BREAKING NEWS: Cruise ship candidates shellacked in Bar Harbor election
SOMESVILLE, June 9, 2021 - Bar Harbor voters sent an unequivocal message to the cruise ship industry yesterday: We want our town back! The voters also emboldened efforts to stem the transformation of the town’s housing inventory to more vacation rentals.
The proxy for the message was the huge vote difference between two town council incumbents, Joe Minutolo and Gary Friedmann, who have stated that limits must be placed on the cruise ship industry and support effort to streamline vacation rentals, and cruise ship candidates. (See previous QSJ articles for more detail.
Town Clerk Liz Graves sent the results to QSJ last night at 10:19 p.m.: