Cost to Rebuild Glen Mary Wading Pool Makes Tweaks to Plan Necessary

Carrie Jones Sep 16, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. BAR HARBOR—Plans to rebuild the currently broken Glen Mary Pool will likely need to be tweaked after costs for the previous proposal came in too high this past July. During the Parks and Recreation committee’s September 15 meeting, member John Kelly questioned the town’s review process if those tweaks occur. … Continue reading Cost to Rebuild Glen Mary Wading Pool Makes Tweaks to Plan Necessary

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No-Fin Compares to the MDI Sharks

Aquathon swimmers averaged 135 laps as kids raise money to keep swim team legacy alive Carrie Jones Feb 06, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Street Cafe. BAR HARBOR—One stroke. One kick. Another. One lap. One turn. Another. Combine endurance with muscle memory with what seems like choreography. Now add water. Next, imagine swimming 135 laps in the MDI YMCA pool … Continue reading No-Fin Compares to the MDI Sharks

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Proposed AOS 91 Budget And How It Could Affect Your Taxes

Public AOS Budget Warrant Meeting This Wednesday, January 22 Shaun Farrar Jan 20, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. BAR HARBOR—The AOS 91 budget has been voted on and approved by the AOS 91 School Board, which is comprised of all members from each of the nine local school boards or committees. The AOS is the administrative … Continue reading Proposed AOS 91 Budget And How It Could Affect Your Taxes

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Briefs: Storm Expected Tonight, Meet the Lambs, First Baby, and Much More

Courts, real estate, right whales off Jeffreys Ledge Carrie Jones Jan 19, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Swan Agency Real Estate. A Quick Note From Us: Each week, we compile briefs and press releases and event images and share them all in one (sometimes very long) story. Our briefs article is mostly just press releases that we don’t write, or claim to … Continue reading Briefs: Storm Expected Tonight, Meet the Lambs, First Baby, and Much More

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Two MDI Women Competing in Ice Swimming World Championships in Italy

Jan 13, 2025 by Emily Burnham/Bangor Daily News BAR HARBOR—Two Mount Desert Island women are competing for the first time in the International Ice Swimming Championships in Trentino, Italy, this week. Puranjot Kaur, a College of the Atlantic graduate and staffer, is best known for her attempts in 2020 and 2021 to swim all the way around Mount Desert Island. Mariah Reading is a Bangor native and a longtime … Continue reading Two MDI Women Competing in Ice Swimming World Championships in Italy

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THINGS TO DO ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND THIS WEEK

And in the near future. Jan 13, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Edward Jones Financial Advisor: Elise N. Frank. THINGS TO DO It’s our weekly round-up, and we may have missed some things, so apologies! If you have something you’d like in here, please let me know. Also, you may have to click through to see everything. There are so many … Continue reading THINGS TO DO ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND THIS WEEK

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Looking To Local Kids’ Future:

Aspirations Fair Brings Pros and Students Together Carrie Jones Dec 28, 2024 Share MOUNT DESERT—Dreaming is a pretty good start to career aspirations. But an even better start might be talking to (and learning from) the people who have careers that you’re aspiring toward. And it’s never too early to start. Aspirations, connections, and possibilities were celebrated during an aspirations fair at Camp Beech Cliff, … Continue reading Looking To Local Kids’ Future:

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Beware of Dragons! And Maybe Justin Bieber as Racers Got Gritty This Weekend

There was no Sir Rendering at the sand belt races Carrie Jones Oct 14, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. TOWN HILL—Allison Sasner headed inside to do the brackets for the belt sander races at the Atlantic Brewing Company on Sunday while in the beer garden, Bryce Lambert amped up the crowd of spectators lined up to … Continue reading Beware of Dragons! And Maybe Justin Bieber as Racers Got Gritty This Weekend

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THINGS TO DO ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND THIS WEEK

And in the near future. Oct 07, 2024 Share THINGS TO DO It’s our weekly round-up, and I may have missed some things, so apologies! If you have something you’d like in here, please let me know. Also, you may have to click through to see everything. There are so many things that this email is a bit long for a lot of inboxes. We … Continue reading THINGS TO DO ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND THIS WEEK

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MDI GIRLS ARE THE FESTIVAL OF CHAMPION CHAMPIONS!

Help Clean Up Eagle Lake: So many briefs and press releases Carrie Jones Oct 06, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. Each week (sometimes twice) we compile the press releases and our own briefs into one story so that we don’t overwhelm your inboxes with seven stories a day. This is this week’s compilation. Our first brief is via Chris … Continue reading MDI GIRLS ARE THE FESTIVAL OF CHAMPION CHAMPIONS!

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