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Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Unanimously Appoints Kevin Knopp Knopp takes Barbara Dunphey's seat
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Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Unanimously Appoints Kevin Knopp

Knopp takes Barbara Dunphey’s seat Carrie Jones Jan 06, 2026 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. BAR HARBOR—At a special January 6 meeting, the Bar Harbor Warrant Committee unanimously appointed Kevin Knopp to fill the remainder of Barbara Dunphey’s term. “I want to thank the committee members for appointing me to this important position. I am glad that I will be able to serve our … Continue reading Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Unanimously Appoints Kevin Knopp

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Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Looks For New Member. Applications open for warrant committee vacancy.
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Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Looks For New Member.

Applications open for warrant committee vacancy. Carrie Jones Nov 28, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Havana. BAR HARBOR—After the resignation of Warrant Committee member Barbara Dunphey, the Bar Harbor Warrant Committee is looking to appoint a new member to temporarily fill Dunphey’s seat. The appointment would be until June when a new warrant committee member is elected by the public. Dunphey’s resignation … Continue reading Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Looks For New Member.

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Warrant Committee Unanimously Appoints Dr. Elissa Chesler to fill Steven Boucher's Seat
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Warrant Committee Unanimously Appoints Dr. Elissa Chesler to fill Steven Boucher’s Seat

Carrie Jones Jul 24, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Links Pub. BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Warrant Committee quickly nominated and appointed Dr. Elissa Chesler to replace Steven Boucher, July 23. This is due to Boucher’s election to the town council in June. There are two years left to his term. The warrant committee appointment is for one year. At the June … Continue reading Warrant Committee Unanimously Appoints Dr. Elissa Chesler to fill Steven Boucher’s Seat

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Bar Harbor Will Look Toward Potential Lodging Moratorium Extension This Week While Another Potential Hotel Project Waits Warrant Committee Organizes, Design Review Board Approves Restaurant Deck
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Bar Harbor Will Look Toward Potential Lodging Moratorium Extension This Week While Another Potential Hotel Project Waits

Warrant Committee Organizes, Design Review Board Approves Restaurant Deck Carrie Jones Jun 28, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Town Council will hold a public hearing that will potentially extend its moratorium on lodging (such as hotels and inns) projects and renovations on Tuesday, July 1. The meeting begins at 6:30 and is at the town’s municipal building on Cottage Street. During that hearing, members … Continue reading Bar Harbor Will Look Toward Potential Lodging Moratorium Extension This Week While Another Potential Hotel Project Waits

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Updated: Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Candidates Answer Our Questions

Carrie Jones May 07, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—There are five seats up for grabs for full three-year terms on Bar Harbor’s warrant committee, which reviews the budget for town meeting and makes recommendations on that and various land use article amendments. Two seats are open because Julie Berberian, the current vice chair, chose not to run. Jeffrey Young also chose not to run again. Incumbents … Continue reading Updated: Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Candidates Answer Our Questions

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Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Recommends Comprehensive Plan & Land Use Amendments
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Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Recommends Comprehensive Plan & Land Use Amendments

Carrie Jones Apr 09, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Shops. BAR HARBOR—Back at its March 31 meeting, the Warrant Committee unanimously recommended voters vote in favor of adopting the 2035 Comprehensive Plan. It was Vice Chair Julie Berberian’s last meeting. She has decided to not run again. “I’ve learned so much all these years,” Berberian said. She thanked the staff … Continue reading Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Recommends Comprehensive Plan & Land Use Amendments

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Mount Desert Warrant Committee Talks Land Use
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Mount Desert Warrant Committee Talks Land Use

Shaun Farrar Feb 17, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Street Cafe. MOUNT DESERT—Manufactured housing, which by definition includes mobile homes is allowed “to be placed or erected on individual house lots where single-family dwellings are allowed,” reads an almost one-year-old amendment to Maine law which was signed by Governor Janet Mills in March of 2024 and is an effort to increase affordable housing opportunities in Maine. … Continue reading Mount Desert Warrant Committee Talks Land Use

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Warrant Committee Weighs Budget Recommendations, Slightly Divided on YMCA Funding School Subsidy Should Be Better Than Expected
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Warrant Committee Weighs Budget Recommendations, Slightly Divided on YMCA Funding

School Subsidy Should Be Better Than Expected Carrie Jones Feb 11, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. BAR HARBOR—The entire warrant committee went over the recommendations from the public works and public safety subcommittees, two of its four subcommittees, February 10. Each subcommittee looks at revenue, expenses, and capital projects. Subcommittee chairs “will either recommend adoption of portions of … Continue reading Warrant Committee Weighs Budget Recommendations, Slightly Divided on YMCA Funding

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4 2 Town Manager & Finance Director Meet With Bar Harbor Warrant Committee
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Town Manager & Finance Director Meet With Bar Harbor Warrant Committee

Carrie Jones Feb 05, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—For just about a month or so, in the middle of winter in Maine, volunteers and staff in town after town hunker over spreadsheets, scan Excel documents, and shepherd the budgets of their town to voters. Sometimes they winnow. Sometimes they expand. But in meeting after meeting, the work gets done. It is the height of that work … Continue reading Town Manager & Finance Director Meet With Bar Harbor Warrant Committee

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Council and Warrant Committee Discuss Bar Harbor's Proposed School Budget
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Council and Warrant Committee Discuss Bar Harbor’s Proposed School Budget

Carrie Jones Jan 29, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. BAR HARBOR—School Superintendent Mike Zboray, Conners Emerson Principal Dr. Heather Weir Webster, and AOS Business Manager Nancy Thurlow presented the Conners Emerson budget to town councilors and warrant committee members, January 28. Zboray handed out a budget fact sheet that detailed each piece of the budget that would be … Continue reading Council and Warrant Committee Discuss Bar Harbor’s Proposed School Budget

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