Egg-stra-ordinary egg hunts draw island families to Bar Harbor Inn and YWCA MDI Carrie Jones Apr 19, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—This morning staff and volunteers at the Bar Harbor Inn hid 1,574 Easter eggs, plus 12 little gold eggs, plus six big gold eggs, Saturday morning. But it’s never quite enough for the annual free Easter egg hunt that happens along its lawns and inspires … Continue reading Hopping Happiness
Bar Harbor Planning Board news CARRIE JONES AUG 11, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Though the headlines and talk in Bar Harbor last week focused primarily on cruise ships limits, the Planning Board dealt with some major projects at its Wednesday meeting including the YWCA MDI’s project to bring homes to Bar Harbor and a Jackson Laboratory expansion that will create more positions. JACKSON LABORATORY The Jackson … Continue reading Getting Closer to Homes at Hamilton Station and JAX Expansion Will Create 95 Jobs
The YWCA’s 23rd Annual Carol Dyer Memorial Luminaria Evening CARRIE JONES AUG 02, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. BAR HARBOR—On a Saturday night in August, 2023, as the sun’s light faded and the moon rose, volunteers organized by the MDI YWCA walked through the paths on the Village Green, backs bent, lighters in hand, illuminating one … Continue reading Illuminating Love
Hamilton Station Project Should Be Presented to Planning Board this Summer CARRIE JONES JUN 21, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—The first of two houses at the former Hamilton Station property has been demolished with the second scheduled to come down shortly. The demolition is part of the early plan to prepare the site for the eventual year-round rental housing project in the works by the YW MDI. … Continue reading ON SITE WORK BEGINS AT YWCA HOUSING PROJECT IN BAR HARBOR
Second Annual Housing Summit, YWCA and Jesup Social Justice Events CARRIE JONES APR 10, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR — The College of the Atlantic Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the unanimous selection of Dr. Sylvia Torti as the college’s seventh president. Torti, an accomplished writer, ecologist, and innovative academic leader with 15 years of experience in higher education, will succeed president Darron Collins, … Continue reading PRESS RELEASES AND BRIEFS: COA Names Dr. Sylvia Torti Its Seventh President
