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BAR HARBOR — Construction of a 3/4-mile walking trail connecting Eden Street with Duck Brook Road in Acadia National Park is slated to begin next week.

SOUTHWEST HARBOR — A vacant seat on the school committee here will be filled on Election Day, Nov. 8.

BAR HARBOR — When developmentally disabled students graduate from high school, the future can seem daunting. Funding and programs fall away with the end of public education. The networks that have guided them for anywhere from four to 12 years no longer provide support.

BAR HARBOR — The Kids’ Stop at the Mount Desert Island YMCA will be closed through Friday.

BAR HARBOR — Yellow school buses will once again take to the roads this week as the 2011-2012 school year gets under way for the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDI RSS).

BAR HARBOR — Whatever caused the death of the minke whale that washed up on Sand Beach in Acadia National Park on Aug. 21 is likely to remain a mystery, according to Sean Todd, director of Allied Whale, the marine mammal research group at College of the Atlantic.

BAR HARBOR— College of the Atlantic begins its 40th year with a convocation on Wednesday, Sept. 7. The event marks the start of the college’s fifth decade of classes, and the inauguration of its seventh president, Dr. Darron Collins, the first alumnus to lead COA.

BAR HARBOR — A fungal disease that is affecting maple trees downtown has become endemic to the area and is expected to return annually, a University of Maine scientist said this week.

TRENTON — Bluesman “Big Pete” Pearson could keep serving up ribs and catfish at his Blues Wagon restaurant across Route 3 from the airport here. Or he could go on a three-year concert tour of Europe.

He’s chosen the latter.

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