Bar Harbor Bookstore Icon Deb Taylor Retires After 41 Years. Carrie Jones Sep 03, 2025 BAR HARBOR—When Deb Taylor first came to Bar Harbor to work at Testa’s Restaurant one summer, she fell in love at first sight . . . with a bookstore. “I fell in love with Sherman’s immediately, and spent a lot of tip money there,” Taylor said. “When I decided to … Continue reading A Story Well Told.
School Has Lowered Its Chronic Absenteeism Rate Carrie Jones Aug 13, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Bar Harbor Music Festival. BAR HARBOR—The Conners Emerson School had some great news recently and it all came in the form of data. The Bar Harbor school’s reading scores and math scores from grades 3-8 were higher than state average when it came to … Continue reading New State Results Show Conners Emerson Far Better Than Average at Both Reading and Math Scores
From Australia to the Annex, Wockner Builds a Musical Moment Carrie Jones Jul 24, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Bar Harbor Music Festival. BAR HARBOR—The stage at the Annex seemed barely big enough to hold solo, live-looping performer and songwriter Carl Wockner, Wednesday night. That had nothing to do with the stage’s size. It had everything to do with just how … Continue reading Carl Wockner’s Live-Looped Kindness Hits All the Right Notes in Bar Harbor
Hidden Barn Books Transforms a Downtown Barn into a Community Hub Where Story Embraces History Carrie Jones Jul 05, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—Sometimes being a little bit lonely when you don’t want to be can create something magical and community focused for an entire town. That’s what happened with Genie Thorndike, whose bit of loneliness inspired a transformation—not just in her life, but in an … Continue reading Cool Old Barn Gets Cool New Life
Nineteen MDI Hospital employees Jun 22, 2025 Share LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY We welcome letter submissions to The Bar Harbor Story; for details on our policy, please visit our about page and scroll down or just visit here. The beliefs, opinions, and viewpoints expressed by the writers of letters to the editor and included here do not necessarily reflect the beliefs, opinions, and viewpoints or official policies … Continue reading Letters From Our Readers
Plus, some resources. Carrie Jones Jun 16, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—What do cockroaches, stick bugs, and snapping turtles have in common? They all helped kick off summer reading in Bar Harbor. Mr. Drew and His Animals Too wowed young readers on Saturday with live animal presentations to celebrate the start of Jesup’s Summer Reading Program. “Mr. Drew and His Animals, Too were in Bar Harbor … Continue reading Snakes, Bugs, and Books: Mr. Drew Brings the Wild to Jesup’s Summer Reading Program
Be a friend for Friends in Action and support its programs Shaun Farrar Jun 02, 2025 Share ELLSWORTH—It isn’t always easy to make friends, but one local agency, Friends in Action, not only provides opportunities to do just that, it also provides opportunities for people to make a positive impact while building those friendships. When people are lonely, they have a higher risk of depression, … Continue reading Friends in Action’s 4th Annual Walk and Run-A-Thon June 14
And in the near future. Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Swan Agency Real Estate. THINGS TO DO It’s our weekly round-up, and we may have missed some things, so apologies! If you have something you’d like in here, please let us know. Also, you may have to click through to see everything. There are so many things that this email is a … Continue reading THINGS TO DO IN THE MOUNT DESERT ISLAND REGION THIS WEEK
Ivy Manor’s Musical Season Has Begun Carrie Jones May 17, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—Slowly and steadily the Ivy Manor Inn’s lawn has been hosting one musician after another. Walk by in the afternoon and you’ll see tourists and locals hanging out in red chairs, around fire pits, chatting, talking, sipping their drinks. And much of the time? They’ll be listening to music. Last Sunday, American … Continue reading “Making the World Smaller, One Song at a Time:” Eli Lev Comes to Bar Harbor
Burby and McFarland to lead board Carrie Jones May 14, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. SOUTHWEST HARBOR—The town’s select board is getting closer to how it wants to compose the town’s harbor committee and it will do so with a new chair, Noah Burby. Chapin McFarland was nominated as vice chair. The duo will take … Continue reading New Board Chair, Old Town Piers: Southwest Harbor Looks Ahead on Harbor Committee Structure and Manset Repairs
