doesn’t really matter if your team doesn’t win … Continue reading It’s a Pretty Big Blast
With Kindness and Grit, Simis Leaves School Board to Champion New School Build Carrie Jones Jun 04, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—”Keep moving. Be kind to yourself. Stay well.” Those three short sentences have been a bit of School Board Chair Lilea Simis’ mantra for a few years now. You’ll see it on … Continue reading Bar Harbor Says Thank You to a Tireless Advocate for Its Children
Carrie Jones Apr 04, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—It was standing room only in person at Jesup Memorial Library as MDI Hospital CEO Christina Maguire and Board Chair Martha Wagner addressed the hospital’s decision to close its maternity ward, July 1. Others attended via Zoom. “We are immensely appreciative of the fact that you’ve taken part of your afternoon,” Wagner told the more than 150 people gathered … Continue reading Mount Desert Island Hospital Hosts Forum
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: JACK RAYMOND Dec 29, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Andy’s Home Improvement Inc. This post was contributed by Jack Raymond. Jack’s parents owned M.A. Clark in Ellsworth, which had been owned and established by Mary Ann Clark (1860–1943). According to the Ellsworth Historical Society, “Neal A. Raymond inherited Mary Ann Clark’s share of the business and continued to run … Continue reading Effie Gott and the 109 Wreaths in Southwest Harbor
And it still does. Carrie Jones Dec 25, 2024 Share This story was originally published in 2022. It’s been updated. THE NORTH POLE AND BAR HARBOR—In 1920, Dr. J.B. Ells came back from World War I and he returned to Bar Harbor. One of his first greeters when he arrived home was a 15-year-old boy who had been paralyzed. While the doctor was away at … Continue reading MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HAD A REAL SANTA CLAUS
Witham Family Charitable Christmas brings joy, kindness, warmth, and toys to families in Bar Harbor and beyond Carrie Jones Dec 15, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Some of the 800 or so people on Saturday came with a plan. “We’ve got to find the donuts. We’ve got to take a photo with Santa,” one mom told her family in the Candy Cane Lane hallway of the Atlantic … Continue reading Hotel Workers Bring a Decade of Christmas Magic
They left with something else. YWCA of MDI fed a community last night. Carrie Jones Nov 26, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—No one is quite sure how many years the YWCA of MDI has been cooking a community Thanksgiving dinner. “It’s been years,” Jackie Davidson, executive director said Monday night as the smells of turkey and gravy wafted through the entire building. “This dinner has been … Continue reading They Came for Turkey. Maybe?
And Raise Money For Injured Camden Boy Carrie Jones Oct 15, 2024 BAR HARBOR—Dan Leonard is running the MDI Marathon this weekend with the body he has, in honor of a brother he’s lost, trying to raise money for a boy he’s never met, Ezra, son of Brenda Cayouette, of Camden, who was in an accident earlier this fall. Dan’s late brother-in-law William Jeffrey “Jeff” … Continue reading Man Will Run Marathon To Honor Memory of Cranberry Isle Resident
Council Hears Update about Wading Pool Design CARRIE JONES AND SHAUN FARRAR JUL 17, 2024 BAR HARBOR—Two small spash pads and a bit of a playground? Check. Three entrances to make an area ADA compliant and to help keep cars a bit further away from a residential neighborhood? Check. A slightly smaller pool with two-foot water depth? Most likely a check. A pool surface that … Continue reading Glen Mary Wading Pool Plan Is a Splash
Even when I really wasn’t CARRIE JONES JUN 16, 2024 Share Every once in a long while, Shaun or I might write an opinion piece. These pieces aren’t ever going to be about how you should vote or that sort of thing because we believe you get to make that decision without anyone editorializing how to do that. That’s why we report on the news. … Continue reading Opinion: The Man Who Called Me Miss America
