Mount Desert News

The Swan's Island Library burned to the ground July 24 after it was hit by lightning during an early morning thunderstorm.

The Swan's Island Library burned to the ground July 24 after it was hit by lightning during an early morning thunderstorm.

The Associated Press last Saturday reported another round of layoffs at Maine's largest daily newspaper - the fourth at the Portland Press Herald in the past year.

"Bar Harbor novels" stoked interest in MDI during the nineteenth century YARMOUTH, MAINE -Islandport Press is proud to announce that it will officially release the anthology "Love on the Rocks, Stories of ...

For the first time in its history, the Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service will have two vehicles in operation at the same time.

The Seawall Homes trailer park has been sold and work is underway to address health and safety violations on the property.

The town of Trenton is one step closer to joining with the school system on Mount Desert Island.

CAMDEN : We have a great many "summer people" in Camden and the surrounding area.

The sinking of the fishing vessel Midnight off of Mount Desert Rock is under a routine investigation by the United States Coast Guard.

A Dover-Foxcroft man who last summer set fire to a large event tent at the Asticou Inn in Northeast Harbor will spend 18 months in jail for the crime.

When a Northeast Harbor lobster boat recently caught fire and sank 20 miles out in the Atlantic, 15 to 20 other lobstermen dropped everything and raced to rescue David Graves and his son Ryan, adrift on their ...

Officials in the Town of Mount Desert are slowly coming to grips with the breadth of problems involving the town's finances.

State environmental officials have issued an air quality alert for Thursday for the midcoast region between Port Clyde and Mount Desert.

I'm back from a four-day trip up to my beloved Mt. Desert Island. As many of you know, my childhood and family home is up there, but since the death of my parents, the place is no longer occupied and the new ...

Local officials have accepted the resignation of the town's finance director and are working to resolve issues that came to light during a recent audit of the town's finances, the town manager said Wednesday.

A father and son aboard the fishing vessel Midnight abandoned ship in a life raft Tuesday after the vessel caught fire in an area thick with fog, 20 miles off the coast at about 9 a.m. The vessel reportedly ...

Nick Vanoff of Mount Desert, sends this story of his sailboat's name. "I have a sailboat named Geranium," said Mr.

The crew of the fishing vessel Midnight abandoned ship in a life raft after the vessel caught fire in an area thick with fog just south of Mount Desert Rock at 11:20 a.m on Tuesday.

A father and son have been rescued after their 40-foot lobster boat caught fire and sank 20 miles off Mount Desert Island.

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