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Behind Bar Harbor’s Holiday Glow: Volunteers, Laughter, and a Very Stubborn Tree Holiday Preparations Bring MDI Together as Volunteers Deck the Island
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Behind Bar Harbor’s Holiday Glow: Volunteers, Laughter, and a Very Stubborn Tree

Holiday Preparations Bring MDI Together as Volunteers Deck the Island Carrie Jones Dec 04, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Psychiatry. BAR HARBOR—Jonathan Robles worked Wednesday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. He’ll probably do the same tonight. He’s okay with it. That’s because it’s for the holidays and the community. “It’s been a week,” Robles said, smiling, as he stood outside … Continue reading Behind Bar Harbor’s Holiday Glow: Volunteers, Laughter, and a Very Stubborn Tree

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A Teacher’s Kid Turns CEO, Lizz Sturm Puts Community First on MDI as Do Good Group Makes First Big Donation Do Good Group Puts Profit Where the Need Is and Calls for Community to "Match Us"
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A Teacher’s Kid Turns CEO, Lizz Sturm Puts Community First on MDI as Do Good Group Makes First Big Donation

Do Good Group Puts Profit Where the Need Is and Calls for Community to “Match Us” Carrie Jones Dec 01, 2025 BAR HARBOR—Lizz Sturm, Bangor native and former teacher’s kid, knows how often teachers use their own money when their students are hungry. She also knows that the MDI community steps up and takes care of each other over and over again. As the new … Continue reading A Teacher’s Kid Turns CEO, Lizz Sturm Puts Community First on MDI as Do Good Group Makes First Big Donation

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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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In Northeast Harbor, Santa’s Arrival by Sea Will Once Again Mark the Start of a Cherished Holiday Tradition
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In Northeast Harbor, Santa’s Arrival by Sea Will Once Again Mark the Start of a Cherished Holiday Tradition

Carrie Jones Nov 17, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. NORTHEAST HARBOR—Long before Santa’s boots hit Main Street, families in Northeast Harbor know the holiday season has officially begun the moment the Maine Seacoast Mission’s Sunbeam rounds the bend into the harbor, Santa and Mrs. Claus waving from the bow. That beloved moment is just one of many highlights returning Saturday, December 6, … Continue reading In Northeast Harbor, Santa’s Arrival by Sea Will Once Again Mark the Start of a Cherished Holiday Tradition

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Rest Stops? Not for These Competitors Bar Harbor’s Bed Racers Went Full Throttle, Saturday
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Rest Stops? Not for These Competitors

Bar Harbor’s Bed Racers Went Full Throttle, Saturday Carrie Jones Nov 09, 2025 BAR HARBOR—It’s not every day a piece of toast runs through Bar Harbor next to a waffle and an avocado, all pushing a bed on wheels. Or every day that four carless drivers, all geared up and in uniforms, zip down that same street. Or ever day that Scooby Dooby Doo (and … Continue reading Rest Stops? Not for These Competitors

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"Look, Mom! It's the Science Ladies." Beakers, Filters, and Big Dreams: Maine’s Mobile BioLab & Scientists Inspire Trenton Students and Others Around the State
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“Look, Mom! It’s the Science Ladies.”

Beakers, Filters, and Big Dreams: Maine’s Mobile BioLab & Scientists Inspire Trenton Students and Others Around the State Carrie Jones Nov 05, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Choco-Latté Café. TRENTON—Sitting at a lab table inside a mobile science lab next to her classmates and in front of highly expensive science equipment and wide screens live streaming her work, Breanna Lewis smiled. The … Continue reading “Look, Mom! It’s the Science Ladies.”

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The Oldest Ghosts of Bar Harbor and Hancock County Conners Emerson Parade, Birch Bay & YMCA Photos, Tonight's Halloween Events
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The Oldest Ghosts of Bar Harbor and Hancock County

Conners Emerson Parade, Birch Bay & YMCA Photos, Tonight’s Halloween Events Carrie Jones Oct 31, 2025 SULLIVAN AND BAR HARBOR—Sightings of the dead woman began in 1799 at the Blaisdell house in Sullivan. But before they saw her, they heard her. A strange noise in the cellar. Then another. Then another. As the new century arrived, so too did Nelly (Hooper) Butler’s voice. Just her … Continue reading The Oldest Ghosts of Bar Harbor and Hancock County

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From Pancakes to Pearls: Chamber Awards Night Celebrates Bar Harbor’s Best. David Paine, Window Panes, Dennis Foods, Pick a Pearl, Sarah Gilbert and Liz Graves Among Winners.
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From Pancakes to Pearls: Chamber Awards Night Celebrates Bar Harbor’s Best.

David Paine, Window Panes, Dennis Foods, Pick a Pearl, Sarah Gilbert and Liz Graves Among Winners. Carrie Jones Oct 30, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The 1932 Criterion Theatre. BAR HARBOR—There was a theme at the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce Awards Night. It wasn’t about money. It wasn’t about honor. For every person and business that received their honors and spoke, … Continue reading From Pancakes to Pearls: Chamber Awards Night Celebrates Bar Harbor’s Best.

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Keeping Time, and Stories, in Bar Harbor Once a concert pianist, Alexander Phillips, 80, now spends his days repairing clocks and reminding his town that every second and every experience counts.
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Keeping Time, and Stories, in Bar Harbor

Once a concert pianist, Alexander Phillips, 80, now spends his days repairing clocks and reminding his town that every second and every experience counts. Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar Oct 25, 2025 BAR HARBOR—Alexander Phillips keeps time going and the ticks and whirls and noises from the clocks that hang along his Main Street shop and that sit, waiting for his care, on the work bench … Continue reading Keeping Time, and Stories, in Bar Harbor

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