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Love of Outdoor Adventure Spawns tradition

Love of Outdoor Adventure Spawns tradition

The Banff Mountain Film Festival has spawned a house party tradition that stretches back some 20 years.

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“Women & Wheels" Draws Strong Turnout

“Women & Wheels" Draws Strong Turnout

They sipped wine and noshed on stuffed mushrooms and bruschetta while studying brake pads, rotors.

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Old Town Man Wins Wildlands Snowshoe Race

Old Town Man Wins Wildlands Snowshoe Race

Snow was in short supply for the Maine State Championship Snowshoe Race Sunday in the Great Pond Mountain Wildlands, but…

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  • Tourism Award for Commitment to Community Award Winner Announced

    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.

  • American Auto Sales Enjoy Banner Year in 2011

    Calendar year 2011 proved to be a boon to domestic auto sales as overall American auto sales climbed 10 percent. Ford led individual brand sales — with 16.1 percent of the market — while General Motors returned as the number one selling auto company for the year, pushing Toyota all the way back into third place.

  • City Seeks Ways to Clean Up Card Brook
    City Seeks Ways to Clean Up Card Brook

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

  • Jax discovery illuminates neurological disease cause

    BAR HARBOR — A Jackson Laboratory research team led by Susan Ackerman, Ph.D., a professor and Howard Hughes medical investigator, has discovered a defect in the RNA splicing process in neurons that may contribute to neurological disease.

  • Jax nabs science support grant

    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.

  • School Budget Approved

    BAR HARBOR — A $1.4 million budget for the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS) for next fiscal year, which will fund the superintendent’s office and certain systemwide student services, was approved at the system’s annual meeting Jan. 18.

  • RSU 25 Committee Moves Ahead with Natural Gas Plan

    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.

  • Two Hospitalized in Verona Island Crash

    ELLSWORTH — Deputies believe alcohol is a factor in a Jan. 15 accident in Verona Island that sent two people to a Bangor hospital.

  • Hancock County Jail Log

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

  • Man Summoned on Phone Harassment, Terrorizing Charges

    GOULDSBORO — A man from the village of Prospect Harbor was summoned Jan. 20 on charges of harassment by telephone and terrorizing, police said.

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Latest Sports

  • Subsidized Tennis for Children Offered at ETC

    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.

  • Two Springers’ Gymnasts Win First All-around Awards

    LEWISTON — Nine gymnasts from Springers’ Gymnastics Center in Ellsworth competed Sunday and brought home a number of first place awards.

  • Sports Gear Donations Sought For Bucksport Extravaganza

    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.

  • Bucksport Girls Claim Their 9th Win

    Bucksport’s Mindy Pye nearly matched the scoring total of the entire Searsport team as she led the Golden Bucks to a 73-20 win on Wednesday, Jan. 18, in Bucksport.

  • Golden Bucks Solidify Post-Season Hopes

    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.

  • Sumner Boys Continue their Winning Ways

    BUCKSPORT — The Sumner Tigers faced off against the Bucksport Golden Bucks Wednesday night in Bucksport.

  • Eagle Squeak Past the Wildcats

    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.

  • Josh Sprague 3-on-3

    BAR HARBOR — The First bank will sponsor the Josh Sprague Basketball Tournament on Friday, March 2.

  • Bowdoin Rolls by Maine Maritime

    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.

  • Wrestlers eye States

    BAR HARBOR — Thomas Bulley, a 160-pound sophomore, defeated all of his opponents this season but one, on behalf of the Mount Desert Island High School wrestling team.

Latest Arts

  • Love of Outdoor Adventure spawns Cinematic Tradition
    Love of Outdoor Adventure spawns Cinematic Tradition

    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.

  • Tropical Dance Party Feb. 11

    BLUE HILL — A tropical dance party fund-raiser for George Stevens Academy students and Sustainable Harvest International is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. at the Blue Hill Town Hall.

  • Where art and science meet

    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.

  • ‘Swan’ song may be country music hit
    ‘Swan’ song may be country music hit

    After retiring from a successful career in the real estate and insurance business, Cary Swan of Bar Harbor wondered what the next chapter of his life might hold. But now he’s discovered his future in a part of his past, in the lines of a love poem he wrote more than 53 years ago.

  • Island Cooking: Low-fat, no-fat, full-fat – you choose!

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

  • Island Artist Ashley Bryan Wins Lifetime Award
    Island Artist Ashley Bryan Wins Lifetime Award

    DALLAS — Award-winning Islesford author and illustrator Ashley Bryan was awarded on Monday the American Library Association’s 2012 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

  • Hot Acts on a Winter’s Night

    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.

  • Adventurers Converge for Banff Festival Party

    ELLSWORTH — When Jack Cibor got engaged in 1994, the Baltimore geographer contacted the Banff Mountain Film Festival for use of its climactic opening theme music to set the mood as he and his betrothed walked down the aisle.

  • Islander Columnist Dishes Up Murder in Mystery

    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.

  • Maine Dish: Color Your World with Carrots

    If you don’t have a bag of Maine carrots in your refrigerator or root cellar, you should. Carrots are cool, that’s what schoolchildren tell me. Cool to eat, and cool to cook. Who doesn’t enjoy the snappy, sweet taste of carrots?

Latest Obits

  • Adolph Fuerst
    Adolph Fuerst

    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.

  • Juliana Patience von Kienbusch Little
    Juliana Patience von Kienbusch Little

    MOUNT DESERT — Juliana Patience “Patsy” von Kienbusch Little, 86, daughter of Carl Otto von Kienbusch and Mildred Clarke Pressinger von Kienbusch, died at Birchwoods at Canco in Portland on Jan. 17, 2012. She was born Jan. 17, 1926, in New York City.

  • Helen James

    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.

  • Dorothy Vivian Easterlind

    BAR HARBOR – After a brief illness Dorothy Vivian Easterlind, 87, died at Mount Desert Hospital on Jan. 19, 2012. Dorothy was born Oct. 21, 1924 in Lynn, Mass. to Davis and Selena Nickerson; she had seven brothers and sisters.

  • Grace Paine Abbott, 97, a gentlewoman
    Grace Paine Abbott, 97, a gentlewoman

    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.

  • Angela Marie Whalen
    Angela Marie Whalen

    SULLIVAN Beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend, Angela Marie Whalen, 36, a lifetime resident of Hancock County, passed away Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in Ellsworth. Angela was born Sept. 24, 1975, in Ellsworth, to Amos M. and Jeannie M. (Willey) Kelley.

  • Glenda Chambers Whitney
    Glenda Chambers Whitney

    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.

  • Well-known man about town dies
    Well-known man about town dies

    BAR HARBOR — James “Jimmy,” MacLeod, who spent more that five decades running businesses and being involved in politics here, died on Jan. 21 in a Bangor hospital. He was 87 years old.

  • 25-year MDIBL investigator dies

    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.

  • Rodney Danforth Hardy
    Rodney Danforth Hardy

    MOUNT DESERT — Born in 1938 in Cleveland, Ohio to Rodney Clinton Hardy and Harriett Hickok Hardy Kenyon, Rod attended school in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

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