The Maine Tourism Association has announced that Risteen H. Masters Bahr, marketing manager for Bangor International Airport, recently received the Governor’s Tourism Award for Commitment to Community.

ELLSWORTH — Card Brook has a case of urban stream syndrome.

BAR HARBOR — The Jackson Laboratory has received grants totaling $55,000 from The Betterment Fund, the Sam L. Cohen Foundation and the Dorr Foundation to support the Maine State Science Fair.

BUCKSPORT — Regional School Unit 25 (RSU 25) is moving ahead on the conversion to natural gas this year and will develop a request for proposals for the next phase of the project.

ELLSWORTH — The following individuals recently were booked into the Hancock County Jail.

ELLSWORTH — Acadia Community Tennis (ACT), a nonprofit, tax-exempt tennis organization established to fund and foster tennis programs for children who cannot otherwise afford the sport, is instituting a new program.

BUCKSPORT — Clean out those closets, find those old cleats and don’t put that old baseball glove in storage. Instead, put that out-grown, gently used sports gear to work for a good cause.

The Bucksport Golden Bucks have been accumulating wins a whole lot faster than tournament points. But on Tuesday, the Golden Bucks helped solidify their post-season playoff hopes as they squeaked past the Deer Isle-Stonington Mariners 42-40 in Deer Isle.

With a solid 55 percent shooting performance from the floor, the Eagles squeaked past the host Wildcats 52-51 after trailing by 10 points at halftime.

CASTINE–Alexa Barry (Rindge, N.H.) posted 21 points and seven rebounds to lead Bowdoin to a 74-48 win at Maine Maritime Wednesday evening. The victory was the Polar Bears (13-5) fifth in as many meetings with the Mariners (8-8), improving Bowdoin's record to 8-1 in the series.

BAR HARBOR — The Banff Mountain Film Festival, set for next week at The Grand in Ellsworth, has spawned a house party tradition here that stretches back some 20 years.

BAR HARBOR — Science and art are intersecting at College of the Atlantic’s George B. Dorr Museum in a new exhibit, “Biology Through the Lens” that combines biology and a variety of photographic techniques to illuminating effect.

It seems to me that everyone I know is reading the newspapers or glued to their television sets watching the Republican presidential candidate debates.

ELLSWORTH — Area musicians are joining the Knights of Columbus, The Grand and local businesses in a concert to benefit the Washington Hancock Community Agency’s heating assistance fund.

BAR HARBOR — Like a pie bursting with fruit, the personality of “Island Cooking” columnist Holly Simason has overflowed from the pages of the Mount Desert Islander into a mystery series.

MOUNT DESERT — Adolph Fuerst passed away Jan. 14, 2012 surrounded by his family. He was born in Linz, Austria and came to the United States in 1939 to escape from Hitler.

MOUNT DESERT – Helen James, 90 died Jan. 22, 2012 in Bar Harbor. She was born July 9, 1921 in Lyman, Maine, the daughter of Milton and Ida Douglas. She was one of six children of which only one brother survives her.

Grace Paine Abbott, whose ancestors arrived in America aboard the Mayflower and who was a descendant of some of the first settlers of Bar Harbor, died at age 97 on Jan. 19, 2012 at Sonogee healthcare facility.

SARASOTA, FLA. Glenda Chambers Whitney, of Sheffield Greene Circle, Sarasota, Fla., passed away unexpectedly Jan. 17, 2012, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital following heart surgery. Glenda was born April 29, 1936, in Bath, N.Y., to parents Donald and Lena Chambers.

BAR HARBOR — Ned Ballatori, who for more than 25 years had been a seasonal investigator at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL), died on Christmas Day in Rochester, N.Y. after a courageous struggle with a rare form of cancer, angiosarcoma.