The Town Council acted after rejecting a plan from a small ship line to make port calls.
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Bar Harbor OKs lease for The Cat ferry
BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Town councilors on Bar Harbor have approved an agreement to lease a former ferry terminal to the company that left the property nearly a decade ago. The council voted 7-0 Tuesday to allow the town manager to sign a lease agreement with Atlantic Fleet Services, a Bar Harbor-based agent for […]
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Woman's body found in Bar Harbor
BAR HARBOR — Police are asking for the public’s help in investigating the death of a woman whose body was found about noon Sunday at Route 3 and West Street, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said. A state police K9 made the discovery, he said. The body was taken to the State […]
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Dorris Farrar, Maine's oldest person, has died at 111
FREEPORT (AP) — Dorris Farrar, Maine’s oldest person, has died at 111. Farrar was born in 1906, the same year of the great San Francisco earthquake and of President Theodore Roosevelt being awarded the Nobel Prize for helping end the Russo-Japanese war. An official at the Hawthorne House in Freeport told The Associated Press she […]
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Acadia National Park closing operations as shutdown continues
Acadia National Park was in the process of closing its operations Sunday as the federal government shutdown moved toward its third day. Much of the park will remain open to the public, but if it snows, there will be no plows to clear the roads and parking lots, hampering access, Acadia spokeswoman Christie Anastasia said […]
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Entrance fees to Acadia National Park could jump from $25 to $70 next year
Catching the sunrise from atop Cadillac Mountain draws multitudes every year to Acadia National Park on Maine’s coast. But proposed peak-season price hikes to several national parks could make these visits much less affordable. The public comment period on the National Park Service proposal ends Nov. 23. (Staff photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette.) The vehicle […]
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State police asking for help identifying man found in 1990 off Maine coast
BAR HARBOR (AP) — State police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the body of a man found floating off Maine’s coast 27 years ago. Authorities say the body was found 8 miles south of Schoodic Point by a boater in August 1990. They say efforts to identify the man over near three […]
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Sun Journal wins statewide awards
BAR HARBOR — The Maine Sunday Telegram was named Maine’s top Sunday newspaper and the Portland Press Herald was named the state’s top daily newspaper Saturday during the Maine Press Association’s annual awards banquet held at the Atlantic Oceanside Hotel. Matthew Stone, a staff writer for the Bangor Daily News, was named Maine’s Journalist of […]
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Bar Harbor woman killed when truck careens into restaurant parking lot
BAR HARBOR (AP) — Bar Harbor police say a woman was killed when a pickup truck careened into a restaurant parking lot, hitting her and several parked vehicles. Police say 76-year-old Connie Birkenmeier of Bar Harbor was pronounced dead at the scene Tuesday outside the Chart Room Restaurant. Police say the pickup operator, 36-year-old Justin […]
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Mary E. Gledhill
Mary E. Gledhill, beloved wife for 55 years to Thomas Gledhill, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 7. Born in Lewiston on Sept. 17, during the great hurricane of 1938, she was the daughter of the late Helen (Kenney) Shortill and Ray Shortill. She was the devoted mother of Kathryn Gledhill-Earls and husband Michael of Wrentham, […]