Carrie Jones Aug 06, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor property owners that were expecting large assessment jumps this fall will not be seeing the increases they’d been told of in May by the town’s former assessor. Instead, all properties in the town will have an across-the-board 6-8% assessment increase on their value. “It … Continue reading Sticker Shock Softened: Bar Harbor Nixes Previous Potential Revaluation, Opts for Flat Across-the-Board Increase of 6-8%