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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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Trenton Select Board Talks Comprehensive Plan, Marijuana, and Liquor
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Trenton Select Board Talks Comprehensive Plan, Marijuana, and Liquor

Shaun Farrar Feb 07, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Edward Jones Financial Advisor: Elise N. Frank. TRENTON—A call to update the town’s comprehensive plan dominated the Trenton Select Board meeting on Tuesday night, February 4. The town’s current comprehensive plan was finalized in 2006 and some recent events—including a possible change to the town’s land use ordinance concerning allowable uses for … Continue reading Trenton Select Board Talks Comprehensive Plan, Marijuana, and Liquor

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Trenton Select Board Hears Fire Department Update and Sets Budget Committee Shaun Farrar Jan 12, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Andy’s Home Improvement Inc. TRENTON—Burning through a very short agenda on January 7 with only two orders of business, the Trenton Select Board heard first from Fire Chief Steve Heckman. Heckman told the select board that in 2024 the fire department had 113 calls that they responded to. He also said that the fire department had no calls during the latest storm which is unusual but did allow him to sleep through the night. Trenton firefighters at a January 11 mandatory training In December, the fire department responded to ten calls. • Mutual Aid Assistance: 3 • Alarm Activations: 4 • Motor Vehicle Accident: 2 • Motor Vehicle Fire: 1 On January 11, a snowy Saturday, fire department members spent the day in mandatory training to comply with the latest Maine Bureau of Labor Statistics and OSHA regulations. “This training is crucial for us to stay prepared and respond effectively to any emergency calls, keeping our community safe,” the department wrote on a Facebook post. BUDGET COMMITTEE The select board confirmed who would be on the town’s budget committee this year. As in years past, the budget committee will consist of the following. Select Board Chair R. Frederick Ehrlenbach. Select board member John Bennett. Select board member Danielle Cole. Select board member Charles Farley, Jr. Select board member Daniel Monahan. Town Administrator Carol Reed Walsh. Fire Chief Steve Heckman. Planning Board Chair Mark Remick. The Solid Waste Committee Chair. Christina Heiniger is the interim chair. The road commissioner. School Board Chair Jennifer Bonilla. Parks and Recreation Committee Chair Jessica Thurston. Public member Judy Sproule. Public member Mike Hodgkins. Public member Bruce Cameron. The first meeting of the budget committee will be February 18. The next select board meeting will be January 21, 2025, at 7 p.m. FROM DAN Selectboard member Dan Monahan often sends emails to interested people about goings on in Trenton. This was his pre-January 7 select board meeting email. Dear Neighbors, a few quick items of interest to start your week: Budget season is upon us. The Select board has an item on its agenda for Tuesday to appoint members to the town budget committee. Typically, this committee has consisted of select board members, town administrator, fire chief, standing committee chairs, and a handful of members of the public. The budget committee usually meets once or twice per month after select board meetings from February through April for 15-60 minutes or so. The meetings are open to the public. If you want to volunteer to be on the committee please contact Carol Walsh at the town office asap or show up for Tuesdays select board meeting and let us know. Some folks have raised the issue of trying to ease the town's tax burden on low income seniors or residents in the past. In the most recent edition of Maine Town and City magazine there is a blurb about a project in Cape Elizabeth where the town apparently sets aside money for that purpose subject to income guidelines etc. see attached for more info. Happy to discuss further if anyone is interested. Speaking of Maine, in (sic) Town and City magazine, there is an interesting legal article describing the power of municipalities to create new taxes or fees and when a fee is considered an impermissible tax, including some examples of each. Just FYI for folks interested in some of the legal framework around this issue. See attached. Have a great week! Best, Dan Bar Harbor Story is a mostly self-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thank you for being here with us and caring about our community, too! Subscribed Thanks for reading Bar Harbor Story ! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share If you’d like to donate to help support us, you can, but no pressure! Just click here (about how you can give) or here (a direct link), which is the same as the button below. Our mailing address is 98 Ledgelawn Ave., Bar Harbor, Maine, 04609
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Trenton Select Board Hears Fire Department Update and Sets Budget Committee

Shaun Farrar Jan 12, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Andy’s Home Improvement Inc. TRENTON—Burning through a very short agenda on January 7 with only two orders of business, the Trenton Select Board heard first from Fire Chief Steve Heckman. Heckman told the select board that in 2024 the fire department had 113 calls that they responded to. He also said that … Continue reading Trenton Select Board Hears Fire Department Update and Sets Budget Committee

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Lobstering Cooperative Reaches $5M Settlement with Former CEO
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Lobstering Cooperative Reaches $5M Settlement with Former CEO

Jan 07, 2025 by Bill Trotter/Bangor Daily News TRENTON AND BANGOR—The Maine Lobstering Union has reached a $5 million settlement with its former CEO, according to officials with the group. The union, comprised of Maine lobstermen who have pooled their resources to operate a lobster wholesale business, sued Warren Pettegrow and Pettegrow’s parents more than five years ago in federal court. The union purchased the Pettegrows’ Trenton-based … Continue reading Lobstering Cooperative Reaches $5M Settlement with Former CEO

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Family Lights Up Trenton RV Park Free Santa Event Sunday, Holiday Light Display, and Tavern Warm Up Timberland This Winter
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Family Lights Up Trenton RV Park

Free Santa Event Sunday, Holiday Light Display, and Tavern Warm Up Timberland This Winter Carrie Jones Dec 13, 2024 Share TRENTON—Ask Morgan Sanborn if she ever sleeps and she’ll answer honestly. “Haha! Sometimes!” It’s hard to sleep when you’re a business owner, x-ray technician, mom, wife, and bringing Santa to Trenton for a free event with free presents and a whole lot of fun. Sometimes … Continue reading Family Lights Up Trenton RV Park

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Cruise Ship Ballot Question Recount Moves Forward Portia Judson Honored, Reward for Illegal Deer Death on MDI, Comprehensive Plan Event, and other briefs
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Sidman Denied Intervenor Status in Town’s Golden Anchor Case; Trenton Land Deal No Longer a Go

Briefs: Upcoming Dances, Events, Trout Meeting and More Carrie Jones Nov 30, 2024 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Andy’s Home Improvement Inc. BAR HARBOR—In a four-page order, November 27, the Maine Business & Consumer Court’s Judge Michael Duddy denied Charles Sidman’s request to act as a defendant intervenor in the Golden Anchor, L.C.’s case against the Town of Bar Harbor. The town took … Continue reading Sidman Denied Intervenor Status in Town’s Golden Anchor Case; Trenton Land Deal No Longer a Go

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Retail Recreational Marijuana on Trenton's Agenda: Will it Bloom or Wither?
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Retail Recreational Marijuana on Trenton’s Agenda: Will it Bloom or Wither?

Carrie Jones Nov 29, 2024 Share TRENTON—Retail marijuana may be coming to Trenton if a proposed ordinance initiated by some of the town’s residents passes the voters at either the Trenton town meeting in May or a special town meeting prior to that. Ellis and Carole Batson gathered 122 signatures of Trenton voters and brought the ordinance to the town office on November 8. This … Continue reading Retail Recreational Marijuana on Trenton’s Agenda: Will it Bloom or Wither?

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Chimney Fire Keeps Firefighters From Select Board Meeting Trenton abandons a road, continues land sale negotiations
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Chimney Fire Keeps Firefighters From Select Board Meeting

Trenton abandons a road, continues land sale negotiations Carrie Jones Nov 14, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Andy’s Home Improvement Inc. TRENTON—The Trenton Fire Department update at the town’s select board meeting, November 12 had to be postponed because the fire department was busy fighting a chimney fire that they responded to at 6, just an hour before the meeting began. … Continue reading Chimney Fire Keeps Firefighters From Select Board Meeting

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ON THE AGENDA: Town & School Meetings This Week It's our round up of upcoming government meetings. All are public. That means you can go and be involved.
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ON THE AGENDA: Town & School Meetings This Week

It’s our round up of upcoming government meetings. All are public. That means you can go and be involved. Carrie Jones Nov 11, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. 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 … Continue reading ON THE AGENDA: Town & School Meetings This Week

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The Fab Five Furry Friends Are Looking for Homes Upcoming adoption event features saved dogs from an animal cruelty case and others
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The Fab Five Furry Friends Are Looking for Homes

Upcoming adoption event features saved dogs from an animal cruelty case and others Carrie Jones Oct 10, 2024 Share TRENTON—So far this year, the Hancock County SPCA has hosted over 300 animals, taking care of them all, hoping to find them safe and loving homes. That intake number is triple last year’s. Just in 2020, Maine shelters took in 2,540 stray dogs, 2,271 surrendered dogs, and 6,131 … Continue reading The Fab Five Furry Friends Are Looking for Homes

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