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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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ELLSWORTH — Area auto repair shops learned they might be paying $2.5 million or more in remediation costs from a decades-old oil spill, which has contaminated groundwater at three sites on Route 1A near Boggy Brook Road. Those businesses are on the hook, officials said, even though they disposed of the oil with a licensed facility. |
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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BAR HARBOR — Plans for a 48-acre subdivision on a wooded hilltop just outside of downtown moved closer to planning board approval March 4.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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BAR HARBOR — A wireless Internet provider is poised to offer high-speed service to hundreds of residents who cannot get cable in their homes, following the near-final award of a state grant this week.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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SOUTHWEST HARBOR — The planning board will get its first look at a proposed 40-unit subdivision next week when its members review a sketch plan application for The Village at Ocean’s End.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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BAR HARBOR — The plain language of the town’s 2006 ordinance regulating vacation rentals is not plain enough.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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MOUNT DESERT — Selectmen here approved a late addition to the town warrant at their Monday meeting. Representatives of St. Mary’s by the Sea church came before the board to request that the town support a warrant article, that upon passage, would allow the church to construct a new storm sewer. The 12-inch-diameter storm drain would be within the town’s right of way on the South Shore Road and the Huntington Road. Updating the storm sewer would be a benefit to the town and would facilitate adequate water drainage at the problematic site, said public works director Tony Smith.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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BAR HARBOR — Several schedule changes to the Downeast Transportation bus between Bar Harbor and Ellsworth are slated to take effect next month.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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TREMONT — Roberto Rodriguez, the newly named executive director of the Seal Cove Auto Museum, is both a museum fan and a car guy. Those qualities helped set him apart from the other finalists for the job, said interim director Diane Kopek.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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SOUTHWEST HARBOR — The fate of the town’s police force is now in the hands of town manager Robin Bennett.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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BAR HARBOR — A $1.4 million project designed to improve the flow of traffic at the head of Mount Desert Island is on track for spring construction. The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) is set to advertise for construction bids beginning April 8, with a bid opening date of April 29, said project manager Ernie Martin.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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BAR HARBOR — The pros and cons of a 35,000-square-foot Hannaford supermarket proposed for Route 102 in Town Hill were debated in a well-attended forum at Mount Desert Island High School on Tuesday night. |
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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MOUNT DESERT — A coordinated effort among five law enforcement agencies led to the arrest Tuesday of a man accused of breaking into a Pretty Marsh summer home.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
Nearly 100 people turned out at the Somesville Fire Station on Monday to participate in an economic forum held by Democratic Reps. Elsie Flemings of Bar Harbor and Hanna Pingree of North Haven. Panelists reviewed a number of state and federal programs including SCORE, the Service Corps of retired Executives, available to help area businesses start and grow. Area bankers also explained how to best weather hard economic times. Joe Murphy, president and CEO of Bar Harbor Banking and Trust, urged people struggling financially to talk with their bankers earlier rather than later. “We seem to have the most communication at the end of the process and then it’s too late,” he said. He noted the bank helped nearly 50 fishermen restructure boat payments this year. Residents asked questions about the program and also urged the elected officials to assist the economy by reducing regulations and fees. “The best way to help me is to let me keep more of my money,” one man said.—EARL BRECHLIN PHOTO |
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 |
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BAR HARBOR — Two Bar Harbor men escaped without serious injury after crashing their vehicles within minutes of each other early Saturday.
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Friday, March 20, 2009 |
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AUGUSTA – Maine Fish and Wildlife, the quarterly magazine of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IF&W), now is available in an online version at no cost. The paper version has been discontinued.
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