As SNAP Funding Lapses, Maine Joins Lawsuit—and Islanders Take Action

Carrie Jones Oct 29, 2025 MOUNT DESERT ISLAND—As many organizations and individuals in the Mount Desert Island Region are trying to do whatever they can to help while food aid to low-income neighbors has been halted, the state itself is part of a multi-state lawsuit meant to get the Trump administration to use emergency funds so that low-income Americans can receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The … Continue reading As SNAP Funding Lapses, Maine Joins Lawsuit—and Islanders Take Action

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Pantry Prepares for Record Demand in New, Much-Needed Space

Set to open June 17 Carrie Jones May 31, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—The floors are down, the walls are rebuilt, and the ceiling has been fixed and all that means that after months of hard work renovating the former Mama DiMatteo’s, the Bar Harbor Food Pantry expects to open at its new location on June 17. “It will feel good,” Food Pantry Executive Director Tom … Continue reading Pantry Prepares for Record Demand in New, Much-Needed Space

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Basket-Pa-Looza Brings Thanksgiving to 189 Families

Carrie Jones Nov 25, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Swan Agency Real Estate. BAR HARBOR—It was the weekend before Thanksgiving and all through the basement of the Bar Harbor Congregational Church, a lot of humans were stirring, and packing, and organizing box after box after box of holiday meals. Those boxes will bring Thanksgiving to 189 families that signed up for … Continue reading Basket-Pa-Looza Brings Thanksgiving to 189 Families

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Bat-ter Up for the Food Pantry

Local boy hopes people will dress up & play at Halloween sand-lot baseball game this Saturday Carrie Jones Oct 17, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Some are young men of few words, but great deeds and Thatcher Yarborough is one of those young men. Thatcher is hosting a Halloween baseball game at the Bar Harbor Baseball Fields off Park Street to support the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. … Continue reading Bat-ter Up for the Food Pantry

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Working Together To Feed Family: Chamber Chooses Food Pantry to Benefit From Buoy Tree

Village Holiday Details CARRIE JONES NOV 17, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Mary grew up in Trenton. She and her two children live there now. School wasn’t easy for her because of depression and anxiety and surgery after surgery. “I had to learn to grow up quickly,” she writes on the Bar Harbor Food Pantry site. She became a mom at nineteen and started working between two … Continue reading Working Together To Feed Family: Chamber Chooses Food Pantry to Benefit From Buoy Tree

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Trying Not to Fall Off the Hunger Cliff

Bar Harbor Food Pantry & Criterion Theatre host Christmas in July to try to make up for rising food need and costs CARRIE JONES JUL 12, 2023 BAR HARBOR—For Colleen, a Bar Harbor Food Pantry client, she didn’t know a lot about the pantry for a long time. She’d contribute to a food drive at her church or at her kids’ school. That was it. … Continue reading Trying Not to Fall Off the Hunger Cliff

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Two Hundred Boxes Stuffed in Turkeypalooza

Bar Harbor Congregational Church’s Basketpalooza Sees Church Transform Into Temporary, Festive Food Warehouse BAR HARBOR—It’s not every day that you go to church, find a pew, an sit down to worship with a box of Stove Top Stuffing as your seat mate. That’s exactly what happened in Bar Harbor Sunday morning. Just after the 11 a.m. as the last resonates of “Go Now in Peace” … Continue reading Two Hundred Boxes Stuffed in Turkeypalooza

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