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Wed, 02 Jul 2025
Snurkowski winner of Rotary Club's 2025 Golden Apple Award
BAR HARBOR − The Bar Harbor (MDI) Rotary Club announced this week that Shannon Snurkowski, first-grade teacher at Pemetic Elementary School, has won the 2025 Golden Apple Award. The award recognizes an exceptional educator in the MDI community.
Wed, 02 Jul 2025
Traffic fades in Southwest Harbor as construction wraps up
SOUTHWEST HARBOR − Just in time for the Fourth of July weekend, the construction project on Main Street is wrapping up. One-way traffic is gone, sidewalks and roads have been paved and new lines have been painted, giving relief to…
Wed, 02 Jul 2025
Acadia, FOA work to bring more seasonal housing online
BAR HARBOR − Over the last five years, Friends of Acadia and Acadia National Park, with support from its partners at the local and federal levels, have brought nearly 120 seasonal housing units to various stages of completion across Mount…
Wed, 02 Jul 2025
Lack of standing a setback for Sidman in Golden Anchor appeal
BAR HARBOR − State Business and Consumer Court Judge Michael Duddy has dismissed resident Charles Sidman's complaint challenging the town Board of Appeals' decision regarding the Notice of Violation issued to Golden Anchor, L.C. The judge agreed with the town's…
Wed, 02 Jul 2025
AmeriCorps VISTA service opportunity with Healthy Acadia
ELLSWORTH − Healthy Acadia is partnering with Hunger Free America to recruit a year-round AmeriCorps VISTA member to increase access to healthy food for people living in Downeast Maine. The position will be based in either Ellsworth or Machias, depending…
Wed, 02 Jul 2025
Requiem for an OB: MDI Hospital's Labor and Delivery Unit officially shut down on July 1
For decades, I would marvel every single day that it was possible; that this dream was possible, said retired nurse midwife Linda Robinson. We gave incredibly good care. I worked with these women who were my family. I never felt…
Wed, 02 Jul 2025
MDI Hospital receives $1 million for renovation project
The nonprofit critical access facility has been awarded a grant to help modernize its Bar Harbor campus and to upgrade a newly acquired space in Southwest Harbor, formerly Acadia Family Center.

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