Rob and Cristy Benson of Bar Harbor were honored with the 2024 Elizabeth Fritz Thorndike Award. The biennial award, managed ...

Mount Desert Island High School's seventh annual holiday craft fair is Sunday, Nov. 24 at the high school. Forty crafters, ...

The Mount Desert Island girls' cross country team ran through its competition all season en route to a Class B state championship.

It’s a long way for a kindergartner. But it gets shorter and shorter each time you go there, or at least attempt to go on the long walk down the ...

Artist Nell Parker spent much of her childhood hiking in the woods and playing along Maine shores, and that sparked a deep ...

Exit polls for the 2024 presidential election showed that a plurality of Americans (34%) believed that the single most ...

BAR HARBOR - The town's long-serving Code Enforcement Officer Angie Chamberlain has resigned, the Islander confirmed, leaving ...

It’s been an ongoing goal for some members of town to make the village of Otter Creek a working waterfront again.

Two potential pathways to rooftop solar could provide electricity for all town buildings, provide power during outages and ...

College of the Atlantic's Beech Hill Farm hosts an end-of-season sale at their farmstand on Tuesday, Nov. 26, from 9 a.m. to ...

BAR HARBOR — Eleven teams started, but it was the “gang” from Hadley Point that emerged victorious and took home all the ...

Every year on Veterans Day, and also on Memorial Day, the Bar Harbor Garden Club gathers at the Blue Star Memorial mile ...