Hundreds of selfless moments make a dynamo of kindness named Penny Read Carrie Jones Dec 02, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Street Cafe’s New Year’s Eve Party. BAR HARBOR—Back in 2016, during a local podcast, Bar Harbor’s Dean Read announced that he hadn’t given up a thing when he married his wife Penny. Instead, he said, with joy, “Look what … Continue reading “Look What I Got!”
The YMCA Celebrates Its Volunteers Carrie Jones Sep 24, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—On Monday evening, Nikki Dawes and the members of Girl Scout Troop 1315 lined up in front of the podium at the YMCA upstairs multipurpose room after sitting at the long card tables waiting for their Edward B. Mears Volunteer of the Year award, which was named after one of the Y’s founders. … Continue reading Honoring Good Spirit
Neighbors Need Volunteers at Island Connections Right Away CARRIE JONES JUN 30, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Since 2022 Scot Bowen has been giving strangers rides. He’ll take them to an appointment. He’ll take them to a store. And most of the time, those strangers he’s driving around? They become something else. They become neighbors. Lori Gray and Carmen Greene? They do the same thing. It’s all … Continue reading The Need Is Urgent
