Troubling Numbers: Bar Harbor Confronts Accelerating Sea Level Rise

Carrie Jones Dec 09, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. BAR HARBOR—Cottage Street was a mess, Monday, with traffic blocked, wires down, and a dump truck hanging like a brownish, oversized Christmas ornament, but inside the town’s municipal building, the Bar Harbor Harbor Committee received news that could reshape Bar Harbor’s waterfront for decades: sea levels here are … Continue reading Troubling Numbers: Bar Harbor Confronts Accelerating Sea Level Rise

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Southwest Harbor’s Main Street is Paved!

Harbor Committee Adds Chris Clark Carrie Jones Jun 29, 2025 Share SOUTHWEST HARBOR—The Southwest Harbor paving project that has caused traffic delays for parts of multiple years is mostly finished. The paving is done. “They finished in the eleventh hour on Friday,” Town Manager Karen Reddersen said. In June, the town’s select board had approved R.F. Jordan & Sons’ request to extend its time to … Continue reading Southwest Harbor’s Main Street is Paved!

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Harbor Committee Recommends Small Cruise Ship Tendering to Town Pier

Group recommend changes to mooring ordinance, work on dock data Carrie Jones Jan 16, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Harbor Committee recommended, Monday night, that the Bar Harbor Town Council continue to explore allowing American Cruise Lines to tender to the town-owned Ells Pier. The small cruise ships are American-flagged and would not require … Continue reading Harbor Committee Recommends Small Cruise Ship Tendering to Town Pier

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Harbor Committee Hopes Ferry Terminal Won’t Be Considered “Satellite Parking”

Carrie Jones Dec 11, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Harbor Committee Monday, December 9, unanimously voted to ask the Bar Harbor Comprehensive Planning Committee to strike “satellite parking” as a use for the town’s land on Route 3. The land currently hosts Bay Ferry’s CAT, which brings people to Nova Scotia and is the site of a potential marina. It also is an Island … Continue reading Harbor Committee Hopes Ferry Terminal Won’t Be Considered “Satellite Parking”

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Lost at Sea, But Not Forgotten

A Plaque for Raymond Hodgkins Approved for Bar Harbor Town Pier CARRIE JONES MAY 18, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Back in 1990, the pilings at Ells’ Pier were filled with yellow ribbons. They blew in the breeze and were eventually bleached white by the sun. Those ribbons were there for Raymond Hodgkins, who went missing in June of that year. He was overdue on June 18, … Continue reading Lost at Sea, But Not Forgotten

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Use it or Potentially Lose It: Harbor Committee May Look To Recommend Changes to Mooring Rules

Ells Pier Repairs May Be Done Monday CARRIE JONES APR 12, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—The town may begin to look into changing its mooring rules and the ordinance that governs them. Harbormaster Chris Wharff told Harbor Committee members on Monday that he’d like to look into potentially putting in a provision that would allow the town to reassign mooring space to those who are consistently … Continue reading Use it or Potentially Lose It: Harbor Committee May Look To Recommend Changes to Mooring Rules

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Hadley Point Ramp Damaged, Ells Pier Might Be OK

Harbor Committee advised not to discuss how cruise ship fees should be used CARRIE JONES FEB 13, 2024 Share HARBOR COMMITTEE—During their Monday meeting, Bar Harbor Harbor Committee members received some good news, some bad news, and potentially interesting news from Harbormaster and Bar Harbor Police Captain Christopher Wharff. The good news: the town’s pier’s external structure seems OK despite what member Jon Carter called a … Continue reading Hadley Point Ramp Damaged, Ells Pier Might Be OK

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What’s a Committee To Do?

Harbor Committee Delves Into Its Purpose and Its Past, Rats, Pigeons, and Cruise Ship Fee Expenditures CARRIE JONES JAN 9, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Imagine that there was a breakwater that extended all across Frenchman’s Bay. There was once a plan for that. Imagine kayak berths in the Harbor Park located at the town’s beach outside of the Bar Harbor Inn by the Ell’s Pier. There … Continue reading What’s a Committee To Do?

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A Marina Might Be Coming To Town

Conceptual Plan Heads to Town Council Tonight After Harbor Committee Recommendation CARRIE JONES DEC 19, 2023 BAR HARBOR—A town marina is one step closer to a reality today. “I feel like we’re making headway,” Harbormaster Chris Wharff said during a special Harbor Committee meeting Monday where a quorum of the committee and four members of the public met while much of the county was without … Continue reading A Marina Might Be Coming To Town

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Coast Guard Weighs In On CAT Security Zone

Regulations have potential to put hitch in town’s marina plans CARRIE JONES DEC 5, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Last month, during its meeting to discuss the potential marina on the town-owned site of the CAT ferry on Route 3 (121 Eden Street), members of Bar Harbor’s Harbor Committee learned that there could potentially be issues in the plan. Those issues stemmed from a security zone around … Continue reading Coast Guard Weighs In On CAT Security Zone

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