Carrie Jones Mar 21, 2026 OTTER CREEK—A structure fire in Otter Creek elicited a multiple agency response and purposeful power outage for the Bar Harbor and Otter Creek area late Friday night as crews from multiple agencies worked together to extinguish the fire and perform an extensive clean-up. The cause of the fire at 99 Otter Creek Drive is not currently known. No one was … Continue reading Otter Creek Fire Destroys House Friday Night.
Jennifer Buchanan resigns as deputy town clerk, but there is time to say goodbye Carrie Jones Nov 05, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. MOUNT DESERT—Town Manager Durlin Lunt’s report on a meeting with Acadia National Park officials dominated the Mount Desert Selectboard’s meeting Monday night. That earlier joint meeting was about the Mount Desert Selectboard’s Working Waterfront … Continue reading Park and Mount Desert Officials Meet About Otter Creek’s Working Waterfront
Local boy hopes people will dress up & play at Halloween sand-lot baseball game this Saturday Carrie Jones Oct 17, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Some are young men of few words, but great deeds and Thatcher Yarborough is one of those young men. Thatcher is hosting a Halloween baseball game at the Bar Harbor Baseball Fields off Park Street to support the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. … Continue reading Bat-ter Up for the Food Pantry
Oct 04, 2024 Share by Marie Weidmayer/Bangor Daily News BANGOR—A man who drunkenly drove off a cliff in Acadia National Park pleaded guilty and was sentenced Thursday morning. Eric Amos Jipson III of Lincoln pleaded guilty to operating under the influence of alcohol in U.S. District Court in Bangor. A charge of operating under the influence of alcohol .08 or above was dismissed. Jipson was sentenced to six … Continue reading Lincoln Man who Drove off 35-foot Cliff Pleads Guilty to Driving Drunk in Acadia National Park
Town Manager to Meet with Mount Desert 365 Board to talk about Heel Way project and priorities Carrie Jones Sep 17, 2024 MOUNT DESERT—A Maine Monitor article about a proposed subdivision on Heel Way sparked concern for the Mount Desert Select Board on Monday worried about potential compromises to the project’s design and potential de-prioritization. The subdivision creates six homes on one lot in Northeast Harbor. It passed … Continue reading Mount Desert’s “Hornet’s Nest” Continues
Lunt presented to Acadia Advisory Commission Carrie Jones Sep 10, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Treats. MOUNT DESERT—Town Manager Durlin Lunt likened the town’s progress toward restoring Otter Creek’s waterfront as something similar to being on a gerbil wheel for years. There have been very nice discussions, he told members of the Acadia Advisory Commission on Monday, September 9, but … Continue reading Town Manager Continues Quest to Make Otter Creek a Working Waterfront Again
Mount Desert Wants Otter Creek’s Working Waterfront Returned Carrie Jones Sep 04, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. MOUNT DESERT—The Mount Desert Selectboard Tuesday night officially resolved to get Otter Creek’s working waterfront back. The signed resolution will also become part of the town’s comprehensive plan, which will help make sure that the mission to restore that … Continue reading It Is Resolved:
Gallery Settlement Moves Forward, Messy Trash Issue Discussed Carrie Jones Aug 21, 2024 MOUNT DESERT—The Mount Desert Selectboard is getting closer to a potential resolution to restore Otter Creek’s working waterfront. Selectboard member Rick Mooers presented a resolution to fellow board members during their meeting Monday night. The board will peruse the resolution and expressed intent to have it become part of its Comprehensive Plan, … Continue reading Otter Creek Working Waterfront Resolution Unveiled
Otter Creek’s Fight To Reclaim Its Working Waterfront CARRIE JONES AUG 03, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. OTTER CREEK—Otter Creek isn’t a community that gives up easily. That’s true when it comes to its livelihoods, its community, and its waterfront. And just because that working waterfront is pretty much gone doesn’t mean that people of Otter Creek don’t … Continue reading Against All Odds
Acadia Park Commission Denies Small Land Request; Other Selectboard News CARRIE JONES JUN 04, 2024 Share OTTER CREEK—For Mount Desert Town Manager Durlin Lunt, some things are about commitment and so he keeps coming back to Acadia National Park’s Advisory Commission and asking for what he sees as a little bit of justice, of reparation, of acknowledgment of a community. Lunt is a man who … Continue reading Healing the Wounds of Otter Creek
