Cranberry Isles

Haney named MDI High principal

BAR HARBOR — Matt Haney, an assistant principal at Mount Desert Island High School since 2005, has been named the new principal, effective July 1.

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Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 11:18 pm

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MDI falls in championship match to Medomak

BANGOR — Ten senior basketball players and three juniors hung up their jerseys for the season after Mount Desert Island High School narrowly lost a…

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Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 9:29 pm

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Wilfred A. Bunker

TRENTON and CRANBERRY ISLES — Wilfred A. Bunker, 92, died Dec. 29, 2012, at an Ellsworth hospital. He was born July 14, 1920, in Bar…

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Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 5:11 pm

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Beloved Ferry Captain Dies

CRANBERRY ISLES — Wilfred Bunker, the man who started a ferry service that kept the residents of these offshore islands connected with the rest of…

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Monday, December 31, 2012 at 3:42 pm

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Police Eyed for Road Race

CRANBERRY ISLES — Concerns about the behavior of people attending a party that follows the Great Cranberry Island Ultra Marathon have prompted selectmen to consider…

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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 at 2:47 pm

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MDI Schools Open as Vacation Ends

BAR HARBOR — Summer comes to its traditional end for hundreds of area children this week as the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDI…

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Friday, August 31, 2012 at 9:19 am

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Spurling and Trepanier are Wed

CRANBERRY ISLES — Christina Cara Spurling of Islesford and Andrew Mark Trepanier of Rochester, N.H., married on Saturday, June 30, in the Islesford Congregational Church…

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Friday, August 10, 2012 at 2:02 pm

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Pair Arrested in Domestic Dispute

BAR HARBOR — Police responded to a domestic dispute at a Salisbury Cove motel around 8 p.m. on Sunday and ended up arresting both people…

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Friday, July 27, 2012 at 3:25 pm

Cops & Courts |

Ruth C. Newell

POTOMAC, MD. and GREAT CRANBERRY ISLAND — Ruth C. Newell, 93, who was a lifelong summer resident of Great Cranberry Island, died July 10, 2012,…

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Friday, July 27, 2012 at 11:31 am

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Author Talk

CRANBERRY ISLES — Author Michael Cecere will give a book talk on July 26 at 4 p.m. at the Cranberry House on Great Cranberry Island.…

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Friday, July 27, 2012 at 9:57 am

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Suspension of County Finance Director Urged

CRANBERRY ISLES — An educator in the field of public administration has urged the Acadia-area League of Towns to continue pressing Hancock County commissioners to…

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Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 2:46 pm

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Wrong Jeep Barged to Offshore Island

MOUNT DESERT — A delivery crew inadvertently picked up the wrong green Jeep from a parking lot in Northeast Harbor, loaded it onto a barge,…

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 3:40 pm

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Allen Runs Away with Sub-3 Race

TACOMA, Wash — At the Tacoma City Marathon in Washington State, 55-year-old Gary Allen of the Cranberry Isles, finished in seventh place overall, his 65th…

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Monday, May 07, 2012 at 10:31 am

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Tunney Leads Local Runners In Boston Marathon Monday

BOSTON — Coping with temperatures that reached the mid-80s, seven Hancock County runners completed the 116th annual Boston Marathon on Monday.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 1:13 pm

Running & Cycling |

School re-named for Ashley Bryan

CRANBERRY ISLES — Children here no longer go to the Islesford School.

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Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 10:21 am

Education |

Stolen car was joy ride

CRANBERRY ISLES — The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the Dec. 31 theft of a vehicle on Great Cranberry Island.

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Friday, January 13, 2012 at 11:02 am

Cops & Courts |

Porn Sentence imposed

BANGOR — A former Cranberry Isles resident and teacher was sentenced Tuesday in U.S District Court to serve 16 years in prison after pleading guilty…

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Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 1:12 pm

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Peckenham and Tunney Lead Maine Runners in NYC Marathon

NEW YORK CITY — James Peckenham of Orland and Tim Tunney of Ellsworth were the top finishers in a field of 67 Maine runners in…

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Monday, November 07, 2011 at 12:29 pm

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Alice Conlon Lake

CRANBERRY ISLES — Alice Conlon Lake, 82, died Oct. 31, 2011, at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, a week after suffering a major stroke.

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Wednesday, November 02, 2011 at 9:30 am

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Beloved Librarian Passes the Torch

CRANBERRY ISLES — Ingrid Gaither wants to be just like Ruth Westphal, whom she will succeed as librarian at the Great Cranberry Library on Sept.…

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Friday, August 26, 2011 at 10:44 am

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