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
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
Trenton Roadside Cleanup Set Carrie Jones Apr 08, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. TRENTON—The Trenton Select Board kept up its efficiency record, Tuesday night, with a speedy ten-minute meeting that held multiple pieces of news within it, including a housing report filled with data about the MDI region. The select board members received a PDF … Continue reading As Housing Pressures Increase, the Cost of Homes Off Island is Starting to Rise
Hancock County Population Expected To Grow to 57k by 2030 Carrie Jones Feb 12, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by First National Bank. ELLSWORTH—Where will people live? That’s the complicated question that planners, employers, administrators and people looking for homes are struggling with throughout Maine. With Hancock County’s population expected to grow to almost 57,000 by 2030, while the average household size … Continue reading Where Will People Live?
Carrie Jones Sep 27, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by First National Bank. BAR HARBOR—A collaborative report detailing the issue of finding affordable, available homes on Mount Desert Island has hit the internet and it’s saying what a lot of people have been talking about, too: housing issues are complex. Those issues aren’t easy fixes, but that doesn’t mean that trying to … Continue reading What’s Keeping MDI From Affordable, Available Homes?
Housing needs dominate League of Towns’ discussion this week CARRIE JONES MAR 1, 2024 Share TRENTON—When he’s trying to determine the health of his year-round neighborhood, Noel Musson has a Halloween test. He walks around Southwest Harbor and notices the houses. Which are still full. Which aren’t. Are there places where his kids once trick-or-treated that are no longer being used as homes? An equally … Continue reading Can a Town Pass the Halloween Test?
