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Wine Tasting... "Everything's Coming Up Rosés"
Think you don't like Rosés? Stop by and let us change your mind! Friday, May 24th 4-7pm at House Wine!
House Wine
Iron Man 3 (PG-13), The Place Beyond The Pines (R). Check website for Showtimes!
Maine Coast Cinema
Never to early to plan for spring!
New lawn installation and existing lawn repair. Brick paver walkways and patios, hydro-seeding, retaining walls and more. 667-5808
E. Skip Grindle & Sons
Boating Season!
It will be here before you know it.
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The Holmes Agency
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Hammond Lumber
Our new models are here!
Summer is approaching! Time to start planning your home!
Al Benner Homes
Dick Broom never seems to walk anywhere without a faithful dog at his side. His beat includes the towns of Mount Desert and Trenton, Mount Desert Island High School and the regional school system board and superintendent's office. He and his wife live in Bar Harbor.
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ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — Out of 115 applicants, Swans Island artist Gary Hoyle was among 17 selected to be artists in residence at the Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) between May 2013 and June 2014.
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Some voters at last week’s town meeting wanted to increase the dollar amount of an item in the municipal budget, and they were stunned to learn they couldn’t even vote on it.
MOUNT DESERT — Two couples who live near a granite quarry in the village of Hall Quarry are appealing a decision by code enforcement officer Kim Keene not to order the cessation of quarrying at the site.
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — A straw poll on banning the use of fireworks without a permit will be on the warrant for a special town meeting here June 11.
MOUNT DESERT — The main road into Northeast Harbor will be closed to through traffic this weekend for repair work on a culvert beneath Route 198.
BAR HARBOR — The future leaders of the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS) and MDI High School boards are waiting in the wings. It just isn’t clear who they are yet.
MOUNT DESERT — Katelyn Moore and Tim Buell won’t be catering their own wedding next month. But they could.
MOUNT DESERT — Infrastructure bonds for a new town garage and sewer plant were approved at the open town meeting on Tuesday.
MOUNT DESERT — Route 198, the main road to Northeast Harbor, will be closed to all traffic at Richardson Brook, one-third of a mile south of the intersection with Eagle Lake Road, from Friday, May 17 at 7 p.m. until around 5 a.m. Monday, May 20.
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — By a margin of two to one, voters here on Tuesday decided to stop having fluoride added to the town’s water supply.