News and features from Bar Harbor, Maine, and Mount Desert Island.
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Construction Noise Takes Center Stage in Mount Desert.
Photo by Josh Olalde on Unsplash
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Don & Beth Straus Center at Birch Bay Village.
MOUNT DESERT—Towns on Mount Desert Island often have occasional noise complaints. In Bar Harbor (an...
At Open Table, the Meal Is Only Part of What’s Being Served.
Kaur at left at NOURISH event at Open Table MDI, Friday.
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by ArtWaves.
BAR HARBOR—By the time Kathryn Strand declared she’d just had her best meal of the year, the people at the long tabl...
Word Festival to Open with Short-Story Masters Shattuck and Link
BLUE HILL—Since 2017, Word, the Blue Hill literary arts festival, has featured keynote discussions of literary novels, crime novels, fantasy novels, and more. But never the short story.
Word kicks off its tenth anniversary celebration in O...
Town Office Closure- Indigenous Peoples Day
Town News Flash
MOUNT DESERT—The Town Office will be closed Monday October 12th, 2026 and reopen October 13th, 2026 in observance of Indigenous Peoples Day.
Resignation Note and Lack of Communication Prompts Concern for Ex-Employee
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Bar Harbor Music Festival.
SOUTHWEST HARBOR—On September 30, 2026 at approximately 10:38 a.m., a Southwest Harbor business owner called the Southwest Harbor Police Department to sa...
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Carrie Jones is an internationally & NYT best selling writer, podcaster, writing coach, artist, and former award-winning newspaper editor and photographer. My linktree: https://t.co/eq67FszsKK
Shaun Farrar came to Bar Harbor to wait tables at his aunt and uncle's restaurant. He never left.
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