Three years ago, it was offered for sale for $5.3 million. Now, it is being auctioned off for a minimum price of $2.9 million. The distinctive Starcrest mansion (the owners’ last name is Starbird) at 30 Strawberry Hill will be sold at auction on Tuesday, August 23. Described as a “starship-looking architectural home” in a 2013 […]
In the 200 years since its founding in 1816, Hodgdon Yachts of East Boothbay has evolved repeatedly to add new kinds of vessels to its boatbuilding expertise. With a record set last week, ‘speed’ has moved toward the top of the list of what the family-owned company’s boats are known for. Not that it has happened […]
Two reports of rare sightings of different creatures in Maine caught my eye in my social media feeds Friday morning. One, from Penobscot East Resource Center in Stonington, shows a picture of a lobster. Maine, where fishermen harvested 121 million pounds of lobster last year, is no stranger to the crustacean, but this was not any average brownish-purple […]
Contrary to the word it displays, an art installation that was erected a few weeks ago on Dudley Island off Lubec is not going to last much longer. In fact, the word “FOREVER” — depicted in plywood letters eight feet tall mounted several feet off the ground on scaffolding — is being taken down on Wednesday, July […]
Lyzz Bien is not the first drag queen Bar Harbor has ever known. She might, however, be the first from the Mount Desert Island town to grace the cover of Native Peoples magazine or to be profiled by a national mainstream news organization. Lyzz is the alter ego of Bar Harbor resident George Soctomah Neptune, 27, […]
With the auction last month of a mansion on the nearby island of Islesboro, a Camden home with an ocean view from the eastern slope of Mount Battie is now the most expensive residential property being offered for sale in Maine, according to the Wall Street Journal. The property, owned by Procter & Gamble heir Joseph […]
Stunning? Grand? Majestic? Hardly. As unassuming as they may be, the rock ledges on the western side of Route 1A in Ellsworth, near the Rt. 179 intersection, do have protected status. It is easy to drive past the ledges, which are gray and low to the ground, and never notice them. One exposed portion comprises part […]
It’s been a poorly concealed secret for years: National news media likes to visit Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island in the summertime. Who doesn’t, right? The park’s scenic appeal, and that of coastal Maine in general, is why millions of people travel from out of state (and often from other countries) to visit […]
You might have heard by now that Bar Harbor resident Noah Keeley (and his parents) got the thrill of a lifetime last week when the 10 year-old was invited up onstage to perform with world-famous rock band Pearl Jam in Quebec City. The band had seen a video that his mother, Sarah Keeley had sent them of […]
For the second time in as many years — and at least the third time in the past 15 years — an Islesboro mansion has been identified as the most expensive house for sale in Maine. But it’s not just the same house that keeps going back on the market. Each time, it has been […]
