It was a busy weekend on Mount Desert Island, with President Barack Obama, his family, staff and security detail visiting. Area residents and visitors alike had close encounters of the Obama kind as the First Family visited Acadia National Park, took a boat trip on Frenchman Bay and visited a number of area restaurants. You can discover all the details – from what they ordered to who they met and what they said, in this week’s Islander, on newsstands now.

But the presidential visit wasn’t all that happened – or is going to.

We have all the details on this weekend’s two-stop visit to MDI by New York Times best-selling author Linda Greenlaw who has a new book, “Seaworthy” out. Plus we review the local performance of “Madame Butterfly” and preview the next offerings of the Bar Harbor Music Festival and Mound Desert Festival of Chamber Music.

Check out our Maritimes pages for a preview of the International One Design races, which are set for Northeast Harbor for the first time in seven years, and find out all about the Hospice Regatta, which took place last weekend during the presidential visit.

The Islander has the latest updates on the abrupt departure of the SPCA’s executive director; two plea bargains – one by a woman who lives on MDI but committed her crime in Ohio and another by a Rhode Island woman who committed her crime in Bar Harbor; and an update on the town manager’s contract in Mount Desert.