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