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
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
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
