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With little regulation, Downeast becomes hotbed of vacation rentals
Tribute: Rebecca 'Becky' Brown
CORRECTIONS & AMPLIFICATIONS: Video of FOA vice president at '23 town meeting
Report: Acadia National Park's harm to nature of 'significant concern'
Cruise ship backers lose two rounds in one morning
Reprint of Washington Post article, 'In some port towns, it’s residents vs. cruises'
As runaway legal bills pile up, who's monitoring law firm activity, billable hours?
Bar Harbor Story needs your support; We need Bar Harbor Story
Will Bar Harbor council ever enforce cruise ship ordinance?
Will anyone remember the Village of Bar Harbor 10 years from now?
Proposed hotel triggers safety concerns for some parents of Bar Harbor school
Agency seeks to use grant to cap landfill instead of hazard waste collection facility
Will quadrennial voters swing cruise ship vote in Bar Harbor?
Ex-appeals board attorney: Cruise ship contracts give industry parity it never had
CORRECTED VERSION: Architecture plans envision new Bar Harbor hotel
SPECIAL REPORT: Architecture plans envision new Bar Harbor hotel
Updated version: 'Vote No on Article 4' coalition has many diverse sponsors
'Vote No on Article 4' mantra unites disparate factions in cruise ship fight
SPECIAL REPORT: Council has a long history of trying to scuttle citizens opposition to cruise ships
Schools chief invokes privacy laws to stay mum on assault; full accountability awaits
Bar Harbor dentist to Town Council: Choose essential services or tourism
SPECIAL REPORT: When MDI had a warm hearth for famous, gay women
Ex-appeals chair: Previous ship permits do not prevent town from limiting passengers
Current ambulance model in SWH, Tremont 'not sustainable' - select board told
SWH, Tremont lose heir apparent to code enforcement officer
BREAKING NEWS: OPL sues town again, over notice of disembarkation violation
Mount Desert select board unwavering in its support for Heel Way project
Workforce housing project "on back burner," says new MD 365 president
Florida developer mulls 11 lots on Lopaus Point in Bernard
MDI Lobster gets $400,000 grant to repair dock; town mulls aid for working waterfront
Greece to tax cruise ships to protect islands as other countries eye carbon tax
New low for Bar Harbor as business owners joust on social media
SWH clinic spends last day doing what it did for decades - caring for patients
How Bar Harbor squandered opportunity to effect meaningful cruise ship management
Councilor Friedmann opposes 3,200 daily cruise ship passenger proposal
BDN report: Council moderator doubted voters understood cruise ship ordinance
Attorney Pessoa: The 'smoking gun' as to what's afoot - last graph in Chapter 50
Legal experts: Cruise ship deal is giveaway, disenfranchises voters
SWH selectman seeks accountability for siting of hazardous waste facility
SPECIAL REPORT: Bar Harbor's false cruise ship narrative step by fact-free step ...
New cruise ship management plan only adds confusion, outrage, anger
Town Council resorts to sloganeering - 'governance by litigation' - to make its case
MIDWEEK REPORT: Resignation shines light on Southwest Harbor's police needs
CORRECTION: BH Planning cruise ship board hearing is Wednesday at 4 p.m.
New cruise ship plan is reprise of Kevin Sutherland's generous 2022 giveaway
Bar Harbor delays release of proposed cruise ship ordinance
BREAKING NEWS: APPLL suffers another setback; appeal court denies injunction bid
SWH board okays dredging of skating pond (not the one you're thinking of)
BREAKING NEWS: Seawall Road to open today at 5 p.m.
BREAKING NEWS: Maryland agriculture extension professional named new SWH town manager
SPECIAL REPORT: Largest single-masted sailboat in the world at Dysart's Marina
How Island Housing Trust became a tool in fight over affordable housing
BREAKING NEWS: Seawall Road repair starts next week - to open July 27
BREAKING NEWS: SWH town manager reaches agreement with state for immediate repair of Seawall Road
BREAKING NEWS: Summer residents file appeal to stop workforce housing in Mount Desert
Bar Harbor businessman turns Tremont year-round homes into AirBNB units
Chamber president applies for 9 board seats, after losing in two elections
HOLIDAY WEEKEND POTPOURRI: Best SWH fireworks ever; town to turn pink
Chipping away at the housing crisis, one vacation rental unit at a time
New school sticker shock: Bar Harbor's latest headache; 'It's always something ...'
UPDATE: Full version of citizen's letter
SPECIAL REPORT: Letter from citizen to Bar Harbor officials; are they listening?
BREAKING NEWS: Judge denies APPLL's injunction bid to halt cruise ship ordinance
CORRECTIONS: Fixes wrong dates in Previous post ...
Bar Harbor bars Sidman from cruise ship discussions; APPLL, pilots to attend
BREAKING NEWS: Friedmann wins 2 races, re-elected to council along with Minutolo
Transfer station owner roils contract talks with attack flyer in Southwest Harbor
SPECIAL REPORT: Rockefeller's role in dividing Otter Creek and park service
Northern Light quits home nursing care in area as well as closing primary care clinic
Correction: MDI Hospital event is Wednesday June 5 at 4 at SWH library
MDI Hospital offers primary care service to patients abandoned by Northern Light
Vulgarity mars final days of Bar Harbor campaign (Warning: salty language below)
BREAKING NEWS: Circuit court rejects APPLL bid to halt cruise ship cap
The remaking of the Asticou - or Tim Harrington's Xanadu on the Harbor
BREAKING NEWS: Council votes to seek alternative to Higgins Pit solar array
Sign pollution in Bar Harbor means it must be municipal election time
BREAKING NEWS: Tremont votes to join Southwest Harbor police
BREAKING NEWS: Tremont election results
Correction: Fixes improper identification
Solar power devotees rage on, as backlash overwhelms Island towns, Trenton
Council, APPLL members trade appeals for compromise in BH cruise ship ordinance
BREAKING NEWS: Mount Desert rejects vacation rental ordinance
BREAKING NEWS: Martha Dudman wins MD select board re-election in landslide
Update: Corrects Bar Harbor oral argument date to Tuesday, May 7
SWH clinic owner leaves trail of financial questions after credit downgrades
BREAKING NEWS: Herrick Road medical center closing in Southwest Harbor
How town meetings now favor the loudest, smallest bands of self interest
WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP: MDI, you're not alone in reacting to overwrought tourism
EARTH DAY REPORT: MDI's Northeast Creek on 'impaired marine waters' list
SPECIAL REPORT: Island filmmaker wants your old home movies!
Council candidate - second in 2 years - cited for violating vacation rental rule
BREAKING NEWS: College of the Atlantic names new president
Should swim club pool be rebuilt? Waterfront owners face risk calculations
Southwest Harbor finally catches a big break: $2.4 million in fed grant for garage
BREAKING NEWS: State DOT said to balk at repairing Seawall Road access to Acadia
BREAKING NEWS: State's highest court upholds Bar Harbor's short-term vacation rental cap
Friedmann's run for state rep will leave council with opportunities if Sidman is elected
BREAKING NEWS: Friedmann eyes state House seat being vacated by Lynne Williams
Low-income trailer park on Seawall sold; last season for abutting Charlotte's Lobster Pound
Court decision is shot heard around the cruise ship world; Sitka, Alaska first to react
Winners and losers from historic cruise ship ruling capping passenger visits
How will Bar Harbor respond to historic cruise ship ruling by federal judge?
POSTED: Entire decision by federal judge on cruise ship visitation cap
REPRISE: Federal judge's rebuke of how Bar Harbor treats tourism with 'carte blanche'
MIDWEEK UPDATE: SWH police chief sees a single force for southern MDI
BREAKING NEWS: SWH police chief proposes full-time coverage for Tremont, adding 2 officers
Acadia's fraught relationship with Otter Creek gets full vetting; firing range called 'grotesque'
SPECIAL REPORT: 2 loons succumb to predatory eagle on frozen Long Pond
MIDWEEK REPORT: Newest BH Warrant member seeks housing opportunities for young people
New version of previous post, corrects an error and adds new information
MIDWEEK REPORT: Bar Harbor town manager seeks to restore funding for chamber
Developer: 100 lots possible in Town Hill under new employee housing zoning
SPECIAL REPORT: Bar Harbor faces 17.6% tax rate increase in proposed FY25 budget
Rising housing cost behind Pemetic's enrollment decline? Many think so
Worst coastal destruction since 1978? Wouldn't know it from council, select board agendas
SPECIAL REPORT: AI's rewrite of land-use ordinance is helpful, but no substitute
SPECIAL REPORT: Nature is curating its own vision for MDI; what will recovery look like?
BREAKING NEWS: Officials take stock of storm, ask towns to assess damages to seek relief aid
Who's minding the runaway cost of Hancock County- 30% increase for commissioners, staff?
BREAKING NEWS: Marilyn Lowell retiring from town manager role in Southwest Harbor