Otter Creek Cove Causeway shown on a 1940s postcard shortly after its construction. The causeway separates the cove into an inner harbor and outer cove. The inner harbor, formerly the site of a ...

Maine Coast Heritage Trust has sold an acre of marshland to Acadia National Park and donated 3 adjoining acres to the Island Housing Trust to create year-round workforce housing. The land is fronted ...

BAR HARBOR — The Reorganization Planning Committee has postponed its vote on restructuring the Mount Desert Island Regional ...

Exterior of The Asticou Hotel on Maine's Mount Desert Island. Summertime in Maine gets all the glory, but there’s something truly enchanting about Vacationland on the cusp of fall, especially Mount ...

Artists with a connection to Mount Desert Island are invited to submit work for the 26th annual Mount Desert Island Open, a ...

In 2021, Mount Desert Island High School purchased and deployed the first electric school bus in Maine. Many students and parents in the community advocated for the project, and a Maine Department of ...

Summer heat stretches into fall and Mount Desert Island is still well stuffed with visitors. Not as busy as the crazy hectic summer was, I’m told by one local business owner. But downtown Bar Harbor, ...

It was raining. The wind was blowing. The seas were rolling. We’d come to Southwest Harbor, Maine, dubbed “the quiet side” of Mount Desert Island, for its promise: gorgeous scenery without the ...

The Asticou Hotel is set on 25 pristine acres in the village of Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine. T+L was the first to check out the newly renovated hotel. The Asticou’s $28-million ...