Town Will Apply for EPA Grant to Clean Up Brownfield at MDI YMCA

Carrie Jones Oct 16, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—The Town Council held a public hearing on a grant application for an EPA cleanup at 21 Park Street, the town-owned property that houses the MDI YMCA. Coal ash. Arsenic. Lead. Cancer-causing chemicals. It all lurks in the top three feet of soil at the MDI … Continue reading Town Will Apply for EPA Grant to Clean Up Brownfield at MDI YMCA

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Salmonella Prompts Egg Recall From Hancock County Farm

Farm distributed eggs in Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor and via FarmDrop Carrie Jones Sep 20, 2024 Share MOUNT DESERT ISLAND—One of the farms that distributes its products at farmers markets in Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor has voluntarily participated in a recall of its eggs, which have been linked to an outbreak of salmonellosis. Five people tested positive after falling ill after eating the infected … Continue reading Salmonella Prompts Egg Recall From Hancock County Farm

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These MDI Sisters Don’t Stop Giving Back

MDI Hospital Celebrates its volunteers, employees and community partners Carrie Jones Sep 15, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. MOUNT DESERT ISLAND—Two MDI sisters have spent 150 hours this year volunteering at the MDI Hospital. One hundred and fifty hours. But they aren’t counting. It’s part of who they are: talking, connecting, giving, worrying, making a difference in one interaction … Continue reading These MDI Sisters Don’t Stop Giving Back

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Student Survives Collapsed Lung And Heads Back On the Courts and Field

MDI Hospital 2024 Community Celebration Highlights Medical Education, Innovative Care, Infrastructure Expansion and Survival Carrie Jones Sep 13, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Wyatt Fountaine knows what his dreams are, and the fifteen-year-old MDI High School student also knows how quickly life can tweak those dreams and turn a February day into a nightmare. On what Wyatt called “a normal day” he was getting ready for school … Continue reading Student Survives Collapsed Lung And Heads Back On the Courts and Field

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Waters Along Bar Harbor, Acadia Home to Billions of Microplastics

Findings indicate that microplastics were transported from the land through the rivers and estuaries into Frenchman Bay JUL 25, 2024 Share By University of Maine Orono/shared with permission BAR HARBOR—Along the shores of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, and the Schoodic Peninsula are the vast, briny waters of Frenchman Bay. With 98 square miles of water and 39 islands, the bay is vital to shorebirds, fish, lobstermen, … Continue reading Waters Along Bar Harbor, Acadia Home to Billions of Microplastics

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Camp Beech Cliff’s Well Water Tests Positive for E. coli

Camp reports it is unaware of any related illness SHAUN FARRAR JUL 24, 2024 MOUNT DESERT––On July 24, Camp Beech Cliff (CBC) sent out an email to the parents and guardians of campers stating that one of its two wells has tested positive for the presence of E. coli during an annual water test conducted by Maine’s Department of Community and Environmental Health’s drinking water … Continue reading Camp Beech Cliff’s Well Water Tests Positive for E. coli

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Use of antipsychotics in Maine nursing homes climbs

After an initial crackdown and decline, the rate of the powerful medications given to nursing home residents has ticked back up in recent years. APR 22, 2024 Share By Rose Lundy MAINE—Sherri Parker, assistant director of nursing at Caribou Rehab and Nursing, recalled a woman who came to her facility and was so sedated by the prescribed antipsychotic medication she had been taking at home that … Continue reading Use of antipsychotics in Maine nursing homes climbs

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Making Hospitals Safer

Nursing-Patient Ratios and Whistle Blower Protections Likely Headed to House Floor Within Days CARRIE JONES APR 10, 2024 Share MOUNT DESERT ISLAND AND AUGUSTA—Nurse Nancy Graham knows what it’s like to be at a hospital scrambling to take care of patients because of poor nurses-to-patients ratios, and it’s not something she wants to experience again or have her patients experience either. If the Maine House … Continue reading Making Hospitals Safer

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SCIENTISTS HOPE TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE FOREVER CHEMICALS IN SOMES SOUND

Select Board supports Dr. Disney’s work to see if contamination from MDI High School spread to mud flats CARRIE JONES APR 02, 2024 Share MOUNT DESERT—Could forever chemicals be in northeastern Somes Sound? And if so, could they have spread from MDI High School? Dr. Jane Disney of the Bar Harbor-based MDI Biological Laboratory and Mount Desert’s Shellfish Committee hope to find out. Committee Chair … Continue reading SCIENTISTS HOPE TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE FOREVER CHEMICALS IN SOMES SOUND

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MDEA Arrest Six in Hancock County for Variety of Drug Offenses

Three-month long investigation alleges distribution of drugs from multiple homes in Ellsworth and Mount Desert CARRIE JONES JAN 25, 2024 Share UPDATED: MDEA Arrest Six in Hancock County for Variety of Drug Offenses Three-month long investigation alleges distribution of drugs from multiple homes in Ellsworth and Mount Desert CARRIE JONES JAN 25, 2024 Share ELLSWORTH—A three month long investigation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency … Continue reading MDEA Arrest Six in Hancock County for Variety of Drug Offenses

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