Bar Harbor’s grooviest, stylish, tough-as-nails pretty boy needs your support Carrie Jones Apr 14, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Edward Jones Financial Advisor: Elise N. Frank. BAR HARBOR—Chuck Colbert has spent a lifetime making bands sound the best they can, ripping through his own tunes and spiraling the notes out into the world, and rushing to the rescue when people on … Continue reading Rock for Chuck
Students and teachers combine to make learning hands on and fun Jan 28, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by First National Bank. SOUTHWEST HARBOR AND ELLSWORTH—Child psychologist Kevin Heath said, “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” This past week, and in the week’s leading … Continue reading Not Just Any Guitars, Not Just Any Chess Moves, Not Just Any Kids . . .
Courts, real estate, right whales off Jeffreys Ledge Carrie Jones Jan 19, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Swan Agency Real Estate. A Quick Note From Us: Each week, we compile briefs and press releases and event images and share them all in one (sometimes very long) story. Our briefs article is mostly just press releases that we don’t write, or claim to … Continue reading Briefs: Storm Expected Tonight, Meet the Lambs, First Baby, and Much More
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
And in the near future. Nov 11, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. THINGS TO DO It’s our weekly round-up, and we may have missed some things, so apologies! If you have something you’d like in here, please let me know. Also, you may have to click through to see everything. There are so many things that this email … Continue reading THINGS TO DO ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND THIS WEEK
And in the near future. Nov 04, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Swan Agency Real Estate. THINGS TO DO It’s our weekly round-up, and I may have missed some things, so apologies! If you have something you’d like in here, please let me know. Also, you may have to click through to see everything. There are so many things that this email … Continue reading THINGS TO DO ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND THIS WEEK
Help Clean Up Eagle Lake: So many briefs and press releases Carrie Jones Oct 06, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. Each week (sometimes twice) we compile the press releases and our own briefs into one story so that we don’t overwhelm your inboxes with seven stories a day. This is this week’s compilation. Our first brief is via Chris … Continue reading MDI GIRLS ARE THE FESTIVAL OF CHAMPION CHAMPIONS!
And according to science, it’s bringing some emotion, too Carrie Jones Sep 21, 2024 BAR HARBOR—The posts started showing up on one social media account after another: an image of Mount Desert Island and in the middle? A guitar fretboard. “Music Harbor” was all it read. What exactly did the image mean? What was Music Harbor? And why was this image suddenly showing up everywhere? … Continue reading Music Harbor Brings Music, Joy, and A Lot More During Marathon Weekend
Events this week and in the near future. MAY 20, 2024 Share It’s our weekly round-up, and I may have missed some things so apologies! To check out our news stories from the past week. Click on the archive section and you’ll see them in chronological order. To see town and school meetings, click here. To read our past archive of stories, click here. OUR EVENT If you have … Continue reading THINGS TO DO ON MDI
A man who never stopped promoting music, people, and the power of being you CARRIE JONES JAN 31, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR AND ELLSWORTH—For many, the loss of Joel Raymond to pancreatic cancer last week was a gut punch. That’s because Joel Raymond, by being enthusiastically himself, showed others that they could enthusiastically be themselves, too. That’s a life that leaves a lot of resonance. … Continue reading Remembering Joel Raymond
