The town is pledging to help save them and you can help save them, too. Carrie Jones Mar 22, 2025 Share TRENTON—Towns and cities all around the American continent have been coming together to try to protect one of the area’s smaller creatures: the monarch butterfly. This week, the Trenton Select Board unanimously renewed the town’s pledge to protect the beautiful species with its distinct … Continue reading Love Butterflies? Trenton Does!
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
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
