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A Shared Plan for the Acadia Region? Local Leaders Are Giving It a Try Across the Acadia Region, Towns Explore Whether They Can Impact Big Issues Together.
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A Shared Plan for the Acadia Region? Local Leaders Are Giving It a Try

Across the Acadia Region, Towns Explore Whether They Can Impact Big Issues Together. Carrie Jones Nov 29, 2025 BAR HARBOR—As the League of Towns works toward a regional collaboration for five or six potential goals created by elected leaders of the Acadia Region, one of the first steps might just be creating an active website. With a website, the public can more easily see the strategic plan … Continue reading A Shared Plan for the Acadia Region? Local Leaders Are Giving It a Try

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Mount Desert Plans Its Future
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Mount Desert Plans Its Future

Carrie Jones Sep 20, 2025 MOUNT DESERT—New Mount Desert Town Manager Alex Kimball’s first selectboard meeting on Monday focused on the future. The Musson Group spoke to three different projects that all have to do with the future of both the town and the island. The group has been facilitating a strategic planning process with the League of Towns (LOT), which includes communities on Mount … Continue reading Mount Desert Plans Its Future

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Proposed Sand Point Road Subdivision Worries Some Neighbors
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Proposed Sand Point Road Subdivision Worries Some Neighbors

Carrie Jones Sep 12, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Shops. BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Planning Board found a housing project by Bar Harbor RV, LLC for seven 1± acre lots off Sand Point Road complete, moved forward with a public hearing and continued that hearing until the board’s October 8 meeting. The project totals 7.5 acres. According to the application, “The … Continue reading Proposed Sand Point Road Subdivision Worries Some Neighbors

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Maine Supreme Court Upholds MDI Workforce Housing Project Opposed By Summer Residents

Aug 29, 2025 Share by Bill Trotter/Bangor Daily News MOUNT DESERT—The state’s top court has upheld a decision by the town of Mount Desert to approve a workforce housing project that was opposed by neighboring seasonal residents — a decision that will help the development to move forward. However, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld one minor point of the neighbors’ appeal of the project, which would be … Continue reading Maine Supreme Court Upholds MDI Workforce Housing Project Opposed By Summer Residents

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Ripples Hill Expands With Nine New $321,000 Homes. Community Breaks Ground on Neighborhood Where More Families Can Grow.
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Ripples Hill Expands With Nine New $321,000 Homes.

Community Breaks Ground on Neighborhood Where More Families Can Grow. Carrie Jones Aug 22, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Havana. MOUNT DESERT—Even on a mid-Friday morning in late August, right in the middle of the work week, someone walking into the Ripples Road area can see that it’s a community. A woman sweeps her front walk. A dog barks a bit inside … Continue reading Ripples Hill Expands With Nine New $321,000 Homes.

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Five Ways Bar Harbor’s Land Rules Could Shift This Fall

Carrie Jones Aug 14, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Links Pub. BAR HARBOR—In one of the final steps before heading to the voters in November, the town’s planning department presented multiple proposed amendments to Bar Harbor’s land use ordinance to the town’s warrant committee, August 13. The public hearings for all five potential amendments will occur next Tuesday at the Bar … Continue reading Five Ways Bar Harbor’s Land Rules Could Shift This Fall

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Locked Out: Electronic Access to Rodick Lorraine Housing Disabled
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Locked Out: Electronic Access to Rodick Lorraine Housing Disabled

Shaun Farrar Aug 08, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Choco-Latté Café. BAR HARBOR—Some residents and those who provide services to residents of Rodick Lorraine, a 48-unit public housing building at 15 Eagle Lake Road in Bar Harbor, are concerned with the recent disabling of the building’s electronic access system. With that system disabled, the constantly locked building’s residents now must rely on … Continue reading Locked Out: Electronic Access to Rodick Lorraine Housing Disabled

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Musson Group Kicks Off MDI Tour to Tackle Housing Planning A Map, a Mission, and Many Meetings: MDI Launches Housing Talks
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Musson Group Kicks Off MDI Tour to Tackle Housing Planning

A Map, a Mission, and Many Meetings: MDI Launches Housing Talks Carrie Jones Jun 27, 2025 Share MOUNT DESERT ISLAND REGION—This week, Noel Musson and Susanne Paul began visiting all the major town governing boards in the Mount Desert Island Region, starting with the Southwest Harbor Select Board. It’s not quite a road trip because the meetings will be spaced apart (often by weeks) and … Continue reading Musson Group Kicks Off MDI Tour to Tackle Housing Planning

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Letter From Our Readers
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Letters From Our Readers

Angie Chamberlain, Al Boynton, Diane Vreeland Jun 01, 2025 Share LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY We welcome letter submissions to The Bar Harbor Story; for details on our policy, please visit our about page and scroll down or just visit here. The beliefs, opinions, and viewpoints expressed by the writers of letters to the editor and included here do not necessarily reflect the beliefs, opinions, and viewpoints or … Continue reading Letters From Our Readers

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Building a Shared Future. League of Towns Hopes to Tackle the Big Issues Together.
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Building a Shared Future.

League of Towns Hopes to Tackle the Big Issues Together. Carrie Jones May 30, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. SOUTHWEST HARBOR—The League of Towns has a mission. The group of town officials from throughout the Mount Desert Island region wants to be problem solvers for the region where some of the problems seem too big for one community … Continue reading Building a Shared Future.

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