An online journal which chronicles the steady decline in quality of life wrought by unchecked tourism on Mount Desert Island, Maine. The QSJ is written in the traditions of Pamphleteers in the late 18th Century and Muckrakers in the early 20th Century.
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SWH kindergarten teacher’s lesson to all: Libraries are where children “figure it out ...”
Pemetic teacher Carol Null at the mic at Southwest Harbor library
SOUTHWEST HARBOR, Aug. 18, 2026 - When I experience a moving, transcendent oratory which touches the core of our humanness, my impulse is to share it.
Tuesday night at the...
Builder stresses no hotel in Bar Harbor village planned as council to air room cap, moratorium
BAR HARBOR, Aug. 17, 2026 - Developer Stephen Coston stated without equivocation that he has no plans to build a hotel at the major intersection in the downtown village where he acquired four abutting properties in less than two years raisi...
Recommended reading: Atlantic's provocative critique of Bates's DEI culture by ex-professor
Cover of the Atlantic’s September issue
MOUNT DESERT, Aug. 14, 2026 - Google “Tyler Austin Harper” and check out the tsunami of search results in the four days since the Atlantic published his essay, “Why I Quit the Tenure Track,” about hi...
Bar Harbor launches new live streaming tech but still trails SWH for open government
The public has a new lens into Bar Harbor meetings like the Planning Board meeting above.
BAR HARBOR, Aug. 12, 2026 - It’s like the town just had successful cataract surgery.
Last week it introduced its new streaming platform on youtube...
School reorg plan gets hostile reception in SWH; select board questions funding, election of members, property ownership, debt consolidation
SOUTHWEST HARBOR, Aug. 13, 2026 - Superintendent Mike Zboray ran into a buzzsaw Tuesday night at the select board meeting here after he presented the latest proposal to consolidate all the schools on the island, plus Trenton and the Cranber...
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