John Anderson, Dr. Hermann Haller, Jayne Ashworth Carrie Jones May 04, 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, … Continue reading Letters From Our Readers
Allow Northeast Harbor Eight Grader Juniper Macko To Paint You A Picture With Words Carrie Jones Apr 13, 2025 Share MOUNT DESERT—Allow us to paint you a picture of a Mount Desert Island student who wows. She’s a painter, a writer, but most of all eight-grader Juniper Macko is an expressive dynamo whether you meet her in real life, on a canvas, or on the … Continue reading Creating Pure Happiness
Reverend Redbeard brings the delightfully terrifying to a podcast Carrie Jones Apr 12, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor’s Reverend Redbeard has a new venture and it’s all telling us about the scary stories, tales, and people who focus on them. Scary things and Maine seem to go hand-in-hand, a phenomena that began even before famed horror writer, Stephen King. There is no shortage of material … Continue reading Let’s Talk Horror: It’s Acadia After Dark
And in the near future. Apr 07, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. 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 … Continue reading THINGS TO DO IN THE MOUNT DESERT ISLAND REGION THIS WEEK
Superintendent Hopeful that $1 million can be recovered Carrie Jones Mar 14, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—Bar Harbor municipal and school officials are dealing with a cybercrime that may have compromised some of the bond money to pay for the rebuilding of the Conners Emerson School, a project that has already begun. It is an ever-evolving situation, but School Superintendent Mike Zboray became aware that the … Continue reading Breaking News: Cyber Criminals Steal Bar Harbor’s School Construction Payment
And in the near future. Mar 10, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Shops. 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 me 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
Carrie Jones Mar 09, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—For a lot of people, writing a novel and publishing it is a dream that requires time, persistence, and effort wrapped up with creativity. It can take years or months. And for some writers, it feels? Impossible. Impossible isn’t a word in Shreya Hosur’s vocabulary. No. Scratch that. Impossible isn’t a word in the Conners-Emerson eighth grader’s personality. … Continue reading Bar Harbor Eighth Grader Publishes Debut Novel
Carrie Jones Feb 25, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Paradis Ace Hardware. MOUNT DESERT—Not every town manager references Grumpy Cat in his resignation letter, but then again, not every town manager is Durlin Lunt. “After fighting Father Time a good battle and arriving at the fork in the road, I am prepared to take it. Therefore, I shall retire as Mount … Continue reading Mount Desert Accepts Town Manager’s Resignation
Students and teachers combine to make learning hands on and fun Jan 28, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by First National Bank. SOUTHWEST HARBOR AND ELLSWORTH—Child psychologist Kevin Heath said, “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” This past week, and in the week’s leading … Continue reading Not Just Any Guitars, Not Just Any Chess Moves, Not Just Any Kids . . .
Shaun Farrar Nov 19, 2024 Share Hello! This is Carrie and Shaun, and as you’ve probably noticed, we’ve been working hard at the Bar Harbor Story, providing local news in a way that keeps you informed, but also embraces and promotes community and the good that is within it. We take so much time—just the two of us, with a special needs kid that has to … Continue reading HELP THE BAR HARBOR STORY CONTINUE
