It’s high summer on Mount Desert Island and, as usual, the water plays a big part in this week’s news.

Off Northeast Harbor competition is fierce during the International One Design (IOD) Worlds sailing races. High winds have resulted in snapped masts and broken booms. There’s plenty of action on the post-race cocktail circuit as well.

In Southwest Harbor members of the town’s harbor committee are sparring with the harbormaster over charter boat use of the town pier, mooring placements, and other issues. Selectmen have waded into the fray to help settle things down.

In Trenton, residents along the Goose Cove shore have lawyered up in their efforts to torpedo plans for a 5,000-cage oyster farm.

Be sure to meet the local dignitaries who make up President Barack Obama’s taste-making kitchen cabinet.

And still, there’s plenty of discontent to go around on land as the Criterion Theatre group fights eviction from its historic Art Deco home.

But all is not gloom and doom. The Jackson Laboratory got a major boost in its plans for a new division in Florida with county commissioners there agreeing to ante up $130 million in funding. And in Trenton, officials have hired a new town clerk to replace outgoing administrative assistant John Brushwein.

All that, and more, in this week’s issue.