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Visionary Land Gift to Transform the Heart of Northeast Harbor.
John and Johanna Boynton Donate Main Street Parcel to Island Housing Trust and MDI Historical Society for Workforce Housing and Year-Round Community…
 • Carrie Jones
The Park Street Playground Where Community Happens Every Day
BAR HARBOR—Cancer survivors.
Where Learning Has Roots: Inside Mount Desert Island’s Community School
SOMESVILLE AND BAR HARBOR—In a yurt, the children sit on a braided rug, hands on their hearts, excited to answer a question from their teacher Kreg…
Campground Lady Where Friendly People Met
Places to Stay and People to Know and Ponderings
 • Carrie Jones
Keeping Time, and Stories, in Bar Harbor
Once a concert pianist, Alexander Phillips, 80, now spends his days repairing clocks and reminding his town that every second and every experience…
 • Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar
The Bar Harbor Clock That Ticks On
Above the hustle of Bar Harbor’s Main Street is a green chime clock that once cost $3,350, but now is considered priceless to many.
 • Carrie Jones
The Lompoc
Restaurant. Bar. Community Gathering Place.
 • Carrie Jones
Links Pub Serves Up Support for Open Table MDI on Thankful Thursdays This September
BAR HARBOR—There is something that happens when people gather around tables or sit together on a floor or swap stories while eating noodles or carrots…
 • Carrie Jones
Carrying the Torch: The Holmes Store, a Century-Old Fixture, Awaits Its Next Keeper.
The Holmes Store Is Thriving—And for Sale.
 • Carrie Jones
Where Farrand Once Walked: New Garden Path Will Open at Reef Point off Bar Harbor's Shore Path
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Thrive Juice Bar & Kitchen.
 • Shaun Farrar
One Island. Many Artistic Visions. Come Be Part of Hudson to Harbor.
MDI's Past and Present Converge in an Upcoming Art Event at Bar Harbor Historical Society.
 • Carrie Jones
A Car Once Bought With a Song Wins National Award with Style
Seal Cove Auto Museum Has A Lot To Offer
 • Carrie Jones
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