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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Part 2 of voting guide for Bar Harbor's June 9 municipal, statewide offices bakeoff
BAR HARBOR, June 3, 2026 - How many primary voters will stay away Tuesday because of the radioactivity around Graham Platner?
And how will that affect the municipal election which is sharing the same voting booth?
In most off-year contes...
Bar Harbor Music Festival tweaks Mozart operas for 60th season
BAR HARBOR, May 30, 2026 - The human voice figured prominently at Bar Harbor Music Festival’s annual winter fundraiser last month with five singers supported ably by a single pianist.
They reprised arias from Gaetano Donizetti’s comic oper...
Smuggler's Den seeking to expand campground by 50 new camping sites in Southwest Harbor
SOUTHWEST HARBOR, May 25, 2026 - Another Lee Worcester-owned project - expansion of Smuggler’s Den campground by 50 camp sites - is headed toward town boards for consideration.
Worcester, the owner/operator of the town’s transfer station,...
SWH's own Christina Baker Kline uncovers hidden family branch for her 10th book
SOUTHWEST HARBOR, May 24, 2026 - Five years ago, seated at an outside table at Sips Cafe, Christina Baker Kline shared with my wife and me the idea for her next book project.
It would be about the extraordinary marriage of two Southern be...
A GOOD NEWS STORY: Replacement of Babson Bridge is essentially complete as traffic flows
SOMESVILLE, May 22, 2026 - With the nightmarish Main Street projects in Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor still rattling in what remains of my short-term memory, I thought I was in a foreign place this week when I drove across Babson Br...
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