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Vision Zero: Bar Harbor's Safe Streets' Project Hopes to Have No Roadway Fatalities or Severe Injuries by 2035
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Vision Zero: Bar Harbor’s Safe Streets’ Project Hopes to Have No Roadway Fatalities or Severe Injuries by 2035

Carrie Jones Aug 09, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The 1932 Criterion Theatre. BAR HARBOR—Just this week in Bar Harbor, a motorcycle was involved in an accident on Cottage Street. Yesterday, Friday, two vehicles hit each other at the corner of Cottage and Holland, gas from one vehicle leaking into the stormwater drain. The police logs for all of the Mount Desert Island … Continue reading Vision Zero: Bar Harbor’s Safe Streets’ Project Hopes to Have No Roadway Fatalities or Severe Injuries by 2035

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BAR HARBOR—Though the headlines and talk in Bar Harbor last week focused primarily on cruise ships limits, the Planning Board dealt with some major projects at its Wednesday meeting including the YWCA MDI’s project to bring homes to Bar Harbor and a Jackson Laboratory expansion that will create more positions.
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Getting Closer to Homes at Hamilton Station and JAX Expansion Will Create 95 Jobs

Bar Harbor Planning Board news CARRIE JONES AUG 11, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Though the headlines and talk in Bar Harbor last week focused primarily on cruise ships limits, the Planning Board dealt with some major projects at its Wednesday meeting including the YWCA MDI’s project to bring homes to Bar Harbor and a Jackson Laboratory expansion that will create more positions. JACKSON LABORATORY The Jackson … Continue reading Getting Closer to Homes at Hamilton Station and JAX Expansion Will Create 95 Jobs

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Zoom, Pizza, and Bar Harbor’s Future:

Bar Harbor Comprehensive Plan looks for a name and more discussion CARRIE JONES MAR 14, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor’s Comprehensive Planning Committee hopes for both a name and more discussion on the document that is meant to guide Bar Harbor’s future. This month. the town’s planning department holds three discussion sessions on March 26 and March 28. One session will be on Zoom. Two … Continue reading Zoom, Pizza, and Bar Harbor’s Future:

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Bar Harbor Likely Can’t Meet Housing Needs On Its Own

Comprehensive Planning Committee Talks Actions, Climate, and Housing CARRIE JONES DEC 14, 2023 BAR HARBOR—The Comprehensive Planning Committee took a deep dive into housing and climate change as its members worked through an overview of the plan’s proposed draft themes and actions, Wednesday night. The state mandates that municipalities update their comprehensive plans and the plans are meant to guide the town and help officials … Continue reading Bar Harbor Likely Can’t Meet Housing Needs On Its Own

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