Multiple candidates meet deadline to run for Bar Harbor Council and Warrant Committee Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar Apr 11, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—Papers are in for the June elections in Bar Harbor and there are multiple candidates for all four town council seats as well as for the five warrant committee seats. Matthew Hochman chose not to run again this election as did Meagan … Continue reading The Race Is On!
Council Chair Urges People to Run For Office Carrie Jones Apr 05, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Town Council made quick work of its meeting, Tuesday night, unanimously renewing multiple taxi licenses and voting to recommend that the voters support the town’s comprehensive plan in June. “It’s just very exciting for me,” Town Council Chair Valerie Peacock said of the vote to recommend the … Continue reading Bar Harbor Town Council Recommends Town’s Comprehensive Plan to Voters
Shaun Farrar Apr 04, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—In a 47-minute-long annual public budget meeting, 29 registered voters of the four Mount Desert island towns approved the $16,172,865 MDI High School fiscal year 2025/26 budget. The annual meeting took place in the high school’s library at 6 p.m., on Wednesday, April 2. Counting everybody in the room, there were 35 adults in the room, 29 of … Continue reading Just Over $16 Million Spent on Behalf of Roughly 10,000 Residents by 29 Representatives
Ellsworth hospital sees no issues delivering more babies. Carrie Jones Apr 02, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Town Council, Tuesday, urged the Mount Desert Island Hospital to reconsider its decision to close its maternity unit. Vice Chair Maya Caines read a prepared statement on behalf of the councilors about the planned … Continue reading UPDATED: Bar Harbor Town Council Urges Hospital to Rethink Closure of Maternity Unit
MDI High School Board of Trustees Also Lacking Candidates Shaun Farrar Apr 01, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. BAR HARBOR—With four seats up for grabs on the Bar Harbor Town Council only three candidates, incumbents Earl Brechlin and Randy Sprague, and candidate Nina St.Germain have taken out nomination papers as of 2:50 p.m., today, April 1. Of those … Continue reading With Less Than Nine Business Days Left to Get Nomination Papers in, Little Interest Shown in Bar Harbor Council Seats
It’s our round up of upcoming government meetings. All are public. That means you can go and be involved. Carrie Jones Mar 24, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. Every week we document Bar Harbor, MDI, and Trenton government and school meetings that we know of. Please let us know if we’ve missed something. Also, sometimes things are on … Continue reading ON THE AGENDA: Town & School Meetings This Week.
Christina J. Maguire, Charles Sidman Share LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY We welcome letter submissions to The Bar Harbor Story; for details on our policy, please visit our about page and scroll down or just visit here. The beliefs, opinions, and viewpoints expressed by the writers of letters to the editor and included here do not necessarily reflect the beliefs, opinions, and viewpoints or official policies of The … Continue reading Letters From Our Readers
TREE CUTTING AT VETERAN’S PARK, SEAWALL ROAD CULVERT ISSUES Carrie Jones Mar 17, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. SOUTHWEST HARBOR— If approved by the voters at the May town meeting, Southwest Harbor’s proposed budget (at its last select board meeting) would require the town to raise $11,987,082 a total increase of 17.3% or $1,763,622. The … Continue reading Southwest Harbor Could Join Bar Harbor in Double Digit Tax Rates For Properties
It’s our round up of upcoming government meetings. All are public. That means you can go and be involved. Carrie Jones Mar 17, 2025 Share Every week we document Bar Harbor, MDI, and Trenton government and school meetings that we know of. Please let us know if we’ve missed something. Also, sometimes things are on the town and school calendars are cancelled or rescheduled, so … Continue reading ON THE AGENDA: Town & School Meetings This Week. SWH Candidates’ Night is Thursday!
Shaun Farrar Mar 15, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Edward Jones Financial Advisor: Elise N. Frank. TREMONT—Halfway through a month of consecutive weekly meetings, the Tremont Select Board has been trying to rein in the town’s budget as much as possible while maintaining previous service levels. The board began the process at its February 10 meeting when members asked Tremont Consolidated School Principal … Continue reading Tremont Select Board Holds Month of Consecutive Meetings for Budget Prep
