Thanks to a fondness that a NASA scientist has for Mount Desert Island, the scenic coastal Maine town of Bar Harbor now has a namesake on another planet. Bar Harbor, Mars, is a quadrangle on Earth’s closest neighbor that is being explored by Curiosity, a rover sent by NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory in 2011 to […]
Presidential candidates may come and go from Maine, but there is one debate that is likely to persist here long after the election is over and the campaign signs are uprooted and hauled away: Are there mountain lions in Maine? We get frequent reports (well, John Holyoke does, anyway) about mountain lion or cougar sightings in our […]
I never met Robert and Jackie Norton, but I remember who they were. Fifteen years ago today, the Lubec couple were among the passengers on American Airlines Flight 11 when it was flown deliberately into the North Tower at the World Trade Center in New York City. Robert, 85, was a Lubec native who served […]
Two Texas tourists found out the hard way earlier this month that while it may be easy and innocuous to bring your firearms with you on a road trip halfway across the continent to Maine, it gets more complicated if you try to go just a little further north. That’s especially true if you neglect […]
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 […]
