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Approximately 130 Bar Harbor Voters Pass $30.6M Budget at Annual Town Meeting

School budget easily passes as well Carrie Jones Jun 03, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Edward Jones Financial Advisor: Elise N. Frank. BAR HARBOR—Approximately 130 voters approved the town’s budget at town meeting at the Conners Emerson Gymnasium, Tuesday night. Elected moderator Katherine Emery paid homage to long-serving moderator Bill Ferm at the beginning of the meeting. “Thank you, Bill. This … Continue reading Approximately 130 Bar Harbor Voters Pass $30.6M Budget at Annual Town Meeting

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Trenton Voters Say No To Commercial Solar Farms Perreault and Sproule Tie for Select Board
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Trenton Voters Say No To Commercial Solar Farms

Perreault and Sproule Tie for Select Board Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar May 21, 2025 Share TRENTON—On Monday voters in Trenton resoundingly voted (164-46) to have solar only be an accessory use in their town. That vote means that people can still have solar panels to offset the energy needs of their home or businesses, but that the town will not permit large-scale commercial solar farms … Continue reading Trenton Voters Say No To Commercial Solar Farms

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Fifty Warrant Articles in Fifty-One Minutes Tremont makes quick work of its annual town meeting and how you can get involved
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Fifty Warrant Articles in Fifty-One Minutes

Tremont makes quick work of its annual town meeting and how you can get involved Shaun Farrar May 14, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. TREMONT—On Tuesday, May 13, the Town of Tremont held its annual town meeting, approving 50 warrant articles that included the school budget, municipal budget, and miscellaneous municipal articles including land use ordinance amendments with … Continue reading Fifty Warrant Articles in Fifty-One Minutes

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Tremont Annual Town Meeting Begins Monday, May 12

Shaun Farrar May 11, 2025 Share TREMONT—Tremont’s Annual Town Meeting begins Monday, May 12, at 8 a.m., with the secret ballot voting at the town office. The ballot is short with three people running for three seats, all unopposed. The town meeting continues on Tuesday, May 13, at 6:30 p.m., in the Harvey Kelley Meeting Room, where voters will vote on the town’s warrant which … Continue reading Tremont Annual Town Meeting Begins Monday, May 12

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Service, Farewells, and Standing Ovations: Mount Desert’s Town Meeting Honors Past and Budgets Its Future
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Service, Farewells, and Standing Ovations: Mount Desert’s Town Meeting Honors Past and Budgets Its Future

Carrie Jones and  Shaun Farrar May 07, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by First National Bank. MOUNT DESERT—There was something poignant about the Mount Desert Town meeting this Tuesday, something that really showed that town meetings aren’t just about town business, but also town community. Before the meeting, voters could share a meal, offered by the Neighborhood House. Mingling, getting sustenance, catching … Continue reading Service, Farewells, and Standing Ovations: Mount Desert’s Town Meeting Honors Past and Budgets Its Future

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Southwest Harbor Voters Approve Budget Will decide four-way race for two select board seats today
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Southwest Harbor Voters Approve Budget

Will decide four-way race for two select board seats today Shaun Farrar and  Carrie Jones May 06, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. SOUTHWEST HARBOR—It was Karen Reddersen’s first Southwest Harbor town meeting as town manager and it went well, May 5, as approximately 120 voters gathered at the Pemetic School and agreed on most of the articles. … Continue reading Southwest Harbor Voters Approve Budget

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Trenton May Join Community Resilience Partnership Select Board and School Committee Seats Open
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Trenton May Join Community Resilience Partnership

Select Board and School Committee Seats Open Shaun Farrar Feb 23, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. TRENTON—There are 52 communities in Hancock County, Maine. Of those, one is a city, 36 are towns, and 15 are unorganized townships. Of that 52, only eight are part of the state’s community resilience partnership. Soon, Trenton may become number … Continue reading Trenton May Join Community Resilience Partnership

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Voters Approve $27 Million Bar Harbor Budget

CARRIE JONES JUN 05, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—With hardly a pause during their town meeting, Bar Harbor voters passed its budget Tuesday evening, approving a $27,272,143 budget, the same amount as the Warrant Committee’s recommendation. The Town Council had recommended a $27,268,529 budget. This is an approximately $4 million increase from last year’s recommendations. The mill rate last year (current FY24 budget) was .00868, and this … Continue reading Voters Approve $27 Million Bar Harbor Budget

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With Six Abstentions Potential Short-Term Rental Ordinance Recommended by Warrant Committee

Most Warrant Articles Recommended Without Discussion SHAUN FARRAR MAR 21, 2024 Share MOUNT DESERT—Fifteen members of Mount Desert’s twenty-member Warrant Committee finalized the committee’s voting process to recommend, or not, the town’s warrant articles, which will be approved, or not approved, by town voters in early May. The committee approved the warrant articles out of order because there were speakers present to answer potential questions … Continue reading With Six Abstentions Potential Short-Term Rental Ordinance Recommended by Warrant Committee

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Updated: Town Strips Chamber of Wayfinding Funds

Attendees pass slightly revised budget at three-hour town meeting CARRIE JONES JUN 7, 2023 BAR HARBOR—About 175 Bar Harbor town voters and more than a dozen others gathered on a dreary Tuesday night for town meeting at the Conners Emerson gymnasium. The meeting focused on the municipal and school budgets with the main controversy focusing around the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s wayfinding funds, which … Continue reading Updated: Town Strips Chamber of Wayfinding Funds

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