SOUTHWEST HARBOR, Feb. 3, 2024 -It was already starting to get dark that Thursday night in February 2022 when the fire department got a call from a neighbor that smoke was coming out of the basement of a house on Hillcrest Circle. It took the first truck to arrive on the scene in seven minutes from the time it left the firehouse. In all, 14 SWH fire fighters in four apparatuses and some in their own vehicles were at the scene. They received mutual aid from Tremont, Mount Desert and Bar Harbor.
I really don't see why we taxpayers need to support the (back stabbing) chamber of commerce , it's not like Bar Harbor businesses need any sort of boost. The citizens make the towns decisions through voting, when a handful of business owners attempt to take that away from the citizens it looks horrible and does not at all resemble democracy. Money seems to be highly addicting to some folks around here , certainly more important to some than ones neighbors.
I really don't see why we taxpayers need to support the (back stabbing) chamber of commerce , it's not like Bar Harbor businesses need any sort of boost. The citizens make the towns decisions through voting, when a handful of business owners attempt to take that away from the citizens it looks horrible and does not at all resemble democracy. Money seems to be highly addicting to some folks around here , certainly more important to some than ones neighbors.