MDI High School Teacher Who Built a Musical Legacy Carrie Jones Jan 03, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—There can be magic in music and there can be magic in a musical man and sometimes that magic makes a local legend. Bar Harbor’s music man for many decades and who built a legacy of music for dozens and dozens of students, Richard James Ordway, died December 23 … Continue reading Remembering Richard “Dick” Ordway
Subsequent H.S. Board and AOS Board Meetings Address Issue Shaun Farrar Oct 24, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Swan Agency Real Estate. BAR HARBOR—A rotating group of 15-20 MDI High School students participated in a walkout at the school on Monday, October 21. The original group of students strode out of the main entrance of the high school and clustered around the … Continue reading MDI High School Students Hold Walkout in Response to Incident of School Violence
Superintendent makes statement on viral fight video BAR HARBOR AND MOUNT DESERT—Both the Bar Harbor Conners Emerson School Board and Mount Desert Elementary School Board have entered into memorandums of understanding with the Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Police Departments for the continuation of the school resource officer position. Back on September 9, at the MDI High School Board meeting, Principal Matt Haney announced that … Continue reading Bar Harbor and Mount Desert School Boards Approve Another Year with a School Resource Officer
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
Planning for reorganization still moving forward Shaun Farrar Aug 31, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—The long-term wastewater issue at MDI High School has met a potential setback, but the refurbishing of the existing system has made headway according to updates by School Superintendent Mike Zboray and Scott Watson, director of maintenance at the high school, during the MDI Regional High School Board of Trustees meeting on … Continue reading MDI High School Makes Progress on Well Repair, Septic Tank Outflow Line, and Tennis Courts
Olivia Pratt and Coach Ezra Hallett Bring Joy and Compassion to the Field CARRIE JONES AUG 10, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—The shot put bounced and rolled into the dirt, flung by a young girl who could just barely wrap her fingers around the silver shot, a metal ball. She stared at it, … Continue reading Putting With the Best
MDI High School’s Online Show Brings Passion and Resonance to Viewers CARRIE JONES JUN 29, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Local artists aren’t just displaying their art in galleries, on restaurant, bank, and hotel walls, and in private homes this summer. They are also sharing it online with the hopes of making it accessible to many people and also to showcase the talents of some teens from Mount Desert … Continue reading Rockwell Remixed and Free to View
CARRIE JONES JUN 02, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—On Sunday afternoon, Mount Desert Island High School graduated and celebrated 116 seniors as those students finished their years of high school on Mount Desert Island. It was the 56th Mount Desert Island High School graduation according to Principal Matt Haney. The afternoon ceremony in Bernard Parady Gymnasium brought the island and surrounding communities together as they celebrated … Continue reading MDI GRADUATES!
No Bar Harbor representation at this MDI Regional High School Board meeting; wastewater needs discussed SHAUN FARRAR JAN 23, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR––At the Monday night meeting of the MDI Regional High School Board of Trustees, the trustees got one step closer to the trepidatious task of seeking an estimated $17 million bond from the contributing towns. The bond would finance the reconfiguration and modernization … Continue reading First Informational Forum Dates for High School Building Project Set
*This isn’t a regular news story. CARRIE JONES NOV 12, 2023 Share Chris Popper of WDEA is looking for help for Walter Churchill and has asked for us to help spread the word. There’s currently no point person yet, and no firm details about when Walter will get home, but Chris wants to make sure that the MDI spirit and community is ready to help … Continue reading Help For Walter Churchill
