Bar Harbor residents voted to maintain the town's current limit of 1,000 cruise ship passengers that can come ashore per day.

Following the Early Bird pajama sale for local businesses was the 2024 Bed Races, put on by the Bar Harbor Chamber of ...

Residents of Bar Harbor reject the plan to raise the daily cruise ship limits. It means the daily cap of just 1,000 cruise ...

When residents of Bar Harbor go to the polls next month, they'll be asked to approve a new ordinance that would raise the ...

Cruise ships are viewed as both bounty and burden in Bar Harbor, Maine, where the ships’ passengers boost the town’s economy ...

Only 63 votes decided the results of a Bar Harbor, Maine initiative that sought to do away with a hard cap on cruise visits ...

Ellsworth, a small city of about 8,000 people just north of Bar Harbor, might seem an unlikely place to open a Jamaican restaurant. But in 2016, Jamaican native Shane Griffiths had been living in the ...

This is the last in a series of Wabanaki Spirit Tales that will appear in the Islander throughout October. These tales, ...

In Tremont, about ten minutes from Southwest Harbor, Sarah Abbot, the town clerk, enthusiastically pointed out their tactics to get people to vote ... However, in towns like Bar Harbor, the ...

A Maine high school has piloted a new class called Election Year, where students dive deep into campaign politics.

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“Maine is incredibly haunted,” says Jennifer Pictou, CEO of Bar Harbor Ghost Tours ... Chalk it up to no-nonsense Mainers. “People up here don’t talk about their ghosts,” Pictou says.