How a Small Ambulance Service Continues to Help Keep Two Towns Alive & Community Gives Back

How a Small Ambulance Service Continues to Help Keep Two Towns Alive & Community Gives Back

Carrie Jones Oct 30, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Choco-Latté Café. SOUTHWEST HARBOR—The calls sound over the emergency scanner in uneven rhythms, occasional at times, relentless at others. Each one a reminder of how swiftly calm can turn to urgency. A visitor has fallen on rocks at the Bass Harbor Light. A local man is having a heart attack down by the … Continue reading How a Small Ambulance Service Continues to Help Keep Two Towns Alive & Community Gives Back

Bar Harbor Pulls Back Campground Amendment Over Definition Concerns Rest of the Proposed Land Use Amendments Will Be on November Ballot & Bar Harbor Issues Statement on Last Week's Federal Cruise Ship Decision

Bar Harbor Pulls Back Campground Amendment Over Definition Concerns

Rest of the Proposed Land Use Amendments Will Be on November Ballot & Bar Harbor Issues Statement on Last Week’s Federal Cruise Ship Decision Carrie Jones Aug 21, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Shops. BAR HARBOR—One potential land use ordinance amendment will not be heading to Bar Harbor voters in November after the town’s planning department requested it not be moved … Continue reading Bar Harbor Pulls Back Campground Amendment Over Definition Concerns

Local police reports and crime in Mount Desert Island

Police Officer and Bystander Pull 77-Year-Old Man From Water at Seal Harbor Dock

Update on last week’s Otter Creek chase and all local and not-quite-so-local law enforcement press releases Shaun Farrar Jul 29, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Bar Harbor Music Festival. BAR HARBOR—After receiving a call regarding a man who had fallen off the dock in Seal Harbor, Officer Caleb Mora arrived in approximately one minute and with the assistance of another person … Continue reading Police Officer and Bystander Pull 77-Year-Old Man From Water at Seal Harbor Dock

Local police reports and crime in Mount Desert Island

Driver Flees Police Through Village of Otter Creek and a Dog Left in Car Leads to Summons

All local and not-quite-so-local law enforcement press releases Shaun Farrar Jul 22, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Havana. BAR HARBOR—According to the Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Police Department’s weekly press release and Officer Kevin Edgecomb, on July 19, at approximately 1:38 a.m., Officer Judson Cake attempted to perform a traffic stop on a truck in Bar Harbor. The truck did not … Continue reading Driver Flees Police Through Village of Otter Creek and a Dog Left in Car Leads to Summons